Ayn Rand: Racism VS. Individualism

Here we're talking about rights inherent to individuals, not rights granted by the tribe

"One of the worst contradictions, in this context, is the stand of many so-called "conservatives" (not confined exclusively to the South) who claim to be defenders of freedom, of capitalism, of property rights, of the Constitution, yet who advocate racism at the same time. They do not seem to possess enough concern with principles to realize that they are cutting the ground from under their own feet. Men who deny individual rights cannot claim, defend or uphold any rights whatsoever. It is such alleged champions of capitalism who are helping to discredit and destroy it.


The "liberals" are guilty of the same contradiction, but in a different form. They advocate the sacrifice of all individual 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."

Ayn Rand




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[turbofritz2]

@Vodnoman I think you missed the point.

We are not ALL the same. But that doesn't mattter.

We cannot figjt like dogs. We have to judge by charachter and not race.

We have to judge by individualism and not by a race.

[teawead]

@Vodnoman

Are you saying losing your job to a black man is worse than losing it a white man?

Or let me put it this way, does losing your job to a different race make it more worse?

You should probably read your comment again.

[Vodnoman]

I think people are all the same. The skin doesn't makes u different.

However most of the people who are racist don't hate the opposite race because they don't like how they look, they hate them because they are afraid of loosing their job, place to live etc, or they are angry because of these already happened.

For example if a white man looses his job somewhere in USA, and he is replaced by black man he starts hating him and starts proclaiming racism otherwise he doesnt have reason to do this.

[WarVideo]

@eddie6126 How is that racist? It was the case that when Europeans came to America they were white...you know...... becaue they were European. And the peple in America were all indian....you know... becaue they were...in america. It's no more racist than when indians talk about the" white man" coming to america.

Mentioning skin color and talking about it does not make you a racist.

[WarVideo]

@dannidandannikins Of course it had to be an "open philosophy" so called objectivist advocating for racism.

[Guncriminal]

@cgseggal

Everyone was primitive and savage at one time. There's nothing racist about it.

[eddie6126]

@cgseggal For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent." - Ayn Rand To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, March 6, 1974

[eddie6126]

@cgseggal

Lets not forget her saying: "[The 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 they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent?

[eddie6126]

@cgseggal I agree, perhaps it is Rand's flawed philosophy in the first place that has confused people including @jaar2001. Her denying 'Racism' is not what is meant in this presentation.

[cgseggal]

Um... something is massively amiss here. I have JUST heard Ayn Rand describing a certain racegroup as primitive and savage, in the most outrageously racist series of remarks from her mouth on live TV. Yet here you present words and ideas and connect them to her name as if to deny her actual racism. WTF?