“I mean, right now I don’t think Donald Trump is very good, and I know that Fidel Castro has done some good things for the world so I’d say he’s proven himself at least in the long term to be more favorable,” said one student who mentioned Cuba’s decrepit government-run healthcare system.
Another student described the Stalin of the Caribbean — whose cabinet member Che Guevara wanted to nuke New York City — as a “remarkable leader” and said his dictatorship “made possibilities for the Cuban people nearly endless.”
This is the same sort of puerile prattle everybody who goes to school hears at one time or another:
Yes, Castro did bad things but he did so many good things and they’re more important in the end.
I remember the same kind of low-intensity brainwashing when I was in high school. Back then it was a do-gooder geography teacher who loved to talk about how despite all the bad things Mao Zedong did to his own people (i.e. murdering tens of millions of Chinese) he was still a great leader who moved his country forward.
But on the lighter side, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tribute to Castro prompted immediate blowback from Twitter. As
Reason’s Nick Gillespie reports, Trudeau said:
Sad.
--BombThrowers
An informal survey of American University students in Washington, D.C. reveals that they prefer dead Cuban tyrant Fidel Castro over President-elect Donald Trump.
As Amber Athey of Campus Reform reports,
