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The topic of this show is collectivism and some of its manifestations, such as racism. After a shout-out to the business owners of Pittsburgh, Mosley read some quotes from the Ayn Rand Lexicon on racism and collective rights, including the following, and then throughly discussed them.

“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.”

“A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race—and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.”

“A group, as such, has no rights. A man can neither acquire new rights by joining a group nor lose the rights which he does possess. The principle of individual rights is the only moral base of all groups or associations.”

In the second half of the show, there was a caller as well. So check it out!