My all-time favorite racist author is HP Lovecraft. White American man in New England? Not even close to good enough. He’s got to be all that and from the right “stock”.
I get the impression that old HP didn’t so much hate as fear the “other”. I know, hate and fear are mostly the same thing under the hood, but Henry seemed really frightened of anyone not up to his standards of “decent human being”. He seemed to think mankind was going to devolve into degeneracy. Probably comes from the popular notion of eugenics at the time. Seriously weird dude.
I like the interpretation of Shadow Over Innsmouth as him processing the shocking fact that his great-grandmother might not have been English but… Welsh
My all-time favorite racist author is HP Lovecraft. White American man in New England? Not even close to good enough. He’s got to be all that and from the right “stock”.
I get the impression that old HP didn’t so much hate as fear the “other”. I know, hate and fear are mostly the same thing under the hood, but Henry seemed really frightened of anyone not up to his standards of “decent human being”. He seemed to think mankind was going to devolve into degeneracy. Probably comes from the popular notion of eugenics at the time. Seriously weird dude.
I like the interpretation of Shadow Over Innsmouth as him processing the shocking fact that his great-grandmother might not have been English but… Welsh
YES! The man was the OG hater. :) It really tickles me reading his work.
“Hold up. Was that family not white enough?!”
And he wasn’t merely talking shit like hating on the Irish. HP hated on ALL the peoples!
Well, that’s what happens when you don’t have the constitution for math.