hpl: bigoted newt, or just misunderstood?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:41 pm

by continuing to kick this topic around, we can use previous conclusions as stepping stones to new ones. the key to good concluding is really to keep up your momentum, i think...

Hodgson wrote:Under arrest.

oh yeah? well the joke's on you, copper, because i've had 'awesomest' in my sig since jheri curls used to get me girls!! ahahahaha!!!

ATTICA!!! ATTICA!!!!

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:27 pm

Hodgson wrote:
JJ Burke wrote:pointlessest
Under arrest.

I'll have you know this is my jurisdiction.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:13 pm

Were did you find that anyway?

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:53 am

Eternities End wrote:Were did you find that anyway?

Google image search, "grammar cop".

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:46 pm

You know, just the other day I was thinking that if there were grammar police, their symbol should be a bow and crossed arrows.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:43 pm

I was actually thinking they'd rely on the strength of imagery present in their words. How wrong I was.

Razakel · Post by **Razakel** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:11 am

Ah so you all shall have fun with me on this subject. I pretty much enjoy others correcting my grammar BUT I'm pretty that could be used on another thread.

And back to the subject a bunch of pages ago, I really don't care if he was racist, sexist or any ist. The fact of the matter is he was a great writer and that is that.

Ian Whateley · Post by **Ian Whateley** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:30 am

A great writer is a great writer because of one of, or preferably both, of two closely interconnected things: his style, and his ideas. You can't seperate a person's ideas from who they are. Personally, I think that if Lovecraft had been a tolerant, humanist, non-mysoginist, sexual, PC-in a modern way (And I wish everyone would stop yelling at him for using the "n-word" That WAS the politically correct word in his day!) person, than his writing wouldn't have been any good at all. His own personal streaks of hatred and misanthropy, as well as his Angliphilia and reactionary views, give the enduring flavor to much of his writings. And we supposedly open-minded moderns could learn a lot by trying to understand and tolerate such opinions instead of yelling "bigot" and throwing them away.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:51 pm

Razakel wrote:The fact of the matter is he was a great writer and that is that.

Probably safe to say, though, that he wouldn't be voting for Obama if he was still around today.

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:45 pm

I think that he was probably raised to believe blacks were inferior which would explain his views...
But no he would vote for obama

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:23 pm

Why would he vote for Obama?

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:35 pm

Exactly really the only reason to vote for him was in fact to vote for a black guy...

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:20 am

The main reason to vote for him was that he wasn't a Bush crony.

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Tue May 05, 2009 10:19 pm

True, true
CTHULHU FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!