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Someone Asked “What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?”, Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers

Philosophers and writers have long debated the roles people have played in influencing the progress of civilization. While Thomas Carlyle, for example, felt that great figures are key to guiding us forward, Leo Tolstoy, on the other hand, was of the belief that no individual can single-handedly steer the course of humanity, no matter what position they held.

Regardless of what the case might be, there are two kinds of people: those who are forgotten and those who live on in our collective memory. In an attempt to figure out if some of the latter are getting undeserved praise, Reddit user TGYHJDFGH made a post on the platform, asking everyone: "What beloved person in history should be hated?" and it was immediately flooded with answers.

But before you scroll down to check them out, I want to make things a little bit more interesting and/or complicated for you. Tell me, can we judge someone's morals after hundreds of years, when the entire cultural landscape has changed course? And where do we draw the line between what we can and cannot accept about someone's personal life if their work has transcended time and allowed countless people to find meaning?

I know, these are pretty tough questions. But humans are walking contradictions and it would be irresponsible to instantly dismiss the legacy of, say, the Founding Fathers or Mother Teresa.

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Someone Asked "What Beloved Person In History Should Be Hated?", Here Are 30 Eye-Opening Answers Christopher columbus...didnt discover s**t and brought misery wherever he went.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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John Baker 2 years ago

Because it's no secret that Jobs was a douche.

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plain bOrEd not panda 2 years ago

What silence? You obviously haven't read his biography, on which he contributed greatly and hid nothing.

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No you can't have my name 2 years ago

History hasn't had a chance to Hero-wash him.

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Katinka Min 2 years ago (edited)

I am coming across this for the first time, read up on this - and now really wished I hadn't. I was never a fan of Jobs, but, God, I did not know he was that vile.

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the shrimp whisperer 2 years ago

and my parents used to be all "BUT HE DIDNT EVEN LET HIS OWN KIDS USE HIS PRODUCTS" MMM WHATCHA SAAAAAAYYY

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Gary Davidson 2 years ago

I worked midnight shift security for the (at that time, "elite"), 5-star, 5-diamond, Boca Raton Hotel & Club in the mid-1980's. In those days, it was the kind of hotel where it was $800 a night for a hotel room & dinner at the top of the tower restaurant.....it wouldn't have been unusual for dinner for two to cost over $900 (Black tie). Apple had it's first employee party at the hotel after announcing earnings. I saw Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak roaming around that evening after the event at the Great Hall. Later that evening, all hell broke loose as the Apple employees completely trashed the hotel. They pulled every fire alarm they could find, broke fire extinguisher glass and sprayed extinguishers throughout the property, they took a fire hose across a 2nd floor balcony to the hotel's executive offices, busted the glass doors and flooded the offices with the fire hose. Needless to say, the hotel banned Apple from ever holding another event at the hotel!

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Paul Davis 2 years ago

I never understood the worship some people seemed to show for his "genius". I could be amazing too if all I had to say to a huge staff of designers and engineers is "make this thing" and it would happen.

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Jon Steensen 2 years ago (edited)

...and his employees too. His strive for perfection and results put them under a lot of stress, and he is famous for being short tempered

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Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago

If you just find out even the tiniest bit about how he and his second wife treated his daughter Lisa, your blood will boil.

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GenericPanda09 2 years ago

It's amazing how many people think he actually invented mp3 players or smartphones rather than just ran a company that designed their own version of an existing invention.

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laura lee 2 years ago

Yeah I refuse anything Apple (aside from real actual 🍎 🍏 lol) will not ever buy ever.

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Erin Eubanks 2 years ago

I won't own Apple products.

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Nameless 4 2 years ago

I remember watching a video of Jobs speaking at a graduation event at a college in 2005, and all I could think of during it was "This has aged HORRIBLY"

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David Henry 2 years ago

Jobs in GENERAL. I hate how much "worship" this dickhole gets.

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Dominik Creeper 2 years ago

What did he do?

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SCP-3998 2 years ago

Never owned apple products, never will. Waste of money

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H Moore 2 years ago

And did not invent anything, he was just a (good) salesman. Steve Wozniack anyone?

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Andrew Bridge 2 years ago

A good read for this would be "accidental empires"

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Madzdad the Bard 2 years ago

And employees.

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Drea Benoit 2 years ago

I will never get how this guy is worshipped. So many people in tech in the SF Bay Area try to emulate him, all the way down to his most nuanced behaviors. It’s super cringey and flat out unsettling in some cases.

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Dominik Creeper 2 years ago

What did he do???

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ben woskje 2 years ago

The way he treated his family... yes, but the way he treated the world was just as bad. Lemmings that only existed to be drained of every penny is his eyes.

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Grant Caldwell 2 years ago

His products are also crap.

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James Campbell 7 months ago

I went to buy an Apple, am I allowed to call it a Computer? I thought they were overpriced for what they were. I went for one at a big discount from their prices and still wont buy one of theirs.

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Janet Crain 1 year ago

No redeeming qualities that I've seen.

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Karen Lyon 2 years ago

The way he treated everyone is horrible. I once read a thread about how he was an absolute s**t to almost every teacher he had. Instead of being disciplined, his father bailed him out. Total schmuck. I have to use Apple tech at my school, that's what my Silicon Valley district buys. But never will I buy an iPad, iPhone, or Mac computer for my personal use.

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Pamela Blue 2 years ago

I don't know about his family. The way he treated EVERYONE was horrible.

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Evelyn Haskins 2 years ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahha. . . . . .

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Z Alexi 2 years ago

What about the nasty/vulgar/demanding way he treated 64,000 Apple employees?Even Walter Isaacson's AUTHORIED bio of Jobs didn't hide Jobs' cruelty toward his employees. Ask Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple & the tech who made the equipment [Jobs was all PR]~~Wozniak escaped Jos' callousness. Jobs' "family" was only a handful [Steve ridiculed his birth dad~~whom he saw at his restaurant but refused to meet him~~as unattractive & couldn't believe he came from such an ugly stock. Steve Jobs was ugly in-&-out.

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Paloma Vita 2 years ago

Also never donated one penny to any charity... ever...

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Lisa Levy 2 years ago

As I understood it, he was an orphan himself. He may not have had a concept of what was "family" or too bitter about his own life to adjust.

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backatya 2 years ago

he disowned his daughter until he got rich off his partner who didn't know he was taking more money

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sebastian nye 2 years ago

His family was there with him when he passed. He made mistakes but they forgave him. Easy to judge from the outside looking in.

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bill marsano 2 years ago

Yes, he was a brute when it came to family. But there's more: He cheated partner Wozniak on their very first business deal. He damaged Apple computers in a couple of important ways. 1, everything connected to an Apple had to be an Apple [peripheral--always at significant extra cost. 2. his insistence of 'closed architecture' meant no one could write programs for Apple computers without paying apple for the privilege. Result: almost no one did--while by insisting on closed architecture--meaning almost no one did. Elsewhere, open architecture sparked an incredible outburst of creativity by professionals and amateurs alike, leaving Apple behind while Microsoft went on to conquer the world. Everyone else realized that the computer revolution was about everybody; Jobs thought it was about him. And his money. FYI, in the area of philanthropy, a.k.a. 'giving back,' Jobs' total comes close to $0.00.

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Nazda Pokmov 2 years ago

Just his facial expression is beyond spooky.

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Doug the Special one 2 years ago

Only because i phones wont let you criticise apple.

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Sue 2 years ago

I've heard he was a jerk but nothing about his family.

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Béatrice Gallet 2 years ago

The way he treated his employees and people too !

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Richard Henderson 2 years ago

And after they gave him all that money to start Apple!

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René Studer 2 years ago

I really recommend Danny Boyles Steve Jobs Biopic. I think it captured the essence of what this man was like rather well.

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Bianca Caputo 2 years ago

But, if he'd been black god knows everyone wouldn't stop talking about that!

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Scott McHattan 2 years ago

A truly awful human being.

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TonMohammad TonMamat 2 years ago

So.. Bill Burr was right, then?

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Rale 2 years ago

And workers....

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James Arvidson 2 years ago

Just because he was good at one thing does not make him admirable.

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Felice Coles 2 years ago

Well, he's dead now, so there's one good thing about him.

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Glasia van Duivels 2 years ago

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forg 2 years ago

he did have anger issues though,

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Quasar 2 years ago

and his workers

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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Brobro McDuderson 2 years ago

The problem with some of these is that people often do both good and bad things with their lives. Same with each of us, many of us have done bad things. Different shades of grey. Without a doubt, most of the peeps in this list are darker shades of grey, don’t get me wrong! But if we discredit anything someone does because of something bad they’ve done, well, there’d be no good person list. Lennon for example…surely a d*^k, but we also can’t discredit the impact he’s had on music. I feel it’s ok to recognize both the good and bad a person’s done, and to not ignore either.

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Just saying 2 years ago

People are people. Don't idolise anyone.

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Zero 2 years ago

It's gone now, but that John Wayne one was a crazy night. It was the Oscars and Marlon Brando was awarded something. But he sent Sacheen Littlefeather in his stead to decline and instead read a speech about the desecration and ethnocide of Native American culture and history. Wayne was certainly a piece of work in is own right, and went to pull her off stage but was restrained by a bunch of people so never actually laid a hand on her. It was quite the scandal and nothing since has really compared to the impact of that night.

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Jette Wang Wahnon 2 years ago

What about Will Smith ?

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Daria Z 2 years ago

There is already too much hate in the world today. Do we really need any more?

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Quasar 2 years ago

when it's against horrible people then yeah

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Jerry The Joker 2 years ago

Don't forget Bing Crosby, who was a horrible child abuser.

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Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago

Yes! What a horrible, sadistic man.

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Voodoops_13 2 years ago

Interesting to read the list. So much of it is from toxic masculinity, misogyny, racism, religious based BS and classism.

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Zero 2 years ago

And general predatory behavior.

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Sandra Charlot 2 years ago

Ok so Nelson Mandela beating his wife ( and talking about it openly in his biography) is not a big deal I guess.

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Firefly 2 years ago

Not to mention his friendships with some horrible people.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/12/10/the-last-great-liberator-why-mandela-made-and-stayed-friends-with-dictators/

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Holly Ahearn 2 years ago

Surprised Walt Disney wasn't on the list.

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T JNC 2 years ago

Surprised at how far I had to scroll to see his name come up! A horrible racist who even ensured that his racist movies could not be remade

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Soggy Crumpet 2 years ago

Comments about racism for most of these people seems a little thoughtless. Is racism bad? Of course. However, all of the people are products of their time period and judging them based on values of the currently evolved societal values is not logical or fair

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der sebbl 2 years ago

Exactly. If you're raised in a racist community, you will become racist too. It's hard to break this circle

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Larissa Herrboldt 2 years ago

Some of these I don't think should be on this list. Others definitely should though. I kind of think some people are getting false information for a couple of them. Just be sure to do your research people, before idolizing or hating. And remember that we are all humans that are victim to our time of living! Such as slavery and racism. It is absolutely not okay, but in their time, it was not widely understood.

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Jette Wang Wahnon 2 years ago

Every-one have a right to their opinion,right or wrong,reserched or not...like Cnn and Fox-news...all I know is that a friend of mine,English.worked as a voluntary for Mother Theresa in Calcutta for two years in the end 60ties....never saw or talked of abuse...she did become a vegetarian,saying having seen so many open wounds put her off meat...can well believe it.. India is not known for their compassion with the plight of poor people and Mother theresa was the first to take in the lowest of the lowest to better their lives....If it went to her head later in life,who knows?? power corrupts...

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Shane S 2 years ago (edited)

I have mixed feelings about some individuals on this list. Humans are human. If you dig deep enough into any individual, you’ll find something dark. However, I have less respect for individuals that acted on those dark thoughts in a way that affected others negatively.

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Supernatural 2 years ago

Jimmy Page Bill Wyman Elvis..all peadophiles

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NsG 2 years ago

Haven't heard of a few of these, but for all the ones I have absolutely NONE of them come as a surprise.

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Felipe Pereira de Sousa 2 years ago

The Wright Brothers, who did not invent the airplane.

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Nadine 2 years ago

There's many beloved rock stars who slept with very young girls and it never comes up now.

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Sawyer Kidder 2 years ago (edited)

well, it’s official! Human beings are the worst!

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HorseMuse 7 months ago

So much of what men in positions of control and dominance (I refuse to keep misusing the word - power) did is only now being fully questioned. So yes, all those from the past might have done good deeds in their professions, but personal lives were horrifically flawed due to emotional immaturity as we see today, the cause and root of all our woes. Humanity needs a wake up call to all the still engaged immaturity actions in order to correct the issues we are still dealing with from all the fallout of that emotional irresponsibility.

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Mike Denyer (Wildcap) 2 years ago

I would hazard a guess that, if you ALL looked back far enough in your own family trees, you'd be surprised at some of the evil shite that you'd find there. Are some of these people evil? Certainly, without a doubt... but the majority of these posts are of long dead people, and in every case, only one side of the story is told. There are THREE sides to every story... what "party A" said, what "party B" said, and what REALLY happened. Not ONE single, reliable source has been included in these posts to prove what the poster has stated. "Those who live in glass houses, should not throw stones". I do not condone the actions of anyone mentioned in these posts, and I despise evil in all its forms, but I can pretty much guarantee that there isn't a single person posting in this article, whose family tree does not have some evil roots somewhere down the line. NONE of us are perfect.

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JacPot 2 years ago

Was thinking Nelson Mandela would make this list as well.

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Richard Kimmell 2 years ago

Very easy to form an opinion on one source, and very foolish.

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Msc Wa'erstone 2 years ago

All people are flawed and make mistakes, because they are people, hopefully so we or others can learn from them. They behaviour was related to the time they lived in; to write a character assassination of people who have done great things that have benefited the world is just distasteful, woke, cancel culture snowflake b******t, even though they may have done horrible things, haven’t we all. Im not sure anyone of us should judge.

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Adriana Loborec 2 years ago

Nature is cruel and makes many people have troublesome urges. Yet there are still plenty of people who think whatever is natural is good. No surprise people used to be cruel through most of the history, especially as the urges of those in power were normalized.

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Lp Johnson 2 years ago

I don't understand how Rhodes, of "The Rhodes Scholar" fame, didn't make the list.

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MagNat 2 years ago

Pope John Paul II, but risky to say this in Poland.

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Kristina Funkycrew 2 years ago

Men 😒

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Willa L 2 years ago

Facts lol

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Daniele Tigli 2 years ago (edited)

Where's Margaret Hilda, Baroness Thatcher?

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Kristie French 2 years ago

Michelangelo! He was run out of multiple towns, he was repeatedly suspected of pedo crimes against his young models. The Catholic Church in part helped him stay ahead of the claims, and paid him to continue the abuse under the guise of “art.”

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-mafīafrog- 2 years ago

Walt Disney and Joe Biden are missing

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MJLstrd 2 years ago

Too often “genius” comes with an enormous slice of poor character. This just substantiates it.

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Rob Eman 2 years ago

Lol. Weird use of the word "genius" when I look at list above. Scientifically I can only see 1 on the list (though the list partially debunks that claim...)

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Daniel Ikelman 2 years ago

Add Walt Disney to this list...Nazi

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Cobalt.spike 2 years ago (edited)

Anybody who likes this kind of stuff should check out the podcast "Evil Genius" by Russell Kane, which essentially puts a comedy spin on this. Though hosted and panelled by comedians, it is genuinely thought provoking and there's several people featured on the show with whom my perception has been significantly altered.

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Manu 2 years ago

I abandoned reading CRACKED when it sadly became a trash dump. Now I'm on the brink of abandoning bored panda. It is getting full of posts of hate and negativity. So sad

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Solitaire Burton 6 months ago

What about Walt Disney?

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Jude Laskowski 7 months ago

Funny how no bl*ck people are labeled racist, even though some are.

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Sanjay Jahagirdar 7 months ago

After all they were human beings. The way these persons were brought up and the prevailing social norms decided their personality & behaviour. Moreover common man always try to find lacuna among stalwarts. Karamchand Gandhi doesn’t deserve Mahatma title nor Mother Teressa a Noble prize or sainthood. ( Without any prejudice, they had immense good qualities, but their dark secrets never come in limelight)

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Michael Riehle 7 months ago

I agree with many of these, but a lot of them are "Heroes always have feet of clay" kinds of things. Show me any person who has done great work in the world and it's likely you will find other things they've done that are horrible. Maybe don't worship people no matter what good things they've done. A few of these were people who behaved exactly as was expected of them culturally at the time. That doesn't make it okay, but it does mean that we are not in a position to judge. I guarantee that 100 years from now some of our greatest figures will turn out to have had some pretty horrible skeletons in their closets.

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Teri Grace 1 year ago

There's some real propaganda believers in some of these incomplete bios.

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Lindy Mac 2 years ago

Why are people down voting Max Blancke's comment here? Don't you see the sarcasm lights flashing. He just forgot to put " /s " at the end so people wouldn't jump to conclusions. I hope I read it right, Max.

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blatherskitenoir 2 years ago

Where much is given, much is taken away. You really shouldn't ever meet people who achieve greatness; they're always deeply flawed and missing other areas.

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Mare of Maers 2 years ago

Stauffenberg. Everybody remembers the attempted assassination of Hitler. Nobody remembers the fact he was just as much of a nationalist antisemite.

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Mary Finn 2 years ago

"There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it ill behoves any of us to talk badly about the rest of us." That was hanging as a framed sampler when I was a child . I've never forgotten it

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Bob D. Lin Quint 2 years ago

Why are these always so vague. Give us examples and info ffs

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Lorene Schafer 2 years ago

really disappointing to see bored panda promoting 'hate'. there is no such thing as a perfect human being. no one's life should be dismissed, nor should someone be hated, simply because they were, as all of us are, flawed human beings.

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Katinka Min 2 years ago

We just need to accept that men before a certain time, did not think of women as human beings. Many still don't. In the mind of these men, women, POCs, handicapped people are all inferior creatures - something akin to trained monkey - and treated as such.

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Briana Kessler 2 years ago

This is such black and white thinking. And not everyone is racist lol good grief guys

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daniel280456 2 years ago

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and any communist dictator.

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Erik Ivan 2 years ago

According to Samuel Vimes (Terry Pratchett character), people that get a statue was mostly horrible human beings.

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DC 2 years ago

I miss Martin Luther here. He, basically, wrote all the jew-related parts of "Mein Kampf" 500 ears before, Mr. Hitler just had to copy them. More than once, he did so word for word, and still, Luther is seen as that liberator of europe. He never was. Other Theologians of his time were disgusted about his antijudaism and how he'd like it executed.

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Pan 2 years ago

Those that scream the loudest for extreme measures, will be those that the future will show to have been doing horrible things. The only difference is that while just until the recent past any spoken or written word disapeared into nothingness quite quickly and tge vast majority of the population of bad people was never punished for their actions and words. This will be different in the future. Both, extreme left and right sentiments will be punished in the future. And only people using their brain will make the cut in the long run. This, or society collapses.

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Pan 2 years ago

Ah, and all people are pretty or horrendously horrible by todays standard. Some by the standard the time they lived. But depending on how history plays out, it differs. One example: if a rightful heir to tge zarist throne would exist, and would help the West to overthrow Putin, but wanted to establish a different form of russia, we would celebrate, even if it came at a horrible price. If Putin wins and gradually establishes a new Worldorder, ppl would be brainwashed, and sing Songs about defending Putin. And hate the evil heir, and the West. If you believe that you were not brainwashed, you err. Everybody is. The crux is to use your brain, to inform yourself, and to think. But don't follow Conspiracies. Find your own path.

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Marilyn Molinari 2 years ago

How about Frank Lloyd Wright who left his wife with six children, defaulted on child support, and lived a luxurious life style? FLW treated his married mistress to a life of extended travels to Japan and Europe. She also had to worry, though, about how he never paid his bills and had to skirt these issues with him, as well as some trust issues. Women were very attracted to him because of his fame as an architect and high living. He moved her up to his home, Taliesen, in Spring Green, Wisconsin, leaving her alone to manage their workers while he commuted back and forth to Oak Park and Chicago, where he worked for the Century of Progress World’s Fair prior to its opening. This ultimately led to her gruesome death and those of her two children. He had sent her a Barbadosian couple as servants to help out.Unfortunately, they were not emotionally stable, and caused a grisly death scene of fire and machete. Frank grieved for a short time, then went on to several more mistresses and wives.

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JJ Buddhabrot 2 years ago

Hope you guys cancel them all.

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Tim Pierce 2 years ago

Eye opening article

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Om 2 years ago

I didn't know about many details, but in general, I don't tend to like historical figures, precisely because I really ignore what they really were like. As some people said, history is written by the winners, and though not everything is about wars, in general obviously most of what we know about these figures is basically hearsay. Heck, even people that is alive today or that you got to know in your lifetime, you don't really get to know them personally, but at least you have a closer idea than someone that has been dead for decades. Personally, other than Britney Spears I've never idolized anyone, and even I recognize her defects.

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Neal Patrick 2 years ago (edited)

All these posts neglect that people do bad things, atrocious things at times, because we all fail to be perfect. Yet even with the flaws in their character, many people still contribute to society thru their creativity and innovation, which does not negate their bad behavior, if true, but also does not negate what they contributed.

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Mry Cstl 2 years ago

If anybody would ever take the time to actually read the Bible instead of just bashing it it clearly tells us in the book of Psalms 146:3 Do not put your trust in nobles. Nor in the son of earthly man to whom no salvation belongs. Cant put it any clearer.

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K Wit 2 years ago

Not everyone believes in your Bible so your point doesn't stand. I've read the Bible I'm a recovering Catholic it furthered my justification in atheism.

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Idalia 2 years ago

Honestly..... Are we even surprised at this? Humans are awful creatures. Higher intelligence does not make for a better species. We all suck.

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Idalia 2 years ago

Except for Betty White, probably.

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Jenny Lorenz 2 years ago

sooooo humans being (bad) humans. Just cuz they are famous doesn't make any of them good.

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Mahesh Pathak 2 years ago

Xxxtentacion should be here too

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Janice Bontrager 2 years ago

So basically humans suck and nothing has changed since the beginning of time.

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Rob Eman 2 years ago

Well we now have about 1-5% of the worlds population that is no longer enslaved. Technically that's a big increase from a thousand years ago. Wonder if it's a linear adoption curve or....

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Jackie Lulu 2 years ago

What - no Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin?

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der sebbl 2 years ago

Is one of them widely beloved?

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J. F. 2 years ago

Well, they all were/are humans, and humans are nasty creatures - why would anybody expect that they never did such things?

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RoseTheMad 2 years ago

David Bowie ... he slept with and dated a 13-14 year old, who he cheated on with several men and women.

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K Wit 2 years ago

Steve Tyler of Aerosmith groomed a 14 yr old got her parents to sign rights over to him so he could adopt her then moved her into his home got her pregnant and forced her to have an abortion.

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Prestigous Cactus 2 years ago

Basically none of these are beloved. Most of them achieved some kind of widespread good, we celebrate that part, we don't really celebrate any of them as a person.

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MagNat 2 years ago

If being literally considered a saint is not celebrating someone as a person, then I don't know what is.

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karen snyder 2 years ago

Please add Margret Mead, Ayn Rand, Margret Thatcher, Joan Crawford, and Pope John Paul 2.

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Sam J 2 years ago

What did Margaret Mead do that was wrong, out of curiosity? I've studied her in a couple classes and we've not really been told anything bad about her.

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Snowstuff 2 years ago

Muhammad should probably be on top of this list. Look what he turned this world into.

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daniel280456 2 years ago

The Cuomo brothers, the Clintons, Biden the pedo.

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HardTruths 2 years ago

To all the people actively contributing to hate - I recommend the photo of a mirror as the number 1 post. Like so many of us are loveable saints... 🙄

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MagNat 2 years ago

I doubt that many of the commenters are widely beloved/idolised and, from the other side, sold children, enslaved people etc.

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IlovemydogShilo 2 years ago (edited)

Enid Blyton. the British children's Author famous for The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Mallory Towers, Noddy, Mr. Galliano's Circus and The Faraway Tree etc. She was a prolific writer' but a horrible person. She had a series of affairs, including a lesbian relationship with one of the children's nannies. In 1941, Blyton met Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a London surgeon with whom she began a serious affair. Pollock discovered the liaison, and threatened to initiate divorce proceedings. Due to fears that exposure of her adultery would ruin her public image, it was ultimately agreed that Blyton would instead file for divorce against her husband Major Hugh Alexander Pollock Blyton promised that if he admitted to infidelity, she would allow him parental access to their daughters; but after the divorce, he was denied contact with them, and Blyton made sure he was subsequently unable to find work in publishing. Pollock, having married Crowe on 26 October 1943, eventually resumed his heavy drinking and was forced to petition for bankruptcy in 1950.

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Christina Hodge 2 years ago

All this "reimagining" of historic figures and events reeks of its own racism. I'll no longer be following your page. The cism and slavery that occured in America, more than 200 years ago, does not justify anyone being racist now. The focus on American slavery highlights how little black Americans know about the history of slavery in general. Look up the tomb of Ramesses III, it was built thousands of years before American slavery existed and one of the first things you will notice on the left wall near the entrance is a scene of DISTINCTLY African slaves engraved into it. (You can explore the burial site yourself on the Matterport website, it's free and doesn't require registration) my point is so much blame is put on America's past that black American's aren't learning about other important times in history. Depriving them of the knowledge of their past, especially in their native homeland, is a negative for everyone. I hope you guys check out the tomb in Egypt, it is truly amazing.

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Gianna 2 years ago

And where are people getting these "facts" from?

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der sebbl 2 years ago

Well, it's abote people who are generally beloved, so the number of communists is bound to be small

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K Wit 2 years ago

This rant is nonsensical. Idk what you're trying to achieve. Most of these people should've been in prison. Yeah some are being outed as liar cheaters bad parents so what? We can all make up our minds about that as well. Why are you so against the truth? It's not judgment when it's a factual statement. I can forgive or understand when people make mistakes I've made mistakes I've hurt people I've also taken responsibility and I also know I can't force anyone to accept my apology and will forever be not liked by someone. However I can't forgive rapists or pedophiles I don't have it in me.

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ljbeanfield 2 years ago

Go to therapy

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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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Jamie Greco 2 years ago

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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

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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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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.

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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.

7points

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?

4points

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.

3points

Immortal Emperor Paradox 2 years ago

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

1point

Jo Firth 2 years ago

Can we add Bill Clinton to that list?

1point

daniel280456 2 years ago

You people really are NPCs.

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

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Brobro McDuderson 2 years ago

23points

Just saying 2 years ago

People are people. Don't idolise anyone.

13points

Zero 2 years ago

10points

Jette Wang Wahnon 2 years ago

What about Will Smith ?

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Daria Z 2 years ago

There is already too much hate in the world today. Do we really need any more?

9points

Quasar 2 years ago

when it's against horrible people then yeah

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Jerry The Joker 2 years ago

Don't forget Bing Crosby, who was a horrible child abuser.

8points

Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago

Yes! What a horrible, sadistic man.

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Voodoops_13 2 years ago

Interesting to read the list. So much of it is from toxic masculinity, misogyny, racism, religious based BS and classism.

8points

Zero 2 years ago

And general predatory behavior.

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Sandra Charlot 2 years ago

Ok so Nelson Mandela beating his wife ( and talking about it openly in his biography) is not a big deal I guess.

7points

Firefly 2 years ago

Not to mention his friendships with some horrible people.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/12/10/the-last-great-liberator-why-mandela-made-and-stayed-friends-with-dictators/

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Holly Ahearn 2 years ago

Surprised Walt Disney wasn't on the list.

6points

T JNC 2 years ago

Surprised at how far I had to scroll to see his name come up! A horrible racist who even ensured that his racist movies could not be remade

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Soggy Crumpet 2 years ago

5points

der sebbl 2 years ago

Exactly. If you're raised in a racist community, you will become racist too. It's hard to break this circle

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Larissa Herrboldt 2 years ago

5points

Jette Wang Wahnon 2 years ago

5points

Shane S 2 years ago (edited)

4points

Supernatural 2 years ago

Jimmy Page Bill Wyman Elvis..all peadophiles

4points

NsG 2 years ago

Haven't heard of a few of these, but for all the ones I have absolutely NONE of them come as a surprise.

4points

Felipe Pereira de Sousa 2 years ago

The Wright Brothers, who did not invent the airplane.

3points

Nadine 2 years ago

There's many beloved rock stars who slept with very young girls and it never comes up now.

2points

Sawyer Kidder 2 years ago (edited)

well, it’s official! Human beings are the worst!

2points

HorseMuse 7 months ago

1point

Mike Denyer (Wildcap) 2 years ago

1point

JacPot 2 years ago

Was thinking Nelson Mandela would make this list as well.

1point

Richard Kimmell 2 years ago

Very easy to form an opinion on one source, and very foolish.

1point

Msc Wa'erstone 2 years ago

1point

Adriana Loborec 2 years ago

1point

Lp Johnson 2 years ago

I don't understand how Rhodes, of "The Rhodes Scholar" fame, didn't make the list.

1point

MagNat 2 years ago

Pope John Paul II, but risky to say this in Poland.

1point

Kristina Funkycrew 2 years ago

Men 😒

1point

Willa L 2 years ago

Facts lol

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Daniele Tigli 2 years ago (edited)

Where's Margaret Hilda, Baroness Thatcher?

1point

Kristie French 2 years ago

1point

-mafīafrog- 2 years ago

Walt Disney and Joe Biden are missing

1point

MJLstrd 2 years ago

Too often “genius” comes with an enormous slice of poor character. This just substantiates it.

1point

Rob Eman 2 years ago

Lol. Weird use of the word "genius" when I look at list above. Scientifically I can only see 1 on the list (though the list partially debunks that claim...)

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Daniel Ikelman 2 years ago

Add Walt Disney to this list...Nazi

1point

Cobalt.spike 2 years ago (edited)

1point

Manu 2 years ago

I abandoned reading CRACKED when it sadly became a trash dump. Now I'm on the brink of abandoning bored panda. It is getting full of posts of hate and negativity. So sad

1point

Solitaire Burton 6 months ago

What about Walt Disney?

0points

Jude Laskowski 7 months ago

Funny how no bl*ck people are labeled racist, even though some are.

0points

Sanjay Jahagirdar 7 months ago

0points

Michael Riehle 7 months ago

0points

Teri Grace 1 year ago

There's some real propaganda believers in some of these incomplete bios.

0points

Lindy Mac 2 years ago

0points

blatherskitenoir 2 years ago

Where much is given, much is taken away. You really shouldn't ever meet people who achieve greatness; they're always deeply flawed and missing other areas.

0points

Mare of Maers 2 years ago

Stauffenberg. Everybody remembers the attempted assassination of Hitler. Nobody remembers the fact he was just as much of a nationalist antisemite.

0points

Mary Finn 2 years ago

0points

Bob D. Lin Quint 2 years ago

Why are these always so vague. Give us examples and info ffs

0points

Lorene Schafer 2 years ago

0points

Katinka Min 2 years ago

0points

Briana Kessler 2 years ago

This is such black and white thinking. And not everyone is racist lol good grief guys

0points

daniel280456 2 years ago

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and any communist dictator.

0points

Erik Ivan 2 years ago

According to Samuel Vimes (Terry Pratchett character), people that get a statue was mostly horrible human beings.

0points

DC 2 years ago

0points

Pan 2 years ago

0points

Pan 2 years ago

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Marilyn Molinari 2 years ago

0points

JJ Buddhabrot 2 years ago

Hope you guys cancel them all.

0points

Tim Pierce 2 years ago

Eye opening article

0points

Om 2 years ago

0points

Neal Patrick 2 years ago (edited)

0points

Mry Cstl 2 years ago

0points

K Wit 2 years ago

Not everyone believes in your Bible so your point doesn't stand. I've read the Bible I'm a recovering Catholic it furthered my justification in atheism.

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Idalia 2 years ago

Honestly..... Are we even surprised at this? Humans are awful creatures. Higher intelligence does not make for a better species. We all suck.

0points

Idalia 2 years ago

Except for Betty White, probably.

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Jenny Lorenz 2 years ago

sooooo humans being (bad) humans. Just cuz they are famous doesn't make any of them good.

0points

Mahesh Pathak 2 years ago

Xxxtentacion should be here too

0points

Janice Bontrager 2 years ago

So basically humans suck and nothing has changed since the beginning of time.

0points

Rob Eman 2 years ago

Well we now have about 1-5% of the worlds population that is no longer enslaved. Technically that's a big increase from a thousand years ago. Wonder if it's a linear adoption curve or....

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Jackie Lulu 2 years ago

What - no Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin?

0points

der sebbl 2 years ago

Is one of them widely beloved?

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J. F. 2 years ago

Well, they all were/are humans, and humans are nasty creatures - why would anybody expect that they never did such things?

0points

RoseTheMad 2 years ago

David Bowie ... he slept with and dated a 13-14 year old, who he cheated on with several men and women.

0points

K Wit 2 years ago

Steve Tyler of Aerosmith groomed a 14 yr old got her parents to sign rights over to him so he could adopt her then moved her into his home got her pregnant and forced her to have an abortion.

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Prestigous Cactus 2 years ago

Basically none of these are beloved. Most of them achieved some kind of widespread good, we celebrate that part, we don't really celebrate any of them as a person.

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MagNat 2 years ago

If being literally considered a saint is not celebrating someone as a person, then I don't know what is.

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karen snyder 2 years ago

Please add Margret Mead, Ayn Rand, Margret Thatcher, Joan Crawford, and Pope John Paul 2.

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Sam J 2 years ago

What did Margaret Mead do that was wrong, out of curiosity? I've studied her in a couple classes and we've not really been told anything bad about her.

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Snowstuff 2 years ago

Muhammad should probably be on top of this list. Look what he turned this world into.

-1point

daniel280456 2 years ago

The Cuomo brothers, the Clintons, Biden the pedo.

-2points

Gakamat21 2 years ago

-2points

HardTruths 2 years ago

To all the people actively contributing to hate - I recommend the photo of a mirror as the number 1 post. Like so many of us are loveable saints... 🙄

-2points

MagNat 2 years ago

I doubt that many of the commenters are widely beloved/idolised and, from the other side, sold children, enslaved people etc.

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IlovemydogShilo 2 years ago (edited)

-3points

Christina Hodge 2 years ago

-3points

Gianna 2 years ago

And where are people getting these "facts" from?

-3points

Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago

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der sebbl 2 years ago

Well, it's abote people who are generally beloved, so the number of communists is bound to be small

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John Crandall 2 years ago

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Steve Sherwood 2 years ago

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ljbeanfield 2 years ago

Go to therapy

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