Why These Respected Historical Figures Were Horrible People

Plenty of people become famous for one or two good things they did, but when you look at the full scope of their life, they come out looking pretty bad.
John Lennon may have written some of the most important music of the 20th century, but he also treated the women in his life terribly, and these are both undeniably a part of his legacy.
From the racist film that Woodrow Wilson approved of to the racism and antisemitism of Roald Dahl that often came out in his children’s books, let’s take a look at some respected historical figures who were actually terrible people.
#History #Presidents #Historical
Woodrow Wilson: Institutionalizing racism | 0:00
Henry Ford: Anti-Semite | 1:45
John Lennon: Domestic abuser | 3:18
Roald Dahl and the racism factory | 4:36
Coco Chanel's Nazi past | 5:43
Teddy Roosevelt: Ruthless imperialist | 6:55
Che Guevara : Bloodthirsty executioner | 8:17
Thomas Edison's elephant execution | 9:18
P.T. Barnum exploited slave labor | 10:25
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[@GrungeHQ]

If you could meet anyone from history, who would it be and why?

[@undergroundrailroadnews7434]

Booker T Washington

[@cad6th1]

There are so many and it would probably be a let down, but recent history a young Earnest Hemingway and Hunter Thompson in his prime. I'd like to have hung out with Benjamin Franklin. Oscar Wilde was probably interesting and witty. I think Eleanor Roosevelt would have been amazing. Michelle Obama made history, so she counts. Too many!

[@gino2033]

Didn't everyone know John Lennon was a punk?

[@johnmagill3072]

All the founding fathers, so I could actually know what really went on during that time.

[@veronicaferguson8548]

Tesla,George Washington Carver,Alexander Hamilton,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Shakespeare,Charles Dickens

[@paulbaranofsky4995]

Amazing how this stuff about Woodrow Wilson was never included into any history books or taught in school

[@earlofmar7987]

The DNC Convention was held in NYC. It was called the Klan Bake, b/c it was the largest assembly of KKK members. This is where Woodrow Wilson, gets the nomination for President. And Franklin Roosevelt of Gov. of NY.

[@marknorwood7521]

The Democratic Corruption Machine goes back a Looong Way.

[@thermanuelrivera1009]

And the last 50 or so years the Republicans have taken over.

[@earlofmar7987]

@@thermanuelrivera1009 I wish your post was true. We've been fighting Democrats since the beginning of this country.

[@thermanuelrivera1009]

@@earlofmar7987 if you knew about history you would know that the Democratic party back then was the conservative party and the Republican party was the liberal moderate party. And for the last 50 or so years it has been a complete turn around it's true whether you like it or not.

[@Tathagatchat]

Roald Dahl was not only a children's author - anyone who has read his full set of books would immediately realise that him having dark side is entirely believable..

[@thomasswafford250]

Oh yes. Alfred Hitchcock had several of his stories adapted for his show.

[@bluetopguitar1104]

Dahl was a fighter pilot in the RAF in the early part of the war. Whatever his crime, he saw a lot of action and finally came home in 1942 after injuries in a crash landing.

[@kieranohara7024]

... THAT´S RIGHT ... READ "OVER TO YOU" TELLING YOU ABOUT HIS SERVICE WITH THE RAF ...

[@lifewithlee6298]

His last words were oh shit

[@joecity9692]

At least his grammar was better!

[@heru-deshet359]

Edison was a petty, jealous and thieving pirate.

[@bridgetgrant5680]

A shame PETA didn't exist back then.

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

He is also a suspected murder of a few people if not by his own hand ordering hits like a mob boss.

[@heru-deshet359]

@@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 He was accused of it during the time indie film makers were using his equipment that he wanted to keep a monopoly on.

[@mollesjohn]

Edison was one of the greatest figures of all time. We use direct current in just about everything today, unlike when I was a kid. Alternating current travels well. I'm sure if Tesla was more successful, his character assassination would also be included in this video. As soon as I saw Edison mentioned here I thought "It's just going to be about the Tesla thing." By the way, I don't eat meat. If you do, then the Edison demonstrations on animals shouldn't bother you at all. Ben Franklin electrocuted turkeys to demonstrate the power of electricity.

[@marguskiis7711]

@@mollesjohn Edison is panned without reason. Yes, he was a businessman but he grew from deep poverty and had to survive. He was very effective inventor and changed the world entirely. The Tesla thing is massively overrated. Edison discovered his talent. Tesla worked for Edison and worked for others and Edison didn't do no harm to him. AC is dangerous without question.

[@archer1949]

No historical figure should be put on a pedestal.

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

Absolutely.

[@steveswangler6373]

no person, let alone their era or standing.

[@josephnash2081]

Unless they are LGTBQ+ or PoC.

[@TheBee87bee]

Hard to think of anything good about Henry Ford: he was very cruel towards his son.

[@Cacowninja]

What did he do to his son?

[@maggiemae7539]

Didn’t he bankrupt Detroit? Then bailed them out with interest? He started credit

[@baylorsailor]

Ford was a eugenicist along with Margaret Sanger. He was friends with Hitler.

[@PlutonicGin]

@D. Johnston 702 yeah a genius racist, SMH.

[@adamnicholes1002]

​@@CacowninjaApart from abusing his son through various means. He let Edsel die from stomach cancer, because he thought Edsel was just a weakling, and not facing any actual medical problems. Also, a cap, really? The oxymoron of ideas. Anarchy is the absolute destruction of coercion and hierarchies. Capitalism is coercion through hierarchy.

[@anonymousjohnson976]

We actually really ever know anyone, even family members.

[@bernardedwards8461]

There's a lot of truth in what you say, but I think there are a few exceptions.

[@louisianaball]

Do you mean rarely?

[@Rabahsaurus]

Read between the lines. speech is a tool of the brain, for manipulating the environment. Body language is a tool of the soul, for communicating emotions. Combine the two and you’re in.

[@anonymousjohnson976]

@@Rabahsaurus "Body language is a tool of the soul for communicating emotions?" Emotions and behavior come from the limbic system in the brain.

[@bernardedwards8461]

@@Rabahsaurus Body language can be misunderstood, but speech is more precise. If you tell a judge he or she misled you with their body language, he will tell you to be on your way, but if you say the person concerned misled you with a blatant lie and you have a recording of it, he will be impressed.

[@mattkaustickomments]

Edison... “shockingly terrible ways?”... I see what you did there.

[@francesrude3007]

took me a minute, lol.

[@maddogoz08]

It's amazing that Henry Ford was never held accountable for his role in the holocaust, I mean let's face it, if Henry Ford hadn't inspired the Nazis, then the holocaust wouldn't of been as deadly as it was.

[@ThePiratemachine]

maddogz08 Judgement At Nuremburg is a good film that touches on this. Watch for and listen to the defense advocate's speech in which he mentions it in no uncertain terms near the end.

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

Don't you know that the richer you are, the more you get away with?

[@maddogoz08]

@@tacoheadmakenzie9311 yeah, like Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff, and Harvey Weinstein, to name a few

[@ryanmoore6259]

There are rumors that the heart attack that killed him was caused by watching holocaust footage. If true that's karma

[@onlyoldnavy]

Woodrow Wilson also brought on the Federal Reserve

[@superiorshotgun4348]

And the IRS

[@jamesparker760]

Teddy Roosevelt was also very anti-Irish ! He referred to my people as the "White Ape" and regarded my ancestors as even less valuable as their darker counterparts. His visage must be stricken from mount Rushmore his villainy explored.

[@maggiemae7539]

And the big question is Why did he start the national parks? Sinister!

[@caldin]

But this is also very complicated. He was critizised for having dinner with a black man and also had a quote that said "people should be judged for their inside" or something close to that. And you have also got to remember and take into account the time they lived in

[@chrisper94]

Maybe so, but the Irish fought to be recognized as white to join these despicable people against other people of color.

[@jrsmith1998]

😂

[@jeremiahwilliams4447]

Yeah no

[@Ivehadenuff]

John Lennon learned his lesson before he died. Sometimes I think he was taken as soon as he learned this lesson.

[@ohthatswhatabearis1270]

Apparently u haven't heard of the mud shark incident, if u like john in the slightest.

[@uncreativelynamedchannel5887]

@@ohthatswhatabearis1270 That’s John Bonham of Led Zeppelin.

[@kam0406]

He was still heavily into heroine at the time of his death. It is hard to know what he learned. He didn't really have a chance to prove it. So sad. I remember the world crying the day he was shot, event though I was very young.

[@Ivehadenuff]

@@kam0406 I do not think he was heavy into drugs when he died. He admitted he was horrible to women. Knowing you have a problem is the first step.

[@ZoeyPaigeLunaPhD]

@@kam0406 Nope. He was clean, had been for a good 5 years. But he did abandon Julian and did permanent damage to his psyche, as happenes to abandoned children you get “replaced”

[@geraldmahle9833]

The video dishonestly upheld Edison's reputation as an inventor- most of Edison's inventions were actually originated in the Menlo Park invention "factory". Edison paid the inventors he employed wages and patented their inventions. He DIDN'T invent most of those 1,000 inventions.

[@coreysmith9789]

Lennon really tried to make peace by the end of his life, I don’t see him being on this list above all of the other rockstars with garbage behavior. Julian even said that John attempted to get closer to Julian and Cynthia by the end of his life.

[@MsSwitchblade13]

So women beaters are not horrible?

[@slim8756]

@@MsSwitchblade13 The fact he changed his ways and tried to better himself don't make him a bad person

[@johnwilson1094]

@@slim8756 @CP The line between "He did horrible things for most of his adult life" and "He was a horrible person" is a very fine line.

[@slim8756]

@@johnwilson1094 every person makes a mastake i agree with you there's a difference evryone makes mastakes thats what makes us human john lennon changed he wasnt a horrible person but imperfect

[@johnwilson1094]

@@slim8756 Exactly. Even Malcolm X who was something of a thug in his youth and cleaned up his act, was apparently changing his philosophy even more shortly before he was murdered. It is claimed he was moving from believing like W.E.B. Dubois and more towards Booker T. Washington.

[@CanadianRaven13]

Edison stole most of "his inventions".

[@brianbreen1026]

Tesla came up with AC electric system, which was far and away superior to DC. Poor old Tesla ended his day's with pigeons for friends.

[@catlover34fl]

@@brianbreen1026 Tesla was kind to animals. Edison, like many people, was not. It is sad the cruelty human beings get away with because they know animals do not have a voice and many humans won't care anyway. When will the human race wake up?

[@marguskiis7711]

Not true. Edison was brilliant.

[@marguskiis7711]

@@brianbreen1026 AC and DC are good for different functions.

[@texasred2702]

Kind of like Bill Gates, then.

[@jrsmith1998]

Holy Crap. Woodrow Wilson was a 1st class P.O.S.

[@BarryPennock]

I have always had a policy of not having heroes. Saves me a lot of heartbreak.

[@zapkvr]

I like your approach. I feel the same way exactly

[@ccaj10]

I used to say that a child's hero should be their parents, and even then stuff happens. Just like any story or relationship, we have to get the good out of it.

[@BarryPennock]

@@ccaj10 They were my heroes when I was a little kid but then I realised they were just people trying to muddle their way through life -still loved them though.

[@irish03gator]

Jesus is a worthy one 😊

[@ralphyetmore]

"Dahl cheated on his wife with her best friend..." Maybe that wasn't her *best* or *friend* ? 🤔

[@jenrutherford6690]

And you have to wonder what the rear of her friends were like

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

Same thing I was thinking. Unless he had a gun pointed at her, I'd say that she was no better than him.

[@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283]

@@tacoheadmakenzie9311 Congrats, you win “Asshole Of The Day” 😂

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

@@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283 Well, that means a lot to me, coming from a douchebag like you

[@kenmcfann8128]

I’ve loved the Beatles since February 9th 1964 but I’ll never forgive John for being a woman beater. Rip John and George... peace ☮️ to Paul, Ringo, and everyone who reads this.

[@elainehubbard5047]

i can not stand them even as a child they were so cheesy none of them had any talent, compared to other bands of the day and a lot of them still are going strong yeah the beatles were crap only good and talented one was george ,peace out ☮

[@sebastianfitzptraick7395]

One of the few videos I've seen that calls out John Lennon for the hypocrite he was.

[@Deborahtunes]

I've seen one other video where they aren't slobbering over John Lennon...

[@karensimpson5908]

He wasn’t perfect but I cherish his song writing.

[@davidbowman4259]

Well, at least he wasn't a Trump Republican.

[@markpatterson2507]

Lennon was a horrible prick. If you r not a father to your son, you are the worst type of creep

[@109joiner]

It does say he acknowledged his shortcomings and tried to change.

[@70mmgomp]

Its good to look back and review what some famous people were really like ... how else can we ever really learn? Another great Grunge video!

[@shelbourneking7068]

@D. Johnston 702 why do you think Al Sharpton should be on this list ? Oj Simson image is already damaged ,he isn't admired and respected in the same way he used to be . That's common knowledge .

[@hjmx4981]

Surprised Walt Disney, Winston Churchill, and Mother Teresa not on this list but I’m sure they could go on and on. Potential for an hours-long video parade of historical villains and phonies “exposed.”

[@yufufali]

Ghandi should be on here too he was a racist

[@MrAhuapai]

@@yufufali There is no evidence he Gandhi was racist

[@yufufali]

@@MrAhuapai There is plenty of evidence its from his own words and his legal documents. They are published.

[@MrAhuapai]

tstark07 racist against who?

[@yufufali]

@@MrAhuapai black people .

[@franktranks9445]

I swear, if it said: "Number 10- Fred Rogers" I would freak out.

[@corlenajames1381]

Omg... please nooooo! Don't play, I loved him 🤣😂

[@andywinslow9638]

Don't worry. You'll only find him one a bad persons or troll list. He's legitimitly kind. The only horrible thing he did was die.

[@Mike-eo5jk]

Excellent Video. Thank you.

[@mikemichaelmusic09]

Go straight to the Comments Section and see what The Experts have to say about this Video

[@stephenchase9261]

Like they say "nobody is perfect."

[@negarknocker2050]

Lord knows the video maker is an expert in propper gander.

[@seymourbutts9085]

Harrumph !!!

[@joecity9692]

Interesting note, that none of this highly biased video could have been made without the help of most of the 'white' culprits mentioned in it haha!

[@frankpaya690]

@@joecity9692 it's just like Barack Hussein Obama ( AKA Barry sotoro ) was as much white as he is black, but we only heard about him being "black", and it was his white grandmother that actually worked hard to send him to a private school, the same white grandmother that he always threw under the bus when he started talking politics,/ "ghetto" and wanted to get on the" white racism" bandwagon & appeal to Black radicals and white liberals .

[@blah7983]

Woodrow Wilson was not treated nicely in my history class. My teacher was republican but pretty damn feminist too which made for maybe not an unbiased education but definitely a balanced one. She would give you both sides and then say “this is what I think”.

[@Upcamehill]

We don't need to know what they think. Just teach us the facts.We can form a conclusion on our own.

[@chrisper94]

@@Upcamehill, that's the problem; the facts were hardly told of at all. Just a whitewashed version.

[@trixievonmothersbaugh1340]

Gandhi and Mother Theresa were also both pretty awful. Gandhi believed in Indian superiority, especially over black people and often used slurs against them. Mother Theresa was even worse with her cult of suffering. She didn't allow for pain relief of any kind in her home for the dying because she believed suffering brought you closer to Jesus. She also took money from some really shady characters and used it to open nunneries instead of helping the poor like it was assumed she did.

[@neilforbes416]

Thomas Edison was known to steal credit from his employees. If an employee from General Electric(or its division, RCA) came up with a good idea that would make money for Edison's companies, Edison would claim to have come up with the idea himself and the poor employee would be shut out from any credit. George Westinghouse, on the other hand, would give his employees full credit for their ideas and even to the point of having those employees' names applied to the patents for the devices they created.

[@alexiasmithson5099]

Doesn't matter what political party anyone is affiliated, both parties can have racists running around in front of them.

[@janicesnyder9305]

It is amazing what gets left out of the history as opposed to what does.

[@travisbridges7117]

@D. Johnston 702 the difference is when know about mj and oj and what they done or accused of but other historians we don’t

[@maryannfiore2693]

There were a lot of anti-Semitic and racial "leaders." Andrew Jackson, Walt Disney, Andrew Johnson Francis Galton and Karl Pearson just to name a few.

[@maryannfiore2693]

Thomas Edison was a pretty bad guy, too. He stole almost all of his patterns calling them his own!

[@craigstewart1532]

@@maryannfiore2693 Do you mean "patents"?

[@maryannfiore2693]

@@craigstewart1532 YES..I don't type so good

[@TFR50]

Who wasn’t a racist back in those days

[@thomascrownrg]

We sometimes seem inescapably drawn to glorifying and glamorizing admirable traits in otherwise Despicable people. None of whom would ever endure what they subjected others to.

[@SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand]

triue

[@thomascrownrg]

@D. Johnston Well said.

[@maryannecomment3302]

Someone, who acknowledges mistakes, like John Lennon, was not a horrible person.

[@Metalbass10000]

My grandfather and his brother were on Omaha and Utah beach, respectively, and both fought their way across Europe. I always wondered why both were so strong in their opposition to buying Ford vehicles. It turns out that is why, they knew about the Ford manufacturing of the machines used against them. I thought it was just about the goofy wiring designs, and the inevitable electrical problems Ford cars have had for almost everyone I've known who has owned one. I'm just going on my own experiences, so if you're opinions are different that's great, but doesn't change my experiences.

[@JRobbySh]

The Ford factories were taken over by the Nazis. Many French vehicles were also used by the Nazis and they were more often German collaborators. Funny though why the Nazis are such a symbol of evil for most American who know nothing about the millions of people killed by Communist regimes. Ash an average college students and he would;d not know who Pol Pot was, or know that Che was a psychopathic killer.

[@rickmurray442]

The Americans also supplied a lot of Ford trucks to the Soviets during WW2, another mistake.

[@jefftheriault7260]

@@rickmurray442 Studebakers, mostly. And it wasn't a mistake. The Nazi's were intent on de-populating Eastern Europe, a terrible enough crime for a start. In reality, they had no fooking idea what they were doing. All they really did was finish off Germany for a century or two. Total losers. And posers.

[@cliffgaither]

@@JRobbySh :: I think you are not correct about Americans & their knowledge of Communists Regimes. There's no place like home when it comes to Anti-Communist Propaganda. Yeah ! Pol pot was a piece of work, but he wasn't a Communist. There's nothing in The Communist Manifesto providing a blue-print for his crimes. Leaders of Countries work within the system already in place to carry out their Inhumanity. There's no place like The Republic at home that's under lock-down by The Corporate-Class. Should the Republic be condemned because of the corruption of the upper groups, facilitated by the equally corrupt politicans ?

[@cliffgaither]

@@rickmurray442 :: "A mistake" ? The USSR & The US were "Allies" in WW2 ( well, not really as far as the US was concerned ). The USSR won the War for The Allies & inadvertently, saved Western Capital _Ass_ - ets ( Capitalism ).

[@izzy9132]

There's a lot more to the Patricia Neal-Raul Dahl marriage. I clearly recall the Press building up Patricia Neal's reputation as a "saint" when there were a succession of tragedies in the family well before her stoke. She had affairs with married men in Hollywood and an abortion before marrying Dahl and wrote that she realized she didn't love Dahl right before their marriage but said she'd make a go of it anyway. Neal also credited Dahl's harsh techniques for her miraculous recovery from the devastating stroke. Dahl's draconian techniques worked so well that they are now implemented throughout the world.

[@lizzdoe2821]

FINALLY Someone acknowledges Lennon wasn’t the god people portray him as!!

[@HarvestMoonHowl]

The only decent Beatles are Ringo and Paul. John Lennon incessantly bullied their manager (because he could), and *he* was responsible for breaking up the band. Not Yoko Ono. As for George, he didn't go out of his way to be a jerk, be he tended to take out his frustrations and depression on those around him. Ringo once said in an interview that he was the only band member who could regularly make him laugh or smile.

[@kodas3366]

Lennon is still a beast! It also reveals his humanity as it is human to acknowledge an strive to fix one’s mistakes/flaws. Favorite Beatle

[@ThePiratemachine]

Lizz Doe He was moody. At the time before the mythologizing I remember him as quite an irritable man who had a big chip on his shoulder. He wasn't friendly and wasn't likable. Macartney was likable, but John Lennon was more talented. John Lennon had a rough upbringing and was bitter, in my opinion. Doesn't excuse his behavior. A man should know not to hit a woman but he seems to have tried to stop it. And make up for it to those on the receiving end one hopes. A strange man, unhappy really. All this is observation. I didn't know him though I know a couple of people who did. Can understand women not liking him. He was abrasive to men and women. He tried to mellow and maybe he did though the anger understandably remains towards him.

[@lizzdoe2821]

ThePiratemachine Wow that’s a cool view on him. I have just been frustrated to hear how he treated people and yet watch the world idolize him... His talent isn’t that great if his life and actions don’t back it up. Thank you for sharing!!

[@lizzdoe2821]

Turn me on deadman I do not mean to be a hater. He was a human just like I am. I guess I am just sad and frustrated whenever a woman (or man) is treated less than they deserve.

[@huntress1013]

Enid Blyton, Charles Dickens, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, George Washington...the list of people who had something rotten in their past or who were less than savoury is endless. Try finding a pure soul that did loads of great things and has few or zero blemishes in his or her past. The list will be really short.

[@jehugo66]

Christ?

[@RandomBeing101]

@@jehugo66 Christ wouldn't count.

[@superdude899]

Well, technically, Christ did flip all those tables and chase those people with a whip, but that was arguably justified

[@girishramchandani3943]

Mr. Rogers?

[@johndoe9493]

Tom Hanks.

[@widowkeeper4739]

Yes, the same person can be deeply benevolent and do amazingly good things for society while doing incredible evil at the same time. It doesn't make sense and it isn't supposed to. Humans don't make sense as a general rule. As the current inheritors of our history and the authors of the next chapters, it's up to us to demand our history be preserved and presented accurately to ourselves and our children without omissions. It's a critical human need and our right to have the whole truth, that's why conquerors constantly try to destroy it. We need to make it socially OK to admire the admirable while condemning the detrimental about historical figures or we stand to lose it all together.

[@christiansekumade1223]

A negative times a positive equals a NEGATIVE. If the person wants to be looked at as good, doing evil is out of the question.

[@widowkeeper4739]

​@@christiansekumade1223 OK, but then get used to being grossly disappointed and bitter in history, because we're standing on the shoulders of freaks.

[@christiansekumade1223]

@@widowkeeper4739 And? What else? Unfortunately, you're telling the truth. I was thinking "nahhh, I'll leave it to the stupidest people on Earth...I won't do it". Guess what? Some teenagers are STUPID enough to drink hand sanitizer! Some people are dumb enough to drink out of the fish tank. I am disappointed. And behind the curtains, some people treat others cruel. They're not good. They're terrible.

[@cliffgaither]

@@christiansekumade1223 :: Wow !

[@seymourbutts9085]

I hear Germany has great highways and byways.

[@macewbee]

Wow very surprising thanks for posting this.

[@nicktaylor2657]

Anytime I see a Tesla car I think he's getting his revenge Don't see any Edison cars out there do ya

[@OnePieceOfATheory]

You mean Elon musk?

[@RB-yg7jw]

I think it is good to understand completely all major historical figures. Everyone has flaws and we are all beneficiaries or victims or the times we live in. Whenever I read a good and honest biography of a major figure I am always left a little disappointed in that person as I am with myself. That’s just humanity. I’m still not sure about the current debate on whether the names and legacies of these people should be removed from our buildings, monuments, etc. Part of me thinks we should leave them in place, but as we are doing here, we should discuss the full picture. We might get a better appreciation of the Jekyll and Hyde in each of us. Having the discussion and reaching a consensus about what is bad and what is good about a person might be more useful as we go forward. Our history books just lack this complete picture. If we did this for example, maybe more white Americans could better understand just how pervasive institutional racism is and how we got here instead of just dismissing the concerns and experiences of so many black Americans. Maybe we could meet somewhere in between and be more united as Americans. It starts with a hard look in the mirror by each of us.

[@cliffgaither]

R B :: You are a clear-thinking, intelligent & reasonable human. BUT your thinking is unclear ; your intelligence is called into question ; your reason becomes unreasonable because you don't realize the distinctiveness of your character. You aren't like the people in history ; in this video ; in this country. We all have flaws but some of us ( you ) have taken a critical look in a mirror & made character-adjustments. The rest of us use a mirror for brushing our teeth or putting on the make-up of daily disguise. My Deepest Respect for you ! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !

[@rozchristopherson648]

I agree with you on some level. Unfortunately, "the full picture" never gets discussed. People don't like to face the truth in others or in themselves.

[@ngbarone]

Getting Better is a McCartney song. So there's that.

[@theband9672]

? no it’s not, part of it is sung by him, but the beating women part is John

[@familytreenutshistorygenealogy]

Love these videos! We are trying to keep in history alive in our videos too!

[@jameschristie7536]

Absolutely loved this video as it's so chilling and disturbing exposing what the real person was like. Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt for me came as a real shock. There you go, that's something I never knew in history until a few minutes ago...literally..and I love reading history so I'm going to do a bit more research on Wilson especially. Going to watch your other 'Respected' Historical Figures which includes Walt Disney.

[@cliffgaither]

It's great you are interested in history. Woodrow well lead you to other fallacies, especially his wife, who was even worse. She must have helped advise his policies.

[@notrombones5041]

No historical hero is perfect. You can always find flaws, or a darker side. The ones worth revering are the ones who managed to do significantly more good than bad.

[@Riza1890]

If you place anyone from the past centuries under the 21st century microscope he or she will come across as a racist, bigot, jerk or plain old crazy

[@paulallen8109]

@@Riza1890 BS. The people mentioned here were criticized by their contemporaries. Too many reactionary chimps wrongly believe this is something *new* . Basically they lack scope. Always had, always will.

[@muhtadishareef271]

Wtf?

[@kateapple1]

Agree man wise words

[@cliffgaither]

@@paulallen8109 :: Write-on !

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Absolutely nothing about that stupid Greatest Showman movie was remotely based on history.

[@rbeasley2049]

Makes you just want to NEVER BUY a Ford ever again.

[@rickmurray442]

Thought the same myself, but I can't ever get rid of my Ford ute. 🇦🇺

[@jefftheriault7260]

He was a nasty piece of work in a number of ways, but claiming he "allowed" Ford factories in Germany to build trucks...come on now, Hitler's answer would have been "make me" or "we just nationalized that factory". That's like laying blame on IBM for the punch card machines they sold the German government in the mid-thirties that ended up being used to develop that period of history's version of a database for the final solution. What could IBM have done to stop them once the machines were across the Atlantic?

[@Gamble661]

FixOrRepairDaily; FORD

[@rickmurray442]

In Australia the Holden supporters say Full Of Rust and Dents.

[@cliffgaither]

@@jefftheriault7260 :: By that time, IBM was fully-aware of the nature of the Germans. Capitalists want to make money. They absolve themselves of any resulting negativity for the ultimate use of their products. NRA / Weapons Manufacturers are just two major examples.

[@laurenceelisha689]

Bradley points out in “The Imperial Cruise” that Aryan philosophy was widely taught in America (and around the world), at the dawn of the 1900’s. Teddy and Ford’s time.

[@ricecrispy7951]

Humans are complicated.

[@The_Dudester]

Woodrow Wilson, besides the faults listed here allowed the British and French to run around the Globe drawing very arbitrary boundary lines. This led to a series of wars: World War 2 Korean War Vietnam War 4 middle east wars-1948, 1967, 1973 and 1991. "The Arab Spring" The Balkans Wars of the 1990's.

[@vogonpoet5860]

wilson didnt ALLOW britain and france to do anything. at his time americas opposition to anything would have been irrelevant as at that time america was nowhere near as important as it became later

[@gino2033]

LMAO what are you talking about WWII Was an attempt of a communist taught ratically motivated nazi party (very similar to the DNC now)that when America was being led by a terrible president that luckily died and a real patriot Mr Truman took over and ended the war instead of surrending as Roosevelt was going to do. That's why Ford went to Brazil and nearly bankrupt Ford Company Roosevelt told him he should support Hitler more then ever before so, Ford thought you could grow rubber trees like corn lol and cut down miles n milecnof the Amazon rain forrest built huge dorms to house 1000's of workers and to grow rubber trees like corn 🌽. Well that isn't how it grows it only grows in shaded jungle canopy he destroyed.

[@swithinbarclay4797]

Hmm, Vietnam; the French WILL NOT share responsibility for that mess! If you try and call 'em on it, they'll try and smash a bottle on your head!

[@negarknocker2050]

No deary, stop trying to pin your family's crimes on others.

[@gino2033]

@@negarknocker2050 LMAO that's the best comment I've seen here right on.

[@chadwahl9085]

Thomas Edison was huge patent troll.

[@gregorytimmons4777]

Lennon's foibles are not unique as most kids abused by a parent, particularly boys by their dad. Pretty commendable that he recognized his faults. Ford and Edison both got a pass by the public school system propaganda machine that gave Tesla a total snub. Ford seems a paradox since he set wages and hours that made blue collar workers an upward lift purely for pragmatic reasons. The pay so the workers could by Ford cars and believe me, Harry Bennet and his goon squad made sure those workers drove Ford's to park in the lot at the plant. The hours a result of Henry's hatred of unions.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Gregory Timmons At least John Lennon tried to redeem himself and hopefully make it up to those who'd been on the receiving end.

[@robertfeinberg748]

Don't forget FDR, who implemented Wilson's racist policies as Navy Secretary and vacationed in racist Warm Springs, GA.

[@melissamiller4576]

Edison not only screwed poor Telsa over, but also stole from Louis LePrince who by the way was the REAL inventor of motion picture NOT edison. Edison and the luminere brothers stole his work. Watch obsolte oddity he has a whole feature on LePrince

[@jackkircher1755]

Hank Ford? A Biggit! WOW! I also can't believe that Adolf ACTUAL had a picture of Hanky on his wall!

[@EternalSilence4ever]

Mahatma Gandhi did some very questionable (and I'm being very lenient here) things. He believed women were inferior to men, and blamed women for any rapes that they 'attracted'. On top of this, there was the super shady experiment he had by sleeping BESIDE an underage girl to test his own sexual urges. Pakistanis hate Gandhi too. That's something involving the partition. So Gandhi did do some good things like promoting non-violence, but he's definitely not worthy of being mentioned as a good man. He was not.

[@heatherhillman1]

Not to excuse it, but Roosevelt, Wilson and Ford were more or less a product of their time. While reprehensible in this day and age, racist and anti-semetic views were pretty common in that time, mostly due to just general ignorance. I think it's a bit unfair to judge people of a different time through the lens of today's world.

[@brianwilling432]

I will never buy a Ford ever again.

[@putzgadol]

Knowing this material, I have never bought a Ford

[@jcolterh]

He's dead, bro. Get over it.

[@frustrationsofhumanity9212]

These people still exist today, their successors still carry on the Eugenics Ideology. Otherwise who else would have built the Georgia Guidestones

[@janinecarson8380]

@Justin Moore How does eugenics end ignorance? I'm missing the connection.

[@cliffgaither]

@@janinecarson8380 :: I couldn't find Justin Moore's comment ... Eugenics / Eugenicists aren't about ending "ignorance" so much as eliminating / ending the lives of people they see as unfit to have life in a world they want reserved for the "purest" of heart / mind / body / race ...

[@Catlily5]

Had to look up the Georgia Guidestones... Weird.

[@tayloriginals999]

Is Che Guegara really respected? I have always thought he was like a butcher. I thought the whole pop culture thing about him was kind of like the obsession people have with Charles Manson.

[@ZiaJester]

People really do see him as a great revolutionary. Like the video said, he was seen as a man for the people. They really glossed over his flaws when I learned about him.

[@josephhickman1306]

Famous for being famous, the stupid being led by the stupid to the lemming cliff top to dive into the rocky surf below, shit for brains, ha Darwin was right, just pointed out the obvious. 🤔😃😎

[@e.l.s.3048]

Nice avatar.

[@chanceburn7416]

Just like with Pablo Escobar: hated by governments and feared by the average citizens and drug cartels, loved by minorities.

[@swithinbarclay4797]

Oh, yeah, there's still millions in this nation who idolize Osamah Bin Laden, and his Squads of Eighteen, precisely for what they "accomplished" on September 11, 2001. Hard to believe, you'll still see his likeness on some of the T-shirts that the hooligans wear, in Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis.

[@georgefitter7656]

I never bought a ford! Now I know why!

[@whippetcanister4278]

I don’t know a single person who ever said Wilson was a “good” president

[@Deborahtunes]

Leftists loved him...

[@elultimo102]

Wilson reportedly imprisoned 150,000 Americans, for opposing involvement in WW1. That's even more than the 120,000 Japanese Americans, that FDR sent to concentration camps in WW2.

[@p47thunderbolt68]

President Kennedy called him a great president

[@Deborahtunes]

@@p47thunderbolt68 ~ That says a lot right there about JFK...

[@p47thunderbolt68]

@@Deborahtunes surely you're not you're not suggesting JFK may not be the gallant hero he's been made out to be .

[@knockoutguitarist087]

I know for a fact a great deal of people before 1960 were easily openly racist.... it was very much accepted so I don’t put it past anyone. But I appreciate the honesty of it back then because they would tell you straight out. Where as now it’s a lot of pretentiousness and hidden feelings.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

I knew all of the stories plus more. But I realized that time restraints I see why you omitted other bad actions they took!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

@D. Johnston I couldn't have said it better!

[@ernestoreveres8780]

Walt Disney was racist and nobody say nothing

[@stephenchase9261]

Not racist just smart.

[@vandalking8341]

@@stephenchase9261 people like you made me lose my fate in humanity

[@stephenchase9261]

@@vandalking8341 It's people like you that make me lose faith in humanity you should be smart enough to stand up for yourself and for your own kind especially if your a white person because no one else gives a S**T about us.

[@WeAREyoungfolks]

@@stephenchase9261 get off the internet you make no sense at all. You dont understand anything. You both attack white people and complain about being attacked? LOL there should be an age requirement for the internet.

[@ScottyBugler2005]

Ernesto Reveres He was an open supporter of Hitler and the final solution. Which makes me wonder why so many Jewish people even bother going to any of the Disney theme parks. This is the main reason why you see running gags about it in Family Guy.

[@mellowtube]

What most don't realize, is nearly all of Wilson's' contemporaries where to some extent racist. My grandfather was born in 1917, a WW2 Marine, wounded in combat (but until the day he died @89yrs), he refused to eat in a restaurant that had black people in it. I talked to him about it, and he later admitted, that it was most likely just a result of how he was raised. And BTW he also hated the Japanese -witch is to some extent more understandable, given the brutality of his experience in WW2. My point is we are largely a product of our environment, we all change as a result of it. When we look back through history, what may appear obviously wrong to us (and it can, and does), just keep in mind we are all primarily the sum of our ability to understand, and the weight of our experiences.

[@cockyrooster361]

Exactly, its called seeing things in the context of the times. Its also interesing that these types of vids dont mention classism, and how lots of "wealthy" people were killed by monsters like che, castro, pol pot, Mao, and of course the beauty known as Stalin.

[@corlenajames1381]

@Keith Harrison Agreed. No offense to the initial commenter, I know he was your grandfather, but it sucks when people get to live so long nurturing long embedded bigotry they were 'raised' on while some innocent kid dies of cancer somewhere... He could've evolved at anytime in his adult life, but he continued to choose hatred for 89 years...😩

[@andywinslow9638]

@@corlenajames1381 He didn't say he chose it until he died. Just that he once was racist. IDK maybe he changed

[@mellowtube]

@@corlenajames1381 I didn't say that.

[@mellowtube]

@@007Julie he went to heaven. I don't step on God's toes. He knows all of us, better than we know ourselves.

[@lookupthereupinthetrees9860]

You wouldn't have to dig far through your own family history to discover that we're all descended from mean horrible people. And if you don't believe me, you probably haven't been digging hard enough. The world we live in was built by horrible people. So why be picky?

[@thomasaquinas5262]

I was dug in, ready to pounce on any slip-ups. To your credit, I think the list of malefactors was reasonable and fair. My brother was an author and said we conflate 'great men' with 'good men', a common mistake. The ultimate example in history was Achilles, who purportedly fought with...and against, virtually any and all sides to any conflict, was a mercenary for hire, had no qualms about disturbing marriages, other forms of relationships, etc. Oh, and some state he was one of the 1st draft dodgers in history...

[@stoner7144]

As a Cuban-American I thank you no end for exposing Che. He was a monster!!

[@aljoschalong625]

Yes, he probably was. But even worse were the people he was fighting against.

[@elviscocho5662]

@@aljoschalong625 How? I mean I guess it was a dictatorship, but Cuba was a 1st world country, up until Guevara and Castro

[@tracesprite6078]

I have never liked the film Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. Each child is punished for quite natural behavior and Willie is rewarded for not wanting chocolate much when that was the whole point of the factory. You can see the same complicated attitudes towards food in the first Harry Potter book. The disliked boy (who is plump with red hair!!!) likes food and is given a pig's tail. The other children can sit down to a huge feast but that's apparently OK. Let's all get eating problems, shall we?

[@giselestrauch5146]

I think putting john lennon with racists like woodrow wilson and henery ford is disgusting.

[@lindacoolbaugh962]

This video was a real eye opener!!

[@chrispetritsch4959]

Everyone was racist back in those days and it is wrong to judge people of 100 years ago by today's standards! Surely you know that!!

[@stephenchase9261]

People were smarter then.

[@ladycheyne5607]

We should stop being so mean to murderers and child predators from back then. We shouldn't judge them by today's standards 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪🙃

[@geminigirl5400]

How is this judgmental? Isn’t this just the truth.

[@ThePiratemachine]

chris petritsch Should know right from wrong whenever, but I'm not holier than thou but a man shouldn't hit a woman. It's not in the book.

[@stephenchase9261]

@@ThePiratemachine I agree with you that people should know better not to ever hit or harm a woman but as to "it's not in the book" well yes it is physical punishment of women is permitted in the Old Testament and the Quran for example unless you're referring to a different book.

[@stevepenney2073]

Henry Ford was probably the greatest man America has ever produced.

[@BunneRabb]

This just in, people are often flawed.

[@tanyanike]

Wow! Interesting!

[@chrisazure1624]

I love the line about those that would wear Che's shirt would likely be killed by him.

[@blahblahblah6]

He was a monster.

[@chrisazure1624]

@@blahblahblah6 The people who idolize him are the people who complain about lesser sins. They are oblivious to the contradiction. For them, he is just a figurehead to place unrealistic hope upon.

[@neilbowman573]

Criticizing a person from a different era seems like an invalid pursuit.

[@neilbowman573]

I believe that the goal of humanity was equality of opportunity. Everything else is worthless.

[@AceofCairne]

This is juicy, a revelation.

[@cruisepaige]

Good job!

[@giselematthews7949]

it' it's always the people you don't suspect

[@justinvardy2652]

Very true

[@jefftheriault7260]

Boy, ain't that the truth!

[@moodyrick8503]

In my experience the vast majority of people are not "ALL GOOD" or "ALL BAD". Instead they are a mix of both, that varies from person to person.

[@aliassmith113]

Exactly the yin and yang of human nature

[@109joiner]

I like the fact he highlighted people from both sides of politics.

[@hubertusvenator5838]

What are the two sides of politics? I am diametrically opposed to politics.

[@psalmsreader7997]

Tesla was a true scientist IMHO. Politics, business and exploitation are fast friends.

[@yadigjamesgang-xs7jj]

Spoken like a true College Dean.

[@staceykeeley4219]

Lennon was not a horrible person! No more or less than anyone else anyway. In fact he was better than most as he always acknowledged his failings! He was always brutally honest about himself whether that be good or bad. He would even exaggerate his 'bad' side as in calling himself a 'hitter'. Cynthia said he only hit her once in a jealous rage and felt so bloody bad about it he never touched her again.

[@PinkyPuff69]

Absolutely. I agree. 🌟

[@moodyrick8503]

Agreed. Perfect people don't exist. Everyone makes mistakes, but the best we can do is to acknowledge the mistake, and endeavour to never repeat it again.

[@bigverybadtom]

He once beat up Stu Sutcliffe, and felt he might have caused Stu's untimely death.

[@davedraycott5779]

I didn’t hear that he changed his behaviour and only hit her in a ‘jealous rage.’ And?

[@owenskeie8030]

Not taking these people in historic context is stupid.

[@markpatterson2507]

Well said

[@JudeNance]

BEHAVIOR REFLECTS PERSONALITY

[@meccacroxton2678]

For all y’all saying “it’s not fair to judge based off today” & “everyone was racist” .... I understand but vehemently disagree. “Right” is right & “wrong” is wrong. Treating a human like a human being just comes naturally for some of us, no matter what generation you were born in. The words are compassion, accountability & justice. Thanks for the video!

[@christopherfisher128]

Except that for a lot of human history, people from different races were not recognized as human, therefore "treating humans like humans" would not apply.

[@meccacroxton2678]

Christopher Fisher which is why you can refer to my comment. Those people were taught that certain humans were not humans. Well it doesn’t take a scientist to disprove that in ANY generation... that people are people. Everyone didn’t believe that certain people were not people, just bc it was the norm. There have always been allies for oppressed groups. So, I said what I said. And good luck unlearning your isms/ists.

[@kevinnelson66]

Marconi, the so-called inventor of the radio should be on this list.

[@maggiemae7539]

Tesla did.

[@russellcampbell9198]

Roald Dahl also flew Spitfires in WWII, risking his life to help defeat the Nazis. His best friend was killed and he went close on a few occasions. I judge people 90% on what they do and 10% on what they say. Oh, and he also helped nurse his wife, Patricia Neal, back to health after her stroke. He also lost a daughter to complications due to measles and championed vaccination against childhood diseases. A lot in his favor in my book.

[@spaceman081447]

P.T. Barnum: $0.50 in 1836 = $14.06 in 2021.

[@leeweisbecker6048]

this is drowning in present-mindedness

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

This is not history at all. Presentism is the direct opposite of history. This video is total trash.

[@cliffgaither]

@@ValleyoftheRogue :: You & your partner up there ( Lee ) have absolutely no comprehension of the basic fact of history :: The Present relates to The Past. The Future will relate to The Present. It's not my idea. It's Historical Cause & Effect.

[@johndelong5574]

Its wonderful that grunge is now enlightened and is able to pass righteous judgement on all people and cultures preceeding them.

[@user-ir3hr2sk2r]

I love these people for everything that made them heroes, but not for the horrible things they did in their personal life

[@nicholasperl1484]

John Lennon was a very flawed man. But was he a horrible one? I wouldn't say so.

[@clydeb7713]

For Old Timers, VERYY IN..TER..ESTINGG!!

[@scottdouglas9238]

But stupid

[@RLC302]

This is a representative republic; not a democracy.

[@roohamm2456]

AGREED! Sadly..

[@dr.science9505]

With the fed a national bank... America is more communist than capitalist or democratic. The fed a national bank redistributes wealth . Mational banks are a plank of communism.

[@PinkyPuff69]

@@dr.science9505 National banks are intrinsically, at their core for profit institutions. Unrestrained capitalism is a better more appropriate label when discussing National Federal Reserve banks. What are you a Trumplicker? Because you sure do sound like one. See you on November 3rd 🌏

[@dr.science9505]

@@PinkyPuff69 The problem is you dumbasses dont understand our gov was created so every part of it was supposed to oppose every other part of it. WE are supposed to oppose it as it is . Us having guns is part of that. The constitutiin also says that gold and silver must be our money meaning able to buy things directly with it legally now it isnt and if it was a central bank would be destroyed because as it prints money everyone would shift back to gold and silver. Any way our gov required us all of us to protest to stop Nixon from taking us off of gold. Now this puppet show going in is to make everyone look away while they force us into a bloclchain digital crypto currency that is not decentrallised. Which will enslave us until God directly breaks these boys down . Youre so damned stupid. I dobt even want to vote at all. Trump has bought 100 million doses of the first gene altering vaccine in history and it hasnt really passed any tests. a light speed vaccine is like drive through surgery...you dont want it. Trump has the military running vaccines. Running a domestic program. That is against the law. The law is posse commitatus. He has said three times he will use the military to FORCEFULLY DISTRIBUTE IT. Biden pretty much just says he is forcing a lockdown and doing vaccines and taking guns . Vaccines that keep making 80 percent have extreme pain. Doesnt sound like a pass to me.

[@jamesl9371]

Democracy means the people elect the government. The USA is heading to dictatorship

[@kirpalite]

Good work, but the music is loud and distracting.