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[AsianActivist]

Hi, I'm new here and as my name shows I'm an Asian Activist.

More specifically, I'm an Asian-American activist and part-time political commentator currently based in Taiwan. Some of my issues of focus are: religious freedom, racial equality, migrant rights, LGBTQIA rights and gender equality. I strongly believe in fighting oppression wherever it can be found and a strong anti-racist.

I am interested in religions and the interplay between so-called "traditions" and progress to modernity. Also if you notice my handle's initials are AA which is a tribute to Ayn Rand ("A is A") whose writings initially inspired my Anti-Racist activism:

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.​

That's all for now.

-AA

 

[Smart_Guy]

Welcome aboard!

 

[Terese]

Heya AA! Lovely to see a personality with a strong opinion

 

[Rival]

I'm sure we'll get along just fine.

 

[BSM1]

Hi, I'm new here and as my name shows I'm an Asian Activist.

More specifically, I'm an Asian-American activist and part-time political commentator currently based in Taiwan. Some of my issues of focus are: religious freedom, racial equality, migrant rights, LGBTQIA rights and gender equality. I strongly believe in fighting oppression wherever it can be found and a strong anti-racist.

I am interested in religions and the interplay between so-called "traditions" and progress to modernity. Also if you notice my handle's initials are AA which is a tribute to Ayn Rand ("A is A") whose writings initially inspired my Anti-Racist activism:

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.​

That's all for now.

-AA

Hey, AA. AA also stands for Alcoholics Anonymous. Just be careful...

 

[David1967]

Welcome!

 

[Rival]

So basically you are a contemporary liberal?

As I said, I'm sure we'll get along just fine

 

[Godobeyer]

Welcome Asian !

 

[metis]

Welcome!

 

[Laika]

Welcome to the Forums Asian Activist. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Also if you notice my handle's initials are AA which is a tribute to Ayn Rand ("A is A") whose writings initially inspired my Anti-Racist activism:

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
That's all for now.

I did flick through a PDF version of The Virtue of Selfishness a while back and I remember thinking Rand's view on Racism was rather novel because I hadn't heard it described as a fault of collectivism. It came as quite unexpected to someone who is more used to thinking of racism as a product of economic discrimination in the marketplace, but it can't really be denied that it is as a collectivistic ideology that racism leads to legal oppression (rather than systematic economic inequalities). So it was very intresting.

 

[savagewind]

Hi. Welcome!

 

[Raahim]

Welcome to the RF, enjoy it here.
Little off-topic: LGBTQIA, what on Earth?! When I was a kid it was LGBT, then LGBTQ and not LGBTQIA? It's just expanding, what do the IA stand for?

 

[Revoltingest]

Greetings!

Join us for a midnite snack...

 

[Deidre]

welcome

 

[AsianActivist]

So basically you are a contemporary liberal?

As I said, I'm sure we'll get along just fine

Basically, I identify very broadly as a "liberal". For instance I voted for Obama twice and generally fall to the left. Of course it's never that simple.

I consider my beleifs a mix of left-libertarianism, with a dash of anarchism and Trotskyism. I'm skeptical about some aspects of capitalism without rejecting it altogether but my main focus is social issues rather than economics

 

[jeager106]

Welcome.

 

[DawudTalut]

Peace be on you.
Welcome.

 

[Nietzsche]

Also if you notice my handle's initials are AA which is a tribute to Ayn Rand ("A is A") whose writings initially inspired my Anti-Racist activism:

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.​

That's all for now.

-AA

Please tell me that was the first, last and only thing you took positively from anything ever written by Ayn Rand.

 

[AsianActivist]

Please tell me that was the first, last and only thing you took positively from anything ever written by Ayn Rand.

Pretty much. When I was in college I was a bit more of a free-market libertarian, but I'm not really anymore.

 

[Nietzsche]

Pretty much. When I was in college I was a bit more of a free-market libertarian, but I'm not really anymore.

Oh thank god. The last thing the world needs are Randians breeding.