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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9489215"><p>I am not particularly eager to get into this topic again as it tends to get very emotional. I think people to reduce him to the racism, and often inflate it, but I also think it was definitely there (I just don't think everything in Lovecraft needs to be read through that lens and I don't think his views were so unusual for the time). And there is a lot of disagreement at large and in these threads about Lovecraft and Racism, how central that is to his work, how much people are minimizing his racism, or the racism of his times (but there are more charitable views of him, like you have with Joshi for example). People are going to read the same text, same accounts of his life, and come away with different impressions of its meaning and his personality as a human being. We probably aren't going to solve that particular issue in this thread though. This is a conversation we have had many times and I haven't seen the dial moved on any front. And it probably isn't worth derailing a perfectly good halloween movie thread where all of us are largely having a good time.</p></blockquote><p></p>