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What's a perfectly bad name for a cat?
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n****r-man was the name of one of Lovecraft's family cats when he was growing up.
It was also what he named the cat in the short story The Rats in the Walls.
The cat name is racist. Searching for "h.p. lovecraft cat name" will give you the precise answer, if you want it.
He was a hugely racist piece of shit, even for his time, and named his black cat N word - man.
Not without someone getting a ban.