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Pick the Next Extra History Series! "Worst Dads in History"
🕑 Added 2024-11-16 18:30:01 +0000 UTC
It's time for our Extra History poll! Where you get to vote on what our next "Worst Dads in History Short" is about!
These four topics were selected from our "Shorts Topic" Patreon Suggestions and are listed in no particular order below.
Joseph Kennedy
After railroading his sons into a career in politics, he tarnished their name by preaching Nazi appeasement—then their sister lobotomized to "cure" her depression and prevent her "embarrassing" the family.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Though much of his philosophical writing centered around theories of child rearing and the benefits of family, he pressured his lover to give all of their children to an orphanage.
J. Paul Getty, Sr.
So you're one of the richest oilmen in the world and your son tells you that your grandson (and namesake) has been kidnapped. Do you pay up when the kidnappers send his severed ear, or do you negotiate to bring the asking price down?
Frederick II
Locked his rebellious son up for years, possibly gave him leprosy, until he was "accidentally" killed during a prison transfer.
Our Current Schedule is:
The Pazzi Conspiracy - Starting 12/07 -> The Unholy Roman Emperor Frederick II vs. The Papacy -> History of Cats: Fabulous Felines!
***Friendly reminder: The poll will end at 11:59 PM PT on Saturday the 23rd. You can vote for as many choices as you want! This style of voting helps us see what people are most interested in without having to make tough decisions between a couple of close favorites. ***
Comments
Martin Verran
The Kennedys have been in the news too many times for me not to want to learn more about their backstory. Let's just say JFK probably wouldn't be pleased by the direction his descendants have lurched in, were he still alive.
Joshua Evans-Lowell
Since the Kennedy legacy is - unfortunately- in the news again
Martin Verran
Humans are a species of animal. It's just we're the only species of animal consciously aware of our actions.
Jacob White
Sadly you're historically correct, and we are seeing it once again from one donald trump who repeated the rhetoric from Adolf Hitler on his views towards those of the Jewish faith. When you verbally turn another group of people into animals or as Hitler put it "Vermin" then it becomes easier to abuse them. Easier to betray them for your own evil intentions, and last, easier to murder them on an industrial scale not seen since the death camps in the 1940's. Worst of all, it is this faith that has historically been the world's scapegoats. From kings to dictators they've commonly put the Jewish faith as their reasoning for being targeted. Why? because they've so often been associated with bankers, with extreme wealth, and so too as the puppetmasters of corruption. It's heartbreaking that this is commonplace with humans Chromic, because we as a species are either leaders or followers, and too many people want to be led. They want to be told who is the enemy, who they are supposed to hate, supposed to fear, supposed to like. Ironically making the term "Sheeple" accurate. This is no fault of their own of course, but every man or woman is responsible for their own actions and thoughts. But if one turns to the fossil record, it has proven time and again that Human's closest relatives are indeed primates, this was even proven by Jane Goodall's decades spent among gorillas and other primates. She witnessed behaviors that were up to then, thought only found in us Humans, but these were behaviors that were learned over the countless generations. We are indeed animals, humans are mammals, there is so much more that I could say, I think Extra Credits would have a lot to go over if they did a series on Miss Goodall.
chromicacid
True. I'm put out when someone treats another another human as nothing more than an instinct driven pest with worth. Unfortunately humans have a long record of doing exactly this.
Bone-Head
Joseph Kennedy is very much the Worst Dad In History!!!
Jetstream
I mean, objectively speaking we *are* animals.
chromicacid
I don't like any of these topics. I was hoping that the title "animal instincts" might refer to animals with such aura that they made history (Casual Geographic recently did a video on this and I was in the mood for older stories), but nope, we're talking humans. Humans as animals is disturbing. But this is history, so we gotta take the bad too. I'll vote.
