Citations:Randroid

English citations of Randroid

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) a supporter of Ayn Rand's philosophies, particularly an overzealous one"

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• 1980 — Barry B. Longyear, Science Fiction Writer's Workshop-I: An Introduction to Fiction Mechanics, iUniverse (2002), →ISBN, page 123:

  Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The only trouble with Rand's brand of "freedom" is having to take your brain to the cleaners weekly. Libertarians and Randroids. Always walking around and muttering to themselves; worrying about everyone else's lack of morals. Never met a bigger bunch of crooks in my life.

• 1999 — Jeff Walker, The Ayn Rand Cult, Open Court (1999), →ISBN, page 199:

  Their high-minded contextually-applied principles typically deteriorated in practice into a ranting rule-mongering no more edifying than that of the plebeian Randroid contingent.

• 2004 — Tibor R. Machan, The Man Without A Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist, Hamilton Books (2004), →ISBN, page 107:

  At the same meeting I was interviewed by the philosopher and historian George Walsh, a follower of Ayn Rand. The interview turned out to be a disaster, for after it had already been scheduled Walsh heard from Harry Binswanger — a Randroid loyalist I used to call the Basil Rathbone of the Objectivist gang, since since he seemed to fit the image of a ruthless henchman — that I was a "liar."

• 2007 — Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, Public Affairs (2007), →ISBN, page 544:

  Many may identify themselves with Roark and Galt without the real stuff to back it up, which is the root of popular disdain for the Randroid; a Roark type who isn't actually an accomplished genius can be insufferable.

• 2007 — Wayne Dwight Richards, Richard Ransdell, & LaDawna Word-Denslow, Dragon Drive: A Comedia Mundana, iUniverse (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:

  […] She was a very unpleasant lady, and one of the most unpleasant things about her was that she was what you might call a 'born-again Randroid,' someone who'd taken Ayn Rand's teachings to such extremes that she made Rand herself look like a flaming liberal by comparison. You know the type?"

• 2010 — Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, Back Bay Books (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  He wasn't leaving responsibility behind — Gov. Bug Lamp, vetoed into irrelevance within South Carolina by his own party and courted for the national stage precisely for his ability to say nothing a teenage Randroid couldn't imagine, fulfilled no real public responsibility.

• 2011 — Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Despite being populated by Randroids (Ayn Rand devotees) and sci-fi geeks, 4chan's literature board is another that continually surprises with clever content.

• 2011 — Deena Weinstein & Michael A. Weinstein, "Neil Peart versus Ayn Rand", in Rush and Philosophy (eds. Jim Berti & Durrell Bowman), Open Court Publishing (2011), →ISBN, page 273:

  Peart's remark was occasioned by having had to deal with repeated judgments by adverse rock critics, serious commentators and scholars, supporters of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and Rush fans that he was — as he said of himself as a youth — a "Randroid."