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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8037807" data-attributes="member: 10148">I'm well aware how common racist views were in the 1920s and 1930s. For over a decade, that was how I regarded Lovecraft's racism as well - unfortunate, but sadly not that unusual for his time. But as I learned more, I concluded that even in the context of that era, Lovecraft was still pretty bad.Here are some examples:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]http://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2016/10/disturbed-by-lovecraft[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://mediadiversified.org/2014/05/24/the-n-word-through-the-ages-the-madness-of-hp-lovecraft/[/URL]There were a few worse examples that really pushed me over, but I can't find references for them online at this point. Separate his exceptional racism from his works if you wish - certainly many others do - but for me, it was too much.Now, as I said, the larger Cthulhu Mythos is a different situation... probably. Fortunately the problematic elements of Gygax's work and D&amp;D are much less terrible, and not particularly exceptional for the era, unlike the problematic elements of Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8037807, member: 10148"] I'm well aware how common racist views were in the 1920s and 1930s. For over a decade, that was how I regarded Lovecraft's racism as well - unfortunate, but sadly not that unusual for his time. But as I learned more, I concluded that even in the context of that era, Lovecraft was [I]still[/I] pretty bad. Here are some examples: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2016/10/disturbed-by-lovecraft[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://mediadiversified.org/2014/05/24/the-n-word-through-the-ages-the-madness-of-hp-lovecraft/[/URL] There were a few worse examples that really pushed me over, but I can't find references for them online at this point. Separate his exceptional racism from his works if you wish - certainly many others do - but for me, it was too much. Now, as I said, the larger Cthulhu Mythos is a different situation... probably. Fortunately the problematic elements of Gygax's work and D&D are much less terrible, and not particularly exceptional for the era, unlike the problematic elements of Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. [/QUOTE]

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