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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Mother Theresa. My father was a taxi driver in Australia and one of his customers was a man who'd been raised in Mother Theresa's orphanage. He said she beat him terribly.

Another user also added: She was obsessed with preventing wartime sexual abuse victims from getting abortions.

Her order sold babies.

She buddied up to dictators and accepted stolen cash from them.

Collected millions in donations and never spent them on her "houses of the poor" which were vermin infested crapholes where people went to die.

Refused pain medication for the dying and ill because she believed suffering = being close to god.

Had nothing but top of the line medical care for herself.

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Lucifer 2 years ago

Teresa was a horrible human being. She believed that only through pain you can reach Christ, so let the people suffer in her care. And it was backed by the Catholic Church so that she can convert as many people as possible to Christianity. And the Western world backed her with billions in donations. (Read 'Missionary Position' By Christopher Hitchens)

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Thomas Edison. I’ll never forgive him for what he did to Tesla.

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Nunya Business 2 years ago

He electrocuted an elephant to death to prove his point about AC/DC electricity and I will forever detest him for that.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Ronald Reagan - moved somewhere between 50-80 TRILLION from middle class to upper 1%. Ruined America!

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Lucifer 2 years ago

Reagan is the reason why America is in such a mess right now. He was the original cult leader, before Trump took over the GOP.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Coco Chanel was a goddamn Nazi spy. Yes, she was an incredible designer, and she's probably one of the most influential humans of the 20th century, based on the number of people who have worn clothing directly inspired by her over the past 100 years. She really did change the way women dress in a truly radical way, and I respect that - knitwear, feminized menswear, ditching the corset, transforming black into an everyday color, the essential skirt suit, costume jewelry, synthetic fragrances in perfume, the list goes on.

But she was a goddamn Nazi spy. Coco was a wretched anti-Semite, like so many other members of the European elite during the 30s. She dated a number of staggeringly wealthy British aristocrats and they'd all sit around talking about the Protocols of Zion and s**t, trying to figure out whether any members of the royal family were secretly Jews, etc. When war broke out, the two Jewish brothers who ran her perfume empire (aka Chanel No 5, the best selling perfume in the world then and now) had to flee to the US for safety. How did Coco respond? By writing to the Nazis to ask them to transfer ownership over to her, a good Aryan, so she could make more money. But that's not the half of it.

She fell in love with a dashing German spy named "Spitz" who'd been seducing bluebloods all over France and England for years leading up the war. Coco was a useful woman - she was simply one of the richest women in the world, and she knew everyone in the British aristocracy, including her old hunting buddy and dear friend, Winston Churchill himself. She and Spitz socialized with all the biggest Nazi names in town, especially Otto Abetz, the Nazi ambassador to France, who invited them to every party in town. Spitz convinced her to join the Abwehr (aka the German secret service) and make trips to Spain. Operating under the code name "Westminster", she attempted to broker a "separate peace" between Germany and England. (In the meantime, she may or may not have reported at least one woman at the Hotel Ritz whom she suspected of being Jewish to the SS.) She had a grand old time going on her adventures, and wrote about the excitement of working for the Abwehr in her private notes.

Chanel was arrested only a few days after the liberation of Paris - absolutely everyone in town knew what she'd been doing and who she'd been doing it with - but for rEaSoNs UnKnOwN she was released without charges. It's widely believed that Winston Churchill personally intervened. It might be because the two of them had been close friends for decades. It might be because she was going to embarrass the s**t out of Britain by outing all the anti-Semites and pro-Nazis in the British aristocracy - including the recently abdicated Edward VIII who used his f***ng honeymoon as an excuse to tour Nazi Germany and shake Hitler's hand. She spent the rest of her life being a nasty, bitter morphine addict living in the Hotel Ritz. The House of Chanel has very, very little to say about the matter, and every few years a few more bits of damning evidence are declassified from the vaults.

If you want to learn more, I did a whole episode about her Nazi days in my French history podcast: "The Collaborator"

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Eric G 2 years ago

Add Henry Ford and Walt Disney to this list. Both noted anti-semites.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Pablo Picasso, he was misogynistic and sexually assaulted women

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karl briggs 2 years ago

And children.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Gandhi. After learning all the colorist and racist s**t he would say to those who had darker complexion or those of African descent in my 8th grade year i haven’t seen him the same.

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Lucifer 2 years ago

Gandhi was racist and also liked younger women.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Bill Cosby. America's dad. Up until those allegations started

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

he had creepy eyes IMO even when I was little, and being little, I'd say "creeper eyes"...

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Woodrow Wilson.

Guy was majorly racist, segregated the military, kicked black people out of the government, he screened a KKK movie in the White House and was a strong defender of the KKK. Even for his time he was considered racist

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Bee she/her 2 years ago

BUT HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR🙄

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers PT BARNUM.

Most people know but due to the romanticization of The Greatest Showman, people should know that he was a maniac that did an ungodly experiments on living beings, locked people in cages, abused them, and mocked them. All whilst earning pocket from them.

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Florence 2 years ago (edited)

i loved the greatest showman and i knew these things but i didn’t realize how the greatest showman was covering up the true stories of how shitty he was

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers John Lennon. Treated like s**t during his childhood, whinges about it his whole life, then does the exact same thing to his son Julian.

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Steve Kenney 2 years ago

He also beat his wife Yoko Ono

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Based on personal experience with Oprah Winfrey at Barnes Municipal Airport on New Years Eve in 1991, I would say it would have to be her. Cosby's private jet brought her and Steadman into the airport under cover of darkness to go to the Cosby estate up North. I watched from the tower and she shoved a lone child out of the way and slammed the door to the limo. All the child wanted was an autograph. Oprah's kindness and compassion was an act. If she didn't get something out of it, she was quite capable of stepping on feelings of a lone child when the cameras were not on her

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You cant stop the truth 2 years ago

most celebs are actors, right?

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Elvis Presley. He groomed a then 14 year old and slept with her while he toured.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

This. He was a straight-up pedo.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers King Edward the VIII was a nazi sympathizer who possibly colluded with the Germans to retake the throne in the event of an invasion and conquest of Britain.

He wasn’t just a love sick romantic who gave up his kingdom for a woman.

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Joy 2 years ago

The royal family have more secrets than the Vatican and are just as determined to hold onto the devotion, worship and wealth.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Steve Jobs. The way he treated his family is horrible.

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Kookamunga 2 years ago

The silence for this one is deafening.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Alfred Hitchcock, the guy probably was one of the best filmmakers ever, yes. but it's worth mentioning how much he abused his actors, including sexually harassing Tippi Hedren

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Joy 2 years ago

Indeed. He was a miserable sonofabitch who used his skill to belittle, mock and humiliate actresses.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Not quite beloved, but Joseph P. Kennedy Sr..

He decided that Rosemary (his daughter) who was 23 at the time should have a lobotomy; he did not inform his wife of this decision until after the procedure was completed. And then they sent her away to an institute.

In her early young adult years, Rosemary Kennedy experienced seizures and violent mood swings. In response to these issues, her father arranged a prefrontal lobotomy for her in 1941 when she was 23 years of age; the procedure left her permanently incapacitated and rendered her unable to speak intelligibly.

Sick f**k, who would do this to their own child.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

"Who would do this to their own child". In that era? Quite a few people, unfortunately. The lobotomy at that time was peddled as a "cure" ----- they truly didn't know better.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers 8000 comments so it might be here Apparently John Wayne needed to be restrained from assaulting a native American actress in the 70s at the academy awards or something. I think her name was Sacheen Little feather. And Clint Eastwood allegedly was mocking her too.

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Eric G 2 years ago (edited)

John Wayne was definitely racist. Remember the playboy article where he said “I believe in white supremacy,” he said, and spoke harshly about African Americans, saying, “We can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks.” “I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people,” he said. This is just the tip of the iceberg. And Clint Eastwood talks to invisible people in chairs.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Einstein wasn’t a great guy. Brilliant, sure, but kinda douchy in his personal life.

He refused to marry his long time lover for years, even after she got pregnant. The child was assumed to be given up for adoption, but no record has ever been found.

He and his wife, Mileva Marić, worked together on their research. People saw them do it. They made jokes about it at parties. He proudly told people that she did all his calculations. They only put his name on their work and he went on to claim all the credit - ignoring any work she had done. Part of their agreement was that she would get the Nobel prize money but he tried to prevent that.

She raised two children - one schizophrenic - took care of the house and tutored to bring in extra money because he couldn’t get a job for a long time. He started getting more notoriety and then began an affair with his first cousin.

He moved to a different country to be with his new hillbilly mistress. He divorced his wife and quickly married the new, younger model. He had rules she had to abide by, such as leaving the room immediately when told and not expecting or asking for any sort of affection except when necessary for appearances sake.

Elsa, his second wife, was dying and he worked nonstop because he didn’t know what to do (I guess). She was basically abandoned her last few months.

He cheated on both his wives, numerous times. Ignored his children. Oh - and he was pretty into his second wife’s daughter and thought about marrying her instead.

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Bee she/her 2 years ago

About the missing child, there is a series called The Missing By Marget Peterson Haddix, book fives discusses it

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Charles Dickens had his wife, the mother of his children, committed to an insane asylum so he could run off with a teenage actress.

Edit- I have been informed that this wasn't successful, he tried to have the mother of his ten children committed but it didn't work. Which is still quite bad

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Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago

People (men, or ok "not all men") still try to label women as crazy or mentally unfit to get what they want.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Joseph Smith-

I grew up LDS and left with my family when I was in junior high. After some reading and learning from historical documents without church bias, I realized how drastically different he was when he wasn’t viewed in the eyes of the church.

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Tonya Wallace 2 years ago

Joseph Smith...Big pimpin' (I saw that on a t-shirt that I regret not buying. 😭)

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Churchill. He started the Bengal Famine which killed 3 million people. He also was incredibly racist and liked killing through gas.

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Lucifer 2 years ago

Winston Churchill, a hero according to the UK & US. Churchill carried out a genocide in India (4+ million killed through deliberate famine). And Churchill believed that eugenics could solve race deterioration and reduce crime and poverty. US & UK were very much on the side of Hitler, until they realized that he posed a threat to their power on the global stage. That seems to be missing in the narrative of why WW2 started.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Andrew Jackson.

He’s always presented as the “common man’s president” but he treated the Native American’s terribly . He also had a huge rowdy party and trashed the White House

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

He's Trump's fave POTUS. Nuff said.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Travis Scott, still ain’t over what insane s**t he did

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Priscilla Reshell 2 years ago

That concert was hell

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Oliver Cromwell

Tried to make England a republic, ended up being a king in all but name. Butchered the Irish, banned Christmas and is partially responsible for the puritans (who fled to America after the monarchy was restarted)

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Oliver Cromwell is/was "beloved"?!

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Charlie Chaplin definitely. Dude groped/assaulted girls and married a woman 40 years younger than him

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Nicole Weymann 2 years ago

First wife had (falsely) announced a pregnancy at 16, then they married, later divorced. Second wife announced pregnancy at 15, he married her, otherwise might have been prosecuted because she was a minor when she got pregnant. Also divorced. Marriage no. 3 was relatively unspectacular age wise (she was 21). Within and in between marriages multiple affairs. His last wife, Oona, was 18 when they married (he was 54). They stayed together until his death, had eight children. (All according to Wikipedia - not good, but I found no 40 year age gap).

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Benito Juárez

He was the type of president who kills his opposition instead of negotiating. He did a lot of illegal executions.

He was going to be executed in Guadalajara, however one of his ministers convinced the soldiers not to kill him with a famous phrase "alto, los valientes no asesinan", the soldiers forgave his life and risked theirs as the disobey an order. Well, as soon as Juarez returned to Mexico city, he immediately ordered to kill all of those soldiers with no mercy (source: my sister worked with the Sargent's descendant)

After Juárez's government, there's a period Known as the porfiriato, where Porfirio Díaz was Mexico's president for 30 years. It was possible just because there was no opposition alive

Juarez suddenly died in 1872 from a heart attack. It's believed that a woman, to avenge his husband, worked on his home as a maid, and when she had the opportunity, she put an infusion of "veintiunilla'" a herb known by the natives for being poisonous and cause a heart attack 21 days (veintiún dias) after it was drank

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Lorraine 2 years ago

This. Not to mention he reformed the Mexican state by removing the church influence (which was not wrong) only to enrich himself and his family with all the resources confiscated. Also, he was indigenous but ashamed of it so he was extremely racist. If he hadn't died, he was ready to change the law to stay in power indefinitely.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Andy Warhol was a fraud and an abuser.

The book Edie is a great read, but sad.

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Luther von Wolfen 2 years ago

Warhol wasn't great as a person, but I've done a little research into him. He was a complex person who suffered in some ways. He did horrible things, but he also served at his church's homeless shelter well into his later years. Derinitely suffered from trauma and possibly depression.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Dr Suess cheated on his partially disabled wife and she eventually committed suicide because of how distraught she was.

“I am too old and enmeshed in everything you do and are, that I cannot conceive of life without you,”

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Felipe Pereira de Sousa 2 years ago

Also a racist.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Kinda coming much more into light now but The Founding Fathers, all of them owned slaves and by modern day standards they would be horrible people. But something I think lots of people don’t remember is even if these things are utterly reprehensible, everyone was doing it and they were all children of their time.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

What history books didn't mention that fact? I learned that in the 1970s! And we had debates in Ethics class about this stuff....

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers William Hurt. I remember seeing tons of praise for him when he passed recently.

Thing is, he beat and raped Marlee Matlin back in the 80s. She discussed it in her memoir. When he was approached about it, his response wasn't to deny it, but to apologize for any pain he "may have caused" to her.

If you want to praise his acting, fine. But remember what sort of person he was behind the characters you loved on film.

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dream of delusion 2 years ago

why are there people who are low-key defending an abuser and r@pist…

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John Lennon.

I'll have to find some links to stuff but what I heard was he screamed his son's eardrums out and was generally apathetic about his familial duties and flew off the handle in violent fits often.

BRB gotta Google.

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Felipe Pereira de Sousa 2 years ago

Yeah. Paul wrote Hey Jude about Lennon's son, Julian, because his father was a d**k to him. But, hey! All you need is love.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Gandhi , dude was a pervert. Mostly to kids

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Mouse 2 years ago

That look on his face creeps me out

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Margaret Sanger was pro-eugenics and a racist.

In promoting birth control, she advanced a controversial "Negro Project," wrote in her autobiography about speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group and advocated for a eugenics approach to breeding for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”

She is seen as a saint to many.

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Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago

This is one of the biggest "it's complicated" issues to examine in terms of structural oppression. We can't separate what the Nazis did with eugenics. Two generations earlier, however, having a severely disabled child or children was rarely viable, especially for poor families. There were no resources, no funds, and very little education. There were no Special Olympics, no "mainstreaming," nothing. If you are a poor immigrant mother with four children already, living in a tenement in NYC during an economic panic, and you have a child with severe disabilities, what other options were there? Put them in expensive institutions rampant with sexual and physical abuse? Sell the kid to PT Barnum? Abandon it? The science at the time was all they had. This is ultimately about women having little power and few options, not a hatred of disabled people/minorities. Now that we know better, we do better.

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PT Barnum. I mean, the movie was entertaining and great to watch, but it was definitely the life of PT Barnum the way he might have told the story. The man had a slave woman as part of his freak show. He scammed people and was just generally a nasty human being.

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Helen Keller did some fantastic things in her personal life and for society, so that's great. She was also a staunch supporter of eugenics, which is uterly horrible. And while on the topic, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telophone and fought for the inclusion of deaf people... by trying to outlaw sign language and forbidding deaf people from marrying to prevent the birth of more deaf people, whom he saw as "the defective race"

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Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago

As a woman who grew up severely disabled, and only had the opportunities she did because her parents were wealthy, Keller used her platform for her entire, hardworking life to spread awareness. She spoke about birth control for prostitutes, since babies born of syphilitic mothers was one of the leading causes of blindness, in a time when an angelic disabled lady wasn't supposed to know about prostitutes and sex, much less talk about them in Boston parlors. She performed on vaudeville stages to earn money to pay for other deafblind children's educations. "Tireless" doesn't even begin to describe her work. We have GOT to stop using "they supported eugenics" as an easy way to cancel out everything else, because that was the scientific understanding at the time, and it was related to economic and social accessibility. It's not all Nazis then. It is expensive to be disabled. If you were a "fallen woman" in the early 1900s with a blind baby, you didn't have many options or support.

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if Penn and Teller ever taught me anything it’s the answer to this question, and that answer is Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and The Dalai Lama

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Is Be 2 years ago

The Dalai Lama has never advocated for the return of serfdom to Tibet.

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Dr. Carlos Dangercat 2 years ago

I really dislike the impulse to classify people as 100% good or 100% bad. Humans are flawed. Just because some of their actions were contemptible (by todays standards) doesn't mean their accomplishments should be erased from history. Just because they accomplished great things doesn't mean that their misdeeds should be brushed under the carpet.

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John Crandall 2 years ago

Watch it. U gonna get cancelled, buddy. How dare u look at both sides of something. U are so 20th Century.

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Tami 2 years ago

Agreed. We can be grateful for their best and try to learn from their worst.

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ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 2 years ago

yes! I was gonna say this if someone else didn't. Thank you!

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Mary Jeffries 2 years ago

It’s also important to remember their cultural context. If you’re going to be great and remembered, you have to be somewhat ruthless.

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Katelyn Ver Helst 2 years ago

well except for Hitler or Stalin.

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Solitaire Burton 6 months ago

Some of these actions are contemptible by any standards. Mother t acted with impunity bc "the church and god" had her back.

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Brian Lockett 7 months ago

Don't rape anyone, murder anyone, persecute anyone, assault anyone, ruin anyone, groom anyone, or buy anyone as chattel, and you get to be flawed without harsh judgment. But these listed "flaws" are beyond the pale of just being "flawed." Also, if you're referring to the likes of the Founding Fathers, their "accomplishments" for purely for themselves, and their sins were wrong by ANY era's standards.

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Katinka Min 2 years ago

The problem is, that the accomplishments of God knows how many peole have been brushed under the carpet because of men like these. And the problem iss, that we humans still have this urge to hero worship. We need to rewrite history, dig up the forgotten und try to change ourselves if we are indeed striving for a better future. Because if we don't there will be countless geniuses who will never get the chance to accomplish somethign great because they are POC or female or handicapped.

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Briana Kessler 2 years ago

Jfc YES

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TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

Donald Trump- He's not the man you delusional people think he is

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NAVYA PRASAD 2 years ago

Trump is not universally beloved he is an effing joke

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Jamie Greco 2 years ago

But that can be proven. He’s said awful things in videos before and after he was President. His followers explain what he meant when he said something stupid or hateful. Throughout his presidency he told the fold that he was working on whatever issue and he’d reveal it in two weeks. Never happened. He didn’t really grasp the job he held or that he worked for the entire country..

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Briana Kessler 2 years ago

Biden ain't much better

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Katinka Min 2 years ago

I am pretty sure the the vast majoprity of the world has a good idea who Trump really is. History will never glorify him.

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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago

And what about those of us who get to look in with a dispassionate eye? Those of us who get access to media that hasn’t got an axe to grind and that isn’t paid for by media moguls who have skin in the game? I reckon he’s pretty close to the man I think he is.

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Sam J 2 years ago (edited)

Well, even so, we really don't know the long term effects of his presidency, so I'm unwilling to say he's one of our worst presidents. Give it 50 years or so and then let's take a look at what he had an effect on. Edit to clarify that I'm not a Trump supporter and I have to say he's the worst in MY lifetime, but since I'm 16 that doesn't mean a lot.

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Lindy Mac 2 years ago

TheDevineMsM: HA! ... look at a lot the people on this list... it might take YEARS to find out the true extent how TRULY DISGUSTING AND AWFUL TRUMP WAS. I mean we lived with the guy for 4 years and only with the J6 hearing are we finding more garbage this man did. So in 30 years, 50 years it's gonna blow the roof off.

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Viv Hart 2 years ago

He's worse!

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JJ Buddhabrot 2 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Elon Musk should be top of this list. Donald Trump, too. And for all that "Foundation" stuff, I've heard Bill Gates is a real..... But they're all idolized by many. To the devotees of Elon, please bear in mind we're not all Elonites, and can state our opinions without it rending the fabric of time-space to shreds :-)

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Kristin Ingersoll 2 years ago

But the point was to shed light on horrible people who the public seem to love. Most normal, intelligent human beings despise both of those "people" already.

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Kookamunga 2 years ago

Trump is a given, he's pond scum. But you know who's missing? Walt Disney. He was anti-Semitic and sexist as well. LOTS of people don't want to hear that.

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Zero 2 years ago

Elon's not the messiah his fans make him to be and not deserving of the devotion he receives, but is actually a bad person or have done horrible things?

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Brivid 2 years ago

We really should avoid idolizing anybody, or anything for that matter. Not because of any religion, but because it will always lead to disappointment.

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Immortal Emperor Paradox 2 years ago

Elon Musk is no genius. Check out the YT channel "Adam Something" and "Common Sense Sceptic".

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Jo Firth 2 years ago

Can we add Bill Clinton to that list?

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daniel280456 2 years ago

You people really are NPCs.

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

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Dr. Carlos Dangercat 2 years ago

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John Crandall 2 years ago

Watch it. U gonna get cancelled, buddy. How dare u look at both sides of something. U are so 20th Century.

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Tami 2 years ago

Agreed. We can be grateful for their best and try to learn from their worst.

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ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 2 years ago

yes! I was gonna say this if someone else didn't. Thank you!

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Mary Jeffries 2 years ago

It’s also important to remember their cultural context. If you’re going to be great and remembered, you have to be somewhat ruthless.

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Katelyn Ver Helst 2 years ago

well except for Hitler or Stalin.

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Solitaire Burton 6 months ago

Some of these actions are contemptible by any standards. Mother t acted with impunity bc "the church and god" had her back.

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Brian Lockett 7 months ago

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Katinka Min 2 years ago

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Briana Kessler 2 years ago

Jfc YES

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Max Blancke 2 years ago

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TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

Donald Trump- He's not the man you delusional people think he is

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NAVYA PRASAD 2 years ago

Trump is not universally beloved he is an effing joke

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Scott Burd 2 years ago

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Jamie Greco 2 years ago

8points

Briana Kessler 2 years ago

Biden ain't much better

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Katinka Min 2 years ago

I am pretty sure the the vast majoprity of the world has a good idea who Trump really is. History will never glorify him.

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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago

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Sam J 2 years ago (edited)

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Lindy Mac 2 years ago

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Viv Hart 2 years ago

He's worse!

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JJ Buddhabrot 2 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

35points

Kristin Ingersoll 2 years ago

But the point was to shed light on horrible people who the public seem to love. Most normal, intelligent human beings despise both of those "people" already.

22points