According to Wikipedia: “Racism is the most controversial aspect of Lovecraft’s works which “does not endear Lovecraft to the modern reader,” and it comes across through many disparaging remarks against the various non-Anglo-Saxon races and cultures within his work. As he grew older, the more “jagged” aspects of his original Anglo-Saxon racial worldview softened into a universal classism or elitism regarding any fellow human being of self-ennobled high culture as of metaphorical “superior race.” Lovecraft did not from the start even hold all white people in uniform high regard, but rather he held Anglo-Nordic people, and especially persons of English descent, above all others. While his racist perspective is undeniable, many critics argue this does not detract from his ability to create compelling philosophical worlds which have inspired many artists and readers.[17][40] In his early published essays, private letters and personal utterances, he argued for a strong color line, for the purpose of preserving race and culture. These arguments occurred through direct statements against different races in his journalistic work and personal correspondence, or perhaps allegorically in his work using non-human races. Some have interpreted his racial attitude as being more cultural than brutally biological: Lovecraft showed sympathy to others who pacifically assimilated into Western culture, to the extent of even marrying a Jewish woman whom he viewed as “well assimilated.” While Lovecraft’s racial attitude has been seen as directly influenced by the time, a reflection of the New England society he grew up in, his racism appeared stronger than the popular viewpoints held at that time.[40][43] Some researchers also note that his views failed to change in the face of increased social change of that time.”
On The Jewish Question, Lovecraft said:
To the Jew we must say, ‘live your own life, here or elsewhere; but remember that you live among Aryans, who are not to be disturbed.’ When the interloper seeks a voice in our councils, and subtly endeavours to mould the national feeling in accordance with his own standards — among which latter is a cynical disregard of our sentiments and cherished loyalties, visible in bolshevistic Trotzkys and iconoclastic Ben Hechts — there is only one possible answer from the unemasculated sons of the honest roast-beef Englishmen and rawboned Yankees who made this nation; and that answer is just this — ‘You go to hell.’
I want to change his name to Hatecraft.
