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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Professor Murder" data-source="post: 8577777" data-attributes="member: 6991813">I'm warry of people who feel the need to defend scoundrels. You can tell someone's moral vision by whom they give the benefit of the doubt.Parallels to Lovecraft are obvious and are worth exploring. I am not going to claim to know much of anything about Barker or Tekumel, and for me as a non-fan, not engaging with his work or legacy isn't really a sacrifice. It falls to fans, both current ones and the possible future ones who discover this work later to decide how to square the acts of Barker with his work as a creator and artist. I am curious to hear from someone keenly familiar with Tekumel, to learn if there are elements of the setting which might set off red flags when viewed though the lens of it's creator being an anti-Semite. I know that as a fan of Lovecraft, I have had to reevaluate his work as I grew up and learned more and more of his racist predilections. It is easier when they are dead and Barker is dead. But you need not defend his actions to defend his art, if you so choose to. You need to be willing to be objective. But. If you find yourself thinking that writing an entire novel with Nazi themes and protagonists and active participation in Holocaust denial apparently for decades as aberrations, you need to step back, because you are defending evil.</blockquote>