If you're going to be contrarian about something like that, you have to provide some sort of rationale for it, otherwise you're just throwing red meat out there

If you're going to be contrarian about something like that, you have to provide some sort of rationale for it, otherwise you're just throwing red meat out there and inviting downvotes. This goes 1000x over for touchy issues where you can be easily misinterpreted as expressing a pro-Nazi or pro-USSR viewpoint. Forums are discussions, not polls where all anyone cares about is the quantity of opinions on either side. And if you don't care about people misinterpreting you, there's no point in expressing yourself publicly to begin with. Like, literally no point. The whole purpose of forums are to communicate your ideas to other people, not to rep yourself. The more controversial and easily-misinterpreted your stance is, the more important it is to back it up with information and explanations.