Abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez

[Roderick_Femm]

So you want to completely invade whatever privacy those two women (other than Ms Huerta) have had over the years and force them to explain why they didn’t report this before? You are trying desperately hard to make your unreasonable arguments, which you yourself have recanted in this thread, seem reasonable. They were not reasonable when you first made them, and they are less so now. You have no standing of any kind to demand anything from those women.

@DrDeth

the answers I was given are understandable

Then why are you still arguing about it?

[Smapti]

@thorny_locust

Anyone who doesn’t understand why any rape wasn’t reported fifty years ago doesn’t understand the situation fifty years ago. (

@DrDeth

There are fifty years between “when it happened” and today.

Point of order: 1966 was sixty years ago, not fifty.

[DrDeth]

@Roderick_Femm

Then why are you still arguing about it?

I am not.

Note that

@thorny_locust

For one: because at the time when it happened she, not he, would have gotten a whole lot of shit for it.

Asked me a question.

@NDP

My overwhelming impression is that this is something Huerta, perhaps out of guilt over not saying anything sooner, wants to get off her chest before she passes on. Beyond that, my conspiratorial sense suggests that, because the UFW seems to be a mostly ineffectual shadow of what it once was, many activists prefer that it die so they can start over with a vibrant new farm labor organization unencumbered by the Chavez-related baggage. Finally spilling the dirty secrets about the UFW’s most well-known founder makes it a lot easier to pull the plug.

This answer was quite acceptable.

I asked, and was answered.

[thorny_locust]

@Smapti

Point of order: 1966 was sixty years ago, not fifty.

Thanks. Still seems like yesterday, sometimes.

@DrDeth

Asked me a question.

I did? I thought I made a statement.