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Lovecraft was a xenophobic sack of trash and he shouldn't be adored by the cosmic horror crowd
Separate the art from the artist. Many people who are shitbags produce good art and I can still enjoy the art without endorsing them. He was and is (and perhaps always will be) the GOAT in cosmic horror.
Except that his art also contains racist bullshit
The idiom "separate the art from the artist" actually means the opposite to that. It means that it doesn't matter what the artist intended, if it caused offense then it is still offensive. Rather than, it doesn't matter how much offensive stuff put into the art if I don't find it offensive then it's fine.
That's not at all the commonly known meaning. It's differentiating the art from the actions or beliefs of the artists. I like plenty of art, music, literature, created by awful people, but that doesn't reduce the meaning or importance of their work.