I recently heard Netflix is doing a Conan the Barbarian show. Now since Netflix is Netflix I know that they won’t respect the source material and I’m honestly surprised they would have a show with a masculine male lead. So how do you think they will ruin it?
Also, if they include Red Sonja she probably won’t be the Red Sonja from the books and comic books of decades past.
That's why. It's because they know, despite him being an evil bigot and them being a virtuous being, it's not their stories or ideas that are going to be republished and referenced for decades and centuries to come. If they can't remove it from culture, then the least they can do is permanently stain the man's name so that if you know just one thing about Lovecraft, it's that he was a horrible racist. It's how you get shows like Lovecraft Country, where the true horror isn't the unfathomable goals of beings so beyond our comprehension we might as well be bacteria compared to them, it's racism.
I didn’t even bother with Lovecraft Country. I heard Jordan “everything is racist” Peele was involved and lost interest. HBO used to have awesome shows.
I just figured they were just doing what they naturally do: subverting.