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* UnfortunateImplications: It's supposed to be an anti-racism novel, but given that Heinlein was an upper-class white man from pre-Civil Rights Era California, he really didn't have a great handle on what race issues actually were. He just flipped things around so that the protagonists ended up in a society where black people (who were also cannibals) were now the masters of enslaved white people, so the Aesop came across as something along the lines of "given half a chance, black people will turn around and be even worse to white people than white people currently are to them." Or as one review put it, it was "an anti-racism novel only a Klansman could love."
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* UnfortunateImplications: It's supposed to be an anti-racism novel, but given that Heinlein was an upper-class white man from pre-Civil Rights Era California, he really didn't have a great handle on what race issues actually were. He just flipped things around so that the protagonists ended up in a society where black people (who were also cannibals) were now the masters of enslaved white people, so the Aesop came across as something along the lines of "given half a chance, black people will turn around and be even worse to white people than white people currently are to them." Or as one review put it, it was "an anti-racism novel only a Klansman could love."
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{{Anvilicious}}: Heinlein obviously worked a lot of themes into the novel, but he didn't try to be subtle about his opinions. Be completely self-reliant! Coddling people makes them weak! Don't be a bigot!
DesignatedHero: Hugh Farnham's got a lot of failings for a Heinlein hero. He indulges his wife's alcoholism, implies that he should have beat his son more to prevent him from growing into a StrawLiberal, engages in now-or-never, last-day-of-our-life intercourse with his daughter's best friend, threatens to boot his mouthy son out into fatal levels of hard radiation (claiming that 'the captain of a lifeboat is an absolute ruler'), and yet the one area he feels he's been "unjust" about is his treatment of the family's servant, Joe. In the final part of the book ''he'' is the helpless victim being pushed around, and then suddenly rebellion against the man giving orders is OK.
DesignatedHero: Hugh Farnham's got a lot of failings for a Heinlein hero. He indulges his wife's alcoholism, implies that he should have beat his son more to prevent him from growing into a StrawLiberal, engages in now-or-never, last-day-of-our-life intercourse with his daughter's best friend, threatens to boot his mouthy son out into fatal levels of hard radiation (claiming that 'the captain of a lifeboat is an absolute ruler'), and yet the one area he feels he's been "unjust" about is his treatment of the family's servant, Joe. In the final part of the book ''he'' is the helpless victim being pushed around, and then suddenly rebellion against the man giving orders is OK.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Heinlein obviously worked a lot of themes into the novel, but he didn't try to be subtle about his opinions. Be completely self-reliant! Coddling people makes them weak! Don't be a bigot!
* DesignatedHero: Hugh Farnham's got a lot of failings for a Heinlein hero. He indulges his wife's alcoholism, implies that he should have beat his son more to prevent him from growing into a StrawLiberal,engages in now-or-never, last-day-of-our-life intercourse has a last-night-of-our-lives affair with his daughter's best friend, threatens to boot his mouthy son out into fatal levels of hard radiation (claiming that 'the captain of a lifeboat is an absolute ruler'), and yet the one area he feels he's been "unjust" about is his treatment of the family's servant, Joe. In the final part of the book ''he'' is the helpless victim being pushed around, and then suddenly rebellion against the man giving orders is OK.
* DesignatedHero: Hugh Farnham's got a lot of failings for a Heinlein hero. He indulges his wife's alcoholism, implies that he should have beat his son more to prevent him from growing into a StrawLiberal,
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{{Anvilicious}}: Heinlein obviously worked a lot of themes into the novel, but he didn't try to be subtle about his opinions. Be completely self-reliant! Coddling people makes them weak! Don't be a bigot!
DesignatedHero: Hugh Farnham's got a lot of failings for a Heinlein hero. He indulges his wife's alcoholism, implies that he should have beat his son more to prevent him from growing into a StrawLiberal, engages in now-or-never, last-day-of-our-life intercourse with his daughter's best friend, threatens to boot his mouthy son out into fatal levels of hard radiation (claiming that 'the captain of a lifeboat is an absolute ruler'), and yet the one area he feels he's been "unjust" about is his treatment of the family's servant, Joe. In the final part of the book ''he'' is the helpless victim being pushed around, and then suddenly rebellion against the man giving orders is OK.
DesignatedHero: Hugh Farnham's got a lot of failings for a Heinlein hero. He indulges his wife's alcoholism, implies that he should have beat his son more to prevent him from growing into a StrawLiberal, engages in now-or-never, last-day-of-our-life intercourse with his daughter's best friend, threatens to boot his mouthy son out into fatal levels of hard radiation (claiming that 'the captain of a lifeboat is an absolute ruler'), and yet the one area he feels he's been "unjust" about is his treatment of the family's servant, Joe. In the final part of the book ''he'' is the helpless victim being pushed around, and then suddenly rebellion against the man giving orders is OK.
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* CluelessAesop[=/=]UnfortunateImplications: Heinlein was trying for an anti-racist Aesop, but the characterization of the black oppressors lines up remarkably well with contemporary racist stereotypes, and the PersecutionFlip can easily be read as leading to the moral "Don't let black people get any power, because they'll use it to do to us white people what we did to them, only worse!"
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* Clueless Aesop: Heinlein was trying for an anti-racist Aesop, but...
** Unfortunate Implications: The characterization of black oppressors line up remarkably well with contemporary racist stereotypes, and the PersecutionFlip can easily be read as leading to the moral "Don't let black people get any power, because they'll use it to do to us white people what we did to them, only worse!"
** Unfortunate Implications: The characterization of black oppressors line up remarkably well with contemporary racist stereotypes, and the PersecutionFlip can easily be read as leading to the moral "Don't let black people get any power, because they'll use it to do to us white people what we did to them, only worse!"
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* Clueless Aesop: CluelessAesop[=/=]UnfortunateImplications: Heinlein was trying for an anti-racist Aesop, but...
** Unfortunate Implications: Thebut the characterization of the black oppressors line lines up remarkably well with contemporary racist stereotypes, and the PersecutionFlip can easily be read as leading to the moral "Don't let black people get any power, because they'll use it to do to us white people what we did to them, only worse!"worse!"
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* Clueless Aesop: Heinlein was trying for an anti-racist Aesop, but...
** Unfortunate Implications: The characterization of black oppressors line up remarkably well with contemporary racist stereotypes, and the PersecutionFlip can easily be read as leading to the moral "Don't let black people get any power, because they'll use it to do to us white people what we did to them, only worse!"
** Unfortunate Implications: The characterization of black oppressors line up remarkably well with contemporary racist stereotypes, and the PersecutionFlip can easily be read as leading to the moral "Don't let black people get any power, because they'll use it to do to us white people what we did to them, only worse!"
