Wow, this (long) 1964 or 1965 Heinlein letter on race is awful. https://medium.com/@delong/weekend-reading-robert-a-heinlein-letter-for-f-m-busby-on-freedom-and-race-relations-127e20c16016 … via @HeerJeetpic.twitter.com/lNWxbHcSYa
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Wow, this (long) 1964 or 1965 Heinlein letter on race is awful. https://medium.com/@delong/weekend-reading-robert-a-heinlein-letter-for-f-m-busby-on-freedom-and-race-relations-127e20c16016 … via @HeerJeetpic.twitter.com/lNWxbHcSYa
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (1/9) the most interesting thing about it, I think, is how the “libertarian” Heinlein enslaves himself to the
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (2/9) prejudices of this neighbors as mediated through a market that rewards discrimination and punishes
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (3/9) tolerance: Heinlein says that people who do not want to discriminate have no choice, because the market
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (4/9) will bankrupt them if they do not. And forbidding discrimination via the law (a) cannot work, and (b)
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (5/9) is an infringement on Heinlein's "freedom". Thus being forced by the market to do something you find
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (6/9) repulsive because it places you under the unfightable pressure of financial distress is freedom,
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (7/9) while having a law mandate treating your fellow citizens as equals and with respect--something you very
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (8/9) much wish to do--keeps you from being a free man. There is an extraordinary right-libertarian-
.@rebeccaonion @HeerJeet (9/9) neo-Confederate rhetorical three-step argument going on here... <https://medium.com/@delong/weekend-reading-robert-a-heinlein-letter-for-f-m-busby-on-freedom-and-race-relations-127e20c16016 …>
@delong @rebeccaonion Great analysis Brad. You should blog this.
@rebeccaonion @delong It is hard to reconcile this letter with RAH's 1940s/1950s use of non-white characters (i.e. Juan Rico in Troopers).
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