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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jan 2018
      Replying to @KurtBusiek

      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.

      1 reply 4 retweets 14 likes
    2. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 24 Jan 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      A step forward, in the SF world of then, but one more of cleverness than insight.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jan 2018
      Replying to @KurtBusiek

      The multiculturalism of Heinlein's 1950s books did influence, I think, Chris Claremont's X-Men (although Claremont did it better).

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. Peter Cashwell‏ @PeterCashwell 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @KurtBusiek

      Thank god Claremont didn't pick up a copy of Farnham's Freehold.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. (((Michael Weiss)))‏ @RotationlSymtry 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @PeterCashwell @HeerJeet @KurtBusiek

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @RotationlSymtry @PeterCashwell @HeerJeet

      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.]

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @KurtBusiek @RotationlSymtry @PeterCashwell

      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.

      2 replies 2 retweets 1 like
    8. (((Michael Weiss)))‏ @RotationlSymtry 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @KurtBusiek @PeterCashwell

      He made the future black people cannibals! WTF, RAH?

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    9. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @RotationlSymtry @HeerJeet @PeterCashwell

      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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    10. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @KurtBusiek @RotationlSymtry and

      And "an anti-racist novel only a Klansman could love."

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2018
      Replying to @KurtBusiek @RotationlSymtry @PeterCashwell

      That was me!

      3:15 PM - 25 Jan 2018
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        1. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @RotationlSymtry @PeterCashwell

          So it was!

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        1. Peter Cashwell‏ @PeterCashwell 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @KurtBusiek @RotationlSymtry

          Nice. That's backhanded enough that it kinda comes back around to the front.

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