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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.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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