10 Geniuses Who Were Shockingly Horrible People

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top ten geniuses who were shockingly horrible people number ten bobby fisher' the name bobby fischer is synonymous with genius mainly because he kicked so much ass at chess he brought it back into the mainstream people who'd never played a game in their life were enthralled by this chess wizard as he stomped all over Russian grandmasters like there were cockroaches made of eggshells his influence on the world of chess was so great that his match with Russian master Boris Spassky was front-page news following his victory the entire US was taken by what is now colloquially referred to as the Fischer boom which saw chess receive unprecedented amounts of media attention filled of awfulness and he America anti-semitism despite the fact that Fischer quickly became a media darling following his victory in 1972 and many thousands of Americans cheered his name Fischer's stance on America was anything but kind claiming that he hated the country he once called home Fischer was quoted as saying about 9/11 I applaud the act and within minutes of the same breath fuck the US I want to see the u.s. wiped out it was also a raging anti-semite to the point that even his most diehard supporters found him repugnant but boy was that a good chess game hey guys number nine Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf is a name that will likely always be remembered one because it's awesome too because she made some of the greatest contributions to the literary arts in recent history basically if you haven't read one of her books chances are you've at least heard of them making her more famous than 99% of writers ever filled of awfulness intellectual superiority and elitism today her books are studied and read by millions of children but unless those kids have a trust fund Woolf would have hated the thought of them reading her work you see Woolf was a staunch supporter of the leisure class in other words people with enough money not to work and was quoted as saying that reading and learning should be exclusive to them yes Woolf felt that learning and reading was a special gift that belonged to rich people she took class snobbishness a step further in her own home when her diaries were made public people combing through them noticed a rather unsettling trend wolf loved talking smack about her servants in a private Diaries she expressed everything from disgust to pity at the people who literally cleaned up after her mess she felt they deserved more but also believed they'd never be able to enjoy life on a steeper level as she did wolf eventually took to giving all her servants orders via notes should leave around the house and when her orders weren't followed should note in her diary that the sonne proved the inherent stupidity of the working class you know instead of saying something to their faces like an actual human being would number eight Richard Dawkins Dawkins is the guy who came up with the theory of social memes in his book The Selfish Gene way back in 1976 the book was an instant classic and distill considered by many as required reading for anyone interested in evolutionary biology or social theory however despite this Dawkins is mostly known today as the author of The God Delusion which is a shame instead of being known as the guy who developed a massively important theory which helps explain cultural evolution and why we as humans act the way we do he's known as the guy who wrote the book on being a turd online field of awfulness being a turd online Dawkins has a reputation for being a very active and avid user of the Internet however rather than uses many years of scientific experience and his deep knowledge of human and evolutionary biology to educate people he's taken to basically becoming a comment troll for example when Rebecca Watson the founder of the mega popular skeptic blog attended a conference on skepticism random guy cornered her in an elevator and asked her if she'd like to come to his room at four in the morning meaning he likely did not have movies and board games in mind watson firmly told the guy to do one man wrote about the experience online in a nutshell she said that what the guy did was creepy as hell which to be fair it totally was Dawkins for some unknown reason then appeared in the comments section of her site and made a wildly sexist and demeaning comment addressing a fictional Muslim woman called muslima essentially he said that Watson's experience was trivial in comparison to other things that are happening in the world so he had no right to complain about something that made her feel massively uncomfortable yet according to Dawkins you have no right to complain about that's important or personally affect you unless you are literally the single most oppressed person on the planet unless of course you're dawkins and want to act super butthurt about people calling you out on proposing a sliding scale for sexual assault then you can complain all you want because that's way more important than raising awareness about sexism number seven Aristotle Aristotle is one of those names that is just dripping with good vibes as one of the ancient world's most famous philosophers Aristotle's life and work are still studied today thousands of years after he kicked the bucket Aristotle is credited with being the mind behind some of the most enduring philosophical concepts including basic freakin ethics though Socrates beat into the punch Aristotle expanded upon the concept and encouraged people to be good to one another field of awfulness sexism unless that person was a woman Aristotle's views on the fairer sex are so expensive that they get their own Wikipedia page he basically asserted that women should be subservient to men to the point where they shouldn't even be allowed to eat as much food he also claimed that women were basically incomplete men and thus inferior so what right that was 2,000 years ago surely everyone was like that back then except they weren't for example Spartan women from the same time period were treated with a relative amount of respect Queen Gorgo of Sparta famously responded to one person asking why Spartan women could rule men with the frankly badass line because only Spartan women produce men yes she actually said that it wasn't just put into the film 300 for effect Spartan women with that awesome and Aristotle was that pigheaded number six Isaac Newton Isaac Newton has made a bigger impact on science and physics than just about anybody and will go down in history as the guy who pretty much came up with the theory of gravity field of awfulness endless feuding and grudge bearing throughout most of his adult life Isaac Newton had an ongoing feud with one Robert Hooke some of you may recognize that name but the majority of you won't and that has a lot to do with Newton Hooke theorized the existence of gravity before Newton did the only problem was that he wasn't smart enough to calculate the exact math behind it when Newton published príncipe min which shared his famous gravitational law hook pointed out that he should have gotten some of the credit Newton disagreed since although Hooke had formulated and hypothesized gravity's existence he sucked eggs at the math impart and therefore wasn't allowed in Newton's book because Newton was more famous than Hooke he supposedly used his influence to suppress Hookes work until after his death Newton took to outright slandering Hooke calling him an idiot in open letters in fact Newton's famous standing on the shoulders of giants quote was a direct insult to hook in reference to the fact Cooke was simply observing something much greater than himself it's even suggested that Newton destroyed the only known portrait of her cow after his death because that is how you make a statement today Newton lives on as one of the most famous minds in scientific history whereas hook is just a footnote in a scientific text book number 5 Thomas Edison though Thomas Edison's reputation has suffered a slight knock in recent years due to the fact that Tesla has become the patron saint of the Internet he still regarded as one of the foremost inventors in history field of awfulness killing animals during the so-called war of currents Thomas Edison had an ongoing feud with the aforementioned Tesla over which form of electricity was superior Edison's DC current or Tesla's AC the obvious answer was AC currents based on Tesla's designs because it was invented by the much more handsome scientist also it was like wicked efficient or something not wanting to be proven wrong and determined to keep America shackled by the stupidly inferior DC system Edison tried to prove to America that AC current was dangerous by murdering puppies with it yes when faced with the fact that someone had invented a much much better system for providing electricity than his own Edison committed puppy side as a retort when proving that you're smarter involves animal murder you're not an inventor you're a serial killer entraining number 4 Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla is hugely famous online and within pop culture though in his lifetime his contributions to science and technology were largely overlooked today he is widely regarded as one of the best minds science has ever known field of awfulness eugenics eugenics for those of you too lazy to open a new tab on Wikipedia is the art of selective breeding on a mass scale it's the act of actively denying people with undesirable traits such as infirmity or stupidity the right to reproduce which supposedly betters the human race you'll notice that this is a terrible horrible idea if only because if it happened you'll never have gotten reality TV and Tesla loved that idea in his writings Tesla examined the notion that the year 2100 will see eugenics universally established referring to it as important for weeding out undesirable strains of course none of this alters the fact that he was a fantastically gifted mind but it's more than a little disconcerting to realize that this guy fully supported the thought of certain people getting denied the chance to mate especially once you realize he never took a wife or had a kid this is one of the smartest people to have ever lived and he didn't think it was a good idea to have a baby oh hi were this guy standards number three John Lennon peace love and goodwill to all men that's what John Lennon was all about well that and taking enough drugs to cross sniffer dogs to go into early retirement Lennon is effectively the face of the 60s men's by extension the hippie movement and those guys were all about peace so what could Lennon possibly have done wrong field of awfulness hitting women Lennon was the Chris Brown of his day that's not making a cheap joke that's the direct comparison that has been made about him Lennon opened the admitted that he used to beat the living crap out of women in an interview with Playboy magazine magazine literally dedicated to appreciating the awesomeness of womankind albeit the naked variety women beater or not you have to admire his sense of irony the kicker of this is that very few people knew this about Lennon whereas Chris Brown has become a walking joke and has his domestic violence charges listed very clearly on his Wikipedia page not a single mention is made of John Lennon's similar abuse despite him being massively more famous and influential than Chris Brown will ever be and when it is mentioned his fans are so quick to defend his actions that they almost break through time and land on the receiving end of one of his punches personally number two James Cameron if you're about to complain that we're putting James Kameron on the same list as Isaac Newton just remember that this guy won 11 Oscars for a film everyone already knew the ending to and convinced people to pay $15 to see dancers with blue aliens if that's not genius we don't know what is field of awfulness ego cameron's ego is legendary in the film industry but the guy made Titanic so surely he deserves to be a little proud of himself right sure he does we'd never begrudge him for being proud of his work we will however The Grudge him for yelling at actresses until they cry and nailing people's phones to a wall which are all things he has done in the past but to truly see how much of a douche Cameron is you only have to read this quote he once said to Linda Hamilton his wife at the time anybody can be a father or a husband there are only five people in this world who do what I can do and I'm going for that come on Cameron yes Titanic was good but it wasn't good enough to get away with saying that to your wife it's not like you're right star wars number one Henry Ford yeah this guy made cars and revolutionized how they were manufactured and yeah you've probably heard that he was a raging anti-semite however the extent he went to express this notion will likely surprise you field of awfulness inspiring Hitler yes that Hitler though Ford's anti-semitic views are well known few realise just how far they went Hitler was quoted as saying that he was directly inspired by Ford even hanging a portrait of Ford in his office one of the most evil reviled men in history hung a picture of Henry Ford on his wall he was also the only American Hitler referred to by name in mine camp talk about an honour we could go on but honestly how the hell could we top inspiring Hitler we don't even think Satan has the files in his office to classify something that awful if you enjoyed this video be sure to subscribe to our channel by clicking the subscribe button in the top right our channel has loads of other awesome videos just like this

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Published: Fri Jul 18 2014

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