ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 4 months agoPersonality of Lovecraft rulediscuss.onlineimagemessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1403arrow-down12
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minus-squarethisbenzingringlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down1·4 months agoyeah, Lovecraft didn’t hide his racist opinions in his works. makes reading them an awkward experience. and it’s always petty and unnecessary racism too
minus-squaresploosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·4 months agoLovecraft’s injected racism is so stupid and petty that before I read up on the man I assumed it was commentary on racism that went over my head.
minus-squarelath@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoYou’d have to be awkward in some way to come up with those kind of stories in the first place.
minus-squareQuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoI prefer necessary racism
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoDidn’t he have a bit of a crisis because he found out one of his ancestors was Welsh?
minus-squareBreadOven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoHaha yeah. I believe “The shadow over Innsmouth” is written about that. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard.
yeah, Lovecraft didn’t hide his racist opinions in his works. makes reading them an awkward experience. and it’s always petty and unnecessary racism too
Lovecraft’s injected racism is so stupid and petty that before I read up on the man I assumed it was commentary on racism that went over my head.
You’d have to be awkward in some way to come up with those kind of stories in the first place.
I prefer necessary racism
At least he wasn’t Welsh.
Didn’t he have a bit of a crisis because he found out one of his ancestors was Welsh?
Haha yeah. I believe “The shadow over Innsmouth” is written about that. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard.