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13403878, the racism in the show is representing Lovecrafts...
Posted by rdhull, Thu Sep-17-20 10:08 AM
>1) it is presenting racism in America and wrapping
>Lovecraftian horror around it. That is all that one can say
>it's doing from a surface look. You can go deeper than that
>and arrive at other things, but on the surface it's just that.
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>2) Most people only see things at a surface level. Kudos to
>okp for being woke, but most people surface.
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>3) A tounge in cheek mocking of Lovecraft's racism is not
>dealing with the effects of that racism. Neither is a big neon
>sign. And my point is that the effects of his racism in
>particular are the deep seeded shit that has been pervasive in
>the white consciousness for over a hundred years and literally
>a part of why we're still dealing with this shit today.
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>4) If a show cannot deal with that head on then perhaps it's
>not the show we need on this topic.
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>Again I think the show on its own is fine, but as a commentary
>on Lovecraft it's nowhere near enough.
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