Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has been completely unraveled by the pandemic

Re:Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has been completely unraveled... by deadite on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:33AM (#27569781)

>Like a lot of white males, I read Ayn Rand’s bestselling novel Atlas Shrugged when I was 18.

>Rand’s simplistic Objectivist worldview couldn’t be better designed to appeal to sheltered middle-and-upper-class suburban white boys like me

>As soon as I befriended people who were not suburban white dudes, and once I understood that they had to work five times as hard to enjoy half of the privilege that I enjoyed, I realized that Rand was singing a heroic ode to the comfortable.

Stop posting racism that's wrapped up as self-flagellation. It's getting tiresome.

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Re:Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has been completely unraveled... by ericmay on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:37AM (#27569820)

I agree. These hit pieces are low quality click bait pretending to pass as intellectual insight. They’re not.

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Re:Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has been completely unraveled... by vinay427 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:37AM (#27569812)

Alternatively, there is an argument to be made that these quotes are antiracist in the context of present society (in the US, although not exclusively).

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Re:Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has been completely unraveled... by uvnq on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:55PM (#27574259)

Antiracism in the context of present society must be pretty racist then.

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