Cyrus The Great was always great all the time and he definitely didn’t die arrogant and foolish at the hand of a Scythian queen. Herodotus is a liar!
ILikeMandalorians on
Thankfully all my favourite historical figures are glorious and unimpeachable and never did anything wrong 😌
ruin on
To be slander, it must be false, surely?
Strong-Expression787 on
Me as an adult revisiting my old hero, all turns out to be doing a religion based ethnic cleansing : 👁👁
SarcasticTacos on
My boi Wojtek is perfect and never did anything wrong
PatchyWhiskers on
All your heroes have feet of clay
jervoise on
Hey, Tadeusz Kosciusko can be slandered for failing, but at least he didn’t do nearly as much isms as most other historical figures from his time period.
QuandaleTickleTipson on
Napoleon III
Nanohaystack on
Slander is by definition false. If it’s true, it’s called “exposed”.
tobiascuypers on
Me putting up with all the Cromwell slander
DrHolmes52 on
Reading up on historical figures usually ends up being “Hey, that was really cool” followed by “Dude, Ewwww”
Princeps_primus96 on
Jokes on you my historical hero is EA Nasir, the slander just makes his story better!
vaporwaverock on
Me when someone brings up General Order No. 11 when we’re talking about grant
escudonbk on
George S Patton was a racist lunatic but he was OUR racist lunatic goddamnit
manborg on
Jefferson is that you?
Brot_ist_tot on
I just think Rommel is an interesting historical figure
kheller181 on
“I love Christopher Columbus, I don’t give af.”
“He had babies heads smashed in with rocks.”
“Well. Uh. Columbus day gets us outta school….”
EmiliusReturns on
I remember tumblr’s “your fave is problematic” phase and I’m like “amateurs. We history buffs have been fully aware of how problematic our historical faves are for years.”
It’s more difficult to find historical figures who aren’t problematic, tbh.
Even my boy Honest Abe did some questionable shit.
OnePsychology528 on
Benedict Arnold
ManOfManliness84 on
I had a Christopher Columbus phase in elementary school
Jedi-master-dragon on
At least my favorite historical figure has very few bad things to say about him. It’s Teddy Roosevelt by the way. Dude found the thieves who stole his boat and instead of taking the normal way out (for the time and place) and shoot them, he dragged them all the way to the closest town with a judge to have them properly prosecuted. This was in the middle of the frontier in ass-fuck nowhere and it was MILES and MILES of trekking through the wilderness. That’s how dedicated to justice Teddy was.
Deadlydeerman on
Uh… (tries not to look at Caesar’s war crimes.)
BonzoTheBoss on
Winston Churchill.
Hero of the UK, the right man for the job at the time to lead the country during WWII, but undoubtedly a massive racist, even judged by the standards of when he lived.
That said, I do NOT agree (as commonly seems to be asserted whenever the topic arises, which is surprisingly often on Reddit…) that he was personally responsible for the Bengal Famine.
NoahIzToLazyToPozt on
George Washington Owned Slaves ☹️
milli_from_bahia on
The knights from the first crusade did nothing wrong! (Except from killing Jerusalem population)
DagothWasRight on
Learning that WEB Dubois was the wettest blanket about jazz made me wonder if its a universal constant that warriors for equality be a little annoying.
ExOrderDysprosium on
My boy Maximilian Robespierre. Called The Incorruptable, until he turned out to be…pretty corrupt :/
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richard the lionheart unfortunately.
Soooo many pedophiles
napoleon
Cyrus The Great was always great all the time and he definitely didn’t die arrogant and foolish at the hand of a Scythian queen. Herodotus is a liar!
Thankfully all my favourite historical figures are glorious and unimpeachable and never did anything wrong 😌
To be slander, it must be false, surely?
Me as an adult revisiting my old hero, all turns out to be doing a religion based ethnic cleansing : 👁👁
My boi Wojtek is perfect and never did anything wrong
All your heroes have feet of clay
Hey, Tadeusz Kosciusko can be slandered for failing, but at least he didn’t do nearly as much isms as most other historical figures from his time period.
Napoleon III
Slander is by definition false. If it’s true, it’s called “exposed”.
Me putting up with all the Cromwell slander
Reading up on historical figures usually ends up being “Hey, that was really cool” followed by “Dude, Ewwww”
Jokes on you my historical hero is EA Nasir, the slander just makes his story better!
Me when someone brings up General Order No. 11 when we’re talking about grant
George S Patton was a racist lunatic but he was OUR racist lunatic goddamnit
Jefferson is that you?
I just think Rommel is an interesting historical figure
“I love Christopher Columbus, I don’t give af.”
“He had babies heads smashed in with rocks.”
“Well. Uh. Columbus day gets us outta school….”
I remember tumblr’s “your fave is problematic” phase and I’m like “amateurs. We history buffs have been fully aware of how problematic our historical faves are for years.”
It’s more difficult to find historical figures who aren’t problematic, tbh.
Even my boy Honest Abe did some questionable shit.
Benedict Arnold
I had a Christopher Columbus phase in elementary school
At least my favorite historical figure has very few bad things to say about him. It’s Teddy Roosevelt by the way. Dude found the thieves who stole his boat and instead of taking the normal way out (for the time and place) and shoot them, he dragged them all the way to the closest town with a judge to have them properly prosecuted. This was in the middle of the frontier in ass-fuck nowhere and it was MILES and MILES of trekking through the wilderness. That’s how dedicated to justice Teddy was.
Uh… (tries not to look at Caesar’s war crimes.)
Winston Churchill.
Hero of the UK, the right man for the job at the time to lead the country during WWII, but undoubtedly a massive racist, even judged by the standards of when he lived.
That said, I do NOT agree (as commonly seems to be asserted whenever the topic arises, which is surprisingly often on Reddit…) that he was personally responsible for the Bengal Famine.
George Washington Owned Slaves ☹️
The knights from the first crusade did nothing wrong! (Except from killing Jerusalem population)
Learning that WEB Dubois was the wettest blanket about jazz made me wonder if its a universal constant that warriors for equality be a little annoying.
My boy Maximilian Robespierre. Called The Incorruptable, until he turned out to be…pretty corrupt :/