Why do many SJWs hate Ayn Rand?

MealReadytoEat_ · 2017-04-05T23:17:23+00:00

There's lots of valid criticism of Ayn Rand, is it really a surprise those who have invalid fears of those in the far right would also fear those on the far right when valid?

thomhowe89 · 2017-04-06T22:45:58+00:00

There is a great quote from "Atlas Shrugged", where the female protagonist talks about how she deals with discrimination of women in leading positions:

"She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought—and never worried about it again."

BoozeBumAddict · 2017-04-06T12:36:44+00:00

Who's Ayn Rand?

EricAllonde · 2017-04-06T03:31:14+00:00

SJWs hate the idea of taking personal responsibility for their circumstances. Deep down they know that they are lazy and unproductive members of society; they rely on the productive members of society being forced to support them. That's also why so many of them are socialists and communists.

DevilishRogue · 2017-04-07T15:39:29+00:00

The reason they hate Rand is twofold, on the one hand they resent the simplification of what they see as their more nuanced perspectives (not realising or not accepting that this is what they boil down to) and on the other, as /u/EricAllonde points out, they hate that she contradicts their worldview and they cannot refute her.

roharareddit · 2017-04-09T21:37:12+00:00

SJWs and other liberal sorts hate anyone so is articulate and can put together a logical argument against them.

hackableyou · 2017-04-06T01:55:03+00:00

I don't know enough about her to say. But I am a libertarian in my beliefs and I think she is the mother of libertarianism.

mycroftxxx42 · 2017-04-06T05:48:22+00:00

She was a deeply traumatized person whose hypocrisy was somewhat breathtaking when compared to the strength with which she advocated her particular point of view. Her writing appeals to people on the autism spectrum who have issues comprehending some of the complexities of how societies work, and it supplies them with exactly the sort of self-serving answers that will shut down further thought on their parts.

Source: Best friend was an Objectivist, but she got better. Also, have read a couple of her novels and some amazingly execrable work by fans of hers.

Title	Why do many SJWs hate Ayn Rand?
Author	Wanderer15
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Date	April 5, 2017 11:09 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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