Ray Martin savagely mocks host Tim Mcdonald on The Cheap Seats
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what kind of homeland security threat did the mythbusters accidentally discover????
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I fell victim to one of the classic blunders (drawing a load of fan art when I should have been working)
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We are dealing with 'a very savagely unhealthy' housing market, says HousingWire's Logan Mohtashami
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Logan Mohtashami, HousingWire lead analyst, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss skyrocketing mortgage rates, after the National Association of Realtors warned rates could hit 8% if the economy continues to show strength and the Fed hikes rates again, the impact on the housing industry, and…
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It feels odd that while Lovecraft's racism is often the first thing the mind jumps to when discussing him, the same isn't really true for other prominent pulp authors. Especially considering Edgar Rice Burroughs whole oeuvre is a celebration of white supremacy and eugenics. Tarzan boasts that he's a "killer of beasts and many black men." Utopias that have bred out crime through execution or sterilization of criminals' families are a repeated staple of his fiction. It wasn't just his fiction either; the man wrote a newspaper column calling for the killing of "moral imbeciles" and their families [source].
Its not like they were writing in wildly different times; the first Tarzan book came out only seven years before Lovecraft's Dagon. And they both were incredibly influential and celebrated figures in specific genre niches that still command wide attention. But while his racism isn't unknown, it doesn't seem to be attached to Burrough's public character in the same way it is for Lovecraft. Why doesn't he have multiple generations of pulp fans coming to terms with how the author they idolize is awful? Are there just not enough people reading A Princess of Mars these days?
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