It's really not that hard to not do so. Not that there's a good time to find out someone isn't the good person that was thought, but it sucks a little extra given that this is coming out now as unions are in a very weak position and Republicans will probably try to tie unions in general to this (without even the slightest bit of irony).

And families are the hub where it primarily originates.

It needs to be rooted out as a society cancer and eliminated.

I had to Google news this

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/cesar-chavez-new-york-times-dolores-huerta-22083541.php

This is why I have endured even some of my more annoying colleagues (whose judgement I disagreed with - being a tech hater from way back).
Look at the kinds of truly horrifying skeletons even people like Cesar Chavez have. Mahatma Gandhi was the same. He used to do unacceptable things to his family members.

I remember thinking sardonically during some of the worst years of my life if some of those forward thinking crews out there have considered lame metaphoric analogies that would in this …


At least they just have horrible judgements about how “Tech will Save the World!”. That was one of President Obama’s weaknesses imo. He was never sleazy or irresponsible. But he did have this sort of limpid trust in tech which those of us battle-hardened by real world exposure to EECS and its bs would be less susceptible to.


How could anyone actually irl be that daft even back in 2011? That is an extra wide-eyed take on tech coupled with paranoid levels of suspicion of random disheveled stoners.

They (EECS etc) defrauded me early on irisblue!

Looking back over my life I have been relatively lucky in always being in that “in the dead middle” contingent, lacking any desire to climb, but infuriated at the thought of dropping lower.

So I have ended up being defrauded more than harassed or taken advantage of in these ways. I am sick of being defrauded but I suppose it is a kind of fortune to at least be able to avoid any kind of sexual exploitation. That would be unthinkable.

Whatever happens, no human (female or male), should ever implicitly accept a new social or professional contract that is significantly inferior to the one preceding it.

I bring it up because sexual harassment and sexual creepiness are a zero tolerance area imo. Most women would agree. And what this story and others like it highlight is how shocking it is when highly respected figures like these have skeletons.

It is one reason I like science and medicine. On average fewer perverts to contend with. Generally most scientists I know are like President Obama.
They may be susceptible to a type of poor judgement call - like respecting Larry Summers or Facebook/Google back in 2011. But well that is a forgivable error if you see it as an error. Though really..with Larry Summers…

Google otoh has no shortage of perverts .

In a way, I guess it is kind of heartwarming when things are tacky, sleazy and generally disgraceful, but at least no sexual abuse-or God..I shrilly declaim that -surely no one anyone would know would be worse than..well these like a disastrously negligent university admin I once came across (also EECS - that field is a threat to civil society as we knew it).

I stand for Delores Huerta and all women!

this doesn't surprise me at all - nope

and place where a woman who said she was abused or raped, the blame and shame was put upon her, not the perp.
Divorced women were looked down upon.
"Out-of-wedlock" children were also derided.
As nursing students, we were looked upon as easy prey - because we 'knew things'.
If you were not married by age 25, there was something wrong with you that you could not get and hold a man.

Thus, I can understand a 96 yo being hesitant to speak out and am proud of her for doing so.

It has taken a lot of work from a lot of women (and some men) speaking out to get us where we are today. But, unfortunately, there is still a lot more work to be done. It does my heart good when I hear women (and some men) shouting back!

it's why justice for the Epstein victims is SO important - while there has been improvement in this area there is still room for a LOT more

It's way past time since someone provided a strong voice for the voiceless.

Babies are raped somewhere in the world every day.

To me, it's the biggest scourge to the world today.

These perpetrators must be held accountable and spend every waking moment of their lives being afraid of punishment for these crimes against humanity, somehow. Soon. Forever.

Thanks so much for sharing this, she². I love you.

And I love Jasmine Crockett. ❤️

I'm really shocked at all of this relating to Chavez, and having to absorb it. He was a figure in my childhood and I never heard an inkling of anything like what is being uncovered. So, as I said - I am absorbing.

But make no mistake, the victims need to be supported. I sincerely hope that Ms. Huerta has been able to unburden herself in a way that she will find vindication and peace. At 96, I doubt she will actually see much justice, but she will know that she started the process, and she deserves a peace that she has not been able to have for decades.

But not shocked. That Ms. Huerta is 96 and is just now telling her truth is a societal failure, as Congresswoman Crockett puts it.

She is cool.

of renaming the street that I live on.

We all know who she's including when she talks about the "abusers".

Mahalo for this, she~

Monster is a monster is a monster.