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[–]julesburm1891 33 insightful - 5 fun33 insightful - 4 fun34 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

The comment thread on “TERFs” being obsessive Ayn Rand fans is something else. Every single lesbian I know irl is a terf to them because she won’t fuck a male. Yet, I haven’t ever encountered a single, solitary lesbian who’s an aggressive Ayn Rand fan girl with multiple copies of her works.

But, like, have they even read Rand? Or are they just piling on the hate because “Reddit says Rand is bad and TERFs are bad so obviously TERFs love Ayn Rand”

[–]diapason 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 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 -  (1 child)

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.