# Lovecraft Country S1 \[SPOILERS within\]

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**Created:** [July 26, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-country-s1-spoilers-within/916355 "2020-07-26T02:19:27Z")\
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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Decent white people probably really were quite rare, in the experiences of many or most black people, at the time.

“Quite rare”—very possibly. But ‘entirely non-existent’?

As an example of what I see as pandering: the scenes of white neighbors looking disapprovingly at the multitude of vehicles arriving for Letitia’s housewarming party. In reality, wouldn’t _most_ neighbors look askance at a noisy party----no matter the races of the people involved?

But the show, pandering away, depicts the whites as vicious bigots who ‘naturally’ react with breaking-and-entering, to be followed, one assumes, by violence against the virtuous.

This, again, may seem like ‘turnabout is fair play’ to a lot of viewers, and I can understand that kind of reaction. I can empathize with it.

I’m just refraining from _applauding_ the divisiveness. We’re seeing so much _'the races are distinct and can NEVER get along_’ propaganda from the Kremlin and its allies, now, that I can’t welcome more of it from HBO.

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