Cesar Chavez is in the news this week, e.g., “Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years” (NYT) and now Democrat-run states such as California have tons of Cesar Chavez schools and streets to rename. ChatGPT estimates 43-45 public schools and as many as 100 streets are named after a vegetarian who died at age 66 of “natural causes” for which there is likely no ICD-10 code (maybe add W50.5 “sex with energetic teenagers” or W50.6 “sex with teens who volunteered to help a progressive cause”?).
What about renaming all of these schools and streets to honor a hero to modern-day Californians? Suppose there were a person heroically standing up to an illegal war, unafraid of death, and leading a society that is a City on a Hill to Californians? From March 1, 2026, Gavin Newsom characterizes the U.S. war on Iran as “illegal”:
From today, Gavin Newsom in his official capacity offers a hearty “Assalamualaikum, California!”:
A few months ago, a Hamas leader might have been the natural choice. However, except for occasional swipes at Israel for “genocide” or “apartheid“, the California righteous seem to have forgotten about their brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters in “Palestine”. The Islamic Republic of Iran is the model now and, certainly, nobody observes Ramadan more piously and peacefully than an Iranian ayatollah. Nobody stands up to Donald Trump’s aggression more bravely than an Iranian politician. The natural choices for new names, then, are “Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei High School”, “Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei Avenue”, and similar.
Separately, what did Cesar Chavez do, according to the NYT?
The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45. She was 13. Ms. Murguia said she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.
Ms. Rojas said she was 12 when Mr. Chavez first touched her inappropriately, groping her breasts in the same office where he’d meet with Ms. Murguia. When Ms. Rojas was 15, he arranged to have her stay at a motel during a weekslong march through California, she said, and had sexual intercourse with her — rape, under state law, because she was not old enough to consent.
The Times investigation found that Mr. Chavez also used many of the women who worked and volunteered in his movement for his own sexual gratification. His most prominent female ally in the movement, Dolores Huerta, said in an interview that he sexually assaulted her, a disclosure she has never before made publicly.
One night during the winter of 1966 in Delano, Calif., she said, Mr. Chavez drove her out to a secluded grape field, parked and raped her inside the vehicle. Ms. Huerta, who was 36 at the time, said she chose not to report the assault to the police because of their hostility toward the movement, and she feared that no one within the union would believe her. She also described an earlier encounter in August 1960, when she said she felt pressured to have sex with him in a hotel room during a work trip in San Juan Capistrano in Southern California.
Note that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tahrir al-Wasila wrote that it was acceptable for a middle-aged man to have sex with a 9-year-old, just as Muhammad did, within the context of a marriage (but younger than 9 years old is forbidden or, perhaps, 8 years and 9 months). Chavez, in other words, wouldn’t have been breaking the law in Iran so long as he married the girls described in the article. (“While marriageable age is defined at 13 years for girls and 15 years for boys, there is no specific age limit for marriage in Iran and marriage is possible at any age” says “The trend of girl child marriage in Iran based on national census data” (2020).)
Related:
- Theodicy question: Why didn’t Allah protect the Islamic Republic of Iran from attack by infidels? (“Iran may yet provide us with a desperately‐needed model of humane governance for a third‐world country,” said the New York Times in 1979 regarding Ayatollah Khomeini’s incoming “Islamic government”)
Mojtaba Elementary will become acclaimed for the large number of Mrs. Degrees issued!
Did you see Comrade Hochul’s call upon Palm Beach tax donkeys to move to NYC and fund the glorious government?
https://x.com/MattWhitlock/status/2034243619616391649
Allahu Akbar, Sayyid Ayatollah al-Uzma, the Marja, and welcome to this blog. I did see Comrade Hochul’s video. I need to get my passport renewed before I can make the trip from Jupiter to Palm Beach (a 25-minute drive, but a world away) and try to help persuade the generous.
I was skeptical of the Khomeini claim, but it’s legit. It’s even on the Wikipedia and somehow worse than you made it out here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Wasilah
Phil, certainly the naming of all manner of schools, municipal buildings etc. in the name of Khamenei should be broadly implemented as we seek to rid America of the vile influences of Western Civilization. That said, there is no need to eliminate the wonderful homages to Cesar Chavez because the two are actually so compatible. And there is no better example of that than what our Dear friend Keir Starmer has implemented in the UK, with the Pakistani Rape Gangs who Keir has encouraged to rape young girls as part of Sharia Law. He has gushed repeatedly at the Marvelous Cultural Enrichment these Pakistanis have brought to the UK. In Iran, they’ve been an even more innovative trailblazer in this regard; when girls there are raped by the Islamic Rape Gangs, they are then tried and hanged from cranes in public squares. But, before they are hanged, they are raped again by a another gang of Holy Basij Justices. With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear the Chavez was really just an early adopter of the Islamic Ethos of Peace and Love. Allahu Akbar!
If it were up to me, I would rename all public streets, buildings, schools, parks, and all government-owned places with Native Indian names. After all, if it weren’t for the Native Indian welcoming the Europeans in the early days, America as we know it today would not exist.
In fact, I would go even further and offer every Native Indian free housing, healthcare, and education at any school and university of their choosing regardless of qualification, no taxation, and full access to all government services, for free, including parks, to name a few.
It is time to truly reconsider who our heroes are and who deserves recognition.
George, interesting comment. But, in terms of our “heroes and who deserves recognition,” wouldn’t the following ideas and people below deserve far more recognition? After all, while Native Americans were living in primitive dirt-floored homes, the following was happening across an ocean, and these were far more consequential to the world than than any contribution from the Native Americans (and it’s not at all clear that the Europeans that moved here would not have succeeded without help from the Natives).
Systematic Philosophy and Logic (Ancient Greece, ~5th–4th centuries BCE)
Socrates, Plato, and especially Aristotle developed formal logic, deductive reasoning, ethics, metaphysics, and categories of knowledge. This created the intellectual framework for Western thought, influencing science, law, politics, and education for over two millennia.
• Euclidean Geometry and Mathematics (Ancient Greece, ~300 BCE)
Euclid’s Elements formalized geometry with axioms, proofs, and theorems still taught today. Greek mathematicians like Pythagoras (theorem) and others advanced number theory, laying the basis for all later mathematics, engineering, and physics.
• Hippocratic Medicine and the Scientific Approach to Health (Ancient Greece, ~5th century BCE)
Hippocrates and his school separated medicine from superstition, emphasizing observation, natural causes, ethics (Hippocratic Oath), and diagnosis/prognosis. This professionalized medicine and introduced empirical methods in biology and health.
• Democracy and Republican Governance (Ancient Greece & Rome, ~5th century BCE–1st century CE)
Athenian direct democracy (Cleisthenes, Pericles) and the Roman Republic introduced concepts of citizenship, assemblies, rule of law, checks and balances, and written constitutions. These ideas inspired modern representative systems and individual political rights.
• Roman Engineering and Concrete (~2nd century BCE–2nd century CE)
Romans perfected concrete (opus caementicium), aqueducts, roads, arches, domes (e.g., Pantheon), and infrastructure on a massive scale. This enabled durable urban planning, sanitation, and empire-wide connectivity, influencing architecture and civil engineering.
• Universities and Scholasticism (Medieval Europe, 11th–15th centuries)
The founding of medieval universities (Bologna ~1088, Oxford ~1096, Paris ~1150) institutionalized higher learning. Scholastic thinkers like Thomas Aquinas synthesized faith and reason (via Aristotle), preserving and advancing knowledge through debate and logic.
• Printing Press with Movable Type (Johannes Gutenberg, mid-15th century)
This invention made books cheap and mass-producible, sparking widespread literacy, the Renaissance, Reformation, and rapid dissemination of ideas. It democratized knowledge and accelerated cultural and scientific change.
• Renaissance Humanism and Art (14th–16th centuries)
A cultural rebirth emphasizing classical learning, individualism, and human potential. Masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael advanced realistic art, anatomy studies (via dissection), perspective, and secular themes, transforming visual culture and inspiring scientific observation.
• Heliocentrism and the Copernican Revolution (Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543; built on by Galileo, Kepler)
Copernicus proposed a Sun-centered universe, challenging Ptolemaic geocentrism. Galileo’s telescope observations (moons of Jupiter, phases of Venus) and Kepler’s elliptical orbits provided evidence, shifting cosmology toward empirical astronomy.
• Scientific Method and Early Modern Science (16th–17th centuries)
Francis Bacon formalized inductive reasoning and experimentation; Galileo emphasized measurement and testing; René Descartes promoted doubt and analytical geometry; Isaac Newton (Principia, 1687) unified mechanics with universal gravitation and calculus. This established the empirical, mathematical basis of modern science.
How about not naming them for humans at all? We could just go back to Main, Elm, Oak, Evergreen Terrace, etc. Remove any statuary that references humans or their symbology, and replace with extinct plants and animals. Naming things after people is mostly to remind us of the contemporary power structure and who controls the budget. Columbia U. capitulated to the woke, and renamed a building that had been owned by a slave-holder. But they forgot to change their own name from one of the colonialists that brought slavery. And remove the crowns peppering the campus, since we got rid of kings. It wouldn’t hurt to change America to Freedomland either, to remind us what our goal is. Why do things half-assed?
@Confused
Socrates, interestingly, was put to death by his own people “failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introducing new deities”. (The woke canceled for real back then, yo.) His name would probably be appropriate, but not currently politically correct, for a California street. Perhaps “Hemlock Blvd.”? Ta.
I wish I had “Phil’s Quick Reference to Muslim Terminology” (he seems to be a world expert — being a culturally unenriched ‘Murican and seeing all these foreign words makes me queasy.
I read recently that similar to grade inflation, there is Ayatollah inflation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayatollah#Devaluation_trend
My vote is to keep the Martin Luther King signs, even if we discover some minor flaws in him like these other gentlemen. At least I know what the words mean. Looks like the gravel hopper is low, gotta go.
When faced with the prospect of reverting Cesar Chavez St to Army St, the media quickly dropped the story.
Blasphemy. These streets/schools must forever remain Latinx. Bad Bunny Boulevard?
Hi Nick,
They let you have Internet access in Super Max? (My state has angered PornHub, so no Latina porn for me. And unlike you, I don’t really need it.) Anyway, blasphemy is an oath against God. Latinx is not my God, it is a made up concept. Adios, pendejo. (Pendejo Boulevard?)