@roadriverrail@RickiTarr agreed on all points. I mentioned those pholosphers specifically because she either ripped them off, or they're Utilitarians, which I consider the more enlightened version of the self-interest she preaches.
@roadriverrail@RickiTarr honestly? I might assign it myself if I was a HS teacher. It's like baby's first philosophy. But I would assign it with context. And then they'd read Aristotle, maybe John Stuart Mill and David Hume, probably Nietzsche.
@RickiTarr *whispers* I was into Ayn Rand as a young teen and thought The Fountainhead was a guide to becoming some sort of elevated human. ๐ซฃ๐ซฃ๐ซฃ
@RickiTarr I blame my honors English teacher who assigned it. Thank God I got to college and read real philosophy and realized Objectivism is a bunch of nonsense, and mostly stolen nonsense written by a massive hypocrite.
Glad I wasn't the only one sucked in who grew up. ๐
You know why the fascists win? Because they get the left to constantly fight amongst ourselves over purity tests. You're not socialist enough, or anarchist enough, or anti-racist enough or using the exact correct language when being a LGBTQ+ ally. It's why we lose, and why our spaces fall apart, why the real enemy runs rampant and destroys our world.
I'm so sick of seeing it, over and over again. Sigh...
TIL I learned that my name, Jennifer, is the Cornish pronunciation of Guinevere from the Arthurian legends, and I can't stop thinking about how cool that is. ๐
@roadriverrail So, I had originally shared those memes that were like, " survived testosterone poisoning" before I considered how trans masc and NB folks felt about that. Now I stick that it's poison to me and has irreparably damaged me, but one woman's poison is definitely another man's medicine, yeah? @tattie
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