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Many of these articles could be classified into multiple categories.
Politics and economics
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2003 invasion of Iraq
Abortion
Affirmative action
African National Congress
Alberta separatism
American Civil Liberties Union
American Hunters and Shooters Association
History of the Jews in the United States – historical review of American Jews .
Anarchism
Anarcho-capitalism
Anti-Americanism
Anti-clericalism
Anti-Irish racism
Anti-semitism
Asian American
Atheism
Austrian School
Bashar Assad and the Syrian civil war
Bidoon (social class)
Black Lives Matter
Black supremacy
Boricua Popular Army – also known as Los Macheteros
Brexit
British National Party
Capitalism
Capital punishment
Catalonia - Separatist activity.
CBC News
Centrelink
Cherokee Americans – who have Cherokee ancestry.
China – independence movements in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as its human rights
Chinese spies
Christian right – also known as the religious right
CIA leak scandal, aka Plame affair (controversies include naming of articles)
CIA leak scandal timeline, aka Plame affair timeline (controversies include naming of articles)
Communism
Communist Party of China
Communist government
Communist state
CNN
Conservatism in the United States
Copyright , Free software , viral license , Copyright infringement of software , DMCA , copyright term extension , Inducement/Child Exploitation
Corsica – separatism activity.
Crime in the United States
Criticism of Walmart
Cuba
Culture war in American politics
Cyprus
Cyprus dispute
Deaf culture in the United States – rising self-identify among the hearing impaired as an "ethnic group ".
Democratic Party (United States)
Demographics of Europe
Demographics of the United States
Domestic violence
Detroit
Economy of Japan
Efforts to impeach George W. Bush
European Union (EU )
Fascism
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Marriage Amendment
Feminism
Fox News
Fractional reserve banking
Free trade
Freedom fighter
Gay rights , LGBT rights
Genocide denial
Gentrification
Gun control
Gun politics
Hamas
Harry's Place
Hate crimes
Health care reform in the United States
Health Services Union expenses affair
Hezbollah
Hispanics or Latinos
Adolf Hitler – in regards to his biography, political career and personal issues (i.e. possible homosexuality or mental illness).
Holodomor
Hopi–Navajo land disputes
Human overpopulation
Immigration
Immigration reform
Immigration reform in the United States
Immigration reform in the United Kingdom
Insurance
Ireland and Irish people – alleged anti-British sentiment and alleged British bias.
Israel
History of Israel
Israeli–Palestinian conflict and all related issues.
Italian American (anti-Italianism )
Japan – history of being a world power.
Jewish Americans as a lobbying interest group.
Kashmir
Killing of Harambe
Korean War
Kosovo
Louisiana politics, as well alleged corruption (also the adage of "Chicago -way or New Jersey -style politics").
Lebanon – ethnic/religious conflicts.
Liberalism in the United States
Libertarianism
Macedonia , Republic of Macedonia , Macedonian Slavs
Moldavia , Moldovans
Masculism /Men's Rights
Mexico – economic and political systems.
Morality and ethics
Multiculturalism
Muslim Brotherhood
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) – (rel. bombing of Dresden )
Native American name controversy
National-anarchism
National Rifle Association (NRA)
Nazi Germany
Nazi firearms regulation (for instance, as presented in the book Gun Control in the Third Reich )
Neoconservatism
Neoliberalism
New World Order (conspiracy theory)
North Korea and its nuclear program
Politics of North Korea
Northern Ireland
Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
Occupy Wall Street and Occupy movement
Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda .
Open borders
Pakkoruotsi
Palestine
Palestine Liberation Organization
Park51 – a proposed (as of September 2010) Islamic community center and mosque to be built near the World Trade Center site
Patriotism in the USA
PEGIDA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Pioneer Fund – US racial research group.
Polish people (Anti-Polish sentiment )
Political correctness
Political parties and partisan politics.
Post-racial America
Poverty in USA and worldwide
Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act
Public education in the USA
Puerto Ricans in the United States
Quebec , Canada
Race relations in the USA
Racial quota
Race /ethnicity issues in many countries, such as in Demographics of Chile .
Racism – definition of
Radical right (United States)
Republican Party (United States)
Right-wing populism
Recession
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Salvador Allende
Same-sex marriage
Saskatchewan Party
Saudi Arabia – use of Sharia law and human rights record.
Laura Schlessinger
School violence
Seamus incident
Republika Srpska , Republic of Serbian Krajina
Sedition
Separatism
September 11 attacks also known as 9/11.
Sexual harassment
Ariel Sharon
Silesia
Social Credit System
Social Issues
Socialism
Southeastern United States or Southern United States – regional/nationalistic feeling, including Texas secessionism.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Spain – autonomous movements in each province of the country.
Sudan (South Sudan and Darfur ).
Banking in Switzerland — controversy over use of accounts in Swiss banks
Synarchism
Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Tea Party movement and Tea Party protests
Taiwan
Taliban
Terrorism
Terrorist groups
Tibet
Tobin tax
Torture (see also Medical torture )
Universal health care proposals in the United States
United Nations (UN )
USA PATRIOT Act – also known as The Patriot Act
The United States 's War on Terror
Valencian people (Valencianism ) vs. Catalan people (Catalan nationalism ) over whether to classify the Valencian language a "dialect" of Catalan language .
Vector Marketing — controversy over hiring practices and business model
War on Drugs
Wells Fargo – controversy over fake accounts scandal.
Wells Fargo account fraud scandal
Western civilization
White Americans – non-racist white identity.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant — on talk page there are claims of non-neutrality.
Wiretapping
Paul Wolfowitz
Womyn – alternative spelling of women .
Xinjiang (Sinkiang ).
Xinjiang re-education camps
Yugoslavia – breakup of the country.
Zaire , now the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Zimbabwe
History
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1953 Iranian coup d'état .
1963 South Vietnamese coup – theories abound on the US CIA involvement.
1964 Alaska earthquake
1973 coup in Chile .
1992 Los Angeles riots .
9/11 or September 11 terrorist attacks .
American Airlines Flight 77
American Revolution
Apartheid
Apollo Moon landing hoax accusations
Armenian Genocide
Aryan invasion theory
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Berlin Wall
Biafra
Black Power
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1992–1995 war.
Bromberg Bloody Sunday
Cambodian genocide
Centre Party Germany
Chicano nationalism – also see Mexican American .
Coandă-1910
Cold War era – i.e. Cuban Missile Crisis
Communism – histories of communist regimes.
Confederate States of America
Jim Crow laws or racial segregation
Constitutional law
Intense holy wars, Crusades
Cyprus dispute
D-Day 1944 allied invasion of France .
East Germany (the German Democratic Republic 1949–1990).
Issues pertaining to politics of Egypt from 2013 onward.
Ethnicity
Falkland Islands
French Revolution
The Great Purge
Genocide
Great Depression
Green Revolution
Heimatvertriebene
Iran hostage crisis
Ireland – history, including 1850s Irish Potato Famine .
Irredentism in Italy , China , Mexico and elsewhere.
January 6 United States Capitol attack
Japanese American internment during World War II.
Jesus Christ – historical/biographical studies (the Bible and other sources).
Jews in Ukraine and Poland , "Ukrainian and Polish antisemitism ".
Kennedy assassinations of 1963 and 1968.
Korean War
Kosovo War
Kurdish genocide
Kuril Islands
Libyan civil war
Louisiana Purchase of 1803
Majestic 12
Maoism
Marijuana – illegalization of the drug .
Mexican–American War (see also History of Mexican Americans ).
Native Americans in the United States
Nazism
Nordic race theories of global domination (see also Aryan race and white race )
Okinawa – U.S. rule 1945–1972.
Operation Wetback – mass deportation program of Mexicans (either illegal aliens, naturalized citizens and Mexican-Americans) from the US in the 1950s.
Other Losses
Panama Canal – US rule in Canal Zone 1903–1979.
Philippines under US rule 1898–1946.
Piprahwa
Numerous episodes of Poland–Russia relations
Numerous episodes of Poland–Ukraine relations
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Prohibition in the US 1919–1933.
Prussia
Puerto Rico 's relationship with the US since the Spanish-American War in 1898
Quebec sovereignty movement
Radicalism
Rape during the occupation of Germany – mostly by the Red Army
Roswell UFO incident
Numerous episodes of Russia–Ukraine relations
Sanhedrin
Scientology
Silesia
Slavery
Soviet republics
Soviet Russia
Soviet Union or the USSR.
Soviet war crimes
Spanish–American War
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Inquisition
Stem cell research
Texas Revolution of 1836, known by the battle of the Alamo .
The Rape of Nanking (book) .
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 .
Trail of Tears
TWA Flight 800
U.S. Civil War
U.S. Latinos or Hispanics .
U.S. War of 1812
United States presidential election, 2000
United States presidential election, 2016 – especially allegations of Russian involvement.
Unidentified flying objects or UFOs
Ustaše
Vietnam War
Warsaw Pact
Watergate scandal
White supremacy
Women's rights and feminism
Causes and effects of World War I .
Causes and effects of World War II .
Religion
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Adventism
Agnosticism
American Family Association
Answers in Genesis (AiG)
Anti-clericalism
Anti-Muslim violence in India
Anti-semitism
Apollo Quiboloy
Atheism
Baptist churches – differences among them, including fundamentalist and independent ones.
Biblical literalism
Book of Enoch
Born-Again
Buddhism
Catholicism
Christian Coalition
Christian right – also known as the religious right
Christian Science
Christianity
Christophobia
Conservative Judaism and Criticism of Conservative Judaism
Creationism
Cult
Deism
Dhimmi
Divorce – religious opposition to
Dorje Shugden
Dorje Shugden controversy
Druze
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eckankar
Evangelical
Falun Gong
Feminism and religion.
Fundamentalism
Gay Marriage – opposition of
Gnosticism and the New Testament
God
Gospel for Asia (more critical than descriptive)
Guru (structure and criticism)
Hare Krishna
Hate group (new religious movements)
Historicity of Jesus
Homosexuality and religion.
Iglesia ni Cristo
Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)
Islamophobia
Islam
Jainism
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jesus Freaks
Judas Iscariot
Kabbala
Kashrut and Kosher
Kokuchūkai
Ku Klux Klan
Last Supper of Jesus
Liberalism
Liturgy
Lutheranism
Makkah /Mecca ('Offensive' spelling).
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Mennonites – most notably the old order Amish .
Modernism
Mormonism – to a certain extent (subset of the Latter Day Saint movement ).
Neocatechumenal Way
New Age
New Kadampa Tradition
Nondenominational churches.
Ole Nydahl and Diamond Way Buddhism
Opus Dei
Pacifism
Paganism – various sects
Paul and Gnosticism
Pentecostalism
Politics and religion.
Prem Rawat and Divine Light Mission
Project Chanology
Protestant Reformation
Qu'ran
Reincarnation research
U.S. Republican Party connection with the religious right .
Religion and sexuality and various related topics.
Role of women in religion , Religious feminism , and related topics
Separation of church and state
Satanism
Sathya Sai Baba – enduring dispute about the amount of space devoted to describing the views of proponents and critics as published on their homepages
Scientology
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Sharia
Sin
Soka Gakkai
Sufism
Syncretism
Taboo
Temple Mount and related topics
United Submitters International , Qur'an alone , Rashad Khalifa – peacock words, critical sources removed, lack of RS, failure to describe size and importance and relation to older Islamic groups, linkfarming
Universal Life Church
Universalism
Westboro Baptist Church
Science, biology, and health
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ADD/ADHD
AIDS
AIDS denialism
Alcoholism
Allergy – causes of
Allopathic medicine
Alzheimer's disease
Alternative medicine and closely related issues
Anencephaly
Answers in Genesis (AiG)
Anthropology
Assisted suicide
Aspartame
Aspartame controversy
Asperger's syndrome and Autism
Astrology as a "science"
Bates method
Bioethics
Biology and sexual orientation
Birth defect
Black hole information paradox
Blood transfusions
Breast cancer
Cancer cures
Caesarean section
Chakra
Chiropractic
Chromosome
Circumcision
Cloning
Cochlear implant
Cold fusion
Conjoined twins
COVID-19 pandemic
Cryonics
Creation science
Depleted uranium
Depression
Disability
Drugs
Dyslexia
Ebola virus
Albert Einstein
Electrical sensitivity
Elitism
Eugenics
Euthanasia
Evolution
Extraterrestrial Life
Family planning
Female genital mutilation
Modern flat Earth beliefs
Genetic engineering
Genetically modified foods (or GM food(s ))
Gender differences
Glyphosate
Heredity
Heritability of IQ
High Fructose Corn Syrup
HIV – virus that causes AIDS
HMO – US health care coverage
Hodgkin's Disease
Homeopathy
Human cloning
Human evolution
Human longevity
Huntington's disease
Influenza strains like the H5N1 virus or bird flu
Institute for Creation Research
Intelligent design
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
Jewish people as a "race"
Kombucha Tea
Lactose intolerance as a genetic inherited trait
Life extension
Lupus
Master race
Medical torture
Menopause
Mental disorder
Mental retardation
Michio Kaku
Mind control
MS and treatments for it e.g. CCSVI or [1 ]
Mucoid plaque
Nutrition
Obesity
Organ donor and transplants
Ovarian cancer
Overpopulation
Paternity testing
Pharmaceutical industry in the USA
Pluto demoted as a planet
Poppers (the use of alkyl nitrites as a drug)
Pregnancy
Premature birth
Prenatal care
Psychiatry
Race and science
Race and intelligence
Recapitulation theory
Rh blood group system (origins of RH negative Blood type )
Romani people as a race
Schizophrenia
Self-harm
Sex differences in intelligence
Sex differences in psychology
Sexually transmitted diseases
Smoking and tobacco
Smoking bans
Speciesism
Sperm donor and Egg donor
Stem cell research
String theory — testability , validity, and viability
Surrogate mother – child custody battles
Tay–Sachs disease
Nikola Tesla
Test-tube babies
Therapeutic touch
Thiomersal
Transgender , Transsexual , and BIID persons
Twin paradox
Universe – such as the Big Bang theory
Warburg hypothesis
Vaccination
Veganism and Vegetarianism
Vertebral subluxation
Sex, sexuality, and gender identity
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Abortion
Adultery ("consensual sex outside marriage")
Age of consent
AIDS
AIDS denialism
Anal sex
Anti-LGBT
Asian fetish (also Racial fetishism of other races/ethnicities).
Attraction to disability (a.k.a. Abasiophilia ).
Autoerotic Asphyxiation
Autogynephilia
BDSM
Bestiality
Biphobia
Bisexuality
Buggery
Buggery Act 1533
Child grooming – where perpetrators gain the trust of victims with the intent of sexually abusing them.
Child pornography
Child sexuality
Chlamydia
Circumcision
Conversion therapy (also called "reparative therapy")
Drawn pornography depicting minors (Lolicon , Shotacon )
Ejaculation
Fetishism
Fingering and fisting
Fornication
G-Spot
Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
Gay rights
Genetic sexual attraction
Genital modification and mutilation
Gerontophilia
Golden shower
Hebephilia
Hentai ("anime porn")
Heterophobia
Heterosexism
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Incest
Internet pornography
Intersex rights
Lesbianism
Lesbophobia
LGBT rights
Masturbation
Necrophilia
North American Man/Boy Love Association
Oral sex
Orgasm
Paraphilia
Pederasty
Paedophilia
Polyamory
Polygamy
Pornhub
Pornography
Pregnancy fetishism
Prostitution
Rape
Sadomasochism
Safe Schools Coalition Australia
Safe sex
Semen
Sex offender
Sexual abuse
Sexual acts
Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln
Sexuality of Adolf Hitler
Sexually transmitted diseases
Stalking
Suicide among LGBT youth
Surrogacy
Swinging (sexual practice)
Transgender rights
Transphobia
Transsexuality
Women (see Women and Sexuality)
X18+ rating
Xenogender
Zoophilia
Entertainment
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Bumfights
Disc jockeys
Duke Nukem Forever and other development hell games
Entertainment Software Rating Board
Gambling
Gamergate controversy and related articles
Girls Gone Wild
Hip hop culture , hip hop music , and rapping (rap music )
JBL Speakers - Concerns over public transport use
List of best-selling albums
MPAA film rating system
Playboy magazine
Pop punk
Pornographic magazines (Hustler and Penthouse )
Psytrance
SeaWorld
Smooth jazz
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Strip club (stripping/strippers)
Video game controversies
Westfield
World Star Hip Hop
Environment
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Naming of Adlay (plant) in Australia
Chernobyl – nuclear plant accident, April 25, 1986
Deepwater Horizon – oil spill, April 20, 2010
Deforestation vs Logging
Dust Bowl vs intensive farming
Ecofascism
Eco-terrorism
Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
Environmental vegetarianism
Fossil fuels vs air pollution and greenhouse gases
Fukushima-Daiichi – nuclear plant accident after, caused by 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Global warming and Global cooling theories
Hydraulic fracturing – industry vs environmental perspectives
Hydraulic fracturing by country
Hydraulic fracturing in the United States
Hydrogen Bomb and Atomic Bomb testing effects
An Inconvenient Truth – 2006 documentary movie on humanity's involvement in climate change
Mercury poisoning and cause of Minamata disease in a Japanese fishing village during the 1960s.
Mining and Deep sea mining
Nuclear power vs Wind farms (and other largescale power generation)
Oil drilling and ANWR petroleum reserves in Alaska 's North Slope
Overpopulation (see global human Population explosion )
Ozone depletion leading to Ozone hole
Pollution
Recycling
Sea level rise
Three Gorges Dam and other (Hydroelectric ) dams, vs Water shortages and droughts /floods
Toxic waste and its disposal at Love Canal
Volkswagen emissions scandal
Weather modification
Law and order
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Double jeopardy
Illegal drugs
Judicial system
Jury duty
Law enforcement
Legal status of Minors and Juveniles (see Teenagers )
Public education (also mandatory school attendance laws)
Prisons
Selective Service and Military draft
Tax (see also the U.S. Internal Revenue Service )
Languages
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Ancient Macedonian language
Aramaic , one language or group of languages
Balto-Slavic languages
Basque language – unrelated to any Indo-European or any other language in the world
Bilingualism in Canada
Celtic Revival – the restoration of Celtic languages in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, England , and Brittany , France
Chinese language policies
Creole languages
Dené–Caucasian languages
Ebonics
Filipino and Tagalog , Philippine languages
French language in Canada
Graeco-Armenian
Hate crimes and discrimination towards people not fluent in a region's primary language
Indo-European (languages and the "Aryan" race theory)
Japanese language and Korean language , theorized similarities and self-isolations from any other language
Ladino
Language revival
Linguistics
Macedonian language
Norwegian language
Occitan language , Occitania and vergonha (linguicide in France)
Pidgin English
Pig Latin - Use by Eshays
Quebec (French as the official language of the province over English)
Riksmål
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Sami language – spoken by the Sami people indigenous to Scandinavia.
Spanish in the United States
Turanism of Turkic languages
Welsh language
Yiddish language
Philosophy
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato
Scientific method
Socrates
Truth
Psychiatry
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Carl Jung
Phil McGraw
Thomas Szasz
Technology
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BitTorrent (protocol)
Blu-ray Disc
ChatGPT
Criticism of Microsoft
Criticism of Windows Vista
Criticism of Apple Inc.
Criticism of Google
Cryptocurrency
Console wars
Cyberstalking
Digital rights management esp re opening – see talk and archive
Electric car
Electronic voting
Facebook
Factory farming
File sharing
Ford Pinto
GNU/Linux naming controversy – discussed extensively at Talk:Linux
Han unification
HD DVD
Holography
Indent style
Myspace – online privacy and security issues
Napster
Net neutrality
NFT
Norton AntiVirus
Nuclear power
Object-oriented programming
P2P
Removal of Internet Explorer
Smart meter – concerns about privacy and health effects
Solar power
Standardization of Office Open XML
The Pirate Bay
Unmanned combat air vehicle – use of unmanned drones for warfare
Windows Vista
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4chan , 9gag and Reddit
A Current Affair
Anime
Beavis and Butt-head
Black Entertainment Television
Black Metal
Borat
Bumbags
Cancel culture
CCTV (Closed-circuit television/public surveillance)
Cable News : CNN , MSNBC and Fox News Channel , as well the BBC , RT and Al Jazeera
Censorship laws
Chinese television (CCTV news)
Da Vinci Code
Digimon – clashes among fans and critics over this and Pokémon
Digital television conversion in US
Diversity on prime-time TV
Disco music
Drawn Together
Emo
Eshays
European culture
Facebook
Family Guy
Federal Communications Commission or the US FCC
Furry subculture
Game of Thrones
Gamergate controversy or GamerGate
Gatorade - Concerns over bottles used as a bong
Gay culture
Google (privacy issues)
Goth subculture
Harry Potter
Hard rock and heavy metal music, esp. the inclusion of misogynistic and Satanic lyrics in some songs
Hippies
Ima Korean
The Innocence of Muslims
Internet forum /message boards, esp, the anonymous nature of these boards leading to trolling , cyberbullying and hate speech
KFC 's Zinger Boxes
MADtv
The Marshall Mathers LP
Media bias
Me Too movement
Murphy Brown – sitcom featuring a single mother
Music Television (MTV)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Netiquette
Nike TNs - Relation to Eshays , shoe fetishists and safety, fire and explosive concerns
PAW Patrol
Pentagon Papers of The New York Times 1971
PewDiePie videos
Political correctness
Punk rock music
Rap God
Rap and hip-hop music
Rave and Rave culture
Razor (scooter)
Rucka Rucka Ali music
Sailor Moon – LGBT and adult themes.
Sailor Mouth
Saturday Night Live
Sifl and Olly
The Simpsons
Sirius XM Radio – subscription to receive satellite radio
Smooth jazz
SpongeBob Squarepants
South Park (see South Park controversies )
Star Trek
Star Wars anthology
Steven Universe – LGBT and feminism themes
Telemundo and Univision – Spanish language Television in the US
Talk radio – limits on free speech
The Little Mermaid (2023 film)
Time Warner and Viacom as multi-corporate monopolies.
TikTok
Trinity Broadcasting Network and televangelists
The Twilight Saga
Twitter as a social trend.
US culture (Americana ) – the concepts of "American culture"
Virgin Records .
The Walt Disney Company
Wikipedia
Women -oriented television (Lifetime , Oxygen and WE ).
WeChat
World Wide Web or the internet .
YouTube (content issues).
Yuppies
Who Is America?
People
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Syed Ahmed
Muhammad Ali – conversion to Islam and anti-Vietnam war comments.
Kirstie Alley
Idi Amin – Ugandan dictator.
Criss Angel
Yasser Arafat
Jodi Arias
Joe Arpaio – Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona
Bashar al-Assad – President of Syria since 2000.
Julian Assange
Hans Asperger
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Gilad Atzmon
Michelle Bachelet
Michele Bachmann
Brigitte Bardot
Roseanne Barr (Arnold)
Glenn Beck
David Beckham
Beyonce
Joy Behar
Silvio Berlusconi
Art Bell – radio program discussions on conspiracy theories .
Bruno Bettelheim
Joe Biden – U.S. president
Tony Blair
Robert Blake – 2002 homicide defendant case.
Hans Blix
Christoph Blocher – prominent Swiss politician, former Federal Councillor .
Barry Bonds and the BALCO drug scandal (includes other Major League Baseball athletes Jose Canseco , Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez ).
Bonnie and Clyde
Ruđer Bošković – ethnicity.
Lorena Bobbitt – In 1994, mutilated her husband's penis in self-defense from alleged marital rape .
Leonid Brezhnev
Chris Brown – accused of domestic violence/abuse against girlfriend Rihanna
Jerry Brown – California governor.
Anita Bryant
Kobe Bryant
Pat Buchanan
Ted Bundy
George W. Bush and his father George H. W. Bush , U.S. Presidents.
Jeb Bush
Richard Butler – founder of the Aryan Nations group.
Caligula – Roman emperor.
George Carlin
Jimmy Carter – U.S. president and peace negotiator.
Fidel Castro and brother Raúl Castro , leaders of Cuba.
Cesar Chavez
Hugo Chávez
Dave Chappelle – satirist and comedian.
Dick Cheney , U.S. vice president and CEO of Halliburton .
Cher and her ex-husband Sonny Bono and his widow Mary Bono Mack in politics.
Jacques Chirac
Margaret Cho
Seung-Hui Cho – Virginia Tech University armed man killed himself and 32 others in 2007 massacre.
Noam Chomsky
Chris Christie – governor of the state of New Jersey.
Ward Churchill – Colorado State professor known for comments about 9-11 survivors, and involved in radical left and American Indian political movements.
Bill Clinton – U.S. President
Hillary Rodham Clinton – U.S. Secretary of State
Kurt Cobain – 1994 suicide (or murder) controversy.
Sacha Baron Cohen – for his controversial live-action characters Ali G , Borat Sagdiyev and Brüno
Christopher Columbus
Sean Combs – aka "Puff Daddy".
Nicolaus Copernicus – (Copernicus' nationality either Polish or German).
Stephen Colbert
The Completionist - allegations of charity fraud .
Jon Corzine – governor of the state of New Jersey .
Ann Coulter
Tom Cruise – open advocate of the Church of Scientology .
Miley Cyrus and her performance at the VMAs in 2013
Salvador Dalí
Jeffrey Dahmer
Angela Davis – former Black Panther member in 1973 federal homicide case.
Richard Dawkins
Ellen DeGeneres
Paula Deen – allegations of spoken racial slurs.
Hassan Diab – alleged role in the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing .
Andrew Dice Clay – satirist and comedian known for vulgar performances in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Dixie Chicks – politically charged anti-Bush comments in 2003.
Walt Disney – alleged antisemitism and alcoholism.
Phil Donahue
Jim Bob Duggar
David Duke
Andrea Dworkin
John Edwards
Marc Emery
Eminem – real name Marshall Mathers, rapper
PewDiePie — real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, YouTube gamer
Jeffrey Epstein
Pablo Escobar
Jerry Falwell
Melissa Farley
Carly Fiorina
Gerald Ford – 1975 Watergate pardons; U.S. President
George Floyd
Henry Ford
Michael J. Fox and late Christopher Reeve – stem cell research advocates.
Al Franken
Kenny G – dispute over genre.
Muammar Gaddafi , Libyan leader
William Gaillard
Galileo
Janeane Garofalo
Charles de Gaulle
Ricky Gervais – British comedian and actor
Mel Gibson – for verbal anti-Semitic and homophobic comments in DUI arrest
Kathie Lee Gifford – 1995 children's sweatshop scandal involved her clothing brand, her ex-husband Frank Gifford 's affairs, and her political and religious views spoofed in comedy
Newt Gingrich – U.S. Speaker of the House (1995–99)
Girls Aloud – numerous controversies
Rudy Giuliani – Mayor of New York City and U.S. presidential candidate.
Nancy Grace
Wayne Gretzky and wife Janet Jones in sports gambling scandal.
Joseph Goebbels
Whoopi Goldberg – political comments as co-host on the show The View
Barry Goldwater
Mikhail Gorbachev
Al Gore , U.S. Vice President
Temple Grandin – Livestock handling architect diagonsed with autism involved in the redesign of the cattle/livestock industry and leading figure of the Autism community
Alan Greenspan
Woody Guthrie – His song lyrics endorsed leftism/socialism and portrayed farm workers as victims of the Great Depression.
Guns N' Roses rock band – Axl Rose
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Ted Haggard
Tarja Halonen
Ken Ham – Young Earth creationist and the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG).
Sean Hannity
Jesse Helms – U.S. Senator.
Phil Hendrie – radio comedian
Patty Hearst – 1974 kidnapping/conversion by the Symbionese Liberation Army , bank robbery suspect with the group and arrested, convicted and released from prison.
Hideki Tojo – leader of WWII Imperial Japan , executed by International Court tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1948
Kamala Harris
Paris Hilton
Anita Hill in the 1991 Clarence Thomas sexual harassment case
Heinrich Himmler
Emperor Hirohito – involvement in WWII Imperial Japan policy
Christopher Hitchens
Adolf Hitler , German Führer and responsible for the Holocaust to exterminate nearly all of European Jews and other victims (i.e. Roma people , Slavs , homosexuals and communists), remains an infamous emotionally charged figure when it comes to associated issues of racism and antisemitism
Erich Honecker – Communist leader of the last years of East Germany (1971–89)
Jimmy Hoffa – 1975 kidnapping /disappearance
J. Edgar Hoover
Katie Hopkins
John Howard
L. Ron Hubbard
Mike Huckabee
Rock Hudson
Saddam Hussein – Iraqi dictator and secular leader against the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
Andrew Jackson – U.S. president and designer of federal government policy on American Indians and the Trail of Tears
George Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Michael Jackson – People v. Jackson case in 2005, and several other controversies
Jay-Z
Thomas Jefferson – U.S. president and drafter of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
Sheila Jeffreys
Caitlyn Jenner – U.S. Olympian who came out as transgender
Elton John
Magic Johnson – HIV diagnosis
Angelina Jolie and former husband Brad Pitt
Alex Jones
Jenny Jones due to the murder of Scott Amedure
Michael Jordan
John F. Kennedy – with brothers Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy – U.S. president, U.S. presidential candidate, and U.S. Senator, respectively.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – widow of John F. Kennedy, remarried to Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis .
Colin Kaepernick
Kim Kardashian
Andy Kaufman
John Kerry
Khomeini
Nikita Khrushchev – Soviet leader
North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung , his son Kim Jong Il and successor (son of Jong Il) Kim Jong-Un
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rodney King
Pia Kjærsgaard
Philip J. Klass
Polly Klaas child abduction case in 1993
Shosei Koda
Junichiro Koizumi – Japanese leader
Chris Kyle – United States Navy SEAL and most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
Lady Gaga
k.d. lang – homosexuality and animal rights activism
Ricki Lake
Lyndon LaRouche
Carlos Latuff – controversial cartoonist.
Norman Lear – producer of groundbreaking 1970s TV comedies on social satire.
Jean-Marie Le Pen and daughter Marine Le Pen in French politics.
Heath Ledger
Vladimir Lenin – Soviet leader.
John Lennon – US CIA investigations in the early 1970s
Lewis Libby
G. Gordon Liddy
Lil Wayne
Rush Limbaugh
Abraham Lincoln – U.S. president during the American Civil War .
Jennifer Lopez
Lil B
Trent Lott
Courtney Love
Martin Luther
Catharine MacKinnon
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – South African civil rights activist and leader who spent time in prison
Bernie Madoff
Madonna
John Major
Nelson Mandela – South African civil rights activist and leader who spent years in prison
Charles Manson
Marilyn Manson
Mao Zedong – Chinese leader, may have been responsible for the deaths of up to 80 million.
Ferdinand Marcos , Imelda Marcos , and their son Bongbong Marcos , Philippine leaders.
Rachel Marsden
Karl Marx
Jackie Mason
John Mayer – allegations of spoken racial slurs.
John McCain
Paul McCartney – alleged domestic abuse of ex-wife Heather.
Jenny McCarthy – TV show hostess turned activist for autism research and mother of a son diagnosed with autism.
Steve McNair – his murder-suicide by girlfriend.
Timothy McVeigh
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev
Golda Meir
Carlos Mencia – satirist/comedian.
Angela Merkel , German prime minister.
Freddie Mercury – rumours of homosexuality proven after his death from AIDS .
Harvey Milk
Billy Mitchell – disputed video game-related world records
Kenji Miyazawa
Demi Moore and her ex Ashton Kutcher .
Michael Moore
Henry M. Morris – prominent Young Earth creationist , coauthor of The Genesis Flood .
Jim Morrison – his mysterious death in 1971 at Paris.
Mother Teresa
MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson)
Elon Musk – business magnate
Benito Mussolini – Italian founder of fascism .
Napoleon – French leader.
Nero – Roman emperor
Olivia Newton-John – environmental activism.
Richard Nixon , U.S. president.
Notorious B.I.G.
Rosie O'Donnell
Opie and Anthony (formally of The Opie and Anthony Show)
Bill O'Reilly .
Barack Obama – U.S. president.
Keith Olbermann
Ozzy Osbourne
Donny Osmond – singer and actor
Marie Osmond – singer and actor
Terrell Owens – recent near-death, suicide attempt claims.
Sarah Palin – U.S. vice presidential candidate.
Nancy Pelosi – U.S. Speaker of the House 2007–10.
Katy Perry
Juan Perón and wife Eva Perón , Argentine leaders
Markus "Notch" Persson - anti-LGBT views.
Scott Peterson – convicted of murder of his missing pregnant wife Laci.
Augusto Pinochet – Chilean general became presidential dictator.
Valerie Plame
Nicole Polizzi – "Snooki" of MTV reality show Jersey Shore and the show's portrayal of Italian Americans condemned as ethnic stereotypes .
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
Pope Pius XII
Elvis Presley and his highly publicized death in 1977.
Prince
Charles III – ex-wife Princess Diana and new wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall , British royals.
Prince Harry and Prince William (and his wife Princess Kate ), heirs of the British crown.
Pol Pot , Cambodian leader.
Richard Pryor
Vladimir Putin – Russian leader.
Ray Rice
Richard Ramirez
JonBenét Ramsey – unsolved homicide case.
Ronald Reagan – U.S. president.
Janet Reno – U.S. Attorney General.
Michèle Renouf – associate of Holocaust deniers
Condoleezza Rice – U.S. Secretary of State.
Michael Richards – Due to the Laugh Factory incident.
Yvonne Ridley
Alberto Rivera
Geraldo Rivera
Geshe Michael Roach
Oral Roberts
Pat Robertson
Phil Robertson
John Rocker – baseball pitcher renowned for comments about New York City, racial minorities and homosexuals in a 1999 Sports Illustrated interview.
Kid Rock
Alex Rodriguez
Romário
Mitt Romney – U.S. presidential candidate.
Linda Ronstadt – Political activism and lesbianism.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cousin Theodore Roosevelt , U.S. Presidents.
Ben Roethlisberger
Pete Rose
Karl Rove
Babe Ruth
Donald Rumsfeld – U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Bobby Sands
Nicolas Sarkozy
Linda Sarsour
Michael Savage
Terri Schiavo case
Laura Schlessinger (Dr. Laura).
Dan Schneider - allegations of sexual misconduct.
Gerhard Schröder
Arnold Schwarzenegger as California state governor, rather than as actor.
Teofilo Vargas Sein
Selena – disputed theories over her 1995 murder.
William Shakespeare – in regards to additions and deletions of references to the "authorship question ."
Tupac Shakur and his shooting death in 1996.
Al Sharpton – African American civil rights activist.
Charlie Sheen
Matthew Shepard – media-publicized 1999 hate crime murder victim.
Sherlock Holmes
O. J. Simpson – accused of notorious crimes (double murder of his ex-wife and boyfriend in 1994).
Anna Nicole Smith
Joseph Smith – founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and Mormonism in the 1820s.
Edward Snowden
Eddie『Piolín』Sotelo – US talk host of Spanish-language radio program.
Sonia Sotomayor
Snoop Dogg – real name Calvin Broadus.
Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline .
Spice Girls – numerous controversies.
Jerry Springer
SSSniperWolf
Joseph Stalin , Soviet dictator who lead the USSR during the Depression and WWII, main perpetrator of The Great Purge and other Soviet atrocities.
Gloria Steinem
Erika Steinbach
Howard Stern – radio "shock jock " and liberal activist.
Jon Stewart
Sting – political activist.
John Stossel
Barbra Streisand
Jimmy Swaggart
Andrew Tate - far-right internet personality involved with several controversies, including sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
Tim Tebow
Nikola Tesla (his nationality being Serb vs. Croat ).
Margaret Thatcher – U.K. Prime Minister.
Justin Trudeau - Canadian Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau – Canadian Prime Minister.
Harry Truman – U.S. president; also, decision while in that office to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end WWII.
Donald Trump – President of the United States
Ted Turner
Mike Tyson
U2 – Irish rock band involved in political activist causes.
Joran van der Sloot
Michael Vick due to his involvement in illegal dogfighting.
Varg Vikernes
Barbara Walters
John Walsh – Anti-crime activist/child safety advocate after his son Adam Walsh was kidnapped, later found dead in 1981.
Andy Warhol
Kanye West – Rapper, also as ex-husband of Kim Kardashian.
Ruth Westheimer
Brian Williams
Joseph C. Wilson
Woodrow Wilson – U.S. president.
Oprah Winfrey
Susan Wojcicki - former CEO of YouTube from 2015 to 2023, is speculated to be behind controversial changes of the website.
Tiger Woods
Malcolm X
Xi Jinping – Chinese paramount leader.
Andrea Yates – Mass murderer of her 5 children in her home, claimed to have mental illness and post-natal depression .
Boris Yeltsin – Russian leader.
Yoko Ono – accusations of breaking up The Beatles when she married John Lennon.
Zinedine Zidane
George Zimmerman acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin
Jacob Zuma
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale – Sikh militant leader
Sports
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Barry Bonds – Mark McGwire and other MLB players in the 2000s doping scandals.
Esports
Fantasy sports
Golf
Hope Solo
Jesse Owens
Jim Thorpe
Olympics
Pete Rose in 1989 team gambling controversy.
Ryan Lochte
Student athletes and compensation
Super Bowl XXXVIII ; Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction
Tonya Harding
Larry Nassar
Lance Armstrong
Jerry Sandusky
Joe Paterno
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