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197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism

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Why Are We Even Having a Discussion?

Wodan objectivist responds to anti racism, the black lives matter, were owed reparations 400 years of slavery and jim crow. He argues that blacks have accumulated less capital financially over generations because they couldn't own property. Andi: The whole collectivist ch is bogus. Slavery is horific. It's one of the great evils in the world. Is sad it ever existed. Capitalism eradicated slavery. Jim crow is horrible. Was horrible and evil and wrong. A, but, you know it, it's a hundred and 50 years since then. They're at a disadvantage. We've crippled them in two ways. One we hand them into poverty was started, institutionalized

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