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The media spin of this 6 months (10/1922-3/1923) travel diary account is interesting. Yes, visiting another country and writing that the inhabitants are dirty and dumb is not a great look. (Though poverty can, indeed, make you look dirty and dumb by wealthier standards.)https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1007225549796847616 …
And yes, being repulsed by the customs of others is not a great look. But again, hardly uncommon, in any time (much less the 1920s). It is hard to be truly, consistently open-minded. (I am sure my reactions to the German "shelf toilet" could be seen as xenophobic. Fair enough.)
But this doesn't make Einstein a *hypocrite.* You can feel these things and *still* fight for civil rights, you can still fight systemic racism, still want the world to be better. The either/or dichotomy strikes me as totally juvenile, esp. when applied to historical figures.
Einstein's public image in the US is as a saintly scientific grandpa. This is bunk and always has been. He was a complex guy. Sometimes in ways that are good (e.g., his defense of civil rights, which earned him a 1,400 page FBI file), sometimes not (e.g., his issues with women).
This is not an Einstein defense. The guy was imperfect and often unpleasant to say the least; that's not new (to scholars anyway). But the way this is being used to frame his civil rights advocacy as hypocrisy is more revealing about the polarization of *our* time than Einstein.
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