I heard an interesting lecture a little while ago and there were some interesting points the speaker made about controversy and taking a standing for what is right.
You don’t have to be a troll to find yourself in the center of controversy. You only need to be two things: effective, and unwilling to back down.
You, who have studied and worked your way to where you are in life, know subconsciously (or consciously) that you can’t go against the raging river current of modern favor and the status quo. You must think as you’re told and recite from the script that everyone is comfortable with—but why were you born? What’s the point of being alive? Computers are vastly better at number crunching. They’ll soon be better at all kinds of more complex tasks. What they cannot do is stand on principle. What a computer cannot do is refuse to lend credibility to different systems that you disagree with or find false altogether. What the computer cannot know is the glorious exertion of the human will when it refuses to do obeisance in the face of lies and instead publicly speaks the truth.
The question is, are you able or willing to stand up for what you believe is right–even in the face of fierce public backlash?