Controversies
Updated: 1 decade 1 year 2 months 1 week ago
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Lightning rod videos - those that have generated some of the biggest debates and most heat at the Sift, either in the form of downvotes or comments.
I find this to be an interesting place to showcase videos that reveal something about the "group psyche" of VideoSift: examples of videos which may or may not be particularly welcome here, or which generate some sort of strong response.
To keep things interesting, there's also some examples of videos that may not be particularly outrageous, but which incidentally drew drawn-out arguments and debates over topics both serious and silly.
This is a 'science' documentary created by Ramtha School of Enlightenment (a cult-like movement). It's a bizarre film mixing real science with un-proven mystical experiments, through the story of a really... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 6,616 viewsOut of around 1000 Hollywood films that have Arab and Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000) 12 were positive depictions, 52 were even handed and the other 900 plus were negative. This groundbreaking... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 10 months ago • 3,386 viewsdid i mention nsfw?
posted by pigeon 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 149,271 viewsTeacher Garrard McClendon focuses on correcting the poor grammar of African Americans. Understandably this is controversial. His final line in his interview made me smile.
posted by Deano 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 9,882 views • 4:03Video footage of 9/11 news coverage by the BBC where the collapse of World Trade Center building 7 was announced over 20 minutes before it actually fell has the BBC issuing a statement that its tapes are... continue reading
posted by LadyBug 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 3,135 viewsThis is an introduction to the dispute against AIDS being caused by the HIV virus. Saying, AIDS is actually caused by something else and current AIDS research is driven more by money than anything else.
posted by old_spider 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 282 views