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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-01-10 06:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #4025 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4025 ⌋

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Re: SA

(Anonymous) 2018-01-12 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I agree with most of this but I do think that Lovecraft was above-average in racism even for the time he lived in. Certainly in terms of virulence. He was very, very, very racist."

No, he definitely was; like, many of his contemporaries were very aware how intensely racist he was. His wife, Sonia Greene, was outright disturbed by how intensely anti-Semitic he was (despite her being Jewish herself and reminding him of that constantly); Wilfred Branch Talman, a friend and colleague, noticed and commented on it in his works, though he thought it was just a reflection of the weird 18th-century-style prose he wrote in; there was a public essay published in 1915 by Charles D. Isaacson during a back-and-forth between the two about Birth of a Nation calling him out as a racist. People noticed how extreme his views were even at the time.

This wasn't just a "it was how people were" thing. He was a huge racist by the standards of 1920s America.