Was HPL really a racist?

[ghyle]

You may remember the "The oldest etc. emotion" quote from his Supernatural Horror essay, of course. So that he may very well be working with the essence of the human condition in the face of an overwhelming, mechanistic and uncaring universe, for ordinary people unlike himself.

[Lobolover]

Well,he seemed to never show it in public to anyone and his being an anti-semite is at leats questionable (look at whom he maried-a Ukrainian (slav ,ergo:non aryan) JEW) .

Plus,Stoker is just as violent a racist in "The lair o the white worm"-in fact,I'd say he went farther then HPL ever did.When the black guy died,I was reliev I wouldnt have to read it anymore.

Cline also has undertones in "The dark chambr" which make you kinda twitch.

[j. d. worthington]

Oh, when you see the letters he wrote to his aunt -- especially Lillian -- or to Rheinhart Kleiner, you see quite a bit of anti-Semitism. This doesn't even take into account his comments concerning fellow amateur Charles D. Isaacson, both in correspondence and (albeit in somewhat toned-down form) in essays -- let alone his pungent satire "The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad". Lovecraft made no bones about the fact he was an anti-Semite; there were times, in fact, when he seemed genuinely proud of being so....

[Lobolover]

Strange,considering.........................