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[+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] 1 point 3 years ago

Factual errors in this comic: HP Lovecraft is seen walking outside

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (5 children)

    HP Lovecraft is just what you get when an anime pfp Twitter Nazi is born 100 years too early

    Also not to defend him but for what it's worth he wrote in some of his final letters, when he was dying of colon cancer, that he regrets posting cringe on race and politics back in the day (paraphrased). Also he married a Jewish woman, something she'd have to remind him of when he'd go on long rants about the Jews when they had guests over, which is just fucking wild.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    when an anime pfp Twitter Nazi is born 100 years too early

    so, a nazi

    Also he married a Jewish woman

    that poor soul

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    They didn't invent Nazis until after he died

    (tbf I don't relish the idea of reading what his opinion of them would have been)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    They didn’t invent Nazis until after he died

    He died in 1937. The Nazi party was founded in 1919.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (7 children)

    Love telling Lovecraft fans who deny his racism to say the name of his cat out loud to my face

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago* (6 children)

    There are Lovecraft fans who think he wasn’t racist?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Yeeeeeeeeeep

    There are some who use the ol' "Well, everyone was racist back then" or "He got better about it before he died" canards and they suck too

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I really love the “Well, everyone was racist back then” defense. You're basically saying "If everyone was openly racist today, well I would be too" you're just telling on yourself my dude.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    “He got better about it before he died” canards and they suck too

    Yeah, this is a prime example of something that is true but used to justify shitty behavior or beliefs.

    The modern day equivalent would be if JK Rowling moderated her shitty beliefs and Potter stans decided that made her books unproblematic

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    The thing is, people have to actually try and undo some of the damage they did before they can be counted as reformed

    Simply being less vociferously racist is the absolute minimum of a start, but it doesn't fix anything

    For some though, that's the equivalent of Darth Vader being redeemed by saving Luke and killing the Emperor

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