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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9449885" data-attributes="member: 85555">Lovecraft wrote a lot of stuff I disagree with. Much of it pointed at my ancestries as his racism wasn't the bog standard black/white racism we are accustomed to talking about from US history but a very North Eastern, elite type of racism centered on ethnicity, breeding and bloodlines. That said, as bad as some of the stuff he said was, I think people sometimes try to act like he was exceptionally bad for the times (which doesn't really make sense when you consider this was during lynching, segregation, the clan at its height, eugenics, the rise of Hitler, etc). We can reject his ideas but still enjoy his stories. If you read a lot of material from the past you are going to encounter ideas that run against the morality of the present age. Doesn't mean we accept those ideas. And you are going to encounter individuals with some bad ideas who made good art. Everyone has to make that assessment for themselves. We also run into the issue or reducing everything he wrote to being about race (which I think has become itself own issue). This was one of the more nuanced takes I have seen on it in recent years:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.youtube.com/live/1cnrvYwAXj8?si=aQ8IkB96qcPcNBUS[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9449885, member: 85555"] Lovecraft wrote a lot of stuff I disagree with. Much of it pointed at my ancestries as his racism wasn't the bog standard black/white racism we are accustomed to talking about from US history but a very North Eastern, elite type of racism centered on ethnicity, breeding and bloodlines. That said, as bad as some of the stuff he said was, I think people sometimes try to act like he was exceptionally bad for the times (which doesn't really make sense when you consider this was during lynching, segregation, the clan at its height, eugenics, the rise of Hitler, etc). We can reject his ideas but still enjoy his stories. If you read a lot of material from the past you are going to encounter ideas that run against the morality of the present age. Doesn't mean we accept those ideas. And you are going to encounter individuals with some bad ideas who made good art. Everyone has to make that assessment for themselves. We also run into the issue or reducing everything he wrote to being about race (which I think has become itself own issue). This was one of the more nuanced takes I have seen on it in recent years: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.youtube.com/live/1cnrvYwAXj8?si=aQ8IkB96qcPcNBUS[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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