That sound you hear is the magazine imploding from its own idiotic upper-management.

Marvin has an unreasonable connection to the book. Obsessive, one would say, considering the lengths he has gone to to defend and promote it.

See my previous posts on the original thread. (I godwin'd the hell out of them.)

Smartest goddamned move they've made in a long time. Unfortunately for them, however, the damage has been done. Marvin Kaye has lost all credibility as a competent editor in my eyes, and undoubtedly in the eyes of many others.

His wife divorced him because of his racism. Your extrapolation, while admirably optimistic, just doesn't fly.

His cat "N*gger Man?"

Is your friend Stephen Colbert? Can you get me tickets to his show?

"Judging a person, but not a moral system, must be done within the context of the time."

I'm not sure who these "people" are, but I've never heard a progressive educator, lecturer, or the like ever condone cultural racism.

Key points in Lovecraft stories are, by and large, the onset horror and madness. Often in his stories said horror and madness are aided and abetted by swarthy negroid types, Jews, Others, foreigners, and the like. See the entire plot-line of "The Call of Cthulhu,"

I made no "analogue," sir. What I DID do, however, is point out some glaring cognitive dissonance with regard to this particular magazine and the subject of racism.

I find it amusing that some people are falling all over themselves trying to defend an ADMITTED racist (whose views are explicitly stated) in the same context of burning down someone who is an ASSUMED racist.

The unspoken assumption of that conclusion being, cultural racism is acceptable?

If Hitler wrote a book about scheming Jews, would he get a pass for being a product of his time?

I agree wholeheartedly. Lovecraft's stories often contained seedy Negros, scheming Jews, and other "unsavory" racial types. I'm shocked that Weird Tales has gotten away with featuring his work for this long, and I'm glad that they're finally being boycotted.

Weird Tales Magazine homepage. Several loving references or odes to H. P. Lovecraft. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE THAT WEIRD TALES IS PROMOTING THE WORK OF THIS DOCUMENTED ANTI-SEMITE AND RACIST?

"Sin" is an outdated moral qualifier written for and by desert-dwelling nomads who were only one or two generations removed from worshipping golden calves and wells. It has no bearing on the issue at hand, this being a modern society with secular laws. If you'd like to live in a society where fear of committing sin is…

Not really.

The Post is scum lower than scum. How atrocious of them. How unfairly judgmental and idiotically self-righteous.

Pretty much. "It's not *bad* objectification if WE do it." Give me a break, Jezebel.