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To: koan who wrote (778438)	4/4/2014 12:33:38 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1573538

"H. P." Lovecraft-- American author who achieved posthumous fame through his works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty H. P. Lovecraft

To: koan who wrote (778438)	4/4/2014 12:46:13 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1573538

so you have no response to the fact that without substantial Democrat vote support, we would have robert's and the other conservatives on the SC? typical koan denial

To: koan who wrote (778438)	4/6/2014 4:50:07 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573538

Hi koan; Re: "Here is what the Republicans have been selling for 100 years: H.P Lovecraft: As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science"; Lovecraft died in 1937. My liberal friends tell me that before roughly the 1940s, it was the Republican party that was the party that supported the rights of blacks and women to vote while the Democrat party was the reactionary party. Why don't you report back to us what you find when you google Lovecraft+nativist? Oh that's right, you're intellectually dead and only get your information from a few lefty sources. I'll do it for you. I'll start with a famous Lovecraft poem on, uh, African Americans: When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next designed; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man, Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Filled it with vice, and called the thing a N***. en.wikisource.org Again, it's context that reminds us, in this very scene, that what we're reading is not only the emergence of a monster on the page, but the emergence of a genre -- and perhaps that's enough to forgive some utterly confounding prose. But Luckhurst's forthright introduction has more context to offer readers than just an exploration of Lovecraft's head-scratching style: it also reveals that the latter's preoccupation with alien terrors is all too firmly rooted in his own unshakeable racism and xenophobia. This is not news to many Lovecraft readers, though a great number of collections of his work have been printed with little to no mention of the author's politics in their introductions. It's no secret that Lovecraft was a believer in eugenics, and was repulsed by the teeming number of immigrants and "lesser" people he encountered during his brief years in New York City. A staunch Anglo-Saxon Nativist, Lovecraft was in favor of strict immigration policies that would bolster New England against "racial suicide." A passage from a letter describing denizens of the Lower East Side slums reads almost exactly like a description out of "The Dunwich Horror": "They -- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed -- seem'd to ooze, seep and trickle thro' the gaping cracks in the horrible houses... and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world..." bookslut.com It’s always perplexing to watch the gymnastics of mental obfuscation that occur as fans of Lovecraft attempt to rationalize his racism. Yes. His racism. Not his “disturbing notions.” Not his “peculiar thoughts.” Not his “racialisms.” His unabashed full frontal racism. Lovecraft was a racist. Period.** No qualifiers necessary. Sure he was other things as well–among them a fantastic writer with an amazing imagination. But he was a racist too. And he was very good at it. pdjeliclark.wordpress.com And Lovecraft's political beliefs, yeah keep on quoting him about the Republicans. He's just the guy you want on your side. -- Carl P.S. Is any of this going to shake your belief in the moral superiority of Lovecraft? Of course not. You're a lefty and you ignore inconvenient facts.