When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
- H.P. Lovecraft, 1912
Source: en.wikisource.org
are you 14?
i'd read lovecraft was racist but this is just comically racist
Yeah, honestly I'm not bothered nor entertained by this type of stuff usually, but it was just so shocking I felt like I had to share
something about arguing such a moronic idea in prose that replaces vowels with apostrophes just ends up being hilarious
What gets me is how it's several lines that breaks down to "Blacks are violent and only half human", which is just so simple for what he's usually known for trying to convey, it reads more like a diss than anything else
Also the subtle fact that blacks aren't violent because they are animals, they are animals but also violent primarily because they are black.
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I don't think he actually thinks this is how black people were created, but it defiantly sums up his views.
It is certainly veyr defiant poetry user
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!
Of course he doesn't think that's how black people were created, dumbass
It means he thinks they are half-evolved