(Neither should any artist get a penny of taxpayer dollars, but that's a different can of worms.) But nothing should be done to restrict its creation or consumption. I find some of the stuff offensive, some of it sexy, a lot of it just plain boring. Liberals would like to censor anything that might hurt someone's feelings, conservatives would like to censor anything that might turn someone on, and with an ass-backward "kids first" mentality that turns adults into second-class citizens, both liberals and conservatives would like to restrict the rights of adults in order to "protect the children." (Such coalitions would be hilarious if they weren't so dangerous witness the goofy anti-porn tag team formed by right-wing nag Phyllis Schlafly and left-wing hag Catharine MacKinnon.)Īs a free speech absolutist, I defend everything from Patti Smith's proud prolific use of nigger to the poorly-written racism of The Turner Diaries, the rough-trade sex of Pat Califia and Robert Mapplethorpe, and the hilarious how-to Anarchist's Cookbook. It's a sorry fact that neither the left nor the right can be trusted to defend free expression.
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