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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.
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I tend not to hang with 'the crowd' because I believe that at any given moment in history, the crowd is only standing somewhere because some lone, brave nutjob broke down the walls for them first.
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In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.
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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
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Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.
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I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.
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Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
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It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world.
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The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.
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Mind you, I live in an area of Atlanta that is nearly 88% black. But in six days in and around Melbourne, I saw maybe three people of African origin and maybe one easily identifiable Australian aborigine.
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People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.
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In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
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The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.
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I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
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When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.
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I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.
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I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.
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The leftist drive for control is insatiable.
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