Exactly. The shit behavior- and how it affected others, including their careers- gets ignored but it really shouldn't.
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His reputation for being "ahead of his time" politically is mixed with his reputation for being a creep by the standards of his time
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Like, people *at the time* warned women off of him at conventions
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Like how no Founding Fathers weren't complicit in racism but *at the time* Jefferson was constantly challenged as a hypocrite
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Anyway Asimov deserves some cred for his role in the Futurians and pushing explicitly progressive ideology as intrinsic to SF
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At a time when John Campbell, the hero of the genre, was explicitly, openly, literally a white supremacist
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But for most of his later career his politics was standard Cold War liberal. Ellison was justified in calling him out as a has-been
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(Ellison doing the callouts in the 1970s, Ellison himself got called out in the 2000s, so the cycle turns)
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