I also don’t understand why people accuse me of being censorious when I point out a media creator had shitty politics

Like you’re the one who seems to think it’s unthinkable to read a book by an author who’s not a paragon of moral rectitude, and you think I’m the one advocating censorship?

Like I am a HUGE fan of Lovecraft’s fiction, I think the Cthulhu mythos is an incredible fictional creation and undeniably deserves a place in the literary canon for its creativity and originality.  

That said, Lovecraft was a fucking racist, a REALLY virulent and horrible fucking racist, and no let’s not get into “of his time” cause like Lovecraft’s time featured men like him but also the IWW was a thing 

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And you know what?  Not once has the social justice community ever jumped down my throat for loving the fuck out of Cthulhu, and do you know why?  Because I don’t try to defend Lovecraft the man, nor do I feel the need to cover up how HORRIBLE his views were to appreciate his stories about monsters (which yes, often also feature a heaping scoop of racism, which I can also acknowledge while still fucking liking the story).

But for some reason there are a lot of people who think you can’t like a piece of media unless you love the creator as a person.  I mean honestly it’s you who’s unable to separate the art from the artist, not me.  

Meanwhile in the censorship office of an alternate world where I’m the all powerful ruler:

Censor: Your highness, you weren’t worried about the anti-tyranny message in Mad Max: Fury Road
Me: No, that movie was awesome.
Censor: *scribbles something* okay, good, good… and now I couldn’t quite make out what you wanted done with The Hobbit Movies.
Me: *sigh* it’s not hard, I just want the entire thing reshot but instead of whatever the story they were trying to tell, just have it be that elf king, the other good looking elves, and the two sexy dwarves in the nud taking steam baths, and stretching coquettishly… a trilogy, yeah, about as long as they originally planned