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[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In fairness, the Church of England is hardly in the top tier of most horrible variants of Christianity.

Unless the religion OP was talking about was the England football team, in which case, yes.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought their religion was the monarchy

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

The monarchy is the head of the church of england

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Publisher: "Wow. The descriptions of these aliens is so vivid and inhuman. How did you come up with them?!"

Lovecraft: "Aliens? I'm just describing black people and Jews."

KKK dude: "That's why you're not allowed at the meetings anymore."

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have to admit, I didn't know shit about the man when I got into his stories but finding out how incredibly racist he was sure as shit explains the ending to a few stories where the horror element is finding out you're the offspring of some people you think look a bit ugly.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

iirc Lovecraft was considered wildly racist even by the standards of the time. Overly sarcastic productions has a nice video about how a lot of his stories were manifestations of his irrational fear of just about everything really.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Well to be fair in his later works, the grotesque aliens are mostly merely indifferent towards humans and not inherently evil. But yeah, most of his stuff is super rascist nevertheless.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, to the Nazis ugliness was literal evil. Not exaggerating unfortunately.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

To a degree, ancient Greeks had this belief as well- to the point that an admitted murdress was sent free because she was hot. (I half remember this story from a decade ago. No sources)

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I like lovecraft. But he's definitely a piece of shit

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When did England become an island?

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 28 points 10 months ago

When Ireland, Wales, and Scotland were colonized.

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He did love England, but was born, lived and died on a different "island": Rhode Island.

[–] Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Still New England though, fwiw

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should hear what he says when a black cat crosses his path

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The cat was called the N word, wasn't it?