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204 // Alien and Cosmic Horror: Part One

Perfect Organism: The Alien Saga Podcast

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Is Lovecraft a Racist?

The majority of Lovecraft's racism is actually found in his personal correspondence. He had this fixation on classifying humans, which is especially strange because he was 100% a scientific materialist. If you don't then look at the rest of New England in the 1920s and 30s. You're going to miss the fact that there's a very ugly truth about America at that time. And sadly he's representative of that.

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