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Politics and economics
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
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
Religion
2012 ,
2012 phenomenon , and the
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
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
Sex, sexuality, and gender identity
Entertainment
Environment
Law and order
Languages
Afrikaans spoken by
Afrikaners of
South Africa
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
Psychiatry
Technology
Media and culture
2b2t
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
SSSniperWolf
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
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – President of Iran 2005–2013.
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
Jon Corzine – governor of the state of
New Jersey .
Ann Coulter
Tom Cruise – recent actions and
Scientology controversy.
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
19 Kids and Counting
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
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.
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).
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
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
Taylor Swift
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 – also as husband of Kim Kardashian.
Ruth Westheimer
Brian Williams
Joseph C. Wilson
Woodrow Wilson – U.S. president.
Oprah Winfrey
Tiger Woods
Malcolm X
Xi Jinping – Chinese paramount leader.
Andrea Yates – Mass murderer of her 6 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
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