Atlas Shrugged Day

[french frank]

"On Oct. 10 and 11, Airelle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protestors in New York’s Zuccotti Park… 65 percent say that government has a moral responsibility to guarantee all citizens access to affordable health care, a college education, and a secure retirement - no matter the cost. By a large margin (77 percent to 22 percent), they support raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but 58 percent oppose raising taxes for everybody… Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn’t represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believe in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence.”

Bounders!

[amateur51]

I'm not at all sure what you mean by effeminate, and why in any case that would necessarily be a bad thing.

Precisely!

[amateur51]

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Must correct you on the point about homophobia/racism, though: Objectivism is against both of those. Even though Rand herself found homosexuality 'disgusting', she was never in favour of its prohibition.

Oh well that's alright then. So glad you cleared that up, Mandryka. Very decent of her. :vomit:

[Mandryka]

Oh well that's alright then. So glad you cleared that up, Mandryka. Very decent of her. :vomit:

I think you might know certain homosexuals who find heterosexuality 'disgusting' but, like Rand, are not in favour of its prohibition.

And to understand the historical context, this is America in the censorious 40/50s we're talking about: Rand was taking a very 'liberal' line.

[amateur51]

I think you might know certain homosexuals who find heterosexuality 'disgusting' but, like Rand, are not in favour of its prohibition.

And to understand the historical context, this is America in the censorious 40/50s we're talking about: Rand was taking a very 'liberal' line.

Erm I wasn't able to vomit in the 1940s, being born only in 1951.

So I vomited from a contemporary perspective