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"We Can't Ignore Lovecraft's White Supremacy" by Wes House?
Lovecraft, as Michel Houellebecq described it, was a man whose personal racism & bigotry induced in him (HPL) a "poetic trance."
Howard's stories find "fertile ground" in new readers's minds.
His racist taunts & satiric works have become relevant beyond a mere "good scare."
Especially now, when Republikkkans claim Lovecraft as a commentator on modern politics...
(Strange, since HPL actually hated the Republicans of his time!! But then, everything from the modern For Reich Party is a lie.)
Howard never hid his hatred of those he considered inferior.
Lovecraft's own works teem with his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Pulp junk like "underground" Jewish cells going up against "the Aryan race."
HPL cried that "Jew(s) must be muzzled" because they "degrade & orientalizes Aryan civilization.
(As we have already seen, most of these ideas were actually tall tales or sci-fi/fantasy stories about the fringes of the world. See the earlier entries on Hyperborea, Atlantis & Pellucidar. They were just politicized...)
Howard's eager acceptance of Nazi fascism is also transparent.
When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Lovecraft stated, "His vision is romantic (but) immature..." & "He's a clown, but God, I like the boy."
(HPL would later regret his words - when the Nazis attacked his beloved England.)
Howard's contempt for blacks was even worse.
Lovecraft's 1912 poem "On the Creation of N_s" has the Gods make black folk as a bridge or buffer...
... between true men (Aryans) & animals!
HPL defended the terrorist KKK actions as "necessary because the Law didn't protect" whites enough!!
(It always sickens me when a supposedly crazy smart person can believe in such self-deluding lies. Lovecraft became known as a very careful writer & researcher. Yet, even he truly believed in his mom's?/grandad's?/friend's? racial lies... Probably all 3.)
Howard thought that violence (against 'other races') was a better response than the mongrelization of America!
HPL's fear of miscegenation literally springs from his letters & works.
It forms Lovecraft's strongest fear & revulsion.
"Only pain & disaster", he wrote, "can come from the mingling of black & white."
Yet, these prejudices are still treated with apologies, are disregarded or are seen as a personal flaw.
This is not so...
There's still plenty of racists out there that see "negroe(s) as fundamentally inferior to white & even (Asian) races."
(And it's all really hatred of others's right to a free existence. If you can't be harnessed as an underling, you must be a 'threat' to the enslaver's whole society. That's all that 'white fragility' is - hatred for other's freedoms.)
S.T. Joshi, who's made insightful contributions to the study of Weird Fiction, has tried to protect Howard's literary works - by separating them from HPL's personal life & beliefs.
Joshi doesn't want others to see Lovecraft's "racism as so (evil) a character flaw, that it negates Howard's achievements."
But, HPL's works don't need to be 'saved.'
Lovecraft's legacy is firm.
Howard's dark cosmology permeates modern popular culture! It has long spread into the halls of academia.
Racial complaints haven't tarnished HPL's reputation - just the illusion of him being some sacred figure.
Anyway, separating any author's faults from their works is impossible.
That only leads to the whitewashing of a profound writer.
In Lovecraft's case, that would lose the meaningful connection between his racism & the cosmic anti- humanism that defines Howard's tales.
Next: Part 2.
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IM NOW JUST FINDING OUT MORE PEOPLE THEN JUST MORTY HAD AND HAVE A CRUSH ON JESSICA, HUH ??? 😕
I-is that really so surprising? I-I mean she's so p-pretty a-and-
Jeez Morty, k-*burp*-eep it in your pants, nobody cares.
W-well I don't wanna hear you flirting with r-random anons but y-you do it anyway!
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