Looking forward to some great insights from the Ayn Rand Institute
Weird because a looong time ago when I was a libertarian nerd I was still pro-Palestine. Like, it’s a pretty straightforward thing even from a libertarian perspective.
the only thing stalin did wrong was give ayn rand an education
Ayn Rand Institute
The same monster that said millions of slaughtered First Nations peoples deserved to be slaughtered because they didn’t “own” the land in a proper way to begin with?
Being a libertarian is just dressing up your support for white supremacy in fancy language
If they really want to commit to being the Ayn Rand institute, they should use Ayn Rand’s argument for why Native Americans didn’t have the rights to their land
Dare I ask?
" [Native Americans] didn’t have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their ‘right’ to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent." - Ayn Rand, West Point lecture 1974
To be clear, Indigenous peoples did have property rights in their own legal codes and did work the land, so she’s even wrong on the basics here, and even if they didn’t would not justify genocide.
Whenever Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey On The Moon” poem was posted on Youtube, there was a very good chance in the comments that some cryptofascist would declare that black people would “still be living in mud huts” if they hadn’t received the blessing of enslavement and tied that to more recent history as a wailing terror that magical space futures will be denied if social justice isn’t wiped out as a concept.
I’d far rather live as equals on earth than have slaves in space
West Point
Fuck the troops
I “like” the text of that speech because it just nakedly shows how much a monster Rand was and the natural conclusion of her “philosophy”. Showed it to a Rand stan I know and she never responded to it.
In the land of anticommunism, all roads lead to fascism.
