Update:

Since I posted a quotation from Jim Goad here, I’ve come to read more of the man and detest certain things about school-children that he’s written.

I’m removing this quote on public shaming (with which I agree), as I don’t want to be seen as endorsing those other views.

It’s a form of protest on my personal property.

Some (not all) of Goad’s writing crosses what I consider permissible in public speech. They constitute a form of violent pornography, indistinguishable in my mind from actual child porn or separated only by a very thin line. Nor are they meditations that could remotely be considered art or academic analysis.

As I’ve said, I am not a free speech absolutist.