This is dangerous when genuinely evil people apply the label 'evil' to people they wish to persecute.
Especially for locking his people in a prison island - an act which can't remotely be defended as 'in the interest of the people or socialism' or any progressive cause ...
Fidel - borderline evil.
Somewhat nuanced.
Definitely bad.
Not as bad a Hitler.
There you go.
The point isn't to quibble about the label. It's to refrain from leaping straight to applying labels. The pleas you're seeing for a calmer and broader conversation are not attempts to exculpate Castro.
Those of us who have been directly affected by Castro's actions feel that justice was never made, his legacy is not something we want celebrated or glorified.
Yes, it was not all black but the black/white ratio of Castros's regime is more 80/20 than 50/50.
Do you believe this puts you into a position of objective analysis?
I could be wrong. There may well be people in this thread actually trying to justify or minimize Castro's actions. In any case, it doesn't look like there's much prospect for a good conversation in this thread at this point. We're still waiting for the solution for how to have good conversations about touchy topics in anonymous internet forums!
This is why people often seem to say "he seemed so normal" in bewilderment when someone they knew commits mass murder.
Perhaps, given the lack of slave reparations, the nationalizing of American property in Cuba is not the injustice that many in Florida would like us all to believe.
No - I'm objecting to this with this comment.
Moral relativism is a problem in our era.
Castro is Bad.
Period.
This why they are treated as such.
Castro is also bad (label), which is why Cubans revile him.
Oh the irony. Gitmo is in Cuba too :)
Cuba is a land full of regular citizens.
See the difference?