That's so fucking stupid of Barclay. If you hit an adult with a stick and leave welts, you go to jail for assault. If you hit a kid with a stick and leave welts, it's a teaching tool? How much further backwards could that thinking be?
May I just point out that the person making those comments was Barkley, as in Charles, not Barclay, as in Don.
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