Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

Robert E Howard was not a "a known white supremacist who hated foreigners." By just about any a stretch, but definitely by the standards of early 20th Century Texas.

And, what he's saying is actually very positive. The only people it's critical of, deserve to be criticized (at the least).

http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2010/ … acist.html

And what he's saying certainly is positive.

Last edited by Overlord Morgus (11-04-2012 09:52:50 PM)

I don't know very much about Robert Howard, except that he created Conan the Barbarian and wrote some poems, and now I also know that he said that awesome quote.  So I can't say whether he was a white supremacist, though it would seem very strange to me for a white supremacist to issue that quote.  But I did dig up the misplaced article used as evidence in Morgus's link.  It is here.  As far as I can tell, it is made of a lot of out-of-context quotations strung together, and it's internally contradictory here and there, but the article nonetheless makes a strong case that Robert Howard was not a racially sensitive liberal living in the year 2012.  I can't really say whether he was progressive by the standards of his time, and a discussion of whether it's all right to judge a person by the standards of eir time would be out of place here.

Last edited by satyreyes (11-05-2012 03:21:40 AM)

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