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“Later Proven Completely Correct”: 27 People Who We Now Know Were Wronged And Deserve An Apology
Is it too late now to say sorry? No, we’re not singing Justin Bieber’s hit song from 2015. We’re genuinely wondering, because apparently, there are some people who are long overdue for a massive apology from the public.
Redditors have recently been discussing celebrities, scientists, public figures, and regular citizens who were treated extremely unfairly by the world. Whether they were publicly ridiculed for their discoveries or shamed for speaking out against injustices, it’s unfortunate that they didn’t receive apologies much sooner. But better late than never, right? Here’s a list of people that we sincerely want to say “I’m sorry” to.
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#1
Kotoku Wamura.
He was the mayor of the Japanese village of Fudai for several decades after WWII.
He'd seen a tsunami destroy Fudai as a boy, and knew that the village had been rebuilt in the same place. There was nothing protecting it.
He was mocked locally, nationally and internationally for spending billions of yen on a state-of-the-art floodwall. He asked engineers to determine the most powerful tsunami that could happen in the region, and to build a wall that would prevent even the worst case scenario from hitting the village.
Wamura passed away in 1997, with the controversy over the cost of the floodwall essentially ruining his legacy.
Then the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami happened, taking the lives of tens of thousands of people and damaging hundreds of thousands of buildings all over Japan.
Except in Fudai.
It was in the middle of the worst hit tsunami zone. But Wamura's floodwall held. The only damage was to a few buildings built outside the wall, and there were no casualties in Fudai.
Wamura saved over 3,000 lives, many of whom weren't even born yet when he passed away.
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#2
Monica Lewinsky. I admire her for not just hanging her head in shame for the rest of her life. She was taken advantage of at a young age by a powerful man and was humiliated for it.
#3
"The dingo ate my baby" mother who was mercilessly mocked even jailed . They eventually found proof she told the truth and until this day people use that line as a joke despite the fact it was a tragedy.
#4
Kamala Harris - she was right about everything. From Trump turning the military on citizens to destroying the economy to the revenge lawfare to the transfer of money from the US government to trumps pockets. She was right about it all.
Edit: guys, I really don’t care why you didn’t vote for her. I don’t always agree on everything with the people I’m apologizing to. In fact, when I’m apologizing to someone it’s almost always someone I disagree with, or did initially. Regardless of how you feel about her politics, she was right about it all and instead of taking her word for it and letting a few things go, people allowed Trump to take office and release these horrors on our country and she literally warned us.
StrangeOne 2 weeks ago
I don't get it either. What was it that's so horrible about Kamala that Trump was the better option? I've asked this before and got very vague, no answers.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 2 weeks ago
(Pssst - StrangeOne. She laughed too much and had the wrong genitalia.)
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Verfin22 2 weeks ago
Black and female is all you have to say. She should have won and so should've Hillary.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Harris presented a real dilemma for MAGA types. They didn't know whether to vote against her because she was a woman or because she was black. A lot of hard choices going on in the voting booths that day.
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nicholas nolan 2 weeks ago
Who do I blame? Not the MAGAts. Not really. Do you blame the scorpion for being the scorpion? I blame everyone that sat at home for whatever reason they decided to sit it out. They knew the consequences. They'd just lived through the 4 trumpy years.
Heffalump 1 week ago
I'm a Brit, so I don't really care, but if I was a US Voter I'd have had to hold my nose _really_ hard to vote for Harris. The reason being her role as DA declining to prosecute cops for the extrajudicial k*****g of young black men. When she was running for VP first time, she issued an apology and said she just couldn't explain why she didn't. My view is that if you have to apologise for helping maintain a climate of police lawlessness with impunity, your next words better be 'and so I have decided to withdraw from public life and devote myself to...'. And yes we do know why she didn't prosecute: I was politically advantageous. And she apologized because that became advantageous. She has no principles, even by US political stadards, just ambition.
No one 1 week ago
She (and all of us in the US) were doomed from the moment she was handed the nomination. Anyone that voted against her will use the excuse that she didn't earn it, etc. We all know that they voted against her bc she was 1) a woman and 2) is an ethnic minority. Latinos, blacks, even Muslims voted against her in swing states. Hell, the Teamsters Union didn't endorse her, the first time they didn't support a Democrat in decades.
Rich Black 1 week ago
Voters may have been put off when Biden crowned as the nominee without any primaries or debates
Laserleader 2 weeks ago
Aaaand? Do you see any politician NOT doing that?
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 weeks ago
No matter how flawed Harris might be, she is STILL better than the giant tantrum throwing man child currently in office. I guarantee Harris would not s**t herself on national TV. Trump has eroded all respect other nations ever had for the US. Worse still, he's eroded all TRUST other nations had for the US. He is the worst thing that could have happened. He's the result of a population where something like 1/4 of the adult population are barely literate.
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#5
That woman that got burned by the McDonald’s coffee and sued for medical bills. We all made fun of her and the legal system. However, she had a legitimate case and what actually happened to her was horrifying.
StrangeOne 2 weeks ago
I never made fun of her. There were some smart people with empathy and a conscience who sided with the burned woman. We got ridiculed for sticking up for her, too. Obviously coffee is going to be hot. It's not supposed to be searing hot lava temps.
#6
Ignaz Semmelweis. He was an obstetrician in 19th century Vienna that proposed that staff wash their hands before delivering babies. For that, he was thrown in the insane asylum. The doctors did not like being told that their hands were unclean. Worst of all, it was actually working - mortality rates were plummeting.
Bookworm 2 weeks ago
He wasn't thrown in an insane asylum because he said staff should wash their hands. It was because his behavior became erratic and embarrassing. He was tricked into an asylum and got a wound that became gangrenous which lead to his de ath. Easily found if you do a search. Not including link because it will cause this comment to be hidden.
#7
Lizzie Velasquez. She was bullied online for years for being “the ugliest woman” and had interviews where she shared how much it hurt her, and understandable so!
#8
Tommie Smith and John Carlos. 1968 Olympics, had their medals taken away b/c they dared to non-violently protest white supremacy.
#9
Courtney Love for calling out Harvey Weinstein years ago effectively ending her acting career.
StrangeOne 2 weeks ago
I've always wondered how much Courtney has been misunderstood. No, she has not been anywhere near a saint, and has had many, many faults. But she has also been the black sheep in the music industry for decades, now, and deeply immersed in the ugliest sides.
#10
Whistle blowers at Boeing that ended up deceased.
They knew there were short cuts being taken. They tried to blow the whistle and were silenced. Worse yet, the report says "self inflicted wound".
#11
Witold Pilecki.
Volunteered for Auschwitz as part of the Polish Resistance. Got reports and people out. Escaped 1943 and did what he could to get the word out about what was happening.
Arrested by the Stalinist secret police in 1947 for espionage/treason, after returning to Poland to gather information for the Polish government-in-exile. Executed 1948 and left in an unmarked grave.
Dude deserved better than that. .
#12
Jeffrey Dahmer’s Victim, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone escaped from Dahmer’s apartment. Witnesses called the police, but Dahmer convinced the officers that the boy was his adult lover and that it was a lovers’ quarrel. The police believed Dahmer and returned the boy to his apartment, where he was met his end.
#13
People that were kept going on and in about the Epstein files.
It's worse than we could have imagined.
No investigations, no justice. Massive corruption and horrendous disgusting actions.
#14
Socrates - they poisoned him for corrupting the minds of the youths of Athens - when in actuality he was opening their minds.
#15
Hilary Clinton, so much glack for calling 25% of Americans deplorable. She really lowballed the number of who would reveal themselves to be maga later.
StrangeOne 2 weeks ago
As true as it might be, I believe a national leader should treat and view all the citizens as equals, no matter who they voted for. Enough of the division. Every needs to work together.
#16
Howard Dean. Dude yelled a bit and had to drop out of a presidential race, and now the mainstream press lets politicians get away with, well, anything you can imagine.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 2 weeks ago
I mean, he never even flipped someone off in public when angry, never said "fuck you" publicly when angry, never called anyone "piggy," and never even sent a racist video out about some people because he knew they were better human beings than him. What ever was he thinking about trying to be president of the US?
#17
Hillary Clinton. The lies and nonsense that were spread about her were just unbelievable. The head of the FBI tanked her votes. No one believed her when she spoke about Russia. No one took her seriously when she spoke of Trump being a creep. She was right about everything. She deserves a collective apology.
StrangeOne 2 weeks ago
How all the women who have tried running for US Presidency have been treated is a reflection on how the USA views women.
#18
Galileo Galilei.
He was ridiculed and punished for saying Earth moves around the Sun, something later proven completely correct.
#19
The wrongly convicted...
53% were BLACK.
StrangeOne 2 weeks ago
We shall never forget that little innocent child put in the electric chair. The USA has way more human rights violations and cruelty than they admit.
#20
Jesus (if he actually existed), for completely twisting his original philosophy into something that's been used to wipe out entire civilizations.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 2 weeks ago
It is ironic that people who call themselves "Christian" are very rarely people who follow what is written in their Bible.
#21
Brooksley Born
She was sounding the alarm bells on credit default swaps and other shenanigans that led to the 08 financial crisis and got crushed for it. .
Corwin 02 2 weeks ago
At least she got recognition for it In 2009 Born, along with Sheila Bair of the FDIC, was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award in recognition of the "political courage she demonstrated in sounding early warnings about conditions that contributed" to the 2008 financial crisis.
#22
Britney Spears.
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The “leave Britney alone” guy was very correct.
#25
Janet Jackson deserves the biggest apology from Justin Timberlake. He did that on purpose and we all know it.
Phantom Phoenix 2 weeks ago
I think THEY did that on purpose - a planned stunt. It's just ridiculous that Janet copped all the flak
#26
Martha Stewart, for getting sent to jail over insider trading that congresspeople are blatantly getting away with now.
#27
Al Franken. His own party turned on him for something so trivial. He was a fantastic senator for my state of Minnesota and it absolutely devastated him to step down. I will never forgive Kirsten Gillibrand for leading the charge to remove him.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 weeks ago
What a massively US-centric list. The person who sprang to mind immediately for me was Alan Turing: all the work he did to save Britain (and the free world) in WWII and then persecuted (and prosecuted) for his sexuality afterwards.
Earonn - 2 weeks ago (edited)
Oh yes, Britain is great in ungratefulness, and Alan is one of the best/ worst examples. I don't know what's wrong with our country that we always have to exploit people and then kick them in the face. Must be the old colo.nizer mindset (they cancel "colo.nizer" now, because talking about history is baaaaad)
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Skogsrået 2 weeks ago (edited)
Colin Kaepernick, he got so much flack for doing something he felt was right. Land of the free... Also the Chicks former known as the Dixie Chicks.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 2 weeks ago
Both my nightshirts are jerseys of Colin Kaepernick.
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Corvus 2 weeks ago
Bill Gates too - he does a lot of charity but conspiracy theorists depict him as Satan himself.
Apatheist 2 weeks ago
He appears to have been friendly with Epstein - I'd hold that apology for the time being.
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RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago
The Coldplay concert folks. Yes they made a poor choice. No they don't deserve the oversized fallout.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 weeks ago
What a massively US-centric list. The person who sprang to mind immediately for me was Alan Turing: all the work he did to save Britain (and the free world) in WWII and then persecuted (and prosecuted) for his sexuality afterwards.
Earonn - 2 weeks ago (edited)
Oh yes, Britain is great in ungratefulness, and Alan is one of the best/ worst examples. I don't know what's wrong with our country that we always have to exploit people and then kick them in the face. Must be the old colo.nizer mindset (they cancel "colo.nizer" now, because talking about history is baaaaad)
Load More Replies... Skogsrået 2 weeks ago (edited)
Colin Kaepernick, he got so much flack for doing something he felt was right. Land of the free... Also the Chicks former known as the Dixie Chicks.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 2 weeks ago
Both my nightshirts are jerseys of Colin Kaepernick.
Load More Replies... Corvus 2 weeks ago
Bill Gates too - he does a lot of charity but conspiracy theorists depict him as Satan himself.
Apatheist 2 weeks ago
He appears to have been friendly with Epstein - I'd hold that apology for the time being.
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago
The Coldplay concert folks. Yes they made a poor choice. No they don't deserve the oversized fallout.
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