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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9604835" data-attributes="member: 7035894">So we should be careful not to call out things that are objectionable because that might alienate those who like them?Why are their feelings more important than those of the folks who are actually being marginalized? Your post really does read like you are asking that people prejudices should be respected, which I just don't agree with. I think it is better to be direct and plain if I have a problem with something.I do agree that we have to be careful not to be self-righteous and judgmental. So I can appreciate Lovecraft's genius, and see that much of his content is woefully bigoted, and also see that he is probably a product of his time, his extreme circumstances, and probably poor mental health. All these things can be true, and don't require ignoring his extreme bigotry.He was also kind of a bad writer, in most technical respects. Yet his contribution to cosmic horror supersedes that, and his invention of marvellously compelling settings..</blockquote>