Sigh. I grew up reading the "Little House on the Prairie" series. I find it hard to believe Rose Wilder would have been friends with the person who is as nasty as the one you're describing. And yet...they were indeed friends.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1353776614186733579 …
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Replying to @ChristieSmythe
Rose Wilder Lane's life was more complex than her mom's childhood stories. She and Rand were among the intellectual founders of American libertarianism and fiercely opposed the New Deal and all its works, such as Social Security.
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True. But even so, I don't think being opposed to the New Deal is a sign of evil. People can have different perspectives about what makes the most sense economically. I think we do need a safety net. Others might disagree.
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Whoa. Nothing in my tweet came close to suggesting that "being opposed to the New Deal is a sign of evil." I merely pointed out that the friendship you found mysterious may have rested on political affinity, not on who was nice or "nasty."
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Replying to @dianabhenriques @ChristieSmythe
Lol Rose Wilder Lane wasn't just "opposed to the New Deal" she spent the 1930s as an anti-FDR conspiracy theorist and antiwar concern troll who publicly defended Hitler She flipped on all that in a big hurry once the war started but it's public record
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Later on in life she was quite bitter over Ayn Rand eclipsing her fame as a "founding mother of American libertarianism" and fumed that the publishing industry favored Rand over her because she was Jewish Really fascinatingly awful person
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I also find it interesting that because LIW wrote an interesting account of her life that was later romanticized on tv, that means the daughter couldn’t possibly be a terrible person with terrible friends. Says a lot about CS’s thought process & maybe some of her choices
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Never watched the TV series, just read the books. And the later books which deconstructed the romanticized life. I am still not sure how her daughter was a "terrible" person, apart from being a libertarian activist.
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Which later books, the "Rose Years" books (Little House on Rocky Ridge and its sequels)? Those books don't "deconstruct" jack shit, they're straight up libertarian propaganda by Roger Macbride and unlike the originals they're barely based on real history at all
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Anyway if you don't know why people think Rose was a terrible person in real life then you literally don't know the first thing about her The "Rose books", again, were written by her "adopted son" (young enough to be her grandson) who didn't know jack shit about her childhood
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ChristieSmythe and
Rose was, among other things, a serial plagiarist and fabulist as a writer, an abusive moocher and grifter in her personal life, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist as an "activist" And there's a strong argument to be made she groomed the teen boys she "mentored"
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Arthur coming in hot with the facts! Got-damn I’m glad when I chose the right side of shit! (It’s easy when you care about others & recognize harm)
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