Superficially he corresponded with a more diverse crowd and while, again, still racist started to take pains to preserve their feelings. For example, he respected Robert Bloch, who was Jewish, enough to want to avoid saying anything offensive to him.

It's not perfectly 1:1, but yea, it's absolutely there.

Fascinatingly, though he decried communism and revolution, he was a big New Dealer, seeing it as a balanced approach, or even not leftist enough(!). This also affected his political leanings.

Wandered off for a bit to check dates. Lovecraft's racism is generally seen as very gradually tapering off, most notably by the early 30's he had moved to a culture-based racism over a biological one. Still racist, but he had critically realized no scientific evidence would support his feelings.

Also, sorry I probably wasn't clear here, but Janus' argument is that ATMOM is an actual product of Lovecraft's post-conversion revised views; in the text, the Yithians were killed by their own hubris in implementing a racist eugenics program to create slave untermenschen.

Especially considering how often we see artists go the other way...

I mean, it's correct to say he didn't have time, but it's one thing to lament the fact that a writer didn't get to reshape his corpus, and another to rejoice in the fact that a artist who grew up *incredibly* racist was eventually able to see past that and grow as a person.

Asimov's racism also kind of fails to capture the reader's attention because Asimov's human characters are usually more akin to talking, chain-smoking popsicle sticks than humans. His damned robots are less inhuman, arguably. (Yes, I have An Opinion)

I'm not sure if you're aware or not but Janus is talking about that fact that HP's late correspondence revealed that he came to understand and regret the ignorance of his racism. I mean, he died before he could fully complete that journey, but he did in fact hit the big realization.

Yeah, undone by their own Morlocks.