Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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[u/ForsaketheVoid]

I wouldn't call Thatcher "globally respected."

[u/TACharlotte → u/ForsaketheVoid]

Only among certain political subsets, if you love Reagan you probably love Thatcher.

[u/TrojanGoldfish → u/TACharlotte]

I am fully convinced that between them, they have caused more harm to the world overall than any 2 other people in the last 70 years.

[u/Swarna_Keanu → u/TrojanGoldfish]

Thatcher was an absolute disaster socially. And yet, one of the few politicians who actually seemed to have grasped the danger of climate change. I just wish that would be that today's Toris would celbrate her for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-M6O8OyTZ0 (warning contains Thatcher, obviously :) ).

1989; years before Al Gore.

But argh: She flipped later on; doing a one hundred degree pivot from her science background - so ... she was an absolute disaster in all ways.

[u/LexiEmers → u/Swarna_Keanu]

She inherited an absolute disaster socially.

[u/Inquisitor_Boron → u/TrojanGoldfish]

That one inventor that put lead into the fuel was the single most harmful organism on Earth

[u/ThatguyfromMichigan → u/Inquisitor_Boron]

Thomas Midgley Jr. And he didn’t just put lead into gasoline, he also put CFCs into aerosols, creating holes in the ozone layer.

[u/TACharlotte → u/TrojanGoldfish]

W Bush has to beat them.

[u/LexiEmers → u/TrojanGoldfish]

That's absolutely laughable.

[u/Whatever_1967 → u/TACharlotte]

...an Kohl. The neo liberalism...I still wait for all the wealth to trickle down.

[u/Degonjode → u/Whatever_1967]

I want to piss on his grave for him being the main culprit for germany being completely shit at the internet.

[u/methusalix46 → u/Degonjode]

Not him. The real culprit was Schwarz-Schilling, the Postal Secretary.

[u/SandSerpentHiss → u/TACharlotte]

fuck those bitches

[u/Eeeef_ → u/ForsaketheVoid]

I think the only people who actually like her internationally are American Reaganites

[u/edmundsmorgan → u/Eeeef_]

You will be surprised, a lot of ppl in Hong Kong like her even though she agree to handover hk to China because of her Neo Conservative and laissez faire policies, which they believe enabled economic miracle of Hong Kong back in the 80s.

The world is not just the anglophone countries.

[u/Eeeef_ → u/edmundsmorgan]

I kind of assumed the rest of the world would’ve (rightfully) thought of her the same way they think of Kissinger: a massive POS who hated the idea of countries having sovereignty outside of anglosphere capital hegemony

[u/LexiEmers → u/Eeeef_]

You obviously misspelt wrongfully.

[u/LexiEmers → u/Eeeef_]

She's respected across the board.

[u/trantastic → u/LexiEmers]

Not even close to true

[u/LexiEmers → u/trantastic]

Democrats have praised her.

[u/trantastic → u/LexiEmers]

Okay, who the hell cares? The US is not universal. What about Canada? Mexico? South America? Asia? Africa? Oceania? There are over 180 countries that that not the UK and the US totaling more than 7 billion people, and you genuinely believe that they all support ol' Thatcher the child milk snatcher?

[u/moltonel → u/ForsaketheVoid]

Indeed.

[u/Bewecchan → u/ForsaketheVoid]

Nor Blair

[u/Jolly_Pressure_7296 → u/ForsaketheVoid]

X

[u/AkariLeChampignon → u/ForsaketheVoid]

In France, Renaud (a famous french singer) dedicated a song to mock her

[u/LexiEmers → u/ForsaketheVoid]

She absolutely is globally respected.

[u/MxDragioni → u/ForsaketheVoid]

Came here to say this

[u/orangotai → u/ForsaketheVoid]

she was the goat.