Schnedwob posted:

At every opportunity I like to remind people that H.P. Lovecraft had a cat named "friend of the family Man", and that this animal's name is easily a thousand times better than anything else the guy wrote

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A common dramatic device in Lovecraft's work is to associate virtue, intellect, elevated class position, civilization, and rationality with white Anglo-Saxon ethnicity, which he often posed in contrast to the corrupt, intellectually inferior, uncivilized and irrational, which he associated with people he characterized as being of lower class, impure racial "stock" and/or non European ethnicity and dark skin complexion who were often the villains in his writings.

Some of his most hostile racist views can be found in his poetry, particularly in "On the Creation of Niggers," and "New England Fallen" (both 1912). In "On the Creation of Niggers" in particular, Lovecraft takes this to an extreme, explicitly characterizing black people as sub-human:

“ When, long ago, the gods created Earth;
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were designed;
Yet were too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest of Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a friend of the family. ”

Schnedwob posted:

big duck equals goose posted:

I was banned from the LP forum for saying this and apparently he's pretty hot stuff down there so watch yer' rear end

Ekster posted:

at least we will always have that dark souls LPer whose name i've inexplicably forgotten

is his probation down yet