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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
"Lovecrat was a racist."
"So what? Lots of people were racist back then."
Do you really not see that that is an attempt to excuse Lovecraft's racist tendencies as OK?
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There's a difference between saying "It's bad that early 20th century American society was racist" and "It's bad that H.P. Lovecraft was racist". Of course he was: he was a product of that society. So yes, I do think that he can be "excused" for holding attitudes that were the norm in his society; it would have been surprising had he not done so.