Historical Villains Who Masqueraded as the 'Good Guys'
Whoever is running these folks' PR teams deserves a raise.
Published 1 year ago in Wow
Think Coco Chanel is an elegant designer? Or that Dr. Seuss is the friendly face behind your favorite childhood books? Think again. Contrary to their beloved public personas, several popular heroes are anything "but," a lesson several Redditors have discovered the hard way.
From Steve Jobs' questionable parenting skills to Chevy Chase's SNL snafu, here are 20 'good guys' who were actually monsters.
1
Mahatma Gandhi
“When Gandhi's wife was stricken with pneumonia, British doctors told her husband that a shot of penicillin would heal her; nevertheless, Gandhi refused to have alien medicine injected into her body, and she died. Soon after, Gandhi caught malaria and, relenting from the standard he applied to his wife, allowed doctors to save his life with quinine. He also allowed British doctors to perform an appendectomy on him, an alien operation if ever there was one. Also he served on the British side in South Africa and earned a medal for valor.”
5
Helen Keller’s Teacher, Annie Sullivan
“Annie Sullivan, AKA Teacher. Despite helping Helen Keller rise above her disabilities, it's well-documented that she often beat Helen (as a means of disciplining her when she was still a "wild" feral child), and colluded with the Kellers in preventing Helen from marrying the man she loved.”
9
Charles Dickens
“Charles Dickens had his wife, the mother of his children, committed to an insane asylum so he could run off with a teenage actress… I have been informed that this wasn't successful, he tried to have the mother of his ten children committed but it didn't work. Which is still quite bad.”
10
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
“He decided that Rosemary (his daughter) who was 23 at the time should have a lobotomy; he did not inform his wife of this decision until after the procedure was completed. And then they sent her away to an institute. In her early young adult years, Rosemary Kennedy experienced seizures and violent mood swings. In response to these issues, her father arranged a prefrontal lobotomy for her in 1941 when she was 23 years of age; the procedure left her permanently incapacitated and rendered her unable to speak intelligibly.”
12
Mother Theresa
“Mother Theresa. Believed suffering brought people closer to god. Her hospices were just places for people to die in agony, but as soon as her own health was at risk she fled to the best European hospitals. She was a hypocrite and caused untold suffering. That could have very easily been avoided with even basic medical intervention.”
17
Pablo Picasso
“Pablo Picasso was an unrelenting b—d to his romantic partners. He once said "for me there are two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats." And his granddaughter described his treatment of the women in his life by saying: "He submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, and crushed them onto his canvas. After he had spent many nights extracting their essence, once they were bled dry, he would dispose of them." And that wasn't hyperbole, two of Picasso's partners suffered nervous breakdowns due to his emotional abuse. Worse yet his lover Marie-Thèrése Walter and his second wife Jacqueline Roque were driven to suicide.”
19
Coco Chanel
“I don't know if she's considered a ‘great person’ but Coco Chanel is held up as a fashion icon and she was a literal N—i. After they took Paris she stayed with N—i commanders in the hotels they took over and built her empire - which still exists - by stealing businesses from her Jewish bosses through the N—i laws that took Jewish owned businesses and distributed them through members of the party.”
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