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No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9604587" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Honestly I find there's a weird gnawing paranoiac angle to a lot of Lovecraft's racism that connects to his existential fears re: the nature of the universe and that even by the standards of his day seems very strange.</p><p></p><p>Yeah definitely. I couldn't even comprehend it when I first came across it, it was so wack and specific.</p><p></p><p>I think one thing that doesn't always come across from that era too is that because a lot of racism was <em>so</em> mainstream, people were very picky about their racism! Like, they'd believe a bunch of horrendously racist and obviously untrue nonsense, but think that some other horrendous racist thing about the same group was obviously false and only dumb people believed that, and would get into arguments about it in the letters sections of newspapers and stuff (not having online forums to do so, I guess!).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah the version I read thankfully had the updated 1950s text where it was "Black Tom" and not... what it originally was. So instead the "Oh wow that's so racist" pet name for me was the dog in The Dambusters (very similar to the cat), a film kids my age and older were repeatedly exposed to as children in the UK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9604587, member: 18"] Honestly I find there's a weird gnawing paranoiac angle to a lot of Lovecraft's racism that connects to his existential fears re: the nature of the universe and that even by the standards of his day seems very strange. Yeah definitely. I couldn't even comprehend it when I first came across it, it was so wack and specific. I think one thing that doesn't always come across from that era too is that because a lot of racism was [I]so[/I] mainstream, people were very picky about their racism! Like, they'd believe a bunch of horrendously racist and obviously untrue nonsense, but think that some other horrendous racist thing about the same group was obviously false and only dumb people believed that, and would get into arguments about it in the letters sections of newspapers and stuff (not having online forums to do so, I guess!). Yeah the version I read thankfully had the updated 1950s text where it was "Black Tom" and not... what it originally was. So instead the "Oh wow that's so racist" pet name for me was the dog in The Dambusters (very similar to the cat), a film kids my age and older were repeatedly exposed to as children in the UK. [/QUOTE]
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