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Originally Posted by jorgelito
What gets on your nerves? The references or the actual novels? The only people referencing Ayn Rand are the ones bashing it. Someone recommended an Ayn Rand novel in a different thread and got bashed for it. I haven't read any of her stuff but now I'm curious as to why her books are so offensive to people. Must contain a lot of graphic violence, baby killing, homophobia, misogyny and racist stereotypes or something to have so many people over react to the mere mention of her name.
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The references bother me, because they are being made by people whom I never knew to be interested in any kind of reading (we went to high school together, the ones I am talking about), and all of a sudden they're pulling out Fountainhead references like they've been following Rand for the last decade. I'm not convinced that they've actually read the book--hey, I haven't, either--but it seems to have become a Republican hand-me-down point that my friends use when I'm arguing with them. I have the same feeling of "offense" when they throw the Bible at me, in a political way.
From what I remember in Anthem, no, there is not baby killing and all the rest... anyway, that's not what offends me. It's just that people are quoting her, I feel, without actually reading the book. Kind of like the whole "I can see Russia from my island" thing. Just more disingenuity that pisses me off.
Or maybe I'm just on cynical override these days...
