Controversial Opinions (For Everything Other Than DC Comics)

[Crazy Diamond]

I like today's hip-hop as much as I did the hip-hop I grew up with in the 90s and 00s

[TheRay]

There’s no such thing as men movies and women movies.

[Kirby101]

There’s no such thing as men movies and women movies.

Men in Black, The Tall Men, Men at Work....The Women, Little Women, Women in Love....

[Starter Set]

For all their cute talks, the left is actually the side of the political scale from where people are the most prone to use censorship and limit people freedom of expression.

[Kirby101]

For all their cute talks, the left is actually the side of the political scale from where people are the most prone to use censorship and limit people freedom of expression.

Qualitatively untrue.

[Tendrin]

For all their cute talks, the left is actually the side of the political scale from where people are the most prone to use censorship and limit people freedom of expression.

This isn't even slightly a controversial opinion. It's quite common, even if it's incredibly untrue. All you have to do is look at the list of 'canceled' people who get major op/eds.

[Tendrin]

Qualitatively untrue.

I mean, the right, right now, is going after books in schools and has already moved on to public libraries, but sure, we should *definitely* be fearful of the social backlash and censorship we might endure for, say, being loudly transphobic.

[Catlady in training]

For all their cute talks, the left is actually the side of the political scale from where people are the most prone to use censorship and limit people freedom of expression.

Examples? ....

[CSTowle]

For all their cute talks, the left is actually the side of the political scale from where people are the most prone to use censorship and limit people freedom of expression.

This is one of the cases where the "both sides" argument actually applies. We just tend to be blinded to it by bias on our side most of the time. Republicans are literally trying to pretend the bad parts of this country's history never happened and suppress teaching of it, more extreme religious parents will remove their children from school to keep them from learning about evolution, and they attempt to equate homosexuality and trans folk to pedophilia in order to drum up enough blind outrage to keep people from learning about them as well, presumably so it's easier to dehumanize them.

On the left, calls for the firing/deplatforming/mass shaming of anyone who holds an opinion too far to the right or left of the Democratic Party mainstream is an everyday occurrence (as are denials that this is actually happening, or that where it is happening that it's effective, or that where it is happening and effective that it's a bad thing for free speech, or that where it is bad for free speech that's not what free speech means, etc.). That's the reason we had an ACLU and a liberal tradition of hating what you said but fighting for your right to say it. Because suppression of ideas, even ridiculous or awful ones, doesn't eliminate them but instead drives them into dark corners where they fester and grow and come back stronger.

Both are wrong to suppress ideas, but at least the left is coming at it with good intentions (not wanting people to be hurt by words) and isn't prone (usually) to ranting about nanobots in vaccines or Jewish folk replacing whites with darker-skinned folk or stolen Presidential elections. Our (I am a leftist, if this little rant wasn't clear) biases may cause us to do counterproductive and undemocratic things on occasion, but they're usually based mostly on reality. Can't say the same for folks on the right, which may be a symptom of the influence of your religious wing on the Party. If ignoring science and reality in order to placate yourself with easy answers through magical thinking works in one area, why not elections or economic policy or dictating how other people (usually women and minorities and LGBTQ+ folk) live their lives?

[TheRay]

It’s good for people to read comics.

[williamtheday]

Carrots aren't good for rabbits. Sorry, Bugs.

[achilles]

Carrots aren't good for rabbits. Sorry, Bugs.

True, they're eating my lawn, and there are no carrots in sight there.

[Catlady in training]

It’s good for people to read comics.

And we have a winner of the most controversial statement on a comicbook forum.

[seismic-2]

It's bad for kids to read comics. All the constantly changing "continuity", the retcons of retcons of retcons, the twisted knots of plot lines to undo other plot lines, the multiple deaths and re-births of characters, the way "Everything changes, and nothing will be the same again!" until two issues later when everything is in fact just the way it was before - all these gimmicks tend to tell impressionable early readers that actions don't have lasting consequences.

[Alan2099]

It's bad for kids to read comics. All the constantly changing "continuity", the retcons of retcons of retcons, the twisted knots of plot lines to undo other plot lines, the multiple deaths and re-births of characters, the way "Everything changes, and nothing will be the same again!" until two issues later when everything is in fact just the way it was before - all these gimmicks tend to tell impressionable early readers that actions don't have lasting consequences.

That seems less "it's bad for kids to read comics" and more "comics are badly written these days."