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[–]diapason 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm guessing they haven't even read any of her work, or if they did, they didn't bother trying to understand it. I think it's just Reddit's habit of bandwagoning on hating things even if you aren't familiar with them

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I’ve never read anything by Ayn Rand (I don’t think she’s very popular over here) but I know Reddit has a hate boner for her. What’s the TL;DR?

[–]TheBeefBenson 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very Libertarian philosopher whose main reasoning was that unproductive people, the government, wish to steal the labor of productive people, the capitalists, and they hide behind the concept of alturism to do it. Not all her points were great not all were bad, but she isn't considered a controversial writer... just a really bad writer. Because although her philosophical reasoning isn't terrible, her writing really is. It's rare to meet a libertarian who actually likes Atlas Shrugged.

Where they're getting this connection with Ayn Rand to Radical Feminists is really beyond me, though. I think it's a product of the hive-mind churning up faux hate for anything to the right of whatever political opinions twitter tells them to have that particular week.

[–]Archie 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

One of the flagships of libertarians. Basically anti government, anti social system, anti any kind of protection for the most vulnerables in our society, which she despised anyway.

Most of reddit probably hasn't read her rags, but they're accidentally right on the issue.

[–]fuck_reddit 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok, that’s a 24 sec clip taken from a 30 min interview. That’s part of a broader clip where she’s explaining that she loves her husband for his virtues, not his weaknesses...

[–]Archie 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That context does not redeem the sentence "the weaks are unworthy of love", it just means she thought her husband was not a part of that group, however she defined it.