![Ranked #242 - 3578 votes - 101 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
Controversies
Updated: 1 decade 1 year 5 months 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.
![Ranked #242 - 3578 votes - 101 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
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![Ranked #197 - 4680 votes - 193 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
![Ranked #43 - 21499 votes - 622 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00500.png)
![Ranked #144 - 6928 votes - 211 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
Out 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![Ranked #204 - 4381 votes - 201 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
![Ranked #425 - 1332 votes - 64 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00050.png)
![Ranked #193 - 4786 votes - 131 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
![Ranked #440 - 1236 votes - 33 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00025.png)
![Ranked #495 - 973 votes - 35 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00025.png)
![probationary - 0 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/proby.gif?v=3)
![Ranked #26 - 31415 votes - 1447 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/01000.png)
![Ranked #45 - 21175 votes - 506 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00500.png)
![Ranked #26 - 31415 votes - 1447 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/01000.png)
did i mention nsfw?
posted by pigeon![Ranked #153 - 6577 votes - 187 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
![Ranked #265 - 3077 votes - 115 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
Teacher 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![Ranked #75 - 13600 votes - 505 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00500.png)
Video 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![Ranked #222 - 4012 votes - 143 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/00100.png)
This 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 11 months 3 weeks ago • 282 views![banned - 593 star points](https://videosift.com/cdm/stars/banned.png)