Osama bin Laden, George W Bush and Hitler: The biggest villains in history

[galdur]

May 20, 2015 17:10 BST

Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and George W Bush have been found to be among the top 10 biggest villains of history, a global study polling almost 7,000 students has found.

While Hitler was the biggest villain, Albert Einstein was rated as most heroic. The full list can be seen at the end of this article.

The students, from 37 countries including Argentina, Pakistan, South Korea, Italy, and the US, were asked to evaluate 40 figures and significant events throughout world history.

Published in the journal PLOS One, findings show these historical figures help to create a base for building moral lessons.

Darío Páez, UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, said: "This study is linked to a previous piece of work carried out in 30 countries and in which young adults were asked to name the most important figures and events in world history.

"After that, we got together a group of figures and events gathered by all cultures, although with a reduced presence of facts and personalities from Arab and African cultures, as there were fewer surveys from these cultural areas." .... more

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/osama-bin-laden-george-w-bush-hitler-biggest-villains-history-1502228

[Spendulus]

May 20, 2015 17:10 BST

Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and George W Bush have been found to be among the top 10 biggest villains of history, a global study polling almost 7,000 students has found.

While Hitler was the biggest villain, Albert Einstein was rated as most heroic. The full list can be seen at the end of this article.

The students, from 37 countries including Argentina, Pakistan, South Korea, Italy, and the US, were asked to evaluate 40 figures and significant events throughout world history....

LOL, Praise be to historical revisionism.

First, radical leftists and international power moguls spend boatloads of money to demonize Bush Jr., part of their scheme to put pussy Obama in office.

Second, poll people and find that Bush. Jr. was a demon.

Brilliant!

[galdur]

Well, I´m kinda disappointed to not find Billy Bob Clinton on that list somewhere. Guess all those terriers were busy hatching their evil plots in Langley, VA and elsewhere during his tenure.

[maku]

I would put Stalin and Mao a bit closer to Hitler but other then that the list is what you can expect. Also Einstein is at top which is a bit of surprise, he was no villain but he helped construct nuclear bomb and was a genus but he was no leader like Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela.

[Snail2]

What the hell Bill Gates doing in the middle zone? He's worse than Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Bush together... These dictators killed a couple of millions of ppl, but his bloody Windows and his f**kin Excel macros caused misery, suffering, (BSO)death and destruction for billions of ppl across the world.

[galdur]

Let me see...Here´s the rest of that news story


The students were asked to rate on a scale from one to seven how positive or negative the events and historical figures were. Findings showed a clear consensus about what the negative events were, but results were not as clear when it came to the villains themselves.

"There is greater disparity of opinion about the villains," the authors said. "The same figure may be very negatively rated in one country, or not very negatively or even very positively in another part of the world. That would be the case of Osama bin Laden, for example".

The study also showed that people tend to evaluate heroes positively, but do not completely vilify the villains. Páez explained: "They are those people defined as political, Machiavellian or pragmatic realists and when one considers that Hitler, Stalin or Saddam Hussein wielded power at some moment, these individuals don't have to be rated negatively because they were successful in their struggle for power. This 'Confucian' view emerges strongly in Asian countries.

"Above all, this variability is shown in the 'villains' because there is a certain cultural consensus on the 'heroes' suggested in this study; most of them agree that Einstein and Mandela are heroes. For example, the view of Osama bin Laden is more positive in Arab culture, and that of George W. Bush is much more negative and, conversely, if one takes American culture into consideration."

Concluding, the authors say the study suggests there is a clear consensus on the world's heroes, but the same is not so true for history's villains. There was greater variability between cultures, with the finding especially poignant for more recent baddies.

"The heroes are clearly scientists, discoverers and people who fought for liberties and progress. By contrast, the differentiation among the villains is much greater," Páez said. "Even if in almost all cultures the top villain, the worst rated, is Hitler, there is variability in some cultures in which he is evaluated less negatively."

[Krang]

Ha what a joke. Osama Bin Laden can't even get close to Hitler and George Bush on the terrorist level. Some of the other's are funny too. Columbus was a maniac and didn't discover America but that's whitewashing for you http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/dominicselwood/100283798/columbus-greed-slavery-and-genocide-what-really-happened-to-the-american-indians/

[BRE]

I think Stalin should be number 1 on the list, Stalin ordered purges within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an enemy of the state. In total, estimates of the total number murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.

[Krang]

I think Stalin should be number 1 on the list, Stalin ordered purges within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an enemy of the state. In total, estimates of the total number murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.

This is a list compiled of answers from the general public so of course they'll go with the defacto worlds biggest baddy Adolf Hitler regardless of the facts of how many people were executed. Didn't Mao kill more than both Stalin and Hitler any way?

[erikalui]

What is Jesus Christ, Muhammed and a Pope doing in such a list? Where the above have been known for their good work, they are being listed with criminals and terrorists? It doesn't make sense for their names to be added as well.

[Krang]

What is Jesus Christ, Muhammed and a Pope doing in such a list? Where the above have been known for their good work, they are being listed with criminals and terrorists? It doesn't make sense for their names to be added as well.

The top end of the list are the most Heroic with the villains at the bottom. However, Mohammed seems to be in the middle but some people would count him as a terrorist whereas Most Muslims wont.

[Wilikon]

May 20, 2015 17:10 BST

Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and George W Bush have been found to be among the top 10 biggest villains of history, a global study polling almost 7,000 students has found.

While Hitler was the biggest villain, Albert Einstein was rated as most heroic. The full list can be seen at the end of this article.

The students, from 37 countries including Argentina, Pakistan, South Korea, Italy, and the US, were asked to evaluate 40 figures and significant events throughout world history.

Published in the journal PLOS One, findings show these historical figures help to create a base for building moral lessons.

Darío Páez, UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, said: "This study is linked to a previous piece of work carried out in 30 countries and in which young adults were asked to name the most important figures and events in world history.

"After that, we got together a group of figures and events gathered by all cultures, although with a reduced presence of facts and personalities from Arab and African cultures, as there were fewer surveys from these cultural areas." .... more

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/osama-bin-laden-george-w-bush-hitler-biggest-villains-history-1502228

No love for Pol Pot? Nah... I forgot how bad the liberal education system is... They don't even know that name...

 

[erikalui]

What is Jesus Christ, Muhammed and a Pope doing in such a list? Where the above have been known for their good work, they are being listed with criminals and terrorists? It doesn't make sense for their names to be added as well.

The top end of the list are the most Heroic with the villains at the bottom. However, Mohammed seems to be in the middle but some people would count him as a terrorist whereas Most Muslims wont.

Muhammed is their God and hence they wouldn't believe that he is a villain. I wonder why George Bush is considered a criminal/terrorist. Haven't heard anything as such in the news.

[newflesh]

No love for Pol Pot? Nah... I forgot how bad the liberal education system is... They don't even know that name...

 

Come on Willy, thought you'd have known that Reagan armed and diplomatically supported Pol Pot

''We are profoundly disturbed that for the third year the United States voted to keep Pol Pot's Democratic Kampuchea in the United Nations.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html

[Wilikon]

What is Jesus Christ, Muhammed and a Pope doing in such a list? Where the above have been known for their good work, they are being listed with criminals and terrorists? It doesn't make sense for their names to be added as well.

The top end of the list are the most Heroic with the villains at the bottom. However, Mohammed seems to be in the middle but some people would count him as a terrorist whereas Most Muslims wont.

Muhammed is their God and hence they wouldn't believe that he is a villain. I wonder why George Bush is considered a criminal/terrorist. Haven't heard anything as such in the news.

Brain washing.

[Chef Ramsay]

Having Fox News bring this list up w/ their usual panels of fake journalist/propagandists spouting their usual praise of the Bush and co would make for great television. Just watching them freak out in disbelief that Bush would be anywhere near Bin Laden would be amazing.

[galdur]

GEORGE W. BUSH'S JOURNEY A Boy From Midland

A Philosophy With Roots in Conservative Texas Soil


By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

MIDLAND, Tex. -- The fourth-grade classroom erupted in titters as George W. Bush, one of the class clowns, faced his friends. He had quietly used an ink pen to draw a beard and long sideburns on his cheeks.

The teacher, Frances Childress, grabbed George by the arm, yanked him out of class and marched him down the long outside corridor to the principal's office near the main entrance to Sam Houston Elementary School.

"Just look at him," the principal, John Bizilo, recalls Mrs. Childress telling him. "He's been making a disturbance in class."

The next step was pretty obvious for anyone in the 1950's version of the West Texas oil town of Midland: Mr. Bizilo told George to bend over and then reached for his paddle, the thickness of a Ping-Pong paddle but narrower and twice as long. Mr. Bizilo gave George three "licks," and the boy's shrieks filled the office.

"When I hit him, he cried," Mr. Bizilo remembered the other day. "Oh, did he cry! He yelled as if he'd been shot. But he learned his lesson."

So he did. ... much more

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/052100wh-gop-bush-bio.html


Neal, Marvin, George and Jeb in 1958.

[newflesh]

I wonder why George Bush is considered a criminal/terrorist. Haven't heard anything as such in the news.

He's a war criminal who illegally invaded Iraq (with falsified intelligence) and is responsible the deaths of over 1.2 million Iraqi civilians. In my books that pretty much makes him a bad guy. You're either with us or against us

[legendster]

Dont forget Mao Zhe Dong & Kim jong un

[romano1]

well i think this is complete list and Laden really was the biggest villain.