My Most Controversial Articles So Far, As of April 2020

People who have been reading my website for a while are probably aware that, at the end of 2019, I wrote a list of my articles that were most popular over the course of that year. At that time, I only had 185 article published. As of today, 25 April 2020, I now have 247 articles published on this website, counting this one.

Since I recently published an article about the ancient Egyptians that has received considerable negative backlash, I’ve decided to give a short list of some of my most controversial articles of all time. These articles are included here based on the number of angry comments that I have received pertaining to them. There are many other articles that I expected to be controversial that have not received many negative comments and are therefore not listed here.

I have included on this list a number of excerpts from various negative comments that have been left on my articles. I have, in some cases, excerpted the passages quoted below from longer comments, but I have not edited any of these passages for spelling, grammar, or punctuation, nor have I removed any kind of offensive language. These passages are completely uncensored.

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Top Posts of 2019

I know that lots of blogs that are far more popular than mine often do lists of “top posts” at the end of each year. My blog here is not especially popular; only four of my articles have received more than two thousand views this entire year and the vast majority of my articles have received less than four hundred views all year. Even my most popular articles rarely ever received more than ten views a day.

Nonetheless, I figure I might as well do a list of the articles that have been most popular this year just for the fun of it. Besides, I figure a list like this one may offer my followers an opportunity to see some of my older articles that have been popular this year that they may not have read yet.

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