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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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?
@@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.
@@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"
Wow, you really went there on a few of those. I pointed out the Elvis thing once in another RU-vid channel and you would have thought I shot everyone's dog with the vitriol I got for it!
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
@@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.
The USA was at war with Japan. They attacked pearl harbor killing thousands. Did you expect people would be nice to the Japanese? Lol virtue signaling at its best.
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.
@@zantsmith4257 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.
@@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*
@@zantsmith4257 Nope. Much like his best bud Edison, Ford had good PR. Among the automotive manufacturers, Ransom Olds (Oldsmobile, naturally) beat Ford by a decade.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@zantsmith4257 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 🤡
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.
Technically Woodrow Wilson served as president from 1913 - 1919 at which point he suffered a serious stroke. After that he most likely did not fully perform the duties of president. Who actually did is anyone's guess, though many have suggested that it was his wife, Edith. I was not there, am not a doctor, and can only repeat what I have heard, feel free to share what you have heard as well.
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.
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.
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!
@@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.
My son had me dig my old comics out last night. Ran into my Fat Albert and the Cosby kids comic "Buzzy's Rebound" given to students when a motivational speaker came to talk to us about drugs and alcohol at school. Not taking digs at Bill Cosby, he did more good than 2023 will give him credit for. 100% on par for US department of Health and Human Services to put their name on it
people have a hard time thinking outside of their 1 dimensional boxes. at least, on the internet they seem to, becuase when I go out in public < country > people are sane 95% of the time.
@@catherinerivers7883 Somewhat true but the spotlight chasing culture of today and the ease of accessibility to broadcast oneself sort of conflicts that statement. Just examples of different times. I miss the old days of positive taking precidence. Does more good and showed
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.
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.
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.
