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@dredmorbius @jwcph @pluralistic Naah: I see it as a bright, probably autistic, Jewish kid from New York in the 1920s trying to wrap his head around the essential inhumanity of southern chattel slavery by rules-lawyering his way around it (and doing an embrace-and-extend on the then-clichéd "murderous robot" trope in Gernsback era SF).