Scott Adams says the quiet part out loud

[esquared]

I think many of us knew he was a RWNJ but this time he came right out and said it,
according to his podcast. He said black people are a hate group.

'Dilbert' Finally Gets Fired After Creator Goes On Racist Tirade

An array of newspapers are dropping the comic strip after Scott Adams made incendiary comments about Black people.

currently.att.yahoo.com

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“The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” Adams said with his mouth.
“Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away,” he went on.
And on: “There’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. ... You just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low Black population.”
Adams said pollsters had found “nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” and that meant Black people constituted “a hate group.”

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His cartoon, Dilbert is being dumped by at least a couple newspapers.
I bet its a lot more of them after all of this is over.

 

[Jaskalas]

It is so "out there" my mind immediately thought deep fake. Some "AI" generated BS, surely.
Cause it really wouldn't be that difficult to get anyone "on video" saying those things.

But I guess he moved past denying it, eh?
To actually say that....

Well, there can be no doubt that certain speech is hateful. And any group is going to have members that are radical, who say hateful things. To expand upon that, let's do a thought experiment. If Black were a euphemism for Democrat... would it be far fetched... for a Republican to say those things... to actually believe those things, about Democrats? Especially if they feel strong partisanship on politics. I think it might even be expected that a lot of Republicans feel that way about Democrats these days. Fearful, antagonized, "gotta get away".

Then you throw in that part where Blacks largely vote Democrat.....
It's a pretty strong parallel connection to deep partisanship... and being hateful / fearful of anyone you can safely assume isn't of your political party.
I mean, they tried an insurrection... they think elections are fake... they are going to try again. Imagine the paranoia that grows from this head space.

His words are the sign of a deeply #MAGA mind....
He is certainly not alone... and it is far worse than simple racism.

 

[rommelrommel]

He’s certainly got more money that he needs. Why not use your privilege to advocate outright racism?

 

[pete6032]

Fox News comments left on?

Laid off: Newspapers drop office cartoon 'Dilbert' over creator's racial remarks

Racial comments made by "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams have spurred a number of newspapers to drop the office comedy comic strip in protest. The cartoonist then doubled down on Twitter.

www.foxnews.com

 

[fskimospy]

The parallels to Elon here are pretty striking. A rich guy used to only fawning coverage turns into a right wing asshole when people on the internet make fun of them.

 

[Amused]

I'll just leave this right over here...

 

[theeedude]

He's like reverse Kanye West.

 

[sandorski]

Dude did the hard Research and came up with a Conclusion. Nearly 50% were "Not OK" guys! The reverberations of this will echo throughout History...I'm guessing.

 

[KMFJD]

I'll just leave this right over here...

View attachment 77170

Get ready for it...

 

[cytg111]

The man is obviously not well and highly tribal.

He was identifying as black(unless he's taking a piss) and now by this rasmussen poll feel rejected by his own tribe and this is his reaction.

He is seriously not .. shooting straight? Low level some kind of autism is my guess.

(this is the clip that is at the root of the shit storm)

 

[Sunburn74]

Fox News comments left on?

Laid off: Newspapers drop office cartoon 'Dilbert' over creator's racial remarks

Racial comments made by "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams have spurred a number of newspapers to drop the office comedy comic strip in protest. The cartoonist then doubled down on Twitter.

www.foxnews.com

The comments are absolutely disgusting.

Anyway yeah he went off the deep end. A friend of mine who's ridiculously smart and worked/lived with engineers for much of his life said this is actually not that common in engineering to see this happen. Somehow engineers go from realizing they're pretty good at "X" in engineering to assuming

1) they know everything about everything
2) they know how to solve all the worlds problems efficiently, even in fields they have zero expertise in
3) the rest of the world is absolutely crazy for not just listening to them and they're the only ones who see the truth

 

[cytg111]

The comments are absolutely disgusting.

Anyway yeah he went off the deep end. A friend of mine who's ridiculously smart and worked/lived with engineers for much of his life said this is actually not that common in engineering to see this happen. Somehow engineers go from realizing they're pretty good at "X" in engineering to assuming

1) they know everything about everything
2) they know how to solve all the worlds problems efficiently, even in fields they have zero expertise in
3) the rest of the world is absolutely crazy for not just listening to them and they're the only ones who see the truth

Can confirm.

 

[Meghan54]

The comments are absolutely disgusting.

Anyway yeah he went off the deep end. A friend of mine who's ridiculously smart and worked/lived with engineers for much of his life said this is actually not that common in engineering to see this happen. Somehow engineers go from realizing they're pretty good at "X" in engineering to assuming

1) they know everything about everything
2) they know how to solve all the worlds problems efficiently, even in fields they have zero expertise in
3) the rest of the world is absolutely crazy for not just listening to them and they're the only ones who see the truth

Add in him getting his engineering degree from Annapolis, the Naval Academy. Now ratchet that up a bit and grow up with that shit.

 

[KMFJD]

newest dilbert parody to drop

 

[PowerEngineer]

Damn! As an engineer I often found humor in Dilbert's trials and tribulations and perhaps a bit of shared identity with him. What a shame that this comic strip is now forever poisoned by his hateful racial views. Down the same toilet as Bill Cosby.

And so now I have changed my icon and hope that the creators of Wallace & Gromit do not embarrass me. 😫

 

[fskimospy]

Damn! As an engineer I often found humor in Dilbert's trials and tribulations and perhaps a bit of shared identity with him. What a shame that this comic strip is now forever poisoned by his hateful racial views. Down the same toilet as Bill Cosby.

And so now I have changed my icon and hope that the creators of Wallace & Gromit do not embarrass me. 😫

Right? I used to read and enjoy dilbert and I also read the book he wrote like 20 years ago and thought it was amusing and sometimes insightful. I don’t know what happened to the guy but…Jesus.

 

[nickqt]

Right? I used to read and enjoy dilbert and I also read the book he wrote like 20 years ago and thought it was amusing and sometimes insightful. I don’t know what happened to the guy but…Jesus.

Read his blog from 2015 - 2016 and you can watch the change happen.

Straight white Christian male victimhood as an identity is a hell of a mental illness.

 

[Pohemi]

The comments are absolutely disgusting.

An article on Faux News, with the comments left on, will ALWAYS be pretty disgusting for the most part.

sidenote: wtf is with RWNJ's idolizing of Marcus Aurelius quotes? lol

 

[fskimospy]

The comments are absolutely disgusting.

Anyway yeah he went off the deep end. A friend of mine who's ridiculously smart and worked/lived with engineers for much of his life said this is actually not that common in engineering to see this happen. Somehow engineers go from realizing they're pretty good at "X" in engineering to assuming

1) they know everything about everything
2) they know how to solve all the worlds problems efficiently, even in fields they have zero expertise in
3) the rest of the world is absolutely crazy for not just listening to them and they're the only ones who see the truth

As others have pointed out Scott Adams wrote a comic strip about exactly this and hilariously did not appear to realize it applied to him.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Read his blog from 2015 - 2016 and you can watch the change happen.

Straight white Christian male victimhood as an identity is a hell of a mental illness.

So he was normal until Trump?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

So he was normal until Trump?

Like many others, he wasn't normal before Trump. Trump just normalized vocalizing it.

To wit: "He's just saying what everyone else is thinking."

 

[kage69]

Just another shame-free angry old white guy to me. I don't really care about his cartoon so it's not some kind of disappointment or loss.

I'll admit I'd probably feel pretty let down if this was Larson or Watterson though.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Damn! As an engineer I often found humor in Dilbert's trials and tribulations and perhaps a bit of shared identity with him. What a shame that this comic strip is now forever poisoned by his hateful racial views. Down the same toilet as Bill Cosby.

And so now I have changed my icon and hope that the creators of Wallace & Gromit do not embarrass me. 😫

Pretty sure I’ll adopt to your new avatar. Sad the the previous fit perfectly and sad that it could easily become the badge of a racist.

 

[nickqt]

So he was normal until Trump?

Not necessarily normal. Less of an outspoken proponent of white victimhood populism as a political ideology, maybe?

Before Trump he was hung up "persuasion". With Trump he realized that there are tens of millions of authoritarians clamoring for a rightful authority figure to "persuade" them, and he went all-in.

Like most things, you could just stamp him and his writings with an "every accusation is a confession" and be done with it.

To note: I irregularly read his blog as this happened, and was there as he had to turn his comments "off" because of his audience's vocal support of fascism...and he basically said that he had to turn the comments off not because his audience were a pile of bigots and imbeciles, but because libruuuls and Hillary supporters were framing his readers. Classic, "it was antifa storming the capitol!" shit you can expect from right-wing authoritarians.

 

[pete6032]

The parallels to Elon here are pretty striking. A rich guy used to only fawning coverage turns into a right wing asshole when people on the internet make fun of them.

Well there ya go. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/el...r-newspapers-drop-dilbert-cartoon-2023-02-26/