Gotta admit that she's right Sup Forums. We all know it but we'd rather keep the dream alive.
>The question of whether one alleges the superiority or the inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist’s sense of his own inferiority. Like every other form of collectivism, racism is a quest for the unearned. It is a quest for automatic knowledge—for an automatic evaluation of men’s characters that bypasses the responsibility of exercising rational or moral judgment—and, above all, a quest for an automatic self-esteem (or pseudo- self-esteem). To ascribe one’s virtues to one’s racial origin, is to confess that one has no knowledge of the process by which virtues are acquired and, most often, that one has failed to acquire them. The overwhelming majority of racists are men who have earned no sense of personal identity, who can claim no individual achievement or distinction, and who seek the illusion of a “tribal self-esteem” by alleging the inferiority of some other tribe.
>Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements—and a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiated masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. Even if it were proved—which it is not—that the incidence of men of potentially superior brain power is greater among the members of certain races than among the members of others, it would still tell us nothing about any given individual and it would be irrelevant to one’s judgment of him. A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race—and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.
>Modern racists attempt to prove the superiority or inferiority of a given race by the historical achievements of some of its members. The frequent historical spectacle of a great innovator who, in his lifetime, is jeered, denounced, obstructed, persecuted by his countrymen, and then, a few years after his death, is enshrined in a national monument and hailed as a proof of the greatness of the German (or French or Italian or Cambodian) race—is as revolting a spectacle of collectivist expropriation, perpetrated by racists, as any expropriation of material wealth perpetrated by communists.
>The “liberals” are guilty of the same contradiction, but in a different form. They advocate the sacrifice of all i ndividual rights to unlimited majority rule—yet posture as defenders of the rights of minorities. But the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. This accumulation of contradictions , of shortsighted pragmatism, of cynical contempt for principles, of ou trageous irrationality, has now reached its climax in the new demands of the Negro leaders. Instead of fighting against racial discrimination, they are demanding that racial discrimination be legalized and enforced. Instead of fighting against racism, they are demanding the establis hment of racial quotas. Instead of fighting for “color-blindness” in social and economic issues, they are proclaiming that “color-blindness” is ev il and that “color” should be made a primary consideration. Instead of fighting for equal rights, they are demanding special race privileges. They are demanding that racial quotas be established in regard to employment and that jobs be distributed on a racial basis, in proportion to the percentage of a given race am ong the local population. For instance, since Negroes constitute 25 per cent of the population of New York City, they demand 25 per cent of the jobs in a given establishment.
Mason Davis
Go on...
"Rand was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Aли́ca Зинoвьeвнa Poзeнбayм) on February 2, 1905, to a Russian Jewish bourgeois" >en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
Isaac Davis
that proves her point desu
Hudson Gray
Yes, she was a Jew, but that doesn't stop her from being right. Hitler kept the Jews who were right by him too.
>Being a Jew proves her point Really makes you think.
Michael Collins
>abhor welfare state >die alone living off welfare
Andrew Gray
nazis btfo
again
I love this timeline
Samuel Cox
Collectivists are scum tho Look at what they did to blighty now there's paki rape gangs all over the shop
Jayden Green
I really want to fuck spiders t.bh
Jace Jones
This explains why whites as a whole are by far the least racist group of people. How's that for meta irony?
Joshua Moore
bump
Isaac Davis
Racists are retarded, subhuman and low IQ, but so was ayyy rand
Ethan Green
Atlas Shrugged justifies taking your own money back from the state. If she could draw social security then she must have paid into it
Kevin Campbell
/pole/ BTFO
Mason Rogers
Ayn Rand was many things, most I wouldn't agree with, but at least she was an individualist through and through.
Carter Davis
Did you just assume gender, you insensitive tranny asshole?
Jaxon Young
Who is this woman and why should I care?
Christopher Morgan
one of the most influential authors of businessmen in America.
Easton Miller
>nu/pol/ in charge of education
Angel King
So that's how do you call Jews now, huh?
Xavier Cox
it's full of undefined buzzwords like "racism", "race", "inferiority", "collectivism", "responsibility", etc.
This shit is getting tiring. Just write some software to randomly-generate these essays
Benjamin Bell
She was rightwinged, what did you expect? Rightards can only speak in buzzwords and ill-defined subjective appeals.
Aiden James
>because having pride in your people, their history, and accomplishments is only racist when you're white Why is this simple fact glossed over
Dylan Hughes
angry german nazi incoming
Hudson Smith
>still referring to the whole race how's that for being brainlet?
Brandon Williams
she literally talks about the Negroes here didn't it occur to you that maybe she acknowledged that the white race (to put it in simple terms, since she'd call it a lot of white individuals) had more achivements and inventions, but it still doesn't give a neckbeard virgin from Sup Forums any valid reason to feel good for himself?
Nicholas Foster
Stay cucked Hans. Collectivism has served you well in the past, hasn't it? You want to go back to Rosa Luxemburg for inspirational female ideologues?
