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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
ONLY saying "that's just the way it was" is only useful if you're attempting to make past racism sound OK.
"Lovecraft 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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I don't think that says that past racism was okay or that we are excusing it. I think what we are saying is that in the era when that author was writing, such attitudes were considered acceptable. This is not stating that they are acceptable by today's standards, it is acceptance of the fact that attitudes can and do change.