There’s always something a little disconcerting about a fanatic, but even by the loopy standards of the far left, Rutgers student Charlotte Kates takes some beating. According to a recent profile in the New York Times, her favorite book is by Lenin, a ‘writer’ so turgid that he could only be a Communist propagandist (oh, wait a moment, he was). Her dorm room décor includes a picture of a murderer (not Lenin, but, inevitably, Che Guevara) and publicity for the ‘Heroic Red Women Fighters of Peru’, an offshoot, I suspect, of that Peruvian death cult known as the Shining Path. Good for Rutgers for not objecting, however. Free expression is important and I just know the university would be just as relaxed about a display of Fascist propaganda or, say, a photo of Ernst Rohm.
So, how sinister is she? Read the following sentence and judge for yourself:
“She has a weakness for Dr. Pepper. “
And before you write – that is the Times’ spelling of the evil nectar. I know that there’s no period after the ‘Dr’.