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[–] 14 points 1 day ago (1 child)

My all-time favorite racist author is HP Lovecraft. White American man in New England? Not even close to good enough. He's got to be all that and from the right "stock".

I get the impression that old HP didn't so much hate as fear the "other". I know, hate and fear are mostly the same thing under the hood, but Henry seemed really frightened of anyone not up to his standards of "decent human being". He seemed to think mankind was going to devolve into degeneracy. Probably comes from the popular notion of eugenics at the time. Seriously weird dude.

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