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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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I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.
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People can be so heartless and dirty.
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I believe human sexuality is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something ennobling and empowering, to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as sex workers and god
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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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Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.
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It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.
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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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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
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In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.
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I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.
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More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves 'edgy' are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.
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It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
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Liberating is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.
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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 didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.
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I can't tell you how many times people - through the anonymity and safety of the Internet, of course - have told me 'You beat women' as if it was an ongoing, daily thing. The only person ever brave enough to say it to my face quickly surrendered his courage when I said, 'Would you like to step outside and see if I can beat men, too?'
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If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.
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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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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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When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.
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