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11/26/2016

U.N. Secretary General Issues Praise for Fidel Castro

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:00 pm



This, folks, is why the U.N. receives the level of respect it does:

Well, sure. With his thuggish tendency towards violence and oppression, Fidel Castro could be considered one of the earliest Social Justice Warriors.

Couldn’t he?

[Cross-posted at RedState.]

P.S. Trump’s statement on Castro’s death was way better than Obama’s.

50 Responses to “U.N. Secretary General Issues Praise for Fidel Castro”

  1. “MOCKING THE EMINENTLY MOCKABLE: Fidel Castro dies. Justin Trudeau issues statement. Much hilarity ensues. #TrudeauEulogies.”

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/250267/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  2. yes, if you read winik’s the great upheaval, you discover all the leaders of the terror, Robespierre, marat, Corday, danton, were what one would call sjw’s today,

    narciso (d1f714)

  3. So, that means that Pinochet was a strong voice for liberal democracy?

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  4. Pol Pot was a strong voice for agriculture.

    Stalin was a strong voice against obesity, particularly in Ukraine.

    Kim Il Sung was a strong voice for self-sufficiency.

    Mao was a strong voice for the peasants.

    etc

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  5. I don’t know about a “strong voice for democracy”…but under Allende the Chilean economy was a basketcase and sinking fast; under Pinochet the economy prospered, the standard of living of most people improved, and ever since Chile has been among the most prosperous and stable economies in Latin America.

    gahrie (12cc0f)

  6. In other words, I’ll take Pinochet over Castro everyday of the week.

    gahrie (12cc0f)

  7. his was what herman kahn called an ideological renewal regime, an authoritarian that didn’t deign to interfere in the lives of all it’s citizen’s every waking hour, a few degrees more than batista, who was a kitten by comparison, but the times in vulnerable to totalitarian dreamers,

    https://twitter.com/rkylesmith/status/802633030791614464

    narciso (d1f714)

  8. WaPo headline: “After Castro’s death, worries grow for what comes next in Cuba”

    They might opt for, I dunno, freedom maybe?

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  9. I don’t know about a “strong voice for democracy”

    I don’t know about a “strong voice for social justice” either. This is in the same vein. Not much social justice in a regime that tests everyone for HIV then imprisons the sick.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  10. the fellow doing the Miami reaction, is our phillip bump, came from the local alternative paper,

    narciso (d1f714)

  11. Yes, let’s read more from the Washington Post…

    “WE ONLY SEE ARTICLES LIKE THIS WHEN REPUBLICANS WIN: WaPo: The American Political System Is Broken.”

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/250232/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  12. he is the form of the destroyer, did they not read the memo?

    narciso (d1f714)

  13. Can Nikki Haley just not show up and we kick them out of NYC?

    NJRob (a07d2e)

  14. Barack did such a fantastic job as President, that three states which hadn’t voted for a Republican nominee since the 1980s decided to vote Republican!
    Nice going, Barack!

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  15. Eye on ball – we can just get Cuba lined up for #52 a little later – http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/us/starbucks-albuquerque-devices/index.html

    Somewhere, somebody in Arabic is screaming “idiots! not enough white meat there to bother”

    urbanleftbehind (847a06)

  16. well the coffee there is a bit too pricy, and it takes six packs of sugar for a macchiato

    http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/26/the-lefts-appalling-whitewashing-of-castros-legacy/

    narciso (d1f714)

  17. Off-Topic “social justice” note — Daily Caller has gotten its hands on 4 columns written by Keith Ellison while he was a law student at Univ. of Minn. The fourth one is the most unbelievable:

    “Since no one but the WASP elite really appreciates affirmative action, I have a challenge for all fair-minded middle- and working-class white people: I will urge black people to abandon white-dominated, integration-oriented, give-away programs, if you urge white people to justly compensate black people for 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and 25 years of neo-Jim Crow.

    The settlement could be a straight cash transfer for all the black exploitation. This means just compensation for all the labor hours put in by the slaves and just compensation for all the intellectual and artistic property ripped off by all the Elvis Presleys and Pat Boones. It means compensation for all the money ripped off through sharecropping and just compensation owing to all the black athletes of yesterday, such as Jack Jefferson and Joe Louis. It means back payment of the ‘black tax,’ which is the price hike that ghetto merchants and pawnbrokers charge black consumers.”

    “Finally, blacks would have the option of choosing their own land base or remaining in the United States. Since black people toiled most diligently in the southeastern section of the United States, this land, quite naturally, would be most suitable. That means Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Blacks, of course, would not be compelled to move to the black state, and, of course, peaceful whites would not be compelled to move away.

    This is a bargain.

    Whites would be relieved of the burdens of the black-faced but white-dominated social programs. Blacks would employ themselves, teach their own children the truth and control their own neighborhoods. Black-white interaction would be voluntary instead of compelled. No more busing, no more affirmative action and, best of all, no more white guilt. White people could righteously say they have ‘settled their debts with blacks. Urban blacks, long alienated from society by poverty, forced segregation and media-vilification, would no longer strike fear in whites. Think of it, whites could reclaim their cities — without dispossessing anyone.

    Now the liberals may oppose this reparations program because, of course, they justify their existence by championing so-called lost causes.”

    The new leader of the DNC as endorsed by all the party luminaries.

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591)

  18. Cuba was one of the world’s richest countries before Castro destroyed it—and the wealth wasn’t just in the hands of a tiny elite. Linked is an interesting article about what happened to poor Cuba and its citizens thanks to Castro.
    Michael Totten:

    Communism destroyed Cuba’s prosperity, but the country experienced unprecedented pain and deprivation when Moscow cut off its subsidies after the fall of the Soviet Union. Journalist and longtime Cuba resident Mark Frank writes vividly about this period in his book Cuban Revelations. “The lights were off more than they were on, and so too was the water. . . . Food was scarce and other consumer goods almost nonexistent. . . . Doctors set broken bones without anesthesia. . . . Worm dung was the only fertilizer.” He quotes a nurse who tells him that Cubans “used to make hamburgers out of grapefruit rinds and banana peels; we cleaned with lime and bitter orange and used the black powder in batteries for hair dye and makeup.” “It was a haunting time,” Frank wrote, “that still sends shivers down Cubans’ collective spines.”

    If you have some time it’s worth a read and a share with others you may know who have only a superficial understanding of events.

    http://www.city-journal.org/html/last-communist-city-13649.html

    elissa (749046)

  19. Fidel and Juan had a sister who was busy helping Cubans flee the country as the boys were trying to find and kill them. Eventually, she had to flee as well, as the risk to her life became far too great. She fled to the US, where she continued her work in the interests of Cubans and against the interests of her tyrant brothers.

    John Hitchcock (e70c1d)

  20. One of the useful ways to separate the wheat from the chaff is seeing who writes fawning, worshipful obits about the murderer Castro and who writes the no-punches-pulled truth.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  21. Raul, the sister is juanita, she is the white sheep of the family, one might saym

    narciso (d1f714)

  22. And from Dr. Jill Stein (who do all these liberals Jills insist on using their honorifics), who has spent the last few days enriching herself by crassly begging for millions from her saps, says Castro was a symbol of the “incredible struggle against empire right across the water.” Meaning the US, of course, not Venezuela or Red Nicaragua.

    Let the record reflect Dr. Jill has chosen to live in said empire for her entire life, despite having the freedom to leave and join the struggle with her comrades in their Communist hellholes.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  23. #25 Patricia, if Dr Jill doesn’t like the way that votes are counted in America, she should try asking for a re-count after an election in Cuba! (LOL)

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  24. Castro was a despotic tyrant who ruled over a people with no freedom or recourse from his rule. Anyone who celebrates his life is a fool.

    Did not anyone notice that the left media said the same about his death: He brought education and health care to his people? That was repeated over and over.

    Sure, he taught people to read what he wanted. Maybe he got vaccines to people so they could live as slaves to communism. He raised over three generations to fear anything outside his island of despair.

    And we could have stopped it. After all the open wars in the Mideast and Asia and the mini-wars in the Americas, we never took the time nor effort to depose a dictator a few miles off our shore. To our shame.

    He should have died at the same time as the murderous Leninist Che Guevara instead of dying in bed as old man, clear of the sorrow he wrought.

    May he burn in hell with his fellow travelers. May he burn in hell with the media that celebrates his life. May he burn in hell with the left in America that celebrates his diabolical achievements. May he burn in hell for the lives he took and the lives he cursed.

    F*** his sorry carcass, f*** his nine days of mourning, f*** his sorry life and all who think he did a damn thing for justice or freedom.

    Did I mention that I don’t care much for f***ing Castro?

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  25. Fidel Castro dead.
    Tourism industry of South Florida, New Orleans and Las Vegas worried most.
    Will Trump build hotel-casinos in Havana? Yacht clubs and golf courses, too? Or will he still pander to the Batistitas like eleven Presidents before him?

    nk (dbc370)

  26. Maybe the U.N. SecGen should hold off sucking up to tyrannical commie dictatorships long enough to concern himself with forcing member nations to pay their parking tickets. Mayor DeBlasio needs the money.

    ropelight (3d2fd8)

  27. Yes ag I concur on all points, Vietnam, Panama, Kuwait, Afghanistan, we never went after our most proximate enemy.

    narciso (d1f714)

  28. Fifty years as president. That fool must have thought himself bullet proof. Or maybe Castro didn’t sell bullets to the public. Maybe they had a registration process, like the democrats just voted to do in California. Maybe they only sold firearms to loyal members of the Cuban gestapo.

    But then you have worm crap fertilizer. Fertilizer makes for great big bombs, except Castro didn’t die in a great big boom.
    Dude must have been bomb proof too.

    He must have ate a meal or two over five decades. Probably had a drink too.
    Guy must be arsenic proof.

    Whole generations of people went dog paddling with the sharks rather than taking the risk to end the bastard.

    Nobody has explained this adequately for me.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  29. I repeat a strigoi a ghoul upon the land, there were many who fought UN the escambray mountains, until 1965, then like the Ukrainians partisans were snuffed out.

    narciso (d1f714)

  30. And the Albanians and the Hungarians and the Nicaraguans need I go on.

    narciso (d1f714)

  31. And we could have stopped it. After all the open wars in the Mideast and Asia and the mini-wars in the Americas, we never took the time nor effort to depose a dictator a few miles off our shore. To our shame.

    Kind of reminds me of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus

    No, not Castro (who was the cause of sores), the suffering Cuban people are Lazarus.

    Nobody has explained this adequately for me.
    papertiger (c8116c) — 11/27/2016 @ 6:58 am

    Your point is well taken, and an explanation is available to a certain degree of probability. But I think the following is what one might say: “Nobody has justified this adequately for me.”

    felipe (023cc9)

  32. Greetings:

    Earlier Social Justice Warriors ??? What was it that…

    Lenin and Stalin brought to Russia,
    Hitler brought to Germany,
    Mussolini brought to Italy,
    Mao brought to China,
    Ho Chi Minh brought to Viet Nam,
    Pol Pot brought to Cambodia,
    Mohammed brought to planet Earth,

    And Fidel has finally stopped bringing to Cuba.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  33. R.I.P. Ron Glass, forever Detective Harris on Barney Miller

    Icy (7fb2b3)

  34. 11B40 (6abb5c) — 11/27/2016 @ 8:46 am

    Poignant, very.

    felipe (023cc9)

  35. 11B40 @37.

    A. Infliction of the penalty of death upon many people without anything that could be called due process of law, for things that in many cases in a justly run society would not even be considered crimes at all.

    Sammy Finkelman (1190c5)

  36. A very puffy puff piece on Castro on CBS Sunday Morning. It did – to its credit – show photos of how grim life was there, e.g., decrepit housing, raggedy clothing, etc., but seemed to lay all that at the feet of the USA’s sanctions and the result of Castro’s brave, resolute stand against the Goliath to the north.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  37. So why was east Germany, or Bulgaria, same mo, the dgi is like the stash like the stb

    narciso (d1f714)

  38. Nobody has explained this adequately for me.
    papertiger (c8116c) — 11/27/2016 @ 6:58 am

    There were 638 foiled plots and overt attempts, just by the CIA, to kill Castro, according to one count. That’s what totalitarian means. The government knows what everyone is doing.

    nk (dbc370)

  39. Nowhere near that number.

    narciso (d1f714)

  40. “Both Venezuela and Cuba have suffered under leaders who enriched themselves and their families. Chavez’s daughter is the richest person in Venezuela, with a net worth in the billions, while in true “socialist equality” fashion, Cuba is now run by Castro’s brother, Raul.

    Yet their poverty and oppression are treated as if they’re just “bad luck.” But it’s only bad luck in the Heinlein sense. As Heinlein also said, a good cook can take wholesome ingredients and produce something much more valuable. A bad cook, on the other hand, can take those same ingredients — valuable in themselves — and produce an inedible mess.

    Socialist kleptocrats are like Heinlein’s bad cook, with the added trait of stealing any edible leftovers for themselves and their kin. Perhaps the world will learn a valuable lesson from the fates of Cuba and Venezuela, and avoid such “bad luck” in the future.”

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/27/castro-cuba-chavez-venezuela-socialism-glenn-reynolds/94485906/

    Colonel Haiku (603887)

  41. No need to recount Cuban elections, Cruz Supporters. It’s unamimous, always!

    Patricia (5fc097)

  42. This is why Trump needs to pull away from the UN and leave these commie jihadi lowlife garbage crony maggots in globalist no-mans land.

    Jcurtis (609b31)

  43. Maggots? I didn’t say “maggots”. Stop changing what I’m trying to say, progtards.

    Jcurtis (609b31)

  44. Juanita Castro = Rocky Wirtz, lets hope. A minus-Fidel Cuba could be well positioned not so much to threaten tourism of South Florida, Las Vegas or New Orleans, but be a sympathetic antidote to Cancun and other spring breaky Mexican locales which might get tariff-laden and dangerous for unabashed gringos.

    urbanleftbehind (847a06)


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