[deadite]

>Like a lot of white males, I read Ayn Rand’s bestselling novel Atlas Shrugged when I was 18.

>Rand’s simplistic Objectivist worldview couldn’t be better designed to appeal to sheltered middle-and-upper-class suburban white boys like me

>As soon as I befriended people who were not suburban white dudes, and once I understood that they had to work five times as hard to enjoy half of the privilege that I enjoyed, I realized that Rand was singing a heroic ode to the comfortable.

Stop posting racism that's wrapped up as self-flagellation. It's getting tiresome.

[ericmay]

I agree. These hit pieces are low quality click bait pretending to pass as intellectual insight. They’re not.

[vinay427]

Alternatively, there is an argument to be made that these quotes are antiracist in the context of present society (in the US, although not exclusively).

[uvnq]

Antiracism in the context of present society must be pretty racist then.