1. A twitter essay on Robert Heinlein and racism, a vexed topic.
4. 4. In late 1930s, Heinlein & wife broke with a close friend when that friend made anti-Jewish remarks.
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5. One stain on Heinlein's record is 1941 Yellow Peril novel Sixth Column (about Pan-Asiatic takeover of USA).
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6. Mitigating or complicating racism of Sixth Column is that Heinlein got the plot from editor John W. Campbell & tried to tone it down.
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