On campuses across the country, leftist students commemorate Fidel Castro confidant and mass-murderer Ernesto “Che” Guerva. In response, campus chapters of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) held a “No More Che Day” on Friday to inform their peers that the man should actually be condemned, not celebrated.
Guerva was a major figure of the Cuban Revolution and Castro’s right-hand man. One of his duties in power included being in charge of La Cabaña Fortress prison, where somewhere between 156 and 550 people were executed without trial. He also assisted Castro in resisting U.S. forces during the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
Since his execution by CIA-backed Bolivian forces in 1967, Guerva has been revered on college campuses. A year after his execution, the head of the Student’s for a Democratic Society chapter at Columbia University, Mark Rudd, said, “He was my man, or, rather, I was his. Brilliant, young, idealistic, a daring commander of rebels, willing to risk his life to free the people of the world, I wanted to be like him. I was a member of the cult of Che. Who wouldn’t fall for this rifle-toting poet?”
George Washington University YAF member Diego Rebollar said, “Che is idolized by many liberals and seen as a hero so we have a ‘no more Che’ day to remind people that he was actually a gruesome murderer.”
It is no surprise leftist students adore Guerva; they have embraced the beliefs of Malcolm X, Karl Marx and other socialist figures. They have also been “triggered” and “offended” by history’s past — for example, Princeton University students protested the name of the school’s International Affairs building, named after Woodrow Wilson, who served as president of the university before becoming the 28th U.S. President (Princeton rejected the students’ request).
To be offended about buildings named after prominent figures known to hold segregationist views, but to celebrate heinous leaders like Guerva is hypocritical and barbaric.
As long as this Orwellian standard exists, leftists might as well celebrate Hitler and Stalin. Maybe this sarcastic, but profound, rebuttal can cause students to realize that authoritarian and genocidal maniacs like Guerva should never be celebrated.
