It Took A Petition To Remove Commie Castro's Quotes From Penn State Building

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Penn State to Remove Fidel Castro Quote From Campus Building After Student Petition

July 23, 2021

Pennsylvania State University has agreed to remove a quote by Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro following a student-led campaign to take down the text from a campus building.

The quote in question is printed on a wall inside Penn State's Paul Robeson Cultural Center, according to student newspaper Daily Collegian. ... "The presence of the quote has just come to the university's attention from a student who expressed concern," a university spokesperson said in a July 17 statement to Daily Collegian. "We agree with the concerns, and the quote is being removed. We also have reached out directly to inform the student who raised the concern that this is the university's decision." The student, Erik Suarez, is from Venezuela, an once-prosperous South American nation struggling with massive economic and humanitarian crises created by socialism. He said he was disturbed to find on campus the same kind of propaganda that inspired the deadly socialist experiment in his home country.

"Fidel Castro represents the misery of not only the Cuban people, but Venezuelan people as well, as being the inspiration for the regime in my country as well," ... In a letter to Penn State's President Eric Barron, Suarez argued that the benign-sounding quote masked Castro's decades long rule as a communist dictator and went against the university's values. He was joined by students identifying as victims of communism and totalitarianism, and representatives of the Penn State College Republicans.... "If Penn State truly values freedom and prosperity, then it cannot ignore the atrocities and plights committed by Fidel Castro,"... Read more ...

Penn State to Remove Fidel Castro Quote From Campus Building After Student Petition