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Originally Posted by RainMaker
I get it. I just don't think he said all that much in praise of Castro. Nothing more than what Obama said. It was incredibly tame and I wonder how many people actually listened to the clip.
The literacy thing gets brought up because it mirrors what happened in our own country. Slaveholders forbid slaves from learning because it would empower them. Remember that Batista literally had a nation filled with slaves like the old South. American companies used this slave labor gleefully (also some lingering hatred toward Cuba is from when they turned that spiggot of slave labor off to American corporations).
With that said, I just find it weird we focus on him. Considering this country's love affair with brutal dictators past and present, I'd put Castro far down on the list. Mubarik was a much more brutal ruler just died. Hillary called him a "family friend".
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I think you're overthinking how much this country gives a s*** about Cuba's literacy rate.
What we have is a self declared socialist who honeymoons in the Soviet Union praising authoritarian communist regimes. And when that guy is running for President there is going to be criticism.