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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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Nunya Business
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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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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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Florence
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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.

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

It wasn't just that, it was the fact that her mother told him not to do it but he ignored his wife's wishes and did it behind her back.

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

As a retired psychiatric practitioner i must say that they did know.. not peddled as a cure but as a control of behaviour and it is still done today... also, he was a bootlegger and criminal who worked alongside infamous mafia top dogs. The more you learn about him the worse it gets...

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

*Some knew*. Moreover, it was in fact sold as if it would cure things, b/c some practitioners claimed 85% success rate, which was utter bollocks, but then as now everyday people didn't have the access to the facts.

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

He wasn’t even trying to help her, he had her lobotomized so that she wouldn’t embarrass the family. She was diagnosed with depression not a brain disorder. She was awake during the lobotomy just mildly sedated so that they could ask her questions and decide when to stop scrambling her brain. Then after he realized it didn’t work had her locked away and never saw her again, her mom only visited her once and they didn’t tell their other children anything so they didn’t even know what had happened or where she was. It wasn’t until Joe had a stroke in 1961 that the family found out and most of them didn’t visit either.

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

It is still common practice to keep patients awake during many brain surgeries to prevent injuries.

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

Joe Kennedy was a bootlegging pig. And the JFK presidency was revered as the "age of Camelot", but Jack was quite the pig himself. Like Dad, he slept with lots of other woman during his marriage and was pretty blatant about it.

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

I remember reading something about Jacqueline backing out of her engagement to JFK, & Daddy Joe paid a huge sum of money to her so she would marry JFK. Her mother, sister, & she were almost bankrupt & about to lose their home. She married JFK to save her family.

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

I remember reading somewhere that his wife repeatedly told him not to allow the lobotomy.

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

He also was a philanderer and encouraged his own sons to be too.

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

What's even sadder is how Rosemary got that way to begin with. IIRC from my readings, his wife was in active labor but the doctor was late to arrive for whatever reason. The nurses literally forced her legs shut to prevent Rosemary from being born, delaying the birth and cutting her off from oxygen 🤦🏻‍♀️ She would have been born perfectly healthy had they just allowed the birth to proceed (*her mother had already given birth before, FFS!) By all accounts, Rosemary was also still a very attractive young woman whose sexual desires were awakening and who saw no problem acting on them. It was easier to damage her brain even more than allow a young woman autonomy over her body, lest it embarrass the family. That poor girl was failed at every point in her life 😔

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

this isn't the only awful thing Joe Kennedy did. The man was an absolute waste of human flesh

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

Female, therefore disposable. The POS. Those boys though, they were.. something.

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

Her whole life was ruined because she didnt fit into the Kennedy mold. Watched a documentary about it and oof...bad. But sadly, as bad as it was, it was also the norm still back then. Didnt make it ok, but f**k was it rampant. Anyone who had a woman they didnt want, or was causing them issues, easy to have her committed and lobotomized. Thankfully, that doesnt happen anymore

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

He, above all, wanted political clout in America, through one of his sons. He groomed them meticulously for this. They could do not wrong, and all of his “boys” cheated on their wives, and the wives were not revered. Even Jackie Kennedy wasn’t treated with the respect she deserved. Joseph was not. Nice guy, or nice anything. U fortunately, when Rosemary was young and he did this to her, she would’ve still been considered his property as his daughter and he could do exactly what he wanted to her, to preserve the family from embarrassment caused by her behavior. So he disabled her, and then hid her. This is why one never heard much more about her after that.

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

He considered her embarrassing and had a big public life planned for his sons. S.OB. built much of the family fortune feom bootlegging.

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

He also told his boys to have as much sex with as many women as they possibly could.

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

Yeah....this was normal for the time. Lobotomies were the cure all medical procedure at the time, much like mercury was thought to be a cure to syphilis (injected with a girthy needle directly into the urethra) and heroin was used for teething babies. and colds. and depression. Lead was in EVERYTHING until very recently, Arsenic was a main ingredient in GREEN HOUSEPAINT. Asbestos was used as fake snow. Everyone need to stop digging through the history books and looking at the actions of others as judged by what is socially and morally acceptable by the standards of 2022. There are plenty of relevant examples of his behavior that were bad even for the time he lived in, this is just a sad glimpse back at the dumbfounding ignorance of the time. No one should ever pretend that people 20/50/100 years in the future aren't going to be making the exact same dumb, dismissive denouncements about everything that YOU do right not.

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

Y'all should watch Bailey Sarians dark history video about lobotomies on YouTube. She goes into this story a bit and it's absolutely heartbreaking. That family sure did a great job of erasing this story from the public.

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

Rosemary lacked oxygen at birth and was "damaged." Mother Rose forbade Joe to have the lobotomy done. But when she was away for a couple of weeks, he had it done. All he seemed to care about was the family's political reputation. Rosemary's brothers and sisters went often to visit her in the institution, and Rose never forgave Joe for what he did.

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

He was a womanizer, anti-Semite, likely Nazi sympathizer, and most certainly a criminal.

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

He was power mad and drove his children (sons) into politics for his own vanity.

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

I don't know how much he would have known in advance that the procedure was useless and that it was cruel. They were still being done regularly at this point. The ones who were the most cruel were the ones (doctors) recommending the procedure..

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

Have to pile on for this one. The lobotomy was promised as a cure-all by doctors at the time. No one really knew what was being done - that you were essentially turning the person into a barely functioning vegetable. He did it because he did not know what would happen and he expressed great regret about it later.

Sharon Ingram
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now we just cut off their anatomy because they’re the “wrong” gender.

Janet Graham
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was afraid she would become pregnant. She had a lovely singing voice. The'doctors' had her sing while they detached her frontal lobe. The worked until she stopped singing and decided they were done. Sickos, every one of them!

JP Purves
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The entire Kennedy family, and not just the men, were terrible people. It's a miracle JFK and RFK actually did some good things for the country.

Irene Bucior
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was a major antisemite who convinced Roosevelt to refuse the docking of a ship into NY harbor. It was filled with Jews escaping England before the Blitz. He said they would take jobs away from the Irish. Many of them died on the ship with illnesses, dehydration and starvation.

Judy Macauley
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My uncle had a lobotomy after he shoved his sister down a flight of stairs. He had had other violent outbursts before that. He was able to hold down a job afterward, but he was sort of "not there."

Shawn Barry
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rosemary was a wild child. sneaking out at night to drink and 'meet' men. JPK sr was afraid her behaviour would tarnish the family image if the world found out so he had her lobotomized. this was the real reason he did that.

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

How he treated his wife was trash. Serial cheater. Unrepentant and in her face. No wonder JFK was a hoe. He watched his daddy be a hoe.

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

She was literally doing alright in England as a teacher/helper/nun/whatever at a school/home and they still did this to her. AND THEN they covered it up because the Kennedys had to be perfect

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

Lobotomies in those days were considered the correct treatment, Blame the Medical Profession , if anyone is to blame

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

We were all ignorant in those days and would try any cure to solve medical problems. Cocaine was used widely and openly in OTC cough medicines. We must understand when these were common & why they were OK to use.

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

Joe Kennedy also encouraged all his sons to treat women as commodities, disposable ones - and they did.

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

He also encouraged his sons to treat women like s**t - and they did.

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

That's a drop in the bucket! He has done soooo many shitty acts!

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

Horrible yes, but he was ill advised by the medical profession! BTW, I think it was to "cure" her "promiscuity"

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

Yeah, you gotta take it in context with mental health standards at that given era.

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

Families in those days that were rich could do just about anything they wanted to do to their kids via hefty payments to doctors.

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

Looking at his actions with vision of almost a century of knowledge later.

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

Among the many stories of the Irish American family featured in the book is that of the long-hidden Rosemary. In "The House of Kennedy," Patterson recounts the circumstances of Rosemary’s birth. “Rose goes into labor at home, as planned. But Dr. Good is detained. All physicians have been pressed into service to treat the sick and dying. … Rose was willing to wait, but the baby is not. She is already in the birth canal.” continues: “The nurse orders Rose to squeeze her legs tightly together to delay the birth, and, incredibly, goes so far as to push the baby’s partially exposed head back into the birth canal for two excruciating hours—depriving the baby’s fragile systems of oxygen—until Dr. Good arrives. When the doctor finally arrives, he delivers a baby girl and pronounces her healthy.”

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

Mental illness was still considered taboo then. People would rather have them lobotomized than deal with the social repercutions, their social standing was more important than anything else. While that sound stupid, social standing was very impactful in every aspect of their life. Gossips were ruining lives more than social media do today.

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

That was a father grasping at straws to help his daughter at a time when science /medicine was also grasping at straws. When you are desperate, you consider radical solutions.

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

They still use that procedure today and what about the doctor who performed the operation? How can he be blamed if he didn't do the procedure?

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

I think this comment missed the mark as he was also a Nazi sympathizer which ruined his chances as a presidential candidate. He actually gave her the best medicine at that time. And to be honest, that is why medicine and care is what it is today based on bad medical practices of the past.

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

I'm positive it's not a coincidence that in BoJack Horseman his horrible misogynistic grandfather who had his own wife lobotomised to stop her being too "emotional" was named Joseph. The only good thing to come out of poor Rosemary's lobotomy was that it prompted her siblings to start working on behalf of the disabled and mentally handicapped.

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

Somebody that was thinking ahead to a political empire/legacy.

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If they were alive now I'm sure they would take ivermectin Please, let them be dead

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

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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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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Leo Domitrix
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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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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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