There’s, however, a difference in a depiction that was common at the time, versus outright racism. I mean, people still read about and rave over Lovecraft’s work and he was so racist that the other racists of his time used to tell him to chill.
You take the good with the bad in things from another time. Enjoy what you can in the good and learn from the bad.
I did not know this ☹️
I do recall some interesting name choices though so I guess I should have realized. There was a cat in a story (Rats in the walls I think) that had a slur for a name.
As does any work over time.
There’s, however, a difference in a depiction that was common at the time, versus outright racism. I mean, people still read about and rave over Lovecraft’s work and he was so racist that the other racists of his time used to tell him to chill.
You take the good with the bad in things from another time. Enjoy what you can in the good and learn from the bad.
I’ve heard he did actually chill in his later years
I did not know this ☹️ I do recall some interesting name choices though so I guess I should have realized. There was a cat in a story (Rats in the walls I think) that had a slur for a name.