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The horrors (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (4 children)

On the Creation of N*ggers

When, long ago, the Gods created Earth, In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill this gap, and join the rest to man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a N*GGER.

H.P.LOVECRAFT.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You’re just taking him out of context. /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

It's just a bad translation, in the original Roman it's a passage about love.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

It's well known that he was a socially awkward and autistic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

We should have “a bit of grace” and give the “benefit of the doubt.” ~/s~

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I am not surprised that this is actually something he wrote.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who've had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lovercraft was a gamer