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Leaving aside his poetry and his collaborative works, here are some other examples of racism in Lovecraft stories. "The Rats in the Walls" features a cat named "N----- Man" "The Horror at Red Hook" refers to a villain as "an Arab with a hatefully negroid mouth"
I've always thought that the name of the Lovecraft deity Shub Niggurath was intended to sound vaguely Semitic, but I recently noticed that it seems to encode a certain well-known English-language r...
The populace resists, is crushed and turned into slaves/subjects of the empire, leader of the invasion retires to a life of luxury as colonial governor. I think the aliens look like humanoid snakes. But Earth is different. When the invading force arrives, they spot no defenses, no military. When the ships land, the earthlings welcome them with ...
As a cultural reference, the original series (TOS) was produced in the 60s during the civil rights movement. There were many current issues that the series tackled, especially racism. One of the first inter-racial kisses shown on primetime American television was in a TOS episode S03E10 Plato's Stepchildren.
I think there are lots of examples of his characters acting or thinking in ways I find commendable (e.g. Sam's reflection quoted somewhere else in this page). But Tolkien was a bit racist in a way fashionable for his time and social class, and it shows in his work -- to claim there is no evidence of racism on his part whatsoever is being blind.
Occasionally, Argonians did leave the Marsh (as can be seen in the Elder Scrolls Online, where Argonians can be found in most major cities) but like most of the Beast races, they were subjected to incessant racism and abuse by the "higher" races. Eventually, though, the rest of Tamriel began to make it's way into the Argonian's territory.
The idea of blood purity is most likely based in the fact that magic is an inherited genetic trait. Though there are examples of both skilled and unskilled wizards of every blood status, and though it’s possible for wizards to be born into families that seem to be entirely Muggle, studies have shown that magic is a genetic trait.
Maybe Charles forbid it but Curwen did it anyway. Maybe Charles didn't know about it until later. As a general rule, a person A often finds it hard to imagine everything that a person B might possibly want to do, consider which of those many things would be permissible, and then issue regulations listing permitted and forbidden actions.
There is a long history of anti-Irish racism in America. 2 As a Black American, the character we are reading from has been the target of racism, and that has shaped his character and view of the world. He is suggesting with this phrase that Irish Americans have also been targets of racism and therefore may have a similarly informed lived ...
A Dark Wizard is someone who practices Magic that the Ministry of Magic has decreed "Dark Magic", unless used by those under the employ of the Ministry of Magic or their allies in times of war. Atrocities are not only committed by "Dark Wizards" (even outside of war), so it is not the evilness of the act that makes a Wizard or Witch "Dark", but ...