When, long ago, the Gods created Earth,
In Jove’s fair image Man was shap’d at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next design’d;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill this gap, and join the rest to man,
Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Fill’d it with vice, and call’d the thing a N*GGER.
Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who’ve had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.
My favorite way of explaining how racist he was is that his contemporaries over a century ago in the “Birth of a Nation” period of racism were like “Dude - tone down the racism.”
Plus everyone who wasn’t white and from his home town.
😬😬😬
You’re just taking him out of context. /s
It’s just a bad translation, in the original Roman it’s a passage about love.
It’s well known that he was a socially awkward and autistic.
We should have “a bit of grace” and give the “benefit of the doubt.” /s
I am not surprised that this is actually something he wrote.
Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who’ve had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.
Lovercraft was a gamer
My favorite way of explaining how racist he was is that his contemporaries over a century ago in the “Birth of a Nation” period of racism were like “Dude - tone down the racism.”