tl;dr: contextualizing problematic authors after the fact worked for me. Wouldn’t that be better here too?

Counterpoint: Go fuck yourself. If we ignored the art of all flawed humans we’d have nothing at all.

Lovecraft’s complete inability to write dialogue makes me angrier than anything else. Jesus fucking Christ.

Is it possible to watch a movie like Disney’s Jungle Book and just take it at face value without noticing or soaking in the implied racism or colonialism? Because that’s what I did when I was a kid and I still find myself able to just watch the story and enjoy it at face value.

Does that make me racist? I don’t think…

Oh Kipling. You can’t help but be disgusted by him, but then he’s the guy who wrote liberal bumper stickers like: “When they ask us why we died // Tell them that our fathers lied.” Or: “There is neither East nor West nor border nor breed nor birth // When two strong men stand face to face though they come from the…