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What are some widely praised historic people who are famous for

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What are some widely praised historic people who are famous for some good thing, but also held opinions/did things that are today considered strongly politically incorrect on the side?

Richard Wagner (composer) for example was a strong antisemite, and John Ruskin (social thinker, art critic) was a pedophile.
Sartre and Beauvoir also did some morally questionable lewd things, like coercing and manipulating underaged students to sleep with Sartre and then laughed behind their backs.
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Gas the sandniggers
also
> I´m pretty satisfied with my views on India and I don´t need them disturbed by no bloody indian
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>>1379237
Probably everyone. This is why judging every detail of the lives of past figures by modern moral standards is idiotic
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>>1379247
>Probably everyone.
Darwin seemed like a descent fellow. Change everyone with the majority and I agree.

Voltaire stands out for me since he supposedly preached values while at the same time saying racist stuff that contradicted those. Please correct me if wrong, don't wanna check if true.
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>>1379264
I guess it's hard to say. We don't have diaries for everyone, and we don't know what their private lives were like. Odds are practically all men (and the vast majority of women, too) were extremely sexist by today's standards. Racism, like you said, was pretty prevalent too, even if it was of a benevolent variety.

For example, Bartolome de las Casas is generally considered a good guy for reporting on the extermination of the native Caribbeans, but his understanding of the Caribbean natives is that they were "God's people" because he thought they were extremely weak. I don't think this would be an okay opinion to have today, so even nice opinions could be extremely patronizing by modern standards.
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>>1379305
>For example, Bartolome de las Casas is generally considered a good guy for reporting on the extermination of the native Caribbeans

Wasn't his solution 'replace them with black people lol nobody cares about them'?
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>>1379237
considering Germany's behaviour this guy
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Well, the ancient Greeks liked to fuck twinks and thought it just to keep slaves....
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>>1379330
>Well, the ancient Greeks liked to fuck twinks

Well who doesn't?
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>>1379334
weren't the twinks back then clearly under the modern day standards of consenting age, though?
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>>1379334
>tfw you will never be a Greek/Roman aristocrat and spend all your days having dinner parties and fucking twinks and qt puellae with hairy cooches
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