• Ginny [they/she]
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    In fairness, the Church of England is hardly in the top tier of most horrible variants of Christianity.

    Unless the religion OP was talking about was the England football team, in which case, yes.

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    Publisher: “Wow. The descriptions of these aliens is so vivid and inhuman. How did you come up with them?!”

    Lovecraft: “Aliens? I’m just describing black people and Jews.”

    KKK dude: “That’s why you’re not allowed at the meetings anymore.”

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        242 months ago

        I have to admit, I didn’t know shit about the man when I got into his stories but finding out how incredibly racist he was sure as shit explains the ending to a few stories where the horror element is finding out you’re the offspring of some people you think look a bit ugly.

        • @CheeseNoodle
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          162 months ago

          iirc Lovecraft was considered wildly racist even by the standards of the time. Overly sarcastic productions has a nice video about how a lot of his stories were manifestations of his irrational fear of just about everything really.

        • @CitizenKong
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          Well to be fair in his later works, the grotesque aliens are mostly merely indifferent towards humans and not inherently evil. But yeah, most of his stuff is super rascist nevertheless.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            To a degree, ancient Greeks had this belief as well- to the point that an admitted murdress was sent free because she was hot. (I half remember this story from a decade ago. No sources)

      • Bizzle
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        32 months ago

        Typical Welsh nonsense

    • @Cheems
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      I like lovecraft. But he’s definitely a piece of shit

  • Track_Shovel
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    132 months ago

    You should hear what he says when a black cat crosses his path

  • @Etterra
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    42 months ago

    Naw he loved New England.

    • @PugJesusOP
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      I dunno, he seems to think there are too many poors and immigrants there

    • @MissGutsy
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      I remember a story in which he went on a tirade over multiple pages, calling the entirety of new England “uncultured, uneducated and inbred”