Lovecraft deserves some redemption. First of all he wasn’t especially racist, just the “normal” amount for his time (take with a grain of salt please!).
More importantly he significantly mellowed out in his later years primarily due to exposure to talented black writers which made him realize the error of his ways.
I had heard Dr. Fu Manchu referenced places when reading as a teen so I ended up finding the books. I was jaw in the floor shocked by the casual racism when I read them.
Lovecraft deserves some redemption. First of all he wasn’t especially racist, just the “normal” amount for his time (take with a grain of salt please!). More importantly he significantly mellowed out in his later years primarily due to exposure to talented black writers which made him realize the error of his ways.
But yeah, I wouldn’t ask him to name my void cat.
No, he was really really racist for the time. But he did get better at the end.
Lovecraft was especially racist by the standards of his time, though. https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1897rk2/was_lovecraft_racist_even_by_the_standards_of_his/
I had heard Dr. Fu Manchu referenced places when reading as a teen so I ended up finding the books. I was jaw in the floor shocked by the casual racism when I read them.
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This cereal was popular in the 1960s. They even had a kids’ cartoon with the little ‘Chinese’ boy ‘So-Hi.’
Rice Crinkles cereal
https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=314