Most underrated evil person in history?

[DemPGH]

Giovanni Cibo, or Pope Innocent VIII.

You have him to thank for Torq' and the Inquisition circa 1487, one of the most vile people to ever hold a position of power. (Richard III, btw, had a copy of the New Testament in English in his personal possession, suggesting a degree of religious tolerance - man, did that go to crap with the Tudors, lol).

[dead0man]

The stupid hippies that are trying to stop GMOs are evil.  Especially the ones against Golden Rice and other such projects.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Giovanni Cibo, or Pope Innocent VIII.

Ooh, yeah. Nasty piece of work.

The stupid hippies that are trying to stop GMOs are evil.  Especially the ones against Golden Rice and other such projects.

If they're motivated by stupidity, in what sense are they evil?

[dead0man]

touche

[dead0man]

well...on further thought....

They are pushing their agenda and people are dying, isn't that, more or less, what most of the people mentioned so far have been doing?  Do we really think Mao was looking like Mr Burns saying "excellent" when he heard another 200,000 starved to death last month?  Sure, some of these mofos were clearly sick, evil humans, but how does the old saying going about malice and incompetence?

The anti-science GMO banning nut jobs have killed lots of people and are doing so right now.  Perhaps not evil though.

[Badger]

Rafael Trujilo, Augusto Pinochet, Papa Doc all spring to mind

[President Johnson]

Lenin and Mao. Both massive HPs.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If you just limit it to recent history, an obvious candidate is Théoneste Bagosora.

[evergreenarbor]

Augusto Pinochet.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Kishi Nobusuke is another possibility, if you look at what he did in Manchuria (and especially if personal life is taken into account).

[muon2]

If I reach back in history a truly underrated figure that brought tremendous suffering was Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. His rise to power precipitated the Thirty Years War, perhaps the most destructive in Europe until the 20th century. The reduction of population in German states approached 50% and Wurttemberg may have lost 75% of its population. Ferdinand II was not the only uncompromising leader during that period (hello Richelieu), and he didn't even survive to its end, but I picked him as a symbol of an evil period in history that is often overlooked.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

"Napoleon" absolutely. He was from Socialist France, was a conquer but not Tyrannical like fellow counterpart Hitler who also failed to conquer Russia

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

"Napoleon" absolutely. He was from Socialist France, was a conquer but not Tyrannical like fellow counterpart Hitler who also failed to conquer Russia

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

Kishi Nobusuke is another possibility, if you look at what he did in Manchuria (and especially if personal life is taken into account).

Ah yes. Abe's evil grandfather.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Kishi Nobusuke is another possibility, if you look at what he did in Manchuria (and especially if personal life is taken into account).

Ah yes. Abe's evil grandfather.

You know how Ann Widdecombe said there was 'something of the night about' Michael Howard? Well, one of Kishi's nicknames was 昭和の妖怪 (the Phantom/Ghost/Demon of the Shōwa Era), and there is a recent performance art piece called Kishi the Vampire.

[Andy Hine]

Mother Theresa
Maximillien Robespierre
King Louis XIV
Shi Huangdi (ruler of the Qin Dynasty in China)
Jim Jones(Guyana mass suicide)

[ag]

Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who attempted to wipe the Jews out from the Ukraine several centuries before Hitler did, at least counts as a possibility.

And, added on to that by selling his own country "ворогам поганим"

[Thank you for being a friend...]

Stalin.  What happened to the people over there is overshadowed by the Holocaust, but he was a monster too