Your Most Controversial Views

[Anglo-Celtic]

Most of us have some beliefs that go against the grain. We rightly don't share them in supermarket checkout lines. What are some of your most controversial views? I won't try to cancel or censor you if I don't like them.

1. Violent prison inmates should be segregated by race.
2. Some teen couples (16-19) *should* get married.
3. The South was right, except for the slave practice.
4. Jimi Hendrix is overrated.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

1) Only property owners should be allowed to vote.

2) 90% of Universities/colleges should close.

3) All drugs should be legalized, regulated, and taxed.

4) No more need for doctor prescriptions

[Anglo-Celtic]

3) All drugs should be legalized, regulated, and taxed.

I almost posted this. Then, fentanyl said "too soon".

[JamesBond007]

What we understand as “normal” and common sense is in fact dominant, capitalist ideas imparted through professional discourse, an issue summated in the famous quote from Marx and Engels that “the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas". So, mental illness does not exist as an objective scientific disease. Rather , the neoliberal capitalist class seeks to remove itself from the problems it creates in society by changing the locus of change from the community to the individual. What we understand as mental illness are problems of living caused by capitalism.

Psychiatrists should be shot in the head by Marxist revolutionaries en masse , priests should be sent to gulags, teachers sent to reeducation camps and families broken up :


the coercive powers of the state (e.g., the army, police, and the judicial system) are comparatively ineffective and fragile in ultimately halting the communist revolution; instead the capitalist classes had secured a greater chance of survival through hegemonic power—the rule of the bourgeoisie by induced consent. The bourgeoisie must win the hearts and minds of the people, persuading them (without even seeming to do so or to need to do so) that the status quo is natural and inevitable, beneficial for all, and inducing them to identify with it.

The intellectual and moral leadership won by the ruling classes as resides in civil society rather than the state. By “civil society” I mean institutions such as religion, education, the media, and the family, to which Marxist scholars have added the institution of health as a further site of hegemonic power. These civic institutions are much more effective than direct, repressive organs of the state in manipulating the masses due to their perceived detachment from elite control. Hegemonic power is conducted under the guise of objective and neutral institutional practice, though it is in reality nothing of the sort.

[Anglo-Celtic]

What we understand as “normal” and common sense is in fact dominant, capitalist ideas imparted through professional discourse, an issue summated in the famous quote from Marx and Engels that “the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas". So, mental illness does not exist as an objective scientific disease. Rather , the neoliberal capitalist class seeks to remove itself from the problems it creates in society by changing the locus of change from the community to the individual. What we understand as mental illness are problems of living caused by capitalism.

Psychiatrists should be shot in the head by Marxist revolutionaries en masse , priests should be sent to gulags, teachers sent to reeducation camps and families broken up :


the coercive powers of the state (e.g., the army, police, and the judicial system) are comparatively ineffective and fragile in ultimately halting the communist revolution; instead the capitalist classes had secured a greater chance of survival through hegemonic power—the rule of the bourgeoisie by induced consent. The bourgeoisie must win the hearts and minds of the people, persuading them (without even seeming to do so or to need to do so) that the status quo is natural and inevitable, beneficial for all, and inducing them to identify with it.

The intellectual and moral leadership won by the ruling classes as resides in civil society rather than the state. By “civil society” I mean institutions such as religion, education, the media, and the family, to which Marxist scholars have added the institution of health as a further site of hegemonic power. These civic institutions are much more effective than direct, repressive organs of the state in manipulating the masses due to their perceived detachment from elite control. Hegemonic power is conducted under the guise of objective and neutral institutional practice, though it is in reality nothing of the sort.

Oh, wow. You brought back your communist character.

[Incal]

1. Violent prison inmates should be segregated by race.

I would execute them.

1) Only property owners should be allowed to vote.

2) 90% of Universities/colleges should close.

3) All drugs should be legalized, regulated, and taxed.

4) No more need for doctor prescriptions

That's not controversial, that's common sense lol

[Anglo-Celtic]

I would execute them.

That brings another view to mind. I'm not for capital punishment, which may execute my credibility, but I understand why a lot of individuals are.

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

1. Having to carry a baby stroller is humiliating for the father. It's practically a form of emasculation.


2.Most social scientists in western academia are social misfits; they hate society and try to erode traditional values. We are giving too much power to a mop of misantropists.

3.People are becoming too emotionally dependent on house pets.
Just face it, your dog is going to be dead in 10 years. Your cat hates you.

[Teutone]

Where to start where to end.

I think the 3 that are also controversial in this forum.

1. Secularism is a disaster.

2. Democracy is a disaster.

3. Capitalism is a disaster.

[Anglo-Celtic]

1. Having to carry a baby stroller is humiliating for the father. It's practically a form of emasculation.


2.Most social scientists in western academia are social misfits; they hate society and try to erode traditional values. We are giving too much power to a mop of misantropists.

3.People are becoming too emotionally dependent on house pets.
Just face it, your dog is going to be dead in 10 years. Your cat hates you.

That second one is backed up by reality. That third one does nothing to assuage my fear that my dog is just using me for treats.