# And the Most Insensitive Arrogant Govt Official has been...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 7, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-insensitive-arrogant-govt-official-has-been/618072 "2012-04-07T12:07:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-insensitive-arrogant-govt-official-has-been/618072/1 "2012-04-07T12:07:35Z")

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I’m throwing a broad net here.

If it makes sense I am ,looking for people who thought they were so much better than the “small” people, and their ambitions and arrogance made them seemingly totally impervious to the people they had to deal with.  
(If there can just be one rule, could I ask that the people be now dead).

My contribution is [Lord Robens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Robens,_Baron_Robens_of_Woldingham).

Yes, I have just watched a doco about [Aberfan.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster)

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-insensitive-arrogant-govt-official-has-been/618072/2 "2012-04-07T13:09:02Z")

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Marie Antoinette, ‘Let them eat cake.’  
Enoch Powell, ‘Rivers of blood’

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-insensitive-arrogant-govt-official-has-been/618072/3 "2012-04-07T13:58:47Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> Marie Antoinette, ‘Let them eat cake.’

That quote is fictional. As in, was not said, and was not said by her.

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**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-insensitive-arrogant-govt-official-has-been/618072/4 "2012-04-07T14:48:45Z")

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[Sir Charles Trevelyan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Trevelyan,_1st_Baronet) definitely deserves a mention. He believed the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s and early 1850s was sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson, so while it would be a sad thing if they actually starved, it was better not to help them too much. Mind you, he had a lot of company in his indifference to the plight of the Irish, but I don’t know of anyone else who put it quite so coldly…

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-insensitive-arrogant-govt-official-has-been/618072/5 "2012-04-07T15:28:03Z")

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You don’t want the usual suspects? Pol Pot? Stalin? Hitler?