I would find HP Lovecraft's racism disturbing if I were reading it in a work penned today, but as the product of a man 'of his time', I judge it rather to be a representation of the viewpoint of the society in which he moved. In the same way, I don't find it repugnant to play or GM a Call of Cthulhu game in which the characters are frequently both misogynistic and racist.

I find it abhorrent when _current_ celebrities, authors, athletes etc. display such behaviour or opinions, as by now I expect a better level of enlightenment from them. I have ceased to watch anything with Russell Crowe or Mel Gibson in, as one example.