Historic Good Guys Who Did Terrible Things

[@origami83]

Cant wait for the next edition, Historic bad guys who did good things.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gadhafi will be on that list too. They were big in agriculture, free education, free medicine, and tax-free policies for citizens.

[@chiquita683]

Trump!

[@lesmorrow226]

Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide hotline.

[@glennso47]

Like Hitler was responsible for the invention of the Volkswagen car? 😊

[@glennso47]

JFK was no angel either.

[@synthraofficial5366]

The only two people missing from this list who I was hoping to see are Picasso and Gandhi. Holy shit, the two of them...

[@reneecaldwell6558]

If people don’t know about Elvis they’re an idiots cause that wasn’t a secret

[@synthraofficial5366]

@@reneecaldwell6558 well, to be fair a lot of people my age don't even listen to Elvis so we didn't know. I only found out because my mom told me.

[@jamessteele3093]

​@@reneecaldwell6558 wasn't just Elvis a lot of rockers of a time or two underage girls and even rappers of the 90s were into underage girls

[@jamessteele3093]

​@@synthraofficial5366 FDR should have been added to this list too

[@reneecaldwell6558]

@@jamessteele3093 oh I know it just people know this but still think he’s a god and I’m like how he did it in yall faces

[@jongon0848]

In fairness to Dr Seuss, he acknowledged he was wrong after visiting Japan in 1953 and apologized by writing Horton Hears a Who. Which is why the line "A person's a person, no matter how small" has an even deeper meaning in context.

[@isaiahbowers3712]

Eyyyyyy we decimated your families for generations to come. Im sorry I was a shit bag and heres a mediocre book

[@shortshak2606]

Even Looney Tunes had questionable cartoons during WWII. It was propaganda 101- don't let the Americans think of the enemy as human.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Geisel's "The Star Bellied Sneeches" was the best condemnation of racism of the 20th century. This video distorts Dr. Seuss' record on racism, which is a stellar record.

[@magnificentuniverse2283]

Apologist and demonizing humans from past ideologies....neither are the way to go. It's history learn from it.

[@dbeanz1]

The WW1 Japanese army would throw babies onto bayonets. Offense if ya ask me, deserved no respect at the time.

[@danlaleman5733]

If you haven’t already done it, do a video on strange historical coincidences, like the fact that adams and Jefferson died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, or the fact that John Wilkes booths’ brother saved Lincoln’s son from being hit by a train

[@ronaldderosa]

Not sure I would ever refer to Steve Jobs as a “good guy.”

[@cristinesplinis5815]

Intelligent guy, super rich guy, but not a good guy.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

He’s done incredible things for humanity in the form of progressing technology for the masses. That’s enough for him to be seen as an overall “historically good” in this video as his good FAR outweighs his bad from what’s he’s overall done for people!

[@richardtheconquerer]

Feels like the title of the video should just be "Historic Guys Who Did Terrible Things" rather than good guys. Like how the hell is Woodrow Wilson here?

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@richardtheconquerer They've said THE GOOD things that woodrow wilson has done despite himself having horrible racist actions and views. Wilson HAS done more good than bad despite his horrible views on black people. Human beings are complex, they can be a good person for their country on side and act like a horrible person towards another side of people. It's unfortunate but it's true. You can chalk woodrow wilson as a bad person, yeah, but he HAS done good overall. The people in the video HAVE done overall positive good things as a whole despite any bad they've done.

[@richardtheconquerer]

@@Gadget-Walkmen my point is WW doesn't belong here. He didn't do that much good and his good doesn't outweigh the bad. He certainly isn't a name that comes to mind for "historic good guy"

[@pauliedibbs9028]

I remember when I read Marlon Brando's autobiography he said he could not stand Charlie Chaplain, mainly because of how cruel he was with his own family... and of course with anyone that he met.

[@rajchandra6913]

What's the name of his autobiography?

[@uppityglivestockian]

Well Brando was no knight in shining armor, either.

[@pauliedibbs9028]

@@uppityglivestockian True, but the way he described Charlie was truly sadistic and cold... The mustache that he shared with Hitler was very fitting.

[@PentonMitch99]

So Henry ford and Elon musk were basically the same person?

[@WilliamAndrewPhilipBodie]

No wonder Charlie Chaplin had Moon in Scorpio. Moon & Scorpio in the 1st House. Bad news for anybody els.

[@jeffjones4654]

As Pappy Boyington said, "Show me a hero and I'll prove he's a bum".

[@MyEnime]

name a bad thing Weird Al yankovick did

[@francescaperron2003]

@@MyEnime He might be the only pure soul on this planet

[@ax3226]

Yeh just turn him around and pull his pants down

[@101Volts]

Even Fred Rogers said "I'm not perfect" but I'd suppose he's pretty high on the list, at least.

[@asaking5795]

Woodrow Wilson LOVED the movie Birth of a Nation and gave a good recommendation for it. He describe the movie as “History written in Lightning”.

[@sharonsmalls6846]

He had a private showing of Birth of a Nation at the White House. I never considered him a good guy.

[@wayIess]

Birth of a Nation is a whopper of a movie to talk about even in a modern aspect. A lot of cinematography classes will say that despite the awful message & meaning, it was a key point for the craft.

[@TBMartin]

​@@wayIessDepends where you are in the world I guess. I studied media in college and that film didn't come up once in the 3 years I did it. Granted I'm in the UK so that might be the reason why but it's not as important here as it sounds like in other places

[@LordVerdo]

In fact he invited the Ku Klux Klan to show it at the White House.

[@markadams7046]

Yeah, this one I believe they really got wrong. He really endorsed that movie. There have been several times were Weird History has presented history differently from how I learned it.

[@skyden24195]

"Let's face it, getting a shout-out in Hitler's autobiography is like... getting a shout-out in Hitler's autobiography." 😄😅😆 *Right!!!*

[@OneColdMonkey]

Wow, you really went there on a few of those. I pointed out the Elvis thing once in another KZbin channel and you would have thought I shot everyone's dog with the vitriol I got for it!

[@kl2894]

Same.

[@rinlo1424]

Me too. It's gross that so many people are willing to overlook the fact that Priscilla was only 14 years old when Elvis started dating her.

[@MeadowsMiniFarm]

@@rinlo1424 this was pretty “normal” still is in the music industry

[@mynameishuman4582]

Why do people find it so hard to believe? It's well-known that he was a shithead.

[@vincentvega5686]

So basically, you were chewed out by a bunch of pedos who looked up to Elvis. lol

[@queen_sophie7515]

Please do a video on Mother Teresa!!! That woman did a lot of horrible things!!!

[@Joedirt3349]

AWFUL woman!

[@mitchdroese84]

I've actually never heard that before. Now I will go digging!!

[@marianparoo1544]

Absolutely! Fanatic vicious cruel monster.

[@uppityglivestockian]

Ok, but unless she committed crimes that went unpunished, what am I supposed to do about it now? She also, just as allegedly, did wonderful acts of mercy for the severely impoverished. I wouldn't doubt that she was less than angelic towards others when she wanted to get stuff done and did not suffer fools gladly.

[@KristinaMay2109]

Let me first summarise some of the disturbing facts that are told about her, as without context the rest is meaningless: Mother Teresa is famous for opening hospices for the poor in Calcutta and elsewhere. Although these provided some comfort for the desperately ill as they lay dying, they did not attempt to provide cures, which were at times readily available at low cost. Teresa has also been criticised for seeing to her own health while ignoring the health of nuns working for her. The nuns were refused low-cost anti-malarial drugs because God would look after them. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta and observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, were making decisions about patient care, Dr. Fox observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. He noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking." These were situations for which Dr. Fox specifically held Teresa responsible. She was not only unable to provide supervision and training in health care to the nuns, but was even unwilling to buy books to help with the medical work although, according to Collete Livermore, a former nun in the order, there was sufficient money donated for the purpose. The donations raised by Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity are not disclosed, but have been estimated as at least $100 million per year, for a great many years. In spite of this substantial income, the Missionaries of Charity was one of the smaller charities in Calcutta and provided relatively few meals for the poor, as well as only a few hundred beds for the destitute and dying. The priority on finances was always for the advancement of missionary work, which means the conversion of Hindus and Muslims. It is alleged Teresa gave comfort and support to a paedophile priest, Donald McGuire. Documents said to have been obtained by SF Weekly suggest that Mother Teresa knew he was removed from ministry for sexually abusing a Bay Area boy in 1993, and that she nevertheless urged that he be returned to work as soon as possible. The priest resumed active ministry, as well as his predatory habits. Eight additional complaints were lodged against him in the coming years by various families, leading to his eventual arrest on sex-abuse charges in 2005. Mother Teresa has also been criticised for befriending criminals and dictators, allowing them to use her name and reputation for their own benefit. The closeness of her friendship with the criminal Charles Keating is demonstrated by her frequent use of his private plane. Mother Teresa associated with the Haitian dictator, Papa Doc Duvalier. Aroup Chatterjee, an Indian-born writer living in Britain, says that the public image of Mother Teresa as a "helper of the poor" is misleading, and that only a few hundred people are served by even the largest of the homes. Chatterjee alleged that many operations of the order engage in no charitable activity at all but instead use their funds for missionary work. He stated, for example, that none of the eight facilities that the Missionaries of Charity run in Papua New Guinea have any residents in them, being purely for the purpose of converting local people to Catholicism. Malcolm Muggeridge contributed to Teresa's image with his 1969 documentary, Something Beautiful for God, and with his 1971 book of the same name. Mother Teresa was a really great communicator who could bring in vast sums in donations for the work she reported being done in Calcutta. The Catholic Church soon realised the potential and swung its publicity resources behind building her reputation and fame. She knew how to sway public opinion, for example publicly declining to have cataract treatment at the St Francis Medical Centre in Pittsburgh because of cost, then having the surgery performed in St Vincent's Hospital, New York. She realised that her order needed to develop an image of selfless assistance for the desperately poor in order to drive funding for the convents and missions she hoped to use to spread her faith around the world. Sometimes while flying in first class comfort, she asked for left-over food that she could give to the poor, thereby creating the appearance of a struggling charity and using guilt to encourage cash donations. Mother Teresa planned to convert a building in New York that had been donated to her order into a shelter for homeless men, but was required by law to install an elevator if it would house disabled people. The Missionaries of Charity could easily have afforded to modify the building and install an elevator, but refused. The City of New York offered to fund installation of the elevator, but Mother Teresa still refused on the grounds that an elevator was a "luxury", and that the sisters of the order could easily carry disabled men up and down the stairs. Her order cultivated an image of ostentatious humility, incompatible with the secular requirement to ensure the safety and dignity of its inmates.

[@yakuachbach6083]

"I rather be a " good man " because a good man can be great ,often great man have done bad things " - Mike Tyson

[@MadamFizzgig]

Kinda messed up that some of the people who have helped the most people in history hurt those closest to them purposefully.

[@kingstoney29]

Always a good day when we get more weird history

[@caustichonu]

Totally left out Mother Teresa and the terrible things she did, Pope Benedict XVI serving in the Nazi military, the Dole Pineapple guy orchestrating the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, and Ghandi being a racist toward people darker than him...

[@leenycallahankhan6966]

Pope Benny was a shitty person but he was not in the “Nazi military”, whether you mean the German army or SS. He was in the hitler youth, which all children had to join.

[@heatherg-thatsme]

I was surprised you showed a picture of Gandhi, and then didn’t discuss the bad things he did as far as underage girls went

[@_thomas1031]

@10:13 Mind you though that she wasn't married to Elvis until Priscilla was 22, they did initially meet when she was younger but a lot of people make it seem she was married at 14 which she obviously wasn't.

[@brennathecatlover4360]

I thought she was 24 when she got married to him? Personally idc since she was an adult and old enough to make decisions on what she thinks is right she’s not 5

[@adilsongoliveira]

Steve Jobs was a great entrepreneur, no doubt about it, but he was an awful human being. Not only he treated everyone around him with desdain, but he was also a humanizer, aggressive and was famous for shouting at people who disagree with him, abusive in every single stance for petty things like cutting lines and parking his car in handicap spaces.

[@mbern4530]

He also died from an easily treatable cancer since he refused modern medicine and tried to cure it himself. He was pretty stupid when it came to some things.

[@richardtheconquerer]

​@@mbern4530 back in the 1970s he apparently smelled awful because he thought he didn't need to bathe because of his diet. Just an all around weirdo

[@sophiastamper9672]

If you don't mind me asking, what's a humanizer?

[@Off-with-a-bang]

This just proves the old saying of "Never meet your heroes" or that the people one looks up to. Are best admired from a distance and not known on a personal level,unless you're prepared to know about their unsavory personal life.

[@TheListenerCanon]

What about Keanu Reeves, Dave Grohl, Robin Williams, or Mr. Rogers?

[@davidwallgren7575]

Truth is it depends on who your heroes are. I've been to several fan conventions and the special guests they have are plenty nice, whether you attend their panels or get their autograph. The saying "Never meet your heroes" is just plain silly and really shouldn't exist.

[@najgermali7499]

A lot of people got angry on this video mostly beacuse it probably shattered their perception on some of these people.Remember people most famous people are not nice at all just like with non famouse individuals.

[@stevebojo4378]

I got angry at this video because it still painted Woodrow Wilson as a good guy. He was a terrible President and all of his policies did terrible things to our Republic and Constitution.

[@NewMessage]

Just what I needed today. A reminder that even the 'good ones' are monsters.

[@MyEnime]

i wouldnt qualify cheating on a wife as being a monster

[@ouci]

@@MyEnimetrue, there's pedophiles on the list...

[@Datt-z1u]

People sure throw around the word 'monster' a lot....

[@beardedlonewolf7695]

@@MyEnime Right? I mean is all women monsters now? 😂

[@FezFindie]

@@MyEnime Yeah, it's a jerk move but not monstrous compared to what else can go wrong.

[@kflo8634]

Great episode. Extra points for John Lennon exposure. 🙌

[@francescaperron2003]

Yeeees. Everyone talks about him like he was a saint

[@Off-with-a-bang]

​@@francescaperron2003 Idk who called him a saint but he was a rock star and at the time,they were beloved by the masses. Heard somewhere that even Elvis was a bit of a scumbag,he discovered his first wife and married a woman half his age when he was already pass his 20s.

[@studiotwo24]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@bryanparkhurst17]

Mr King, I have to chime in here as well. That was absolutely not true about The Birth of a Nation on this video, Woodrow Wilson loved the movie, had private viewings of it at the White House and had copies of it sent to his best friends.

[@VideoClam]

Well it is an amazing groundbreaking film.

[@jtgd]

@@VideoClam And was KKK and pro-confederate propaganda

[@VideoClam]

@@jtgd cry harder, woke wimp. It’s significance cannot be overstated & you’re clearly attempting to portray this out of historical context.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@VideoClam It was garbage and one of the worst evil movies in history. It was “amazingly” awful and the only thing that’s “ground breaking” about it is that it’s broken ground, nothing more than that. Stop trying to act like anything about that movie is “aMaZinG” in anyway as it’s amazingly terrible, that’s for sure, not in any other way!

[@coolcat8b]

@@Gadget-Walkmen I sense a bit of "whoosh" in your post. Look at the user name, and see irony maybe?

[@jacktribble5253]

I have never once even thought of Lennon as a "Good guy." For what possible reason would someone think that? This is the first I've heard that suggested.

[@masrr3678]

Yeah same, I've never considered him so, but I know some people have this rose tinted view of him as a laid back down to earth hippie pacifist

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

Most people love him to death so not sure what you meant by that.

[@PheOfTheFae]

For his anti-war stance.

[@pagodebregaeforro2803]

I never even liked this crap overrated band.

[@taffykins2745]

I didn't like him either. Not a good guy at all.

[@kenyattaclay7666]

You all left off Charles Lindbergh who was not only antisemitic but there's a strong argument that can be made that he was a traitor during WWII. Also, Jerry Lee Lewis not only married a 13 year old, he married his 13 year old cousin. To me that's both terrible & creepy at the same time.

[@marianparoo1544]

There is growing suspicion that he was involved with the kidnapping and murder of his son because the child had physical and developmental issues that didn’t mesh with his Nazi fantasies

[@CursedWheelieBin]

Whatever makes you feel like a saint by comparison 😂

[@kenyattaclay7666]

If somehow not being antisemitic, a traitor to my country or marrying my 13 year old cousin makes me a saint then a saint be I. I do seriously wonder what makes people like you tick where you would actually think ANY of that is okay.

[@larrybass370]

You also have to add how he drunkenly drove into Graceland looking to kill the king.

[@ld9044]

Marriage to cousins is not illegal. In fact, it was a common practice in most cultures. Some of which still practice today. Though I personally do not practice the ritual.

[@elizabethhughes5371]

Good morning Sunday!! Raining in Tennessee this morning but a fresh Weird History video is up so happy! Have a fantastic day everyone!!!

[@jeanjones1846]

Love Tennessee ...

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

Two inches of snow on the ground in Ohio 🙄

[@nightshadehelis9821]

You too Elizabeth. I'm just about to plow my driveway. We got blasted again with snow.

[@fishrgirl5980]

@@kellyshomemadekitchen Mn...hey Kelly, we're get clobbered,too We already got 7 to 8 in of snow already and it's never going to stop 🏂

[@fishrgirl5980]

@@nightshadehelis9821 Mn we got about 7 inches to 8 in of snow already, so sick of snow!

[@jtgd]

“I want you to have self determination and democracy.”-Wilson Minorities in America [Practices their legal rights] “No, not like that!”-Wilson

[@jordanshadows3253]

Surprised that mother Teresa wasn't on this list lol

[@NewRedYolk]

And she sure should have been! When people use Mother Teresa as a metric for morality, you know they don't know what they're talking about. 😂

[@adilsongoliveira]

I completely agree. She was a monster.

[@Mark-Hoffman]

He already has a video on her

[@nicksoapdish157]

I really hope weird history does a part two of this.

[@therealhellkitty5388]

I remember when it came to light that J. Edgar Hoover was a cross dresser… that image will give you nightmares.

[@neoasura]

I mean, Henry Ford didn't try to hide his beliefs or pretend he was what he wasn't, he was pretty outspoken on his beliefs even if they weren't popular.

[@axiomaddict]

Uhm, they were popular amongst certain people at the time so the implication that he had strong convictions despite what others thought wasn’t strength of character on display, but a capitulation to white supremacy in both the south and the north.

[@larryfischer638]

I think his hated 0f the jewish bankers because they stole three of his early companies from him.

[@bertshutler5973]

his beliefs are still pretty popular with todays Christo-fascist and MAGA crowd, aka Abbott and DeSantis

[@samd7601]

He was a perfect example why we shouldn't censor speech. It's our job as a society to be smart enough to label it crazy. Which we did..

[@jamesw.weissii3795]

But his beliefs were popular.

[@xCharonstyxx]

I think Walt Disney should have been in the video

[@Joedirt3349]

Walt was ok!

[@nikki9125]

@@Joedirt3349 he was anti-Semitic and racist.

[@francescaperron2003]

​@@Joedirt3349 If you think being super racist and sexist is ok then sure

[@Mephitinae]

Walt was a saint compared to modern Hollywood producers.

[@pjmathison9787]

@@francescaperron2003 and treated his workers like shit

[@mr.fishmanman]

Good Guys Who Are Terrible Me Looking At Barney:Im Looking At You

[@skyvoid6259]

Henry Ford didn't invent the manufacturer line. All he did was take it from the meat industry, he quite literally just went into a meat butcher plant and saw how they worked and used it to make his cars. He never actually invented anything. He just was good at making things as bare bones efficient as humanly possible.

[@Zantsmith]

but he was the first to put 2 and 2 together and figure it out.

[@skyvoid6259]

@@Zantsmith not exactly. There is also some evidence there were others doing it also before Henry. Just not to the scale of him, or the success as him. his belief was that people were stupid, and he made the Model T so cheap so the masses could own them, all he did was design a car, and by that token he didn't even design it, a bunch of his employees did in top secret. The car they made was quite literally just to get to point a to point b, his philosophy was efficiency. He wasn't even that great of a business man. The model T was in production for 25 years. It had been a dinosaur for about 15 years by that point, he was in complete denial about needing to make something new, if it wasn't for his son spending 10 years to convince him about this (10 FREAKING YEARS) Ford would not exist today.

[@Zantsmith]

@@skyvoid6259 while true, he was written into the history books for his work. those others, who im sure existed but I cannot name without researching online, which im good I don't care enough to find out who might of made their smaller manufacturing plants. as for how long it took innovation to take place around hte model T, well It did happen eventually slowly but surly, with influence from his son. which lets take a moment to be thankful that our ansestors weren't confused on how gender works or we might not be here to discuss such things today! *internally laughing in pain*

[@SYH653]

@@Zantsmith Nope. Much like his best bud Edison, Ford had good PR. Among the automotive manufacturers, Ransom Olds (Oldsmobile, naturally) beat Ford by a decade.

[@pjmathison9787]

@@SYH653 add elon musk to that list. America loves rich capitalists

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

The good narrator is back. Excellent stuff!

[@GerbenDavid]

The af'Ford'ability 🤣

[@TheSaint7770]

I love this channel. I always like and already a subscriber!!

[@swhip897]

Love your humor. Great job.

[@zach7193]

Well, this was an interesting topic. This was something else.

[@akramgimmini8165]

There isnt Black or White Just different kinds of Grey

[@Bigdogspyke]

Dr. Sues wife literally left a note saying that was a major reason she took her own life

[@Trouble_Bubble36]

Dr. She?

[@robgronotte1]

I love the Beatles, but who ever thought Lennon was a "good guy"? All the Beatles seem to have been assholes.

[@benisaten]

Fascinating video. Always a 👍I'm hoping TIMELINE returns, that series was awesome. Cheers!

[@terriehumphries6028]

No one is perfect, that is for certain.

[@piratestation69]

Facts are not designed for people's feelings...

[@jtgd]

Yet, people’s feelings can rationally be understood. Feelings aren’t bad, otherwise we’d do worse as a species.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Yes facts often are designed for people's feelings. People usually choose which facts to highlight and which to downplay or ignore based on their learnings.

[@daniexists6]

Well it's my opinion that it's a fact that you referencing a man who has completely zero knowledge of women or politics or anything for your reasons of supporting cruelty is sad and I will pray for you. Peace and love.

[@piratestation69]

@@daniexists6 im glad you are a fan... and he is 1000% about so many things... this is one of them.

[@soniasimon7115]

I can see Bill Gates in one of these types of videos. Good Work!

[@rickwilliams967]

You should do a bad people who did good things also.

[@tashacooper1753]

Yeah like Margaret Sanger doing bad for the greater good

[@cowabungga]

I read that ted bundy once worked at a suicide hotline.

[@SiiriCressey]

I think this shows why acting like people who did notable good things are/were perfect is flawed. Nobody is perfect.

[@yankeecarolyn376]

Do a video on people who faked their deaths

[@CappyLarou]

1st time I watched a video of yours and actually knew all of it, just not in detail. thanks for the detail :)

[@joelboothroyd334]

Table manners is a thing in the UK

[@HesarealNoWhereMan]

Do a video on Al Jolson!

[@Joedirt3349]

Mammy!

[@FearlessP4P1]

Lord Acton: “great men are almost always bad men”

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

That quote isn't vaild at all, it's just some historic men CAN do some bad things, and some have. Not "almost always" AT ALL!

[@FearlessP4P1]

@@Gadget-Walkmen You’re splitting hairs. it does have validity, but there’s really no use talking about it without a study on it. When this qoute was made it was definitely valid and it basically still valid to day, especially with today’s progressive sensibilities.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@FearlessP4P1 "there’s really no use talking about it without a study on it" Which can only pinpoint CERTAIN people, not all. These are VERY specific individuals who have done great things but terrible side actions as well. And what do you even mean by "today's progressive sensibilities"? Like what? Look, as a whole, I'm JUST saying that people shouldn't be expected to be perfect, but they should all be decent people and have basic decency in all behaviors. That's the bare minimum right there. Not do any of the stuff that the people in the video above have done.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

And you can't just say that someone is just simply a "bad men" when they've BOTH good and bad things. You need to weigh in the good and the bad to overall One bad deed doesn't ruin all the great things you've done, nor should it.

[@FezFindie]

@@Gadget-Walkmen Otherwise we're all horrible and deserve a planet-shattering meteorite asap.

[@sf2132]

Not that it matters but, Charlie Chaplin used rolls, not potatoes, in his famous "dance" on the dinner table.

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video

[@joelmonteiro1419]

Finally, the video Twitter waited years for!

[@BuildinWings]

NO person should be idolized without discussion of their negative traits. The invention of celebrity/cult of personality was a fatal mistake, and it's relatively recent. It's a completely new type of power from anything we've ever seen before, and one that we didn't put any forethought into creating. We STILL have no idea how to handle a celebrity who does something illegal - Impartiality is almost impossible, and billions can depend on them so they get off the hook. Why do you think Twitter gets so up-in-arms all the time? It's because people like Cosby and Saville get away with it more than not.

[@Vejitatheouji]

What alternate universe do you have to come from to think that Woodrow Wilson is a "good guy"?

[@HansKlopek]

Video idea: Historic bad guys who did good things. Let's get edgy.

[@thiscat9712]

yes we also need Adolf Hitler to be one of the people if we go bad guys we go bad guys

[@rebelyell1983x]

Nazi government first to launch an anti-smoking campaign????

[@oopsitried6174]

Wooaahh there kanye💀

[@Zantsmith]

agreed do lets.

[@taylorlibby7642]

@@oopsitried6174 🙄oh stop it McCarthy🙄

[@ProgrammingIsEasy]

Im happy Nikola Tesla wasnt listed, even thought he was shown in the intro. Still my idol.

[@sunshinehoward9649]

i could be wrong, but as far as i can tell the ONLY man in history willing to give up all his profits so Humanity could free energy, power. For me that was just he cherry on the cake, a true genius i believe.

[@ayyy9701]

he could be considered misogynistic, by modern definitions

[@Zantsmith]

@@ayyy9701 to be fair in those peoples eyes, everyone is misogynistic, and racist. but cheer up, no one gives a fuck about their feelings.

[@deb1844]

@@Zantsmith you'd be surprised to find that "those people" don't just go around accusing everyone of being misogynistic or racist- it's just those people who actually are so and considering you're so offended by people being called out for shit like this- you're probably one of them. and lmao you gave enough of a fuck to type out this comment 🤡

[@ayrad7819]

Woop another great release! it's also insane how a lot of these men would use their wives/partners as scapegoats when they're frustrated over something.

[@Mister...H]

Schools across the US have Dr. Suess week, but don't want to knowledge Jim Henson?

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE Charlie Chaplin too.

[@maribelluevano7654]

“On a scale from 1-10, how great do I look in this turtle neck”? 😂😂😂

[@Hollows1997]

Never meet your heroes comes to mind. Not that many of these people on the list would come close to being heroes of mine...

[@TheBsheep]

6:56 ...wow..Dr Suess's wife looked like his sister...weird

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Very Interesting

[@crewleaderprods]

Hard to mention Dr. Seuss without mentioning any other artists and cartoonists of the time. A lot of them did anti-Japanese, German and Italian propaganda. And a lot of people, famous and otherwise, were OK with rounding up Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. Not saying it was right or should be excused but that was the time.

[@karlepaul6632]

Exactly what I said in regards to the propaganda stuff, it was occuring on both sides. And in regards to the Japanese Americans getting isolated, people aren't aware of the Niihau incident that occurred which is a big reason why that happened. And Yes, it shouldn't be excused, but there were a lot of factors in play during that time.

[@AA-cf4es]

He left his cancer-sick wife for his mistress. Nuff said.

[@mikearisbrocken8507]

Cheated on his sick wife, I would say that makes him stand out.

[@jeremiahwindsor6114]

Historical "Good Guys" lists notoriously ruthless businessmen

[@carlomalabanan]

How about another video titled "Historic Bad Guys Who Did Nice Things"?

[@chrisidoo]

Hitler being against animal cruelty better be on that list!

[@carlomalabanan]

And also Putin who love puppies and little kids.

[@Hollows1997]

@@chrisidoo And vegetarian. Not exactly a good deed per say, but certainly more of a popular thing today than back then.

[@cowabungga]

Ted bundy worked at a suicide hotline once?

[@carlomalabanan]

@@chrisidoo and I want to add that Hitler hated smoking and love having good hygiene.

[@fretboy5028]

Challenges our concepts about fame and "goodness". Today, people known for good works, get one or two passes for negative behaviour. Their entire list of positive contributions then go under the bus with their bad actions. Everyone is a mixture of good/bad. I loved the comment about wanting a video on notoriously bad people doing good things.

[@Drace90]

The world isn't divided in good people and bad people.

[@catherinerivers7883]

​@Diederick de Groot The most evil are usually the best at pinpointing the truly good as evil. Deflection to this day still works more than it should!

[@Cavernvision]

Exactly what this video is about. GOOD people who also did some BAD things.

[@Zantsmith]

@@Cavernvision so the majority of the planet could be on this video. (as i choose to believe most people are good hearted, even if they may not seem it to you or I they surely may have loved ones they look out for. that isnt to say there aren't who are the opposite and do things to spite others at all turns)

[@ctlspl]

Only childs think like that.

[@BonShula]

@@ctlspl And Christians

[@johnnymoon]

Go to any online history forum and you’ll see how the actions of every historical figure are heavily debated, except Woodrow Wilson. He’s the only one everybody agrees was history’s greatest monster.

[@gaywizard2000]

Or Hitler?

[@robgronotte1]

So they really think he was worse than Hitler and Gengis Khan?

[@melissacooper8724]

It just goes to prove that none of us are saints. Whether you're a historic figure or just an ordinary person.

[@feresmourali5783]

Please make a video about Emma Goldman! I believe it is important to separate between the private person and the public one. One also needs to keep in mind that some of these things weren't judged back then how they are judged today so to erase these folks from the history books might not be the best choice.

[@gordtron]

can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs!

[@professorsprout3382]

Jesus Christ! I guess the eggs are the women and children.

[@gordtron]

@@professorsprout3382 mainly John Lennons, yes.

[@hovz-zo8lf]

Can't wait for "All The Good Things Hitler Did" video.

[@causefx3339]

How tf did Charlie Chaplin and Elvis get away with that? Was there no legal age back then??

[@dawarrior95]

Probably was but people didn’t care as much. (Which probably has to do with men not caring as much for women’s opinions or neglect. I mean look at 80s movies. You have the teacher or coach having affairs with the cheerleaders and it’s all jokes. People didn’t care as much even then.

[@brennathecatlover4360]

U do know Elvis wife was 22-24 around that age when they got married right

[@brennathecatlover4360]

@@dawarrior95 Elvis wife was like 24 when she got married to him

[@causefx3339]

@@dawarrior95 that's wild. ppl were way different back then

[@causefx3339]

@@brennathecatlover4360 that's good...but still, he was 24, she was 14. The point stands. I like Elvis but you can't deny he was into some weird shit

[@warhoundpp]

Hitler also had a painting of ford hanging in his office and awarded him the highest honor a foreigner can receive from Germany

[@roucoupse]

As I recall the girl on the thumbnail with Chaplin was mean in real life.

[@roucoupse]

Well, maybe that was Chaplin that was not easy with her.

[@tonmy21]

So basically Charlie Sheen in Two and Half Men was Dr Seuss.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

Lol not even close, he was FAR from being dr Seuss as he was just sleazy and a womanizer, that’s it!

[@TheListenerCanon]

Nah, Charlie Sheen in that show is just Charlie Sheen in real life. Also, Dr. Seuss didn't have the advantage of nepotism.

[@ConsiderIt]

That’s all you have to share on Steve Jobs…really?!

[@Tynamiitti]

My two favorite facts are: 1. He thought that because of his strict vegetarian diet he didn't omit any body odor and he didn't need to bathe because of that. His coworkers and other people close to him said he absolutely reeked. 2. He basically won the jackpot when his pancreatic cancer was detected early and it was a very treatable form of it. But he decided he would cure it by eating a strict diet of "pancreas healing fruits" - it didn't heal him and he died of the originally very treatable cancer. Ashton Kutcher later tried the same diet and almost died because his pancreas got so inflamed he had to go the hospital.

[@chiquita683]

Very spicy take to have the little funny mustache guy in the vid

[@jackiec498]

Our culture again displays the highest arrogance when it takes the "moral" views of the present, and seeks to apply them to the past....even going so far as to tear down statues of some of the heroes of history. For instance, the practice of taking a much younger bride has been commonplace in virtually every society for, oh idk, 5000 years or so? And there were reasons for this which were appropriate to those societies. The same can be said for marriage of multiple wives. These aren't things that we can take our current understanding of the world and apply them to ppl who were alive then. How ppl don't understand this, especially people who have a history channel.. .I just don't comprehend.

[@l.salisbury1253]

5:43 - You sure 'bout this? I'd read that Pres. Wilson publicly endorsed Birth of A Nation and even hosted a screening at the White House!

[@JCpNK]

RBG should of made the cut also

[@Nightscream452]

I consider most if not all of this common knowledge today, not a single thing in this video was shocking or surprizing to me.

[@levitatewalker8166]

former vice president biden, that one would be terrifying

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🔀 #WeirdHistory #PerceivedGoodGuys #Dichotomy #Celebrities #Famous

[@Joedirt3349]

Gandhi was AWFUL!

[@bobwalsh3751]

Y'know who was EVEN WORSE than John Lennon?! Yoko, apparently.

[@ninaharper6282]

If you have not already, would you do a video on Hellen Keller? She is revered, but there were some tarnishing aspects to her character.

[@KFCuser]

Fortunately she didn't turn into a serial Keller 😆

[@tylerhackner9731]

Love this fascinating vid

[@Rom3_29]

No man is perfect. He who thinks he’s perfect and standing tall. Will soon enough disappoint others and himself greatly when he falls into simple deep muddy mire. But greater is the man who learns from his failures, humbles himself and asks forgiveness from those he harmed. Excepts the punishment with out excuse. From then on guards his actions in public and privacy of his own. Not to cause harm to others or himself.

[@professorsprout3382]

So when did they change their behavior?Nope they died as they lived abusive.

[@la3327e]

Cool vid

[@ZeldaWolf2000]

I'm disappointed that Alexander Grahm Bell wasn't in this. He caused sign language to be band from Deaf schools for OVER 100 YEARS! It STILL affecrs them today!

[@jtgd]

For a smart man, that’s a stupid idea

[@ZeldaWolf2000]

@@jtgdHe was an ablist asshole.

[@DragonGoddess18]

I read what he did in ASL classes in college I was fuming

[@ZeldaWolf2000]

@@DragonGoddess18 same! I don't think this type of things often, but it's worse than braille being rejected by Louis Braille's school after he created the code. Even if we can't read and write, at least we could communicate, but without sign, a lot of Deaf people can't, or it can be VERY hard. And I love braille. It's one of my favorite things in the world, but even I agree that being able to communicate PERIOD is more important than reading and writing.

[@bellememorie]

Oh gods, I have met two people that worked on the atomic bomb. One lived in a house down the street from my ex-husband's grandparents in Alhambra, CA. I can't remember his name, but the man's sister said that after the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was never the same. Sadly, he was eventually removed from the home by adult protective services (I think in 2000/2001 as it was before I moved to CO) . The other man was Harold Agnew. He was an alum of the university I worked at for a few years. I was in the fundraising and alumni office. Harold had zero regrets about his part in developing the atomic bomb. He even rode on the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima so he could see what the bomb did. Such an arrogant man and unapologetic for his role in the deaths of so many innocent people. The difference between the two man was night and day. At least the neighbor had a conscience, but it was so sad to see what had happened to him.

[@helidrill7464]

Forgot about FDR

[@djllewellyn6277]

Making cartoons about an enemy army that is trying to kill you was pretty normal for the time. Why care about being insensitive when your country is in a battle for its survival. Dr. Seuss had warts like anybody, but nothing described here sounds particularly terrible or evil when considering the context of the time he lived.

[@Alverant]

Throwing some people in jail because of where they were born is anti-American. Even in war. It's not like we locked up a bunch of people for being German as well.

[@Artliker1234]

I believe Good people and bad people do not exist. People make the choice to be bad, or good or evil, every single moment of every day of their life. It's an active every day decision. Summarily deciding someone is bad or good is simplistic and lacks nuance to the human experience.

[@nikki9125]

If all they’re making is bad choices, that make them BAD PEOPLE, meaning they do exist