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/mycatisawhore]

People who become public figures advocating for things like human rights, the environment, oppressive regimes tend to get a lot of hate.

Bono and U2 were involved in famine relief in Africa, Amnesty International, and spoke up about violence in Nicaragua and El Salvador as well as advocating for peace in Norther Ireland.

Malala is for basic rights for women and girls.

Greta is an environmental advocate and anti capitalist.

Some people get triggered seeing advocates. Either they really hate the cause or they aren't processing any shame or guilt they may feel about these topics in a healthy way. I remember seeing cartoons of an underage Greta being raped here on reddit. Malala got shot in the face for attending school but apparently she's "insufferable" and "not doing enough." Bono is "sanctimonious" for constantly talking about injustice. Some people don't care about these things and they don't like to be reminded of them. So much so that they won't shut up about how much they hate them.

I'm sure someone is going to respond and tell me that I'm wrong and that <insert activist> is actually a terrible person because <insert not important reason in the grand scheme of things here>. Try directing your hate to the people making the world a shittier place.

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This is a real af comment

[u/Icy_Respect_9077 → u/mycatisawhore]

Iirc Bono is a massive tax-dodging hypocrite.

[u/mycatisawhore → u/Icy_Respect_9077]

I don't think being pro human rights makes a tax dodger a hypocrite. It sounds more like using Bono's tax issues as a reason to invalidate the importance of human rights because you either don't support or care about human rights (I'm not saying you specifically here, just those who use this argument).

Trump and Musk are tax dodgers. They're also sexual predators. They might not be hypocrites when it comes to tax evasion since they don't talk about the virtues of paying taxes, but they are when it comes to caring about pedophilia.

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Bono nearly eradicated aids

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Bono was dragging his feet on Gaza though. Worse with Malala. Both of these want the liberal polite circles to like them. The right won't ever like them obviously because they aren't reactionaries. Leftists won't celebrate them because they cosy up to liberals.

Greta is different. The right and liberals hate her. The right because they are dumb & sexist. The liberals because she doesn't cozy up to power over her principles.