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Article #596565Re: E.R. Burroughs
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 01:59
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 01:59
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In article <798342bb-e74b-4f0a...@googlegroups.com>, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com says... > > On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 3:34:06 PM UTC-4, ma...@mail.com wrote: > > > Almost all fantasy-fiction books, say 1880-1950 were racist. Heinlein was > > a good writer, but a psyc* would spend weeks dredging his deepest needs. > > Then psych* aare full of shi* anyway. I must reread Clarke's > > "The City and the Stars" again. > > Lots of old books were racist. I was surprised they had us read > Mark Twain in public school due to its racism and liberal use of > the n-word, as in "nobody was killed except some n-----s". For certain values. Twain was an abolitionist. Painting him as a racist is reaching. > I read a 1910 engineering book which explicitly recommended > against utilizing "colored labor", despite the cheaper price. > > Even Eleanor Roosevelt's memoirs--going by today's standards-- > would not pass muster with political correctness, and she was a > fighter for civil rights.
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