Cancel culture's attack on Cesar Chavez

[Magical Realist]

Just recently it has come out that the farm labor movement leader Cesar Chavez who is a cultural icon of many liberal and Latino groups actually raped and sexually assaulted a number of women in his life. The accusation is based on the claims of one woman who knew him and worked beside him and who herself admits he raped her too. Now all across the country people are scrambling to rename their streets and schools and parks and the special day dedicated to him on March 29th.. I think it's kind of amusing to watch the all-powerful cancel culture suddenly saddled with such an urgent fiasco. What happens when your own revered and widely memorialized hero turns out to be a dirty rotten scoundrel? Such are the ironic times we are all living in.

Cesar Chavez statue in Fresno CA:

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Many icons have to be perpetually protected to stay in business. There's apparently no organization with the clout to shout this down, as with MLK's affairs or JFK's shenanigans or Michael Jackson's family suing the bejesus out of anyone suggesting he was a pedophile or the Ramsey family doing the same to experts and investigators who assert the __ did it.

The left and center and right all have vulnerable "heroes" that can be TOSsed someday. Either accept reality and live with it or go through this constant ordeal of tearing down and renaming.

What's remarkable is how some idols are completely immune. Jimmy Page, for instance (among a multitude of performers), is never going to be dethroned for having sex with a 14-year-old model and others. Almost as if it's the opposite when it comes to musicians and artists. Got to be a certain kind of entertainer to get away with it, Epstein -- not a mere jet-set playboy. (Of course, abduction is a major factor of differentiation, too.)

#Personal life: While touring with Led Zeppelin, Page's view on groupies was described as "the younger, the better", according to tour manager Richard Cole. For example, Page had a well-documented, one-year-long relationship with "baby groupie" Lori Mattix (also known as Lori Maddox), beginning when she was 14 or 15 and while he was 28.