She got caught wandering around Peru with some imagery/words from China’s communist regime that murdered some 70,000 Peruvians.

U.S. actress Cameron Diaz has apologised for wearing a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru.

The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated “Shrek” films visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru’s Andes on Friday wearing an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong’s most famous political slogan.

The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead.

Here’s the standard public figure non-apology she issued:

“I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended. The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it,” Diaz said in a statement.

She’s sorry, but only if you were offended by her purse glorifying a genocidal communist regime.

I think this illustrates pretty well the grotesque absurdity inherent in all this “communist sheik” stuff.  College kids around America wear t-shirts, backpacks, jackets, etc. with Che Guevera’s image emblazoned on them (even at Hillary Clinton fund raisers) as if he weren’t a murderous, anti-freedom tyrant.

Communism, globally, has killed many times the number of people killed in the holocaust.  Stalin alone killed more than the Nazis ever did, as did Mao (whose symbolism and slogan Diaz wore).  Yet if Cameron Diaz wore a purse with some Nazi slogan emblazoned on the side, with the SS lightning bolts or something, she’d be pilloried with criticism.  But communist propaganda?

It’s treated as little more than a fashion faux pas.  Which tells you all you need to know about the double standard socialism/communism enjoys from our media and celebrities.