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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      4. 4. In late 1930s, Heinlein & wife broke with a close friend when that friend made anti-Jewish remarks.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      7. Trying to tone racism of plot, Heinlein did introduce (problematically of course) "good" Japanese-American, Frank Roosevelt Matsui.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      8. But aside from (or in addition to) Sixth Column Heinlein in late 1940s & 1950s almost always tries to have multi-ethnic cast.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      9. This is very notable in juvenile (young adult) books Heinlein wrote. He insisted to agent that he be allowed to have Jewish characters.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      10. The 1950s juveniles were far ahead of time in having African American main characters, notably in Star Beast & Tunnel in the Sky

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      11. One of the cast of Tunnel in the Sky is an African-American girl of Zulu descent. Very provocative anti-colonial statement.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      12. Samuel Delany has written about shock (and joy) he felt as teen reading Starship Troopers & realizing Juan Rico is non-white Filipino.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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      13. So how the hell did Heinlein end up writing Farnham's Freehold (1964) about future ruled by Black Muslim cannibals?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014

      14. One thing is that at least in intent (bu not in execution) Farnham's Freehold was meant to be anti-racist book, Swiftian in nature.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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          15. Swiftian satire dangerous tool for so blunt a writer as Heinlein.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2014
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          16. If Heinlein wrote "A Modest Proposal" many of his readers would have started a baby-eating cult.

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