/lit/ - Literature

Depends where you go; my master’s degree was full of classes where instructors talked up FGM or suicide bombing (provided it was being carried out by people of the proper color). Other classes had apparently sensible instructors who weren’t willing to push back against the racial hysteria that quickly emerged in almost any group discussion of anything.

>>12665203
I was interested, but I couldn't get past the art.

>>12665194
me hat wemon

>>12663092
I don't object to your not liking "1984," but you haven't done a very good job explaining why you didn't like it.

>>12660469
If you don’t like digressions, Hugo probably isn’t for you.

>>12660244
(Cue screeching.)

>>12659912
Congratulations on your blog.

>>12658744
I like JBP, but fuck you all the same.

>>12658767
That's pretty spot-on.

>>12659832
Please tell me that's something you're just repeating and not something you made up on your own.

>>12659302
The point eludes you slightly. Look, just leave me a complaining comment on the article when it's published and we'll call it good.

>>12658960
That’s a separate but related phenomenon – and Lovecraft’s fiction does indicate that his disgust sensitivity was pretty high. It’s also interesting to note how laden with disgusting and disease-related imagery his descriptions of immigrants are.

>>12658935
I see.

>>12658893
So Hitler wasn’t a Nazi until he tried to invade Poland?

>>12658802
Who can say? Although a lot of fairly recent research indicates that ethnocentrism and vulnerability (actual or perceived) to infectious disease go hand-in-hand. The weirdest consequence of this is that women in their first trimester of pregnancy (when the immune system is naturally suppressed) tend to be more racist. Anyway, Lovecraft was a lifelong semi-hypochondriac, and much of his fiction is about monsters who evoke the threat of disease. Of course, this is just one angle to the question.

>>12658814
lol

>>12658812

>>12658530
I speak from experience.

>>12658666
I have an article on H.P. Lovecraft's racism coming out in a week or so. Could be doing worse.

>>12658682
The retarded dogmatism (LARPing or not) and groupthink on /lit/ is my least favorite thing about it.

>>12657980
No, but I’m not interested in any set of beliefs that ends up creating a society populated by superstitious retards and rapists, regardless of what goodies I’m promised in the afterlife.

>>12657980
Bob Dylan, plagiarizing me yet again.

>>12639134
That was actually rather funny.

>>12657945
All right, I'll bite. What's the deadline for submissions to the next issue?

>>12657678
I've lived in Islamic countries; I didn't see a hell of a lot there to envy.