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Author Topic: Thousand Year Old Wokepire  (Read 10175 times)

Reckall

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Re: Thousand Year Old Wokepire
« Reply #90 on: July 25, 2022, 02:40:16 PM »
Regarding Evil Hat and "Fate of Cthulhu", we already talked extensively about that fiasco. "Lovecraft was a racist and an anti-Semite!" - which is already bizarre as it implies that anti-semitism somehow is not racism. Then they refused to give any proof and invited the buyers to do their own research. I did and it turned out that Jews have no problems at all with Lovecraft. Never tell people to do any kind of research if you are woke...
I love the glee with which the article points out that HPL was a hypocrite: "The 20th-century master of horror admired Hitler but married a Jew and hated ‘alien’ cultures but created some of the most memorable ones in literature"

I don't think that you read it until the end.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

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Re: Thousand Year Old Wokepire
« Reply #91 on: July 25, 2022, 05:22:46 PM »
Regarding Evil Hat and "Fate of Cthulhu", we already talked extensively about that fiasco. "Lovecraft was a racist and an anti-Semite!" - which is already bizarre as it implies that anti-semitism somehow is not racism. Then they refused to give any proof and invited the buyers to do their own research. I did and it turned out that Jews have no problems at all with Lovecraft. Never tell people to do any kind of research if you are woke...
I love the glee with which the article points out that HPL was a hypocrite: "The 20th-century master of horror admired Hitler but married a Jew and hated ‘alien’ cultures but created some of the most memorable ones in literature"

I don't think that you read it until the end.
I did. Lovecraft was an antisemite but his closest friends were Jewish. Dude was crazy.