How do you say "I did Nazi that coming" in Tsolyáni?

So it turns out that Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker, professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies; creator of the Tékumel setting, one of the first major TTRPG settings not based on a pastiche of European history; and author of Empire of the Petal Throne, the RPG based on that setting, was a neo-Nazi who sat on the board of the Holocaust-denial journal Journal of Historical Review and wrote a book called Serpent's Walk:

Serpent's Walk is a novel where Hitler's warrior elite--the SS--didn't give up their struggle for a White world when they lost the Second World War.

The book was published by National Vanguard Books, the same group that published The Turner Diaries. I found a pdf online and paged through it and it's basically Richard Spencer's version of modern neo-Nazism where multiculturalism leads to whites dying out so every race has to form their own nation-states back where they "belong," along with claims that it'll somehow be done without violence. The main character is a mercenary who starts up thinking this is a bunch of Nazi bullshit and, over the course of the book, slowly gets convinced that that fascists are right. It explicitly includes a lot of justifications for Barker's own situations--there's discussions of how high-caste South Asians are "Aryan" (Barker's wife was Pakistani), a meeting with some American Black Muslims who also talk about segregation (in that Muslims should live apart so as to make sure they rule their own states and govern them by Islamic Law)--the book talks a lot about Islam, which puts Barker's conversion to Islam in a more sinister light--some random Holocaust denial, claims that we secretly control America through the media, the works. There's also apparently some past war where Israel conquers most of the Middle East in the backstory and deports the Beta Yisrael, amidst all the standard antisemitism. And it ends with the main character as the neo-Fuhrer, all non-Nazis dead (after they just can't peacefully let AmeriKKKa live and launch a surprise attack or something, apparently), talking about the Thousand-Year Reich and asking "Would you like to read other books in which the good guys win?"

There's more in this reddit post. The part that really stands out to me is the quoting of an archivist who was going through Barker's old papers:

My reaction, as it had been when Phil had done things like this in the past, was "Oh, Phil, WHY?"

as it had been when Phil had done things like this in the past

Phil had done things like this in the past

I'm sorry, what?

I don't really have a dog in this fight, since I've never played in or run Tékumel, just read about James Maliszewski's campaign over at Grognardia and read Raymond E. Feist's Kelewan books which are, let's say, heavily inspired by Tékumel. But I do feel bad for the people who loved Tékumel. It was niche but one of the famous weird settings, drawing on Barker's background in South Asian studies to create its future history, not full of knights and orcs and Caverns of Chaos.

It's true that Lovecraft and Howard's work both also reflect their bigotries, but the difference is that we've acknowledged the problems, had the conversation, and moved into the phase of reinterpretation. The question of whether Tékumel will survive this is a real one, since apparently the Tékumel Foundation has known about Barker's Nazism for a couple years and just kind of hoped no one else noticed, which reflects far worse on them than how the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's FAQ literally begins with "How can you support or promote the works of a terrible racist like H. P. Lovecraft?" The Tékumel Foundation will need to have its own reckoning and after their past behavior, it's not clear that they're equipped to do it. I suspect it might be some time before mention of Tékumel is greeted with anything other than "Tékumel? Isn't that written by a Nazi?"

For my own part, I was slightly interested in Tékumel but honestly Skyrealms of Jorune is weirder anyway (even if less meticulously developed), and Mechanical Dream beats them both for oddities. Hell, even Exalted steps away from knights and orcs. There's plenty of other RPG material out there for me.