Reminder: Lovecraft died in '37. Jim Crowe laws would be enforced until '65. Eugenics was still respectable. Within ten years Europe would see mass industrialized murder on a racial basis. Orwell commented during WWII on startling racism of American GIs stationed in the UK.https://twitter.com/sfwa/status/997189402295263233 …
there's only one respect in which his racism stands out. he was ALSO racist against white people, where he perceived "dysgenic degradation" or some shit as happening in rural communities. i.e. he took a more comprehensive view of eugenics than some of his peers.
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which to me suggests that a more accurate characterization of his beliefs would be call him an elitist with a mean streak. he used the popular language and sentiment of his day to express himself in ways that were basically acceptable at the time.
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My belief is that he was, in some sense, mentally ill. Both his parents died in insane asylums, and I think he believed that there was some kind of genetic 'taint' in his bloodline that was going to get him too. I recall hearing that his lovecraft-circle contemporaries...
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