When was the last time you were called controversial?

I don’t recall ever being called “controversial”, but I have certainly done a number of controversial things. I haven’t had to make a controversial choice in many years, but I’d do it again if I thought it appropriate/necessary;

Good question! I was actually just talking about this with my hubby.
I was in an uber-liberal sociology grad program (I have my MA now- took a break before getting my Ph.D. b/c my son was just born). For the most part, my opinions coincided with the liberal viewpoints of my peers and professors. However, my program is also a criminal justice program (joint). One topic that came up frequently is the death penalty. I am pro-death penalty (in very, very few cases). I was seriously the only person in my program who was (or, at least, admitted it). This view of mine was once called “controversial” by a peer student. I disagreed with the label. Although it happened three years ago, it’s something that I still think about all the time.

I have never been called controversial. I have been called eccentric.

I don’t remember the date, but every time someone who doesn’t approve of the fact that I’m a Single Mother By Choice finds out, the words “controversial” and “selfish” tend to get tossed about freely.

During my career as a police officer, i was front page news for three days. at that time, in the 70s, i was the treasurer for my police departments Independent Police Union. before taking this extra job, i insisted on a complete audit of the Unions books, to make sure all the figures were in order, before i took over. the books balanced. after three years at this position, my police detective work began to suffer, so i resigned. before this occurred, i again insisted on a complete audit of the Unions books. keep this in mind. five days before the audit, i told our union president that all the cancelled union checks were in a safety deposit box at a a local bank. well, the audit claimed a $10,000 deficit in the unions checking account. word of this this spread like wildfire and the newspaper now classified me as “controversial”. needless to say, i was royally p____d off. i made an urgent phone call to our union president and asked him if he forgot about the cancelled checks in the safety deposit box of the union. he did. the checks were located and all was well with my departure. only one problem remained….........i was now controversial. a very small four line paragraph of apology was located in the local newspaper.

This was a good example of tarnishing a good persons name, by such a simple mistake.

I get called that constantly. However, that’s kind of par for the course for an outspoken atheist vegetarian liberal :>)

Never been called controversial, I have been called fascist, socialist, capitalist pig, extremist, pansy moderate, etc.

Last week at a meeting with our company president. He also told me to keep up the good work. We tend to settle into patterns and behaviors that are hard to break even though the company looses money when we do. Somebody needs to shake things up, that’s my small talent.

Never. I will go to the end of the earth to avoid an argument. They make me very uncomfortable.

I get called “controversial” at least once a semester. I have fairly unorthodox views relative to the rest of my department.

I advocate the dismantling of industrial infrastructure and a return to egalitarian hunter-gatherer-gardener subsistence. I’m a writer and fall loosely in the green-anarchist/anarcho-primitivist camp, and I’m allied with various radical social justice, ultra-feminist, Pan-Africanist, indigenist, anti-imperialist, and other liberation minded folks. I’m pro-gun rights and anti-tax while also being basically a Leftist. On top of that all, I make it a personal habit to challenge the underlying premises of just about every discussion I take part in.

Controversial? It’s hard to remember when I wasn’t called that. My username actually came from my habit of accidentally causing controversy among a student group I founded back in my college days, mostly by the application of real research and logic.

@incendiary_dan—” egalitarian hunter-gatherer-gardener subsistence”—really, just turn 400 million Americans back into the woods and fields?