Leopold was rightfully viewed as a monster by his racist contemporaries. I don’t think anybody sane is lionizing that guy.
Edit: They do and did lionize Henry Morton Stanley who helped set up Leopold’s death machine. And his contemporaries made him persona non grata over it as well, even though history somewhat gave him a pass and made movies about him.
Leopold was rightfully viewed as a monster by his racist contemporaries. I don’t think anybody sane is lionizing that guy.
Edit: They do and did lionize Henry Morton Stanley who helped set up Leopold’s death machine. And his contemporaries made him persona non grata over it as well, even though history somewhat gave him a pass and made movies about him.