A Few Unpleasant and Distasteful Historical Facts

"Good" ole Abe was a total racist and bigot.



America loves to lionize this man as a kind hearted liberator, who felt sympathetic to the plight of black slaves, who, out of a labor of love, set them free and bestowed human rights upon their unfortunate souls. It's a general (preconceived) notion that he took the Southern Confederacy down so he could get rid of the morally pressing issue of slavery.



Welp, I gotta call bullshit on that! He didn't give a damn about black people, in fact he despised them and only abolished slavery for political gain and to keep the union together. Abe was behind the Emancipation Proclamation, which got rid of slavery in only 10 states. The 13th amendment was passed AFTER his death by Congress. Here are some shocking and troubling racist words he uttered:

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.

And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.

I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”



White supremacy, much? You see, he's more of a myth than a man, we all have a fantasy image of him where he's without fault and respectable in every way, but it's just not so. Abe shouldn't be held in such a high regard and it shouldn't be taught to schoolchildren that he was a perfect picture of decency and brilliance. Also, Steven Spielberg shouldn't churn out movies that glorify him and only magnify his likable and positive qualities, because it's really just a bunch of dirty, lying drivel.

The founder of the Ford automobile company was a Nazi sympathizing Anti-Semite.



Henry wasn't just a greedy union buster who underpaid his employees and hired black workers so he could pay them less, he also hated Jews with a fiery passion and advocated violence against them. He believed in bizarre Zionist conspiracy theories and wrote racist booklets called "The International Jew," that were distributed later in Nazi Germany. He blamed Jews for communism in Russia and everywhere around the world. According to him, Jews were nothing but trouble:

“What of the Melting Pot? The problem is not ... with the pot so much as it is the base metal. Some metals cannot be assimilated, refuse to mix with the molten mass of the citizenship, but remain ugly, indissoluble lumps. How did this base metal get in? ... what about those aliens who have given us so much trouble, these Bolsheviki messing up our industries and disturbing our civil life.”

"The international financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the International Jew -- German Jews, French Jews, English Jews, American Jews. I believe that in all these countries except our own the Jewish financier is supreme... Here, the Jew is a threat."



Adolf Hitler admired Henry's racism and claimed that he was his "inspiration" and "idol." Hitler kept a life size portrait of Henry next to his desk, and even awarded him the The Grand Cross of the Eagle, which was the highest honor Nazi Germany could bestow upon a foreigner. Even after the war and Holocaust were over and Hitler's atrocities in Concentration Camps came to light, Henry refused to return the medal.



So you see, I don't really think I'd ever wanna buy a Ford car after knowing the disturbing history of it's company. Not only do they sell faulty and defective products, their founder was a total sicko who is the subject of idolatry just because he made innovative cars. That's no reason to turn a blind eye to such bigotry. But then again, if everyone stopped buying Ford cars because they used to love and support Nazis, then we'd also have to boycott Kodak, Volkswagen, IBM, Hugo Boss, Bayer, Siemens, Fanta, Standard Oil, Chase Bank and Random House Publishing. It's a crazy, fucked up world, innit?

The electricity man was a strong believer in eugenics AKA ethnic cleansing and wanted to "eliminate undesirables."



Primarily famous for furthering the research of Alternating Currents as well as experimenting with X Rays and radio signals, Tesla is widely renown and respected amongst the scientific community for his important contributions. He's one of the most influential scientists of all time for his incredible revelations and discoveries about electricity and currents.

But he was really into the fad of his era, a ridiculous biological hypothesis that claimed that people should breed selectively and cast out "inferior" human beings and sterilize them. Being a man of science and having mental illness himself (which would make him undesirable and unfit for breeding too, according to what he believed in), he should've known much better. Instead Tesla advocated breeding a pure gene pool and getting rid of the mentally unwell, the handicapped and the criminally insane by forced sterilization (compulsory vasectomies, tubal ligations, castrations, hysterectomies and abortions).



"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."

While his scientific contributions are no doubt revolutionary, Tesla was a despicable person who believed strongly in Hitlerian ideals. It is also sad to note though that Winston Churchill, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt and George Bernard Shaw felt the same way too, though not as extreme.

Napoleon was a sexist chauvinist pig.



This brave (and rather petite) little piece of escargot is known as one of the best military commanders of all time. He rose to fame during the French Revolution of the late 1700s by leading intrepid revolts and sieges against an oppressive authoritarian regime of imperial pricks.

By the time it was all over in 1799, Napoleon was the emperor of France. While ruling the country, he was challenged by many other coalitions but (almost) always came out on top, with skillful cunning and tact. But what we don't know about this flashy war hero is that he had offensively sexist ideas in his pompous skull, to quote his lips:

"Public education does not suit women, as they are not called to live in public...marriage is their whole estimation."

"Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property, we are not theirs. They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener. Women are nothing but machines for producing children."



And you can go on ahead and try and be an apologist for the things ole Napoli said, claim that it was just the time period or era, but it shows a clear lack of respect on his part. I don't think any sane woman would ever admire him ever again after hearing all the smack he talked about our not-so-fair gender, after knowing about all the misogyny, contempt and resentment he held within him.

Plus, LOOK WHO'S TALKING DUDE...WTF was with your fashion choices? Napoleon, you twat, you!

John Lennon was a hypocritical piece of trash.



Hey, I like The Beatles as much as everyone else, but I'd say Paul McCartney was the diamond in the tiara. And you see, this trippy dippy hippie who spouted ridiculous slogans about "peace" and "love" and other garbage beat up his wife and abused his son Julian. The clueless dumbass didn't even bother to practice all the crap he so vivaciously preached.



Read it with your own eyes. The man was a talented musician, I'll heartily admit, but why is he praised to the skies and showered with admiration when he behaved in such repugnant ways? This guy should not be loved so fervently and be called a humanitarian and legend when he broke up his own band and lectured nauseating nonsense about harmony and pacifism to mindless followers, even though he was abusive in his own home. It goes to show that all a person has to do is repeat the words "WAR IS BAD" over and over and the public will canonize them as saints.



Yup...I hate how I don't understand DOMESTIC ABUSE!

Mozart had a fetish for poop.



This is a hilarious one, but I'm not even lying. He's one of the greatest composers of our generation (if not, THE greatest). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed masterpieces such as Requiem (which was rendered unfinished by his premature death, and it contains the haunting operatic piece Lacrimosa), Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Rondo Alla Turka, Symphony No. 40, The Marriage of Figaro, Andante, and tons more.

But the man of poetic and heavenly music also possessed an uncanny thing for feces. He sent many of his relatives decidedly vulgar letters with numerous references to scatology in them. Here are some of my personal favorite instances of strange sleaze:



"By the love of my skin, I shit on your nose, so it runs down your chin. "

"I now wish you a good night, shit in your bed with all your might, sleep with peace on your mind, and try to kiss your own behind; I now go off to never-never land and sleep as much as I can stand."

"Oh my ass burns like fire! what on earth is the meaning of this!—maybe muck wants to come out?"

"Now I must relate to you a sad story that happened just this minute. As I am in the middle of my best writing, I hear a noise in the street. I stop writing—get up, go to the window—and—the noise is gone—I sit down again, start writing once more—I have barely written ten words when I hear the noise again—I rise—but as I rise, I can still hear something but very faint—it smells like something burning—wherever I go it stinks, when I look out the window, the smell goes away, when I turn my head back to the room, the smell comes back—finally My Mama says to me: I bet you let one go?—I don't think so, Mama. yes, yes, I'm quite certain, I put it to the test, stick my finger in my ass, then put it to my nose, and—there is the proof! Mama was right!"

"Yesterday, though, we heard the king of farts/ It smelled as sweet as honey tarts/ While it wasn't in the strongest of voice/ It still came on as a powerful noise."



Oh, Wolfgang, you poopy face! As if that wasn't awesome enough, the same man who brought you The Magic Flute wrote a canon in B Flat major called "Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber," which translates to "Lick my ass right well and clean."

"Lick my ass nicely,
lick it nice and clean,
nice and clean, lick my ass.
That's a greasy desire,
nicely buttered,
like the licking of roast meat, my daily activity.
Three will lick more than two,
come on, just try it,
and lick, lick, lick.
Everybody lick their ass for themselves."



That is some otherworldly stuff right there. Anyways, while Mozart's juvenile sense of humor may offend some, I find it funny as hell to think that such a seemingly classy man could come up with such barbaric ruffian wordplay. And I love it!

Jimmy Joyce was a raging pervert.



A pillar in literary history, a proponent of the Modernist writing movement, James Joyce is held in the highest regard by many and all readers. His intricate writing contains ample proof of his genius, and he brought us classics such as Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, Dubliners and Finnegan's Wake. A true marvel of immense writing talent, he was.

But...he also wrote disgusting and graphic letters to his muse-wife Nora Barnacle. Nothing wrong with that, right? Let a man display his eroticism and sexuality in peace, without snide and prude judgements! Um yeah, read em yourself and don't blame me if you turn red and lose your lunch.



Let me sample a preciously filthy few, and beware for super duper mature content to the max:

"To NORA
Dublin 20 December 1909
My sweet naughty girl I got your hot letter tonight and have been trying to picture you frigging your cunt in the closet. How do you do it? Do you stand against the wall with your hand tickling up under your clothes or do you squat down on the hole with your skirts up and your hand hard at work in through the slit of your drawers? Does it give you the horn now to shit? I wonder how you can do it. Do you come in the act of shitting or do you frig yourself off first and then shit? It must be a fearfully lecherous thing to see a girl with her clothes up frigging furiously at her cunt, to see her pretty white drawers pulled open behind and her bum sticking out and a fat brown thing stuck half-way out of her hole. You say you will shit your drawers, dear, and let me fuck you then. I would like to hear you shit them, dear, first and then fuck you. Some night when we are somewhere in the dark and talking dirty and you feel your shite ready to fall put your arms round my neck in shame and shit it down softly. The sound will madden me and when I pull up your dress."



"To NORA
Dublin 8 December 1909
My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also."



You get the point, right? The same man who wrote beautiful words like this...

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.”

“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.”



....Also wrote garbage like this:

"At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if I gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."

LOL, it is what it is, but it's surprising to see such an eloquent, elegant and idyllic writer write shit like THAT! Jim seems to have had a bad case of coprophilia too.

Einstein cheated on his wife (or should I say wives) and treated them like shit.



Perhaps the most iconic of them all, the most beloved and worshipped scientist of all time who developed the Theory of Relativity and the famous energy formula E = mc2. Einstein also contributed a huge lot to Quantum Mechanics, and graciously won a Nobel Prize in Physics. He was a man adored for his easy going nature and cool personality. Or not so cool, depending on how you see it.

Einstein was often difficult and cold hearted in his personal life, and had trouble getting along with his oldest son. Also, he apparently had a way with the ladies and cheated on his wife, fellow scientist Mileva Maric, several times. One of Einstein's main squeezes was Bette Neumann, his secretary and the niece of his close friend. He began banging his first cousin Elsa while he was still married to Mileva. When he realized his 11 year marriage was falling apart, he sent Mileva a loathsome list of demands hoping to "mend" their relationship:



CONDITIONS
1. You will make sure:
that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.
2. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, You will forego:
my sitting at home with you;
my going out or travelling with you.
3. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:
you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;
4. You will stop talking to me if I request it;
you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.
5. You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior.



While Einstein was undoubtedly an impressive human being, his personal problems and infidelity issues are troubling to read about. The incest is bad too, and so is all this.