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Sexual predators can get off the hook if they are progressive enough — just look at Cesar Chavez

The bigger they are, the longer it takes them to fall.

That’s the lesson of Cesar Chavez.

A New York Times investigation revealed that the famed Mexican-American leader of the United Farm Workers labor union “groomed and sexually abused girls” as young as 12, “used many of the women who worked and volunteered in his movement for his own sexual gratification,” and sexually assaulted Dolores Huerta, his closest female ally in the movement.

The details of Chavez locking the doors to corner vulnerable girls in their early teens are shocking.

Chavez, who died in 1993, has been a left-wing icon so long, he was profiled in the front of my first social studies textbook in the 1970s.

Bill Clinton posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Barack Obama designated his headquarters and gravesite as a national monument.

Joe Biden put a bust of him in the Oval Office.

Inside the creepy California lair where Cesar Chavez allegedly raped girls and women while living like a king

Cesar Chavez Day has to go

Cesar Chavez scandal could........

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