(10-19-2018, 11:29 AM)Ghost Wrote: I don't know if threads like this are allowed, but this was something I have been thinking about for a while.
Here are the ones I can think of for each generation starting with the Silents:
Silent Generation:
Idi Amin Dada (b. 1925)
Fidel Castro (b. 1925)
Ervil LeBaron (b. 1925)
Pol Pot (b. 1925)
Che Guevara (b. 1928)
Efrain Rios-Montt (b. 1928)
James Earl Ray (b. 1928)
James "Whitey" Bulger (b. 1929)
Imelda Marcos (b. 1929)
Marshall Applewhite (b. 1931)
Jim Jones (b. 1931)
William Luther Pierce (b. 1933)
Charles Manson (b. 1934)
Saddam Hussein (b. 1937)
Haile Mengistu (b. 1937) -- possibly the worst living person
David Lane (b. 1938)
Charles Harrison (b. 1937) -- assassin of a federal judge
Bernie Madoff (b. 1938)
Sheriff Cecil Ray Price (b. 1938)
John Gotti (b. 1939)
Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1939)
Ali Hassan al-Majid (a/k/a "Chemical Ali") (b. 1940)
Robert Eugene Simmons (b. 1940) -- annihilated his family
Kim Jong-il (b. 1941)
John Wayne Gacy (b. 1942)
Ted "Unabom" Kaczynski (b. 1942)
Moammar Qaddafi (b. 1942)
Pete Rose (b. 1942)
Baby Boomer:
Bobby Fischer (b. 1943), chess champion and self-hating Jew
Henry Hill (b. 1943)
Dennis "BTK" Rader (b. 1945)
Ted Bundy (b. 1946)
Edmund Kemper (b. 1948)
Gary "Green River Killer" Ridgway (b. 1949)
David Duke (b. 1950)
James Hodgkinson (b. 1950)
Vladimir Putin (b. 1952)
Harvey Weinstein (b. 1952)
Stephen Paddock (b. 1953)
Mumia abu Jamal (b. 1954)
Shoko Asahara (b. 1955)
Mark David Chapman (b. 1955)
Alton Coleman (b. 1955) -- serial killer
John Hinckley, Jr. (b. 1955)
John Bachtell (b. 1956)
Aileen Wuornos (b. 1956)
Jack Abramoff (b. 1957)
Osama Bin Laden (b. 1957)
Jeffrey Dahmer (b. 1960)
Richard "Night Stalker" Ramirez (b. 1960)
Yolanda Saldivar (b. 1960)
Generation X:
John Allen "DC Sniper" Mohammed (b. 1961)
Malik Zulu Shabbaz (b. 1966)
Timothy McVeigh (b. 1968)
Mohammed Atta (b. 1968)
Andrew Cunanan (b. 1969)
Paul Nehlen (b. 1969)
Tonya Harding (b. 1970)
Quannel X (b. 1970)
Matthew Hale (b. 1971)
Wade Michael Page (b. 1971)
Kristian "Varg" Vikernes (b. 1973)
Jared Fogle (b. 1977)
Richard Spencer (b. 1978)
Linda Sarsour (b. 1980)
Mark Collett (b. 1980)
Millennial:
Eric Harris (b. 1981)
Dylan Klebold (b. 1981)
Anita Sarkeesian (b. 1983)
Jason Kessler (b. 1983)
Kim Jong-Un (b.1983)
Seung Hui-Cho (b. 1984)
Ross "Silk Road" Ulbricht (b. 1984)
Nathan Damigo (b. 1986)
Omar Mateen (b. 1986)
Jared Lee Loughner (b. 1988)
Travis Reinking (b. 1989)
Christopher Harper Mercer (b. 1989)
Aaron Hernandez (b. 1989)
Inna Shevchenko (b. 1990)
Devin Patrick Kelly (b. 1991)
Matthew Heimbach (b. 1991)
Elliot Rodger (b. 1991)
Adam Lanza (b. 1992)
Dylann Roof (b. 1994)
TJ Lane (b. 1994)
Joshua Ryne Goldberg (b. 1995)
Generation Z:
James Alex Fields (b. 1997)
XXXTentacion (b. 1998)
Nikolas Cruz (b. 1998)
Thomas Rousseau (b. 1998)
Trippie Redd (b. 1999)
Anissa Weier (b. 2001)
Morgan Geyser (b. 2002)
Danielle Bregoli (b. 2003)
Kaia James (b. 2006)
My additions are in bold.
I am going to take out those who are controversial solely for their politics unless the politician is an extremist or a criminal (which includes things from bribe-taking to genocide). Some people think that Donald Trump is wonderful, so that is controversy. I am surprised that you have Colin Kaepernick, but not Pete Rose or Tonya Harding, disgraces to their sport. Kaepernick is on your list for his political views which are not disgraces; you could as easily put Lou Whitaker on the list for not honoring the flag, but as a Jehovah's Witness he deserves credit for honoring a tenet of his religious faith that says that saluting a flag is an act of idolatry. Rachel Dolezal seems not to have hurt anyone other than her parents (who may have messed her up), which is more than I can say of Tonya Harding. Louis Farrakhan hasn't caused any deaths, but Marshall Applewhite did in "Heaven's Gate". Besides, as a religious figure, either Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton, Jim Bakker, or any of the priestly abusers of children is far more disgraceful.
GIs have plenty of rogues due to Communism (Ceausescu, Honecker, Kim il-Sung), Nazism (Kaltenbrunner, Mengele, Eichmann, Ilse Koch, Irma Grese, etc.), Apartheid, and garden-variety crime (Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, John Dillinger) and some murderous nutcases (Ed Gein, Jesse Unruh). Sam Bowers, a leader of the violent post-WWII Klan, would be on that list, as would be plenty of dictators.
Oh -- I can't identify the computer scammers who claim to have locked my computer unless I pay to remove their ransomware.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.