• glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Literally one of the most inspirational humans in history, on a list with nut job American serial killers and literal genocidal maniacs. This world and the beliefs of brainwashed people are so cursed.

    • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Fidel was certainly a good guy on the whole and apologized for his mistakes, but he did make mistakes, some of which resulted in the gratuitous state persecution of minorities such as the anti-homosexuality law.

      Again, good guy, and it's no accident that Cuba is one of the most socially progressive countries in the world today, but he did also do some bad things.

        • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, it's 100% the gusanos who are mad Castro took their slaves. If they even mention the homophobia thing, it's as a rhetorical tool and not due to any real concern.

    • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The way he dealt with LGBTQ+ community is definitely a black mark. For what it's worth it literally snuck into one of the camps and saw how they were treated and shut the camps down iirc and took responsibility for it.

      • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Do you have a link where I can read about him sneaking into one of the camps?

        • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Fidel shut down the UMAP

          Fidel Castro stated categorically about the UMAP, “I can tell you for sure that there was prejudice against homosexuals.”

          On the island, the Cuban National Union of Artists and Writers (UNEAC) reportedly protested treatment of homosexuals working in UMAP, prompting Fidel to check it out for himself.

          A Cuban who worked in a UMAP, interviewed by Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal in 1970-1971, related that Fidel slipped into a UMAP brigade one night and lay down in one of the hammocks. The interviewee said: the UMAP guards would sometimes cut the hammock cords with their sabers. “When one guard raised his saber he found himself staring at Fidel; he almost dropped dead. Fidel is the man of the unexpected visits.” (“In Cuba”)

          A youth described as a “young Marxist revolutionary” told Cardenal that 100 young males from the Communist Youth were sent to the UMAP to report back about how they were treated. “It was a highly secret operation. Not even their families knew of this plan. Afterward the boys told what had happened. And they put an end to the UMAP.”

          https://www.workers.org/2007/world/lavender-red-92/

          I will say this though -there aren't really any sources here. Would like there to have been some sources