>supposedly hated niggers, italians and the irish>most of his human antagonists are all american, mayflower carried appalachian hillbillies What gives? The only story which has italians in it even depicts them positively!
>>25249490>american, mayflower carried appalachian hillbilliesWait thats my people
>>25249490He didn't hate the Irish as much, as his good friend Robert E. Howard was largely of Irish blood. The protagonist of The horror at Red Hook was an Irish cop FFS. They both hated niggers and Italians (but I repeat myself), but who doesn't? Also, they both agreed that the highest of the lower races were higher than the lowest of the higher races.
>>25249493>allow me to play you the song of my peoplehttps://youtu.be/NFutge4xn3w?si=Fabt87t2qMdgqtMY&t=25
>>25249502Fucking dickhead. I'm gonna rape you like they did that guy in the forest.
>>25249500I used to get beat up by Italian kids in school. We called them dagos around here.
>>25249500>They both hated niggers and Italians (but I repeat myself), but who doesn'tOOOHH! The balls on this prick
>>25249490Lovecraft was only really virulently racist against blacks and Indians, the short poem and his description of “the fall of Indian civilization” are probably how he genuinely felt about them.His other bigotries are comical more than anything, like the protagonist of Dreams in the Witch House looking down on the previous Polish tenant less for being Polish and more for being Catholic and superstitious (even though he’s ultimately proven right).His classism is never really commented on. In Cool Air he describes Dr. Muñoz, a Spaniard, as having a noble appearance of pedigree.
>>25249490He was racist in the same way 4chan is racist.He just loved the word nigger.
>>25249490He hated the wrong kind of White American way more.Hell he arguably pioneered the absolute loathing towards ruralites that keeps cropping up in horror fiction.
>>25249500to be kept in mind, early 20th century "Italians" swarming into the northeast US were Sicilians. Real Italians will tell you they don't count. Real Italians went to Argentina instead.
>>25249490one cannot hate as long as one disesteems. lovecraft would have considered writing a negro antagonist would be as exciting a read as if he had written a bear antagonist.
>>25249589That sounds like retarded counterfactual history >>25249557My family has both in them. Some are farmers, others work for NASA or are biochemists.
>>25249554Didn't even love it as much as Flannery O'Connor
>>25249557 “Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”“Good heavens!” I cried. “Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads?”“They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”“You horrify me!”“But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard’s blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of country which makes the danger.
