- Thurgood Marshall
- Everyone in season 6 of Buffy
- wasn't there some stuff with Gandhi?
- seems cheap to put Lance Armstrong and John Edwards on here, but I guess I admired them at one point
- actually Justice Harlan's lone dissent in Plessy was pretty racist
- wait does this count? Harlan was never my hero, but I did admire that dissent before I read the whole thing
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "The Supreme Court moved too fast on Roe v. Wade" (thanks a lot RBG, said every woman who would've had to get a horror show Dirty Dancing-esque back alley abortion while waiting for individual states to get around to legalizing it)
- every framer of American democracy who owned slaves and believed in manifest destiny
- this list has gone from "heroes who did disappointing things in the name of what they saw as political realism" to "people who've just straight up disappointed me"
- see also Aung San Suu Kyi and Rohingya genocide
may 4 2014 ∞
apr 17 2017 +
apr 17 2017 +