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[u/Genoce]

Surely there's a better word than "popular" for this particular question

[u/Qarnaqduck → u/Genoce]

Recognizable?

[u/tragicsandwichblogs]

Perhaps you have are not familiar with the definition of "popular." It is not a synonym for infamous or even recognizable or well-known.

POPULAR Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

[u/Qarnaqduck → u/tragicsandwichblogs]

Oh, I'm sorry.. should I delete and repost or just delete?

[u/r2c2rd2]

Hitler is not popular, he's simply infamous

[u/whatisakafka → u/r2c2rd2]

Plenty of people like Hitler

[u/Yoribell → u/whatisakafka]

More every day. As we can see in France when the police protect fascist groups when they beat the shit out of (usually non-white) protesters.

They bring weapons like iron bars and protesters aren't even allowed to bring masks to protect themselves from the gaz spam that the cops love so much.

They're making nazi salute sing racist shit while the cop put the people that was beaten on the ground by them in custody

[u/sleepy-all-the-time]

Who is more famous than Michael Jackson?

[u/Qarnaqduck → u/sleepy-all-the-time]

Jesus Christ

[u/sleepy-all-the-time → u/Qarnaqduck]

Yeah, but there are so many different images of him. We don’t truly know who he is, but we definitely know who Michael Jackson is.

[u/Pure_Ingenuity3771 → u/Qarnaqduck]

So that means the Beatles for sure

[u/rs1971 → u/sleepy-all-the-time]

As famous as Michael Jackson was, he's still not on the same level as either Hitler or Einstein who are both part of virtually every secondary school curriculum in the world.

[u/sleepy-all-the-time → u/rs1971]

True, if you're talking about formal education. But fame isn't measured just by who is in a high school textbook. Millions of people around the world don't have access to secondary education, yet they still know Michael Jackson's music, face, and dance moves through pure global mass media. Pop culture reaches places history classes never touch.

[u/Johnny_Carcinogenic → u/sleepy-all-the-time]

I believe MJ moonwalked, but I don't believe JC walked on water.

[u/OverCategory6046 → u/sleepy-all-the-time]

Queen Elizabeth was up there. Also Jesus / Muhammad

[u/sleepy-all-the-time → u/OverCategory6046]

This makes me think of Princess Diana too.

[u/ExpectedBehaviour]

Popular is very much not the best word for this...

[u/BlackMilk23]

They are both in the Top 10 of the most recognized dead people. I think it's a toss up.

[u/the-truthseeker]

Infamy and popularity are a bit different.

Adolf Hitler is more widely recognized by name and global public awareness than Albert Einstein. I'll leave it at that.

[u/rs1971]

In terms of 'recognizability' it's pretty much a wash. They are both as famous (or infamous in the first case) as it's possible to be. Virtually one hundred percent of the world population with education level past primary school would recognize both of them by name and photo.

[u/Hundloefve]

Seems I'm gonna be the first with this answer, please don't shoot the messenger. I realize OP probably conflates "popular" with "recognizable" but in fact,  Adolf Hitler maintains a complicated and largely misunderstood or detached popularity in parts of India  and the Arab world , driven by anti-colonial sentiment and a lack of direct historical exposure to the Holocaust (i.e. ignorance). Someone mentioned the european neonazi hitlerlovers, and even if they, along with their american brethren, add marginally to the total, they are thankfully a small minority (and prob. a minority even among far right nut jobs). Anyway, I think globally, Hitler is both the more recognizable and the more popular. Because people are f-ing stupid.

[u/SoccerEuros]

Well known

[u/PlanktonDefiant2600]

Probably Hitler.

[u/wyldknightn87]

Einstein