[dmurray]

Ok, but "had some authors who wouldn't pass a 2025 purity test" is moving the goalposts quite a lot from "never published anything that wasn't by a White man, about a White man".

Le Guin, while a great author, was 12 when the first Susan Calvin story was published, and wouldn't be published herself until 18 years later. So she wasn't exactly being overlooked at the time.

And if you really insist on some identity politics in your science fiction, you'd do well to remember that in 1941 Asimov wasn't a White man. He was Jewish, which while not as bad as being Black had some very real consequences in 1940s America, not least being subject to a university admissions quota.