As if we needed any more proof that Ayn Rand was evil down to her DNA

[gregcrawford]

New transcript of Rand at West Point in '74 enthusiastically defends extermination of Native Americans.
By Ben Norton / Salon
October 14, 2015

Ayn Rand is the patron saint of the libertarian Right. Her writings are quoted in a quasi-religious manner by American reactionaries, cited like Biblical codices that offer profound answers to all of life’s complex problems (namely, just “Free the Market”). Yet, despite her impeccable libertarian bona fides, Rand defended the colonization and genocide of what she called the “savage” Native Americans — one of the most authoritarian campaigns of death and suffering ever orchestrated.

“Any white person who brings the elements of civilization had the right to take over this continent,” Ayn Rand proclaimed, “and it is great that some people did, and discovered here what they couldn’t do anywhere else in the world and what the Indians, if there are any racist Indians today, do not believe to this day: respect for individual rights.”

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http://www.alternet.org/libertarian-superstar-ayn-rand-defended-native-american-genocide?akid=13575.145667.LQwIkb&rd=1&src=newsletter1044066&t=12

[annabanana]

1. ugly right down to the bone . . . .n/t

[mr goodbeer]

2. Not "Evil" (no such thing; same goes for "Good")

She was just batshit-fucking crazy!

[Hydra]

3. Someone correctly pointed out that Rand's views basically boiled down to Might Makes Right

As long as it's Her's. Reading the long form of the session is interesting- as in most of her talks, she shoots herself down as an objectivist as she waxes with religious fervor about the all powerful God-thing of Capitalism. It's the answer to everything!

[NonMetro]

4. The Writer Didn't Prove His Point

She defended the colonization, but to say she defended "genocide" is a stretch.