>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 desig

>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.