20 Historical Figures Who Actually Sucked
Throughout our history there have been great people who have truly changed the world. However, some of those same people who were praised have done unforgivable things.
Published 3 years ago in Wtf
Thanks to AskReddit, we've gathered some of worst of the worst.
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Bing Crosby was a terrible person and a horrible father. Nobody really likes to tell people about abuse. It shames a lot of people, especially people from older generations, who were taught to respect their elders, no matter what. I'm sure there's a lot more abuse that went on back then, but the kids just didn't really talk about it. -GhostOfXmasInJuly
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Alfred Kinsey. He is praised by people because he is considered Father of Sexual Education, but is a completely disgusting human being. He would show pornography to young children, and sexually stimulate infants.
His aides abused almost 2,000 children, male and female, by oral and anal sodomy, genital intercourse and manual stimulation. This happened to children as young as 5 months old, and there was even a recorded instance of a 4-year-old brought to orgasm 26 times within a 24 hour period. -pinerider195
Oliver Cromwell. When Drogheda, Ireland was massacred he tried to justify it by saying it was full of rebels, stating, "The righteous judgement of God on these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands with so much innocent blood."
The rebels he was referring to never entered Drogheda at any point. Cromwell is the type of person the word Tyrant is reserved for. -killingjoke968
Hans Asperger. He noticed autism, but he was a member of the Nazi party, and his work on a committee classifying children according to their “usefulness” helped justify euthanizing them. His cooperation with the Nazi party helped advance his career after the war. He wasn’t some hero saving little autistic kids. -Chubby_Subby12
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Dr. Seuss's wife Helen had partial paralysis from Guillain-Barre syndrome, followed by cancer. She suspected he was cheating on her with one her friends (she was right.) After Helen's depression became too much, she ended her own life. Dr. Seuss then married the woman he was cheating with. -DadshipSeries
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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. A very interesting rabbit hole is the wikipedia page for his daughter he had lobotomized. Basically she was a little rebellious in her early '20s so you know, mashing the front of the brain with tools will fix that right? No, it left her with the mental capabilities of a 2-year-old for the rest of her life. -lebrunjemz
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Mother Teresa. Where there's a will, and a massive fortune, there's a way. Some of the people under her care could have recovered with proper medical care, even without opiates to dull the pain. She could afford to fly in luxury to her public appearances and meetings but she couldn't fly in some doctors to treat the sick? -secular_sentientist
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