[throw-8462682]

> I know this is a cynic take,

It’s worse than that. This take is a trivial restatement of history, namely that whites and men had most of the power, while amplifying outrage with people already agreeing with you, not contributing to lessening the divide, and causing people like myself to self censor by replying using throwaway accounts.

[newswasboring]

I think what people are having trouble understanding about these kind of statements is what do you want to do about it? What kind of idolizing are you actually against? I have never seen these people being used as examples of morally virtuous people. Even in this thread/article nobody is calling them morally virtuous. Are you against saying anything positive about them?

[throw-8462682]

> started "idolising" past scientists [..] whose primary purpose on life had become, basically, how to best kill other people

We all should be careful to judge people in history with our current set of morals. The scientists in the photo all experienced the horrors of WWII. I don’t think it requires to much mental gymnastics to have the position that the deterrence of nuclear weapons would lead to a safer world, especially in the post WWII context. Note that this is not a blanket statement against judging people in history. I just don’t think this applies to the scientists here.