DayOfDoom [any, any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 months agoShoutout to all the white people on the site. All the hate you have received is being countered in exact&equal opposite by the mass of love I'm sending you via these words and DMs once I work up the..message-squaremessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareShoutout to all the white people on the site. All the hate you have received is being countered in exact&equal opposite by the mass of love I'm sending you via these words and DMs once I work up the..DayOfDoom [any, any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square153fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·11 months agoTo be fair, HP Lovecraft was racist against the Welsh.
minus-squareBarabas [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 months agoThe Dutch were too non-white for him. I’ve seen the Welsh thing from other contemporary sources, but Lovecraft was Franklin levels of WASP only (who complained about the swarthy Swedes and Germans).
minus-squareautismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-211 months agoSomehow one of the only major founding fathers to not own slaves was actually on a higher tier of racism than the slave owning ones.
To be fair, HP Lovecraft was racist against the Welsh.
The Dutch were too non-white for him. I’ve seen the Welsh thing from other contemporary sources, but Lovecraft was Franklin levels of WASP only (who complained about the swarthy Swedes and Germans).
Somehow one of the only major founding fathers to not own slaves was actually on a higher tier of racism than the slave owning ones.