What are some of the most blackpilling events to have happened in history?

Great Man History doesn't just cover monarchs. But other national leaders. Every person has their shadow, great man history tries to present soaring nationalist narratives which are presented in stark and colorful terms to the reader.
I'd say it's a brutal blackpill when you start peeling back that disney-style paint, and find the truth of history underneath.
Either you wrestle with and learn from their moral complexity, and see them as normal men. Or you wind up doubling down on the heroic sanitized version, seeing a former hero as a monster and hypocrite, or embrace the monster and destroy yourself.
Either of the last 3 options I'd argue is taking a blackpill.

>The real blackpill here anon is that tearing down others isn't going to raise you up.
He said while insulting me instead of refuting my point.

I was asked for one of the worst historical blackpills.
I explained that discovering the darker more complicated side to the figures in Great Man History presented by the Orthodox School which is what you're usually taught in primary or grade school, is a hell of a blackpill.

Here you are, jumping in with "NUH UH LIBERAL!" "YOU'RE STUPID!" and "YOUR POINT IS DUMB"
Your response, like this is some eldritch truth that needs to be torched before it spreads wrongthink to the masses is basically confirming this is a very powerful blackpill.

Well the poster seemed to be insinuating that I'm saying that there are no great men who are not otherwise monstrous, then tries to accuse me of mortal relativism.
Both of which aren't just irrelevant to my point, but go part of the way to reinforcing it.

I literally pointed to his accusation as one of the three possible results of taking this black pill.
As well as his screaming about doubling down proving it's polar opposite black pill where you go into violent denial of the point.
He in turn started on with screaming about cope, and basicly accusing me of snowflakery, and in general being a triggered little fricknugget.

I've been on both ends of that blackpilled revelation spectrum, and eventually came out the other end realizing that these great men of history were as human as the rest of us. Merely given great power due to being in the right place, at the right time.
How they handled their power, their moment in the sun, says a lot about them.
Few men get the chance, and fewer men rise to the occasion.

Actually gunna continue this in a bit... I got a good example.

You want to argue that Great Man History is somehow, correct.
It's greatest flaw is that it makes these sweeping glorious nearly mythical narratives, and forgets the man in favor of the myth.

You're taught these myths as a kid, because you're a kid, and your history teacher is trying to cram this complicated subject into your tiny baby brain.
So they often go with the simpler Orthodox schools.

The real blackpill, is when you begin to discover that these sweeping heroes you were taught about have these darker, sometimes even tragic or monstrous aspects to them.

Often people either run away and double down on their belief in the myth, or go full on blackpill historian nihilist.
When in reality all these figures were mostly normal people with all the flaws and stupidity you see in the normies around you today. But they were caught in the right place, at the right time. Sometimes they rose to the occasion, other times they failed.
Which, at least for me, is why history's so interesting.

cont...
My personal best example of this is George Washington.
He is mythologized as a great general, and the first among the founding fathers.
He was so much more than that, and so much less at the same time.

He aspired to nobility like all colonial gentry of the south, and like the rest of the gentry were only able to afford their educations and resources because they had slaves doing the hard work of running their plantations.
He desired control over his surroundings, and kept great command of himself. Yet in the face of his own helplessness at his daughter's seizures he completely broke down trying to save her.
He was a twice disgraced officer of the colonial militia who accidently triggered a proto world war. Yet when the revolution came, he stepped forth because he was one of the few men for the job.
He lead the military wing of a revolution, the first revolution, against the European colonial empires. A flawed and imperfect revolution.
No matter how hard proper british generals beat him, he learned, regrouped, and kept the revolutionary army alive when most generals would've buckled.
Finally, when offered power over the new republic, he did something unlike nearly every revolutionary leader in world history.
He put the sword down, he let other men build a republic that could stand without him.

He was smart enough to be aware of his own hypocrisies, and the immoral actions he'd had to take during the revolution at times, and trying to make up for instead of making excuses for himself.

The greatest thing Washington ever did, and what makes him stand out from other revolutionary leaders in world history is giving up power.
Which, if we were to discuss Napoleon, would be the dark shadow. He never put the sword away, and his lust for glory undid many of his accomplishments.

Which I'd say makes him a lot more badass, inspiring, than the whitewashed almost cartoonish version we see in nationalist myths.

leave with you, simpering wretch.