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#Metoo, Chavez? Then fall, Cesar; labor hero no longer useful to left

The left built the late California labor leader Cesar Chavez into a hero. He’s now the latest takedown in the #metoo era.

The man whom the United Farm Workers (UFW) and progressive pantheon spent decades treating as the brown Martin Luther King Jr. faces chilling, and murky, allegations of sexual misconduct with women ––possibly involving minor girls as well.

It is a surprising development ahead of March 31, which is Cesar Chavez Day in California.

For half a century, gatekeepers on the left turned Chavez into an untouchable icon. He was the co-founder of the UFW, the leader of the Delano grape strike, and a nonviolent crusader for migrant workers.

Every progressive history curriculum, every California street sign, every March 31 was proof that here was a flawless champion of the oppressed. Schools were renamed, statues erected, documentaries produced with soft lighting and swelling violins.

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Critics who noted his anti-immigration stances in the 1970s were dismissed as right-wing cranks. The narrative was simple: flawless labor saint vs. evil growers.

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