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To: koan who wrote (23403)8/15/2012 9:12:27 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
H P Lovecraft, a racist Democrat:

Racism is the most controversial aspect of Lovecraft’s works which “does not endear Lovecraft to the modern reader” and comes across through many disparaging remarks against the various non-Anglo-Saxon races and cultures within his work. Lovecraft did not seem to hold all White people in high regard, but rather he held English people and people of English descent above all others.
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In his writings and personal life he argued for a strong
color line for the purpose of preserving race and culture. These arguments occurred either through direct statements against different races in his work and personal correspondence, or allegorically in his work using non-human races.

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To: koan who wrote (23403)8/15/2012 9:21:09 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 85487
 
Lovecraft is a strange person to use to attack the GOP.

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Then again maybe not...

“Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.”
“Now the trickiest catch in the Negro problem is the fact that it is really twofold. The Black is vastly inferior. There can be no question of this among contemporary and unsentimental biologists… But, it is also a fact that there would be a very grave and very legitimate problem even if the Negro were the White man’s equal.”
“Of course they can’t let Niggers use the beach at a Southern resort – can you imagine sensitive persons bathing near a pack of greasy chimpanzees? The only thing that makes life endurable where Blacks abound is the Jim Crow principle, and I wish they’d apply it in New York both to Niggers and to the more Asiatic types of puffy, rat-faced Jews!”

- H. P. Lovecraft, Letters

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