So many people are idolized when they clearly shouldn't be.

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Gandhi. He was racist, and a creep. He slept with his own grandniece to show he had “self-restraint”. As an Indian, this shocked me when I found out.

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    Fricking Christopher Columbus

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    #4

    Not to be a Debbie Downer...but when you look at it objectively, aren't MOST of the "heroes" in history really villains?

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    #5

    Donald Trump

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    #6

    Andrew Jackson. I've seen some people talk about him being such a great president, and since he's from my state, we have to learn about him. He's a total piece of s**t who orchestrated the Trail of Tears, and I don't know how there's still a f*****g statue of him (and Johnson and Polk) outside the state Capitol.

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    3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you! We had a whole section on him in school that talked about how many great things he did for the US and the whole time I was thinking "This man killed my ancestors."

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    #7

    pls read completely beofre downvoting

    Hitler and heres why, yes hes the villian over all but he was seen as a hero to the nazis at the beginning of the dlgreat depressioneading to ww2

    But yeah hitler is a villian, and for those who dont know why heres a list

    Genocide, concentration camps, murder, assassination, etc

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    #8

    The freaking spanish explorers. Driving people out of their native homes isn't great. Get your facts straight. I love how repuplicans talk about how immigrants are takeing over without realizing the irony of the fact that most Americans are literally immigrants.

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    Mani
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most "Americans" (I believe you mean by that "people living in the USA") are not immigrants, rate is 15% or so.

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    #9

    Pretty much everyone, Christopher Columbus is one that sticks out.

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    #10

    Union soldiers in the United States civil war. Rape, torture, racism so bad that it led to race riots, robbery, etc. I am not a defender of slavery. I am completely against whitewashed history.

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    Brenda
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This happened on BOTH sides, north & south. There were northern troops that were imprisoned or even killed for this. Same for southern troops. It is a sad part of our history

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    almost all of them.

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