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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Yeah, I've read people make excuses for him, that it was just the time, but it seems that even by the standards of the age he was extreme. He came from old Providence society but his family lost all its money and he seemed to equate their decline with the arrival into America of what he called 'lower races'. The only real debate is the extent to which his politics fed into his actual mythos writing. Certainly it's there in stories like Shadow over Innsmouth.
It is what it is. I suppose. Like the whole Wagner thing.
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I thought we all knew Lovecraft was a disturbingly racist fuck... right?
I mean, “negro” and similar language about skin tone comes up in even his most popular writing.
But, Jesus, it was the 1930s. I can say with confidence that the writing (ideas) are awesome while knowing the author was a bigoted fuck just like roughly 33 percent of Americans today, and not feel bad about deriving pleasure from his stories.
Is that shitty of me? I mean, John Lennon put the N-word in a song title. Granted, it was a political statement from a much more progressive and evolved human specimen (though still terribly flawed).
Shit, am I a racism-apologist?