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Except that the reason that Unfortunate Implication is a sign of bad writing is that it, regardless of whether the writer is secretly a horrible bigot or not, would have creeped up in modern work where said prejudice is not acceptable. For example a work where the only members of Group X (assuming they were not AcceptableTagets today) were all \'\'\'subtly\'\'\' portrayed(accidental or not) as whatever negative stereotype would count as an UnfortunateImplication. A work where all of Group X were \'\'\'blatantly\'\'\' portrayed as whatever negative stereotype would not count as an UnfortunateImplication but as an Unfortunate Statement. The H.P. Lovecraft example would fall into the latter as he is blatantly saying instead of implying \
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Except that the reason that Unfortunate Implication is a sign of bad writing is that it, regardless of whether the writer is secretly a horrible bigot or not, would have creeped up in modern work where said prejudice is not acceptable. For example a work where the only members of Group X (assuming they were not AcceptableTargets today) were all \\\'\\\'\\\'subtly\\\'\\\'\\\' portrayed(accidental or not) as whatever negative stereotype would count as an UnfortunateImplication. A work where all of Group X were \\\'\\\'\\\'blatantly\\\'\\\'\\\' portrayed as whatever negative stereotype would not count as an UnfortunateImplication but as an Unfortunate Statement. The H.P. Lovecraft example would fall into the latter as he is blatantly saying instead of implying \\\"(Insert whatever Group was the target in whatever book) are all (insert whatever negative stereotype he made them out to be)
