California has its own way of doing things, and that certainly applies to who it honors. Case in point: The University of California San Diego's (UCSD) campus boasts a student-run cafe that salutes a mass murderer. Shockingly, recent accusations suggest it's a haven for untoward actions.

The establishment isn't exactly new; according to DarkStar.UCSD.edu, 1967 saw the launch of an on-campus coffeehouse. At the next decade's end, the student-run Coffee Hut incorporated a vegetarian menu and got a name change. The new hippie-dippie moniker: Che Cafe.

More from school paper The Guardian:

 The name of the Cafe itself is not only an homage to the Argentine revolutionary (Che Guevara), but a backronym for “Cheap Healthy Eats.” ... Throughout the 1980s, members of the co-op hosted punk and reggae concerts at the Cafe, openly expressing their counterculture tendencies. The Cafe tackled issues that are still divisive today and became the first “Safe Space” by hosting “Non-Sexist” LGBTQ socials. ... The U-shaped mural-covered building also harbored budding activists of the Civil Rights movements, the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, the student Co-Op Movement, gender equality, environmentalism, vegetarianism and countless others.

Prominently featured onsite: a portrait of Che himself. The deceased pro-Castro militant enjoyed a fashionable embrace 20-plus years ago when T-shirts bearing his likeness reached hot-trend status. Since then, a host of merchandise has hat-tipped toward the man known for his cigar, beard, and blood-soaked hands. 

But despite the cuddliness of a submachine-gun-toting Marxist killer, the venue has of late been dogged by disturbing claims. The Guardian quotes a two-year Cafe regular and former volunteer:

“I have had so many terrible experiences there... ... It’s almost every show — something terrible is happening to somebody."

More from the outlet:

[He] recounted consistently experiences at the venue, including sexual harassment, physical assault, and volunteers not having rapists removed from the grounds. 

He's not the only critic; similarly negative accounts have caused quite a stir. In response, a group of Cafe reps say they're ready to upgrade the virtue level from "safe" to "brave":

“We’ve actually been working pretty hard for the last three years to implement a brave space policy — rather than a safe space policy — and a restorative justice policy."

Doubtlessly that will do it. But just to be safe -- or, brave -- Che Cafe recently posted the following to Instagram:

People in our space are expected to respect the collective and the community they are a part of, but many have not been. As a collective, we have decided to instate a bag-checking policy for a few weeks to reinforce these values and protect the community from harming itself and each other. 

If you break our sober space policy, you will be asked to leave. 

Respect the space. Respect the volunteers. Respect each other. Have fun. Stop hurting each other. Thank you.

--The Che Cafe Collective

"[C]he Cafe has a long history of being both an all-ages space and a sober space," the post points out. 

Speaking of history, the heralding of anti-harm is curious given the now-vegan spot's namesake. Presumably, its collectivist members would speak out against "hate"; meanwhile, Guevara's most famous quote is arguably this:

“A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."

The 2018 biography "Che: A Revolutionary Life" -- which NPR called "a remarkable accomplishment" -- describes UCSD's communist Mr. Coffee as "blood-thirsty." 

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Unfortunately for America's pro-socialism crowd, the societal scheme is not -- as many seem to think -- a utopia in which all employees suddenly become business owners. It is, rather, a system in which no one may own his or her own business, as politicians become exclusive operators of a business monopoly. Government -- the ultimate big business -- steals the citizenry's ability to affect the price and quality of goods and services (AKA capitalism). Hence, the populace becomes poorer and more poorly served.

So goes modernity, in which a restaurant -- billed online as "Your Favorite Leftist Collective" -- cozies to the idea that animals shouldn't be killed...as it pays tribute to a man known for his killing of human animals.

Via The Associated Press, writer Ralph Reiland has marveled thusly:

First, you spend the greater part of your life killing, hating, training murderers, supporting a policy of a large-scale nuclear attack on the United States, and organizing and relishing the mass slaughter of thousands of the guiltless through arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, torture, denial of due process and violent deaths by politicized firing squads.

Second, then you’re not supposed to get a romanticized image of your face on racks of T-shirts at Sears, Urban Outfitters, Gap, Belstaff and JCPenney, or get an alluring mugshot of yourself on a special purse by Louis Vuitton.

A glimpse into Che Guevara, from the Collegiate Times:

Several men who survived (Cuban) La Cabana prison recall a night when a 14-year-old boy was shoved into their holding cell. When asked what he did, he gasped that he had tried to defend his father from the firing squad, but was unsuccessful.

Moments later, guards dragged the boy out of the cell, and Che Guevara himself ordered the boy to kneel down.

The jailed men...watched out of their cell window as Guevara took out his pistol, put the barrel to the back of the boy's neck, and fired.

As for preventing harassment and assault, hopefully Che Cafe will do better. At the moment, any immoral deeds may be seen as baby steps toward the establishment living up to its name. Might patrons and participants finally realiize the gross error of its branding? Surely no one there would go within miles of, say, a Derek Chauvin Bistro. Alas, a change seems unlikely -- the study of history is increasingly a thing of the past. The Che Cafe Collective probably hasn't collected information on Che.

On Instagram, the Cafe confessed, "We believe survivors. ... We understand that we have failed you." 

It has certainly failed victims -- including Che Guevara's -- who survived. It's additionally insulted the many who, caught in the crosshairs of Marxist violence, did not.

-ALEX

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