| Re: Was HPL really a racist?
Seems he was, and I was wrong.
His wife, Sonia, was a Russian Jew, and she often had to remind him of it during his anti-Semite rants.
Could be why they split up?
He was no worse than most of his contemporaries(nigger, as a word for black, was a sladerous ethnic slur so common it was used to describe dark articles, as was 'dinge', as in dingy, meaning dark or discolored, and the word may well come from 'negar' a variation of negro, Spanish for black, and a root of the white trash 'nigra'.
As an aside, black people often referred to whites as "The Buckra", in those days.
Shub-niggurath?
Sure, nig prefixes many words with the connotation of dark, but two gees?
I still say he was no worse than most, and being dead, he's unlikely to change. |