Mini-Rant: Heinlein
Jan. 8th, 2013 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imaginary_goluxWas over reading a very cogent post from N.K. Jemisin, who is an absolutely wonderful author, on racism and sexism in SFF fandom, and ran into the mention that someone had tried to use Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold as evidence that Heinlein was not racist.
I...just...AUGH MY BRAIN. What? Seriously, the only other Heinlein book as truly awfully racist as that one is probably Fifth Column, and...just...OMG WHAT.
...If you're going to try and prove something, at least give it a good go, okay? Don't pick one of the most racist novels by a given author to prove he isn't racist. Please? It breaks my brain.
I...just...AUGH MY BRAIN. What? Seriously, the only other Heinlein book as truly awfully racist as that one is probably Fifth Column, and...just...OMG WHAT.
...If you're going to try and prove something, at least give it a good go, okay? Don't pick one of the most racist novels by a given author to prove he isn't racist. Please? It breaks my brain.
