Two things can be true at the same time.
The Left decided to make Cesar Chavez into a hero for political reasons, they knew about his abuses but didn’t care because they were looking for a figure to rally the new emerging Latino voters around. A Latino MLK.
The rapid canceling of Chavez is cynical, opportunistic and virtue signaling by an utterly corrupt movement.
Yes, I know some conservatives are reluctant to believe that Cesar Chavez raped kids because it’s the left saying it. But this information had been out there, much as with JFK, MLK, the Clintons, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Biden, they chose not to talk about it and to suppress it until the time was right. When the Democrats rapidly went from claiming that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack to a senile old man, that didn’t mean he wasn’t senile, it meant the cover-up was over.
And in 5 minutes flat, their own president was suddenly banished to a corner, dismissed and canceled. It’s a creepy display of the cultural messaging power that they wield over us. And exercises like the banishing of Chavez show it off.
Here’s the unpersoning revolution live out of California.
It took three decades of battles and lobbying for Cesar Chavez’s name and likeness to grace hundreds of buildings, roads, parks and schools. It is taking just days for them to come down..
All very Orwellian. The party forces their icon on us. Then tears him down. And replaces him with another one. We have always hated Margaret Sanger, Bill Clinton and Cesar Chavez now.
In San Fernando, a completely covered Chavez statue was pulled off its pedestal and put into storage. Murals depicting Chavez in Los Angeles were unceremoniously painted over. In Fresno, the City Council voted to strip his name from a major street — just three years after its controversial decision to rebrand it in his honor. Soon, the old street names — Kings Canyon Road, Ventura Street and California Avenue — will return to the nearly 10-mile-long corridor.
Before they’re all renamed after Obama, Harvey Milk or Hamas.
On Thursday, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and members of the City Council announced they would abandon the holiday honoring Chavez’s birthday and instead rename it “Farm Workers Day” to honor laborers who toil in the fields.
I have to say, if this had been pre-planned, they would have come up with a better name.
