#because if you're scared and racist you blame Mexicans or Russians or China. anyone who isn't the rich white old people who run the US

[calamari-chaos]

It must have been difficult for H.P Lovecraft, having friends during a time when American establishment was racist as fuck and still deciding whether or not Hispanic people counted as "white people".

The idea wasn't culturally ingrained until the 50s and 60s when the American establishment went all red scare and wanted to manifest destiny on Central/South America, thankfully. So he could be friends with R.H. Barlow and thus be inspired by Meso-American myths and imagery.

Because otherwise Guillermo Del Toro might not have been willing to do his thang.

It was also probably difficult to be in a mixed race relationship with a Jewish woman during a time and place when the KKK not only existed but were celebrated. My research suggests that midcentury Lovecraft fanboys thought Sonia Greene was an evil cheating whore and didn't give a single shit about her when she was alive, anyway. Buncha nerds who were too busy fantasizing about her getting railed by black men while also being racist because "black ppl are stealing our womenfolk with their beautiful huge throbbing dark dongs".

Then they made weed illegal because they thought it could turn you gay.