Anyway, Doris passed on this recent Tweet by Johnson, that while not surprising is also equally disturbing and confirming of what we all probably knew all along about the mindset of the Alt-Right view on pre-WWII science fiction & fantasy. Johnson was complaining that his church library had no works by Lord Dunsany, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Manly Wade Wellman, and Poul Anderson. Explaining to his readers why they should read them even if some were insufficiently Christian, Johnson states:
“Somebody very uncharitably asked a question on this somewhere asking why non-Christian authors writing for trashy magazines would in any way be a step up from the mommy porn. Well, I’ll tell you.”
“First, let’s talk about lies and deceit. Only one author that I mentioned there wrote primarily for 1930s pulp magazines. If we are to discuss this at all, particularly under the auspices of Team Good, I would prefer to do so with someone that is less actively dishonest.”
“Secondly, the reason the authors I mentioned went from being universally admired to being very nearly unknown in a very short period of time was due to the efforts of a cabal of Jews, communists, homosexuals, and pedophiles.”
It’s the insidious Nazi stab-in-the-back myth transposed to writers included in Appendix N. Johnson is a D&D obsessive and purist and in his own mythology of genre fiction, these writers had been obliterated from public consciousness until Gygax et al saved them form obscurity by highlighting them as inspirations for the seminal role playing game.
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