I love it when I read something incredibly racist but have no idea because the stereotypes and slurs they're using don't even fucking exist anymore.

I started rereading Catch-22 for the first time in like 20 years (it's so funny), and was a little taken aback to see the n-word in the very first chapter.

It was, of course, being used in a satirical way that mocked a racist character from Texas. But even then I was like whoa. Came out of nowhere.

No racial slurs in Don Quixote.

Robinson Crusoe was one of my favorites as a kid. Tried rereading that recently and the whole reason he was ever on a ship that could get wrecked in the first place was he wanted to buy slaves.

"I will weave together a beautiful philosophy that shows that all men are equal and then lazily scribble in why people with dark skin are the exception."

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.

People say that “the hard r” is the most racist version. But real ones know it’s those who end the slur with “–gruh” you should stay very far away from. They’re drawing from the deep racism.

“really is just”

I suppose we’ll be seeing this in social media for the next year or two?

Can’t wait.

And it's written in archaic so every sentence is a horrible pain to read.

Written by a person who obviously has read zero literary classics.