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Cancel Cesar Chavez, Whether the Allegations Are True or Not

He was a self-serving leftist activist. There’s no reason America as a whole should ever have honored him.

Arthur Schaper | March 27, 2026

Cancel culture is back in the news, this time over long-gone United Farm Workers founder and leader Cesar Chavez.

He survived and thrived among leftist thought leaders and liberal politicians because he was an icon of the organized farm labor movement for decades. He even received his own holiday in California, Barack Obama created a national monument in his name, and the Navy plastered his name on a WWII Liberty ship.

Now, all of that has come crashing down.

A massive bombshell report from the New York Times has cast a pall on that legacy. After months of research, investigative work, interviews, and massive corroboration (if we take the reporting as accurate), the public learned that Chavez was hardly the scintillating labor and civil rights icon that the left dressed him up to be.

Instead, the report claims, he was a groomer, a predator, a child molester, an all-around creep who took advantage of his power and preeminence to bring in little girls, cozy up to them, then take away as much good and innocence from them.

Adding to these horrific discoveries, the Mother (or Madre? Or Mamacita?) of the farm labor movement, Dolores Huerta, also came forward. At the ripe old age of 96, she finally admitted that there is far more to the horrid story, declaring that she had been holding onto this horrible secret trauma for a decade, that Chavez sexually assaulted her, as well. He fathered two children with her, and she gave up both children for adoption so that they could live peacefully without further trauma or harm.

Why did she keep all this abuse secret? Such a long-standing secret suddenly revealed certainly raises doubts. In her press release, she explained that her silence resulted from her full commitment to the farm workers. She........

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