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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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Aran Lindvail
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This needs to be higher. Columbus was THE WORST. Slavery, murder, torture, you name it.

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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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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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Aran Lindvail
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He also had horrible views on rape, e.g. it was impossible for a woman to be raped if she was just pure enough, and that it was a-ok for families to murder rape victims for family honor and similar BS.

J. F.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Denied his wife life saving medication, declared that raped women are less than worthless (his opinion on women in general) and slept nacked with children in one bed to prove that he "would stay pure and not give in the temptation". Holy sh*t was he an arsehole

Joy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The social and cultural hierarchy of colour throughout India is startling. There are people in thrall to lighter skin while deeper tones are seen as in-valid. The snobbery is very much alive in wealthy Indian families across the world.

Tara Raay
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kubu - he didn’t like “younger women”…. He liked raping little girls.

Narwhal Blast
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is there evidence he raped them? I'm just curious. I want to be naive enough and think that he didn't give in to the temptation. For my sanity.

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RJ
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude was a wife beater, although he later saw the error of those ways (see his autobiography). Would have been cancelled quick in this era.

Chris McCabe
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a reason why 'Gandhi sells', & it's to do with non-threatening action being so much more agreeable to the oppressor.

Imogene Cargeaux
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait didn't he like borderline sexually assault women in his own family in the name of "seeing if he could resist his urges" or something like that? I could be wrong. Don't quote me! I remember reading something about forcing underage girls to lay in bed with him naked and s**t. Idk. Maybe I'm confusing him with someone else. But I could of swore it was him

aceofspades
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...so he slept with naked woman and children to.. see if he could resist his urges.. that's bad all in it's self, but then it implies that he felt sexual urges towards underaged children.

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Tushar Roy Mukherjee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also ,Had enough sway over the masses of India, AND the British Government to prevent the Execution of Bhagat Singh and Co., AND the final Partition of India, but did neither of those things. Not to mention that he prevented Dr. B.R. Ambedkar from bringing in laws to the Constitution of India , that would not only have uplifted the minorities wayyy more than it was made possible after the framing of the Indian Constitution, but would also have forced those aspiring for Government Jobs from said minorities to work just as hard as those students from non minority communities to get said job. And the most clearly evident one- Calling off the Non-Cooperation Movement for the Chauri-Chura incident. Coz a few f*ckig English Policemen were kileed, he literally brought to a full stop a movement that was so damn effective at crippling the British Government . We don't even speakof his atrocities on those who did not align with his Non-violent views regarding fighting off the British .

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He whitewashed Moplah riots and Direct Action Day riots. He was obsessed with showing the other cheek like Teresa was with suffering.

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Mermaid Elle-Jaye
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve always hated him, I copped a bad wrap in Melbourne when I worked in an Indian run Italian restaurant 😂 aparently I was ignorant. And ANYONE sleeping (non sexual or not) with naked 13 yr old is deplorable

Juan Alcorta
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people say he was a pacifist because he was too lazy to go into battle

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If he wasn't there and sat there saying "non violence" s**t we Indians would have been freed just atvthe times of the moderates era and when Bose came into action This MF ruined everything Also that song? Which talks about getting freedom without fighting? My ass! So many soldiers and warriors died for our freedom! And credit goes to who? This mf This is my opinion btw other fella Indians 🙂

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't sleep with his niece?: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/thrill-of-the-chaste-the-truth-about-gandhi-s-sex-life-b1912595.html

Gerry Higgins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't forget he was a Pedo. He had a group of prepubescent girls who slept with him naked. Claiming is was No Sex just sleeping buddies. All his staff were female and young as well

Lara Verne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he made young women share bed with him, to test his celibacy.

Bob Howard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When Gahndi's wife was stricken with pneumonia he refused to let the doctors treat her with penicillin because he "didn't believe in western medicine." His wife died. Then Gahndi came down with pneumonia and survived it by being injected with penicillin.

Bob Howard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He denied his wife treatment for pneumonia, refused to let doctors inject her with penicillin. She died. Later he got pneumonia and guess what? He took the penicillin and survived. Total scumbag.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I REALLy wonder where people writing unpleasant stories about Ghandi got their facts from?? Or is is just fun to accuse famous people of scandal?? References please!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We humans are SO gullible … we can't tell what's fake or real news anymore!! I'm just not going to believe anything I read from now on to be on the safe side. If I didn't see or hear it myself … all else is propaganda! End of story!

Mary Finn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

he also liked to sleep with underage ages to "test" his self discipline

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Somewhere in your house, I'd be willing to bet There's a picture of that grinning hippy from Tibet The Dalai Lama He's a lovely, funny fella, he gives soundbites galore But let's not forget That back in Tibet Those funky monks used to d**k the poor, yeah And the Buddhist line about future lives is the perfect way to stop the powerless rising up And he tells the poor they will live again, but he's rich now so it's easy for him to say

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again I would like to see references to documented evidence to support this (no word of mouth evidence without names and references.)

H Edwards
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dated a guy from India and he HATED Gandhi. He was Scheduled Caste (the one that used to be called untouchable) and Gandhi is very unpopular with lower caste people. He helped to uphold the caste system, and back then things were even worse for lower castes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My history class just did an interview thing where someone pretended to be Gandhi. we absolutely destroyed him. he also routinely raped women and children

Quiltin Mammar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of all the people in this post it's Ghandi that really breaks my heart

David Henry
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Civilization glitch at least made Gandhi an honest villain instead of a b******t person of reverence.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many countries of the world, including India, Canada, AND the U.S. have prejudices against people of color, based on the lightness or the darkness of their skin. The practice is abhorrent, but it was not exclusive to Gandhi. In addition, there is also a very strong caste system, in many countries, including Gandhi's native India.

Rosemary Moreland
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lucifer: interesting name. Any way, lots of people are racist and lots of people like younger women. I suppose what annoys you most is that he was a public figure.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was secretly gay, the Indian government bought his letters from a auction house ( I think Christie’s) as they were worried about defamination of his name. It was kept as a secret but leaked in the papers a few years ago. He didn’t like anyone who didn’t fit his ideology eg dark skins, Sikhs ,Muslims . He stabbed the Sikh community in the back when there was issues about India independence. History always lies, you never know the truth unless you are there to witness it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing he did represented Indian culture. Almost everyone around him were disgusted with his ways. Showing other cheek, choosing suffering over living....absolutely are not Indian.

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Many people like younger women. The tragedy is that he could be racist after living in his times.

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No Ghandhi ji was one of a great freedom fighter He's not racist he is one of them who stop racism in South Africa and he gives indipendence to india I am indian and I can't believe in this point Not only me none of Indian believes in this point And Indian knows so much about Gandhi ji than you

Iron Eddy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well... Just because you don't (want to) believe, doesn't mean that it's not true.

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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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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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Joy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"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
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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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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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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