Heinlein is very interesting because he was trying to be anti-racist (one of his 1950s books has a Zulu heroine) but he could't imagine other cultures.
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A step forward, in the SF world of then, but one more of cleverness than insight.
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The multiculturalism of Heinlein's 1950s books did influence, I think, Chris Claremont's X-Men (although Claremont did it better).
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Thank god Claremont didn't pick up a copy of Farnham's Freehold.
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Oh my god, I haven't thought about that book in 30+ years. Even when I was 14 I was bothered by how racist it was.
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Hey, and then there’s SIXTH COLUMN. [Which I’ll mention was plotted by John W. Campbell, because otherwise someone else surely will. And Heinlein did his best to tone down the racism, but it’s baked right in.]
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The weird thing about Farnham's Freehold is Heinlein intended it to be an anti-racist book (whiat if blacks treated whites the way whites treated black?) but he hamfistedly made it racist.
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He made the future black people cannibals! WTF, RAH?
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It’s been described as "a privileged white male...trying to understand American racism in the pre-Martin Luther King era. And getting it wrong for facepalm values of wrong, so wrong he wasn't even on the right map ... but at least he wasn't ignoring it”
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And "an anti-racist novel only a Klansman could love."
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That was me!
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So it was!
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Nice. That's backhanded enough that it kinda comes back around to the front.
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