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Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.
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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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In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.
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There's a reason the Third World came in third.
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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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Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word multicultural, you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.
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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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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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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
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