Well, this brightened my morning...

[seriousfic]

Somehow a Robert E. Howard apologist found my post on ol' Bob and decided to correct my reading of racism into certain passages, such as this one:

Kane stood with the ju-ju stave in one hand and the smoking pistol in the other, above the smouldering ruins that hid forever from the sight of man the last of those terrible, semi-human monsters whom another white-skinned hero had banished from Europe in an unknown age. Kane stood, an unconscious statue of triumph—the ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned people fade and even the demons of antiquity gasp their last, but over all stands the Aryan barbarian, white-skinned, cold-eyed, dominant, the supreme fighting man of the earth, whether he be clad in wolf-hide and horned helmet, or boots and doublet—-whether he bear in his hand battle-ax or rapier—whether he be called Dorian, Saxon or Englishman-—whether his name be Jason, Hengist, or Solomon Kane.

Oh, INTERNETS.

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[azarias.livejournal.com]

Is it okay if I sit over here cackling? Let me know if the noise bothers you.

[rann.livejournal.com]

And now, the apologist seems to think that "girl" is as vile a label as "racist". Oh INTERNETS indeed.

How is it I only find all the really interesting trolls on your journal?

[finnswake.livejournal.com]

Bzzzz Bzzzz Bzzzz

It wasn't a correction...

[finnswake.livejournal.com]

but rather, the dispensing of information (and it's info that you clearly didn't have) in the hopes of perhaps getting you to, you know, take it easy on an author you seem to otherwise like reading.

I guess this isn't even open to discussion, though, is it? I Wouldn't want you to have to re-think a position on something.

Parting shot: if you really think Howard was a racist, I challenge you to go read any/all of his Crusader stories. There's a whole collection of them, currently remaindered at Half Price Books across the country.