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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8359707" data-attributes="member: 82106">It is not so much about HPL's Fish People (Deep Ones) and how society is depicted as reacting to them AS SUCH. It is the fact that HPL presented ideas of 'degeneracy', 'primitiveness', and 'racial admixture' which were undeniably and clearly drawn directly from, and intended to evoke and be complemented by, the same ideas being applied to human ethnicities by the foremost authorities of his day. The proof of this is of course undeniable and exists prolifically in his own writing and letters.So, when he talks about the moral degeneracy and even physical and possibly intellectual degeneracy of Deep One/Human hybrids, he is undeniably and literally referencing ideas which he sees as validated 'scientifically' WRT actual living people in the real world. This cannot be seen as 'OK', and if your argument is that a reaction to it is the fault of people who are 'overly sensitive' to having these depictions recapitulated in their gaming, then all I can say is we disagree.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8359707, member: 82106"] It is not so much about HPL's Fish People (Deep Ones) and how society is depicted as reacting to them AS SUCH. It is the fact that HPL presented ideas of 'degeneracy', 'primitiveness', and 'racial admixture' which were undeniably and clearly drawn directly from, and intended to evoke and be complemented by, the same ideas being applied to human ethnicities by the foremost authorities of his day. The proof of this is of course undeniable and exists prolifically in his own writing and letters. So, when he talks about the moral degeneracy and even physical and possibly intellectual degeneracy of Deep One/Human hybrids, he is undeniably and literally referencing ideas which he sees as validated 'scientifically' WRT actual living people in the real world. This cannot be seen as 'OK', and if your argument is that a reaction to it is the fault of people who are 'overly sensitive' to having these depictions recapitulated in their gaming, then all I can say is we disagree. [/QUOTE]

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