Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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The horrors (slrpnk.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 79 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Plus everyone who wasn't white and from his home town.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago (4 children)

On the Creation of N*ggers

When, long ago, the Gods created Earth, In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill this gap, and join the rest to man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a N*GGER.

H.P.LOVECRAFT.

😬😬😬

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You’re just taking him out of context. /s

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

It's just a bad translation, in the original Roman it's a passage about love.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.org 7 points 11 months ago

It's well known that he was a socially awkward and autistic.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 6 points 11 months ago

We should have “a bit of grace” and give the “benefit of the doubt.” ~/s~

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I am not surprised that this is actually something he wrote.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago

Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who've had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

Lovercraft was a gamer

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

My favorite way of explaining how racist he was is that his contemporaries over a century ago in the "Birth of a Nation" period of racism were like "Dude - tone down the racism."