Scott Adams is a complete piece of shit
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Squire1039@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Tramort@programming.dev 10 months ago
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I didn’t know what this was about. I found this that can serve as context for others unaware: npr.org/…/newspapers-have-dropped-the-dilbert-com…
[…] Adams urged white people “to get the hell away from Black people” during a racist rant on his online video program last week, during which he labeled Black people a “hate group.”
On his video show last week, the 65 year old said he had been identifying as Black “because I like to be on the winning team,” and that he used to help the Black community. Adams said the results of the Rasmussen poll changed his mind.
“It turns out that nearly half of that team doesn’t think I’m okay to be white,” he said, adding that he would re-identify as white. “I’m going to back off from being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off,” he said. “I get called a racist. That’s the only outcome. It makes no sense to help Black Americans if you’re white. It’s over. Don’t even think it’s worth trying.”
This is not the first time Adams’ strip has been dropped. Last year, The San Francisco Chronicle and 76 other newspapers published by Lee Enterprises reportedly dropped Dilbert after Adams introduced his first Black character. Quinn noted that the move was “apparently to poke fun at ‘woke’ culture and the LGBTQ community.”
Tramort@programming.dev 10 months ago
Thanks for that. I should have included some context.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t have to contextualize everything you say, it’s fine. Sometimes people gotta look up a joke, and in this case, they did.
Asafum@feddit.nl 10 months ago
We’ll go figure… Rasmussen polls have been seen to drift with a rightward bias over the last decade or so. In the early 2000s they were the gold standard, but eventually they started with the political manipulation bullshit by wording their polls in a biased way.
More than likely whatever poll this asshat read about was one of those manipulative ones that was created to serve a specific political purpose to help Republicans.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The whole “it’s okay to be white” thing is a dogwhistle to begin with. It might seem benign, if weirdly unprompted without context. The issue is that among some groups this is often followed up with accusing black movements and immigrants of wanting to get rid of white people, rather than just seeking equality, which is done to fuel racism. This is why a lot of black people might be suspicious of that statement. Nevermind that not agreeing with it might simply mean unsure rather than against.
This whole thing is a roundabout rhetorical play to bait people who are more afraid of being accused of being racist, you know, because racism is bad, than understand that racism has a whole history, that black people have good reasons to be wary of people who are a little too proud of being white. But detached white people might be fooled by a superficial read of “why is it okay to be you but not okay to be you, maybe you are the racist”.
If anything he proved that he is exactly the kind of white guy that black people might be worried about. He doesn’t care about them unless he’s on the “winning team” and gets a reward for it.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuck Scott Adams.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A good example of a bottom-feeding boomer who went batshit insane.
stoly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This makes me so sad, I really enjoyed the comic for years and years. Then he had to go and open his fucking mouth and ruin the entire thing. Now I feel a twinge of disgust rather than delight when I see a reference of him.
TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not sure if I want to know, but what did he say? I’m out of the loop…
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Behind the Bastards did an entire takedown on Scott. Dude has never had it together. He can’t imagine himself as anything but the smartest person in any room, then he got rich off Dilbert, which only confirmed it. He views all human interaction as an opportunity to impose his views on others while never changing his mind. Trump and COVID then sent him into full fascist lunacy.
stoly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep. Not just “I took an Ambian”, this was full on loon.