: Re: Promoting controversial opinions in a work of fiction I'm writing a first person novel and main character has highly controversial views, many of which the majority of people would probably consider

I have two ideas about this.

First: If your desired outcome is that readers agree with your (your character's) controversial positions, you're writing propaganda and as such the way to avoid rejection is to see if you can identify sympathetic publishers ahead of time before submitting your manuscript. This would tend to select for sympathetic readers as well.

Second: If your desired outcome is for your work to be perceived as a provocative work of fiction, without the specifics of the controversial positions getting in the way too much of a reader enjoying the work as just speculations on those positions, then, it definitely is possible to present almost any controversial position as a fictional element which it's up to the reader to react to.

What I'd recommend is to not treat this protagonist as your Mary-Sue, but instead let what happens to them in the story proceed in a realistic fashion.

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