Well, it is, and here's just a few examples among many. Now, for those who are unfamiliar with Lovecraft's work, you might be thinking that the racism in it is probably not that bad. In a call-out that I'm sure would instantly get Isaacson dismissed and labeled as an emotional snowflake SJW, he wrote that Lovecraft "is against tolerance of color, creed and equality, upholds race prejudice…". Isaacson, even talked about his racism in an essay from 1915. Sanford's article explains how Lovecraft's racism was so well-known, one of his friends was forced to address it. This argument is almost always bullshit because, while there's always been bad people, there's also always been people who knew better and who pushed back against these ideas. They didn't understand that calling someone a name that's always been used as a form of oppression was harmful, and that they couldn't see how their beliefs directly related to people's suffering. One of the major problems with The Product of the Time argument is that it hinges on the belief that the person didn't know better, that they lived in a time of naïveté.
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