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The horrors (slrpnk.net)
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[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Plus everyone who wasn't white and from his home town.

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

On the Creation of N*ggers

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.

H.P.LOVECRAFT.

😬😬😬

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I am not surprised that this is actually something he wrote.

[-] spacecadet@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

You’re just taking him out of context. /s

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

We should have “a bit of grace” and give the “benefit of the doubt.” ~/s~

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It's just a bad translation, in the original Roman it's a passage about love.

[-] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

It's well known that he was a socially awkward and autistic.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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."

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