thank you.

Yeah, there was some racism present in Lovecraft’s fiction, but if you’ve read his letters and other writings, he was particularly racist and antisemitic, and a Hitler apologist to boot. Though he had the good sense to die before WWII broke out in full and the full extent of the Third Reich’s crimes were exposed to the world. It’s also not difficult to see how the Aryan nonsense would appeal to Lovecraft’s sensibilities.

I think that the statue was changed not so much because of the content of Lovecraft’s stories, and such racism was not unique or uncommon in the pulp fiction of the time, but because of his gross personal beliefs which have been preserved because of his extensive letter-writing.

We tend to forgive artists for their indiscretions, crimes, and sins once they are dead, like Lewis Carroll, Ezra Pound, and Richard Wagner. And all indicators point toward Salvador Dali being a total piece of shit, too.

In the statue’s defense, it was designed by Gahan Wilson.

From the article:

A Filipino in America would not have been out of the ordinary in the 1930s. Fucking Spanish American War was like 30 years prior. America had been involved with the Philippines for a long time. The writer doesn’t know shit.

Two time Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey would like to have a word with you - in character as Frank Underwood.