Comment by hyperhello
2 days ago
He drew Dilbert for decades. He had a lot of comics and books in him.
In his later life he was clearly trolling and dabbling in stirring up social media for fun, and it was hard to tell where the lines between that and his personal identity were.
Goodbye born entertainer and funny dork.
Promoting racism, bigotry, and hate is not trolling and should not be treated as lightly as you imply.
What did he say that was racist?
“The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people” -Scott Adams
It’s even worse in context.
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"And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed."
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Not that your exactly guilty, but that comes close to the cringeworthy attitude of "haha, what a great troll! Those poor fools can't tell when he's being serious, so brilliant! Wait, wait, you touched my sacred cow? Well, now you're obviously toxic and I've discovered empathy."
Do the Thumper thing. If you can't find something nice to say, then don't say anything at all.
No. Racism and bigotry must always be pro-actively confronted.
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Silence is how fascism rises.
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That was him. The past 10 years have only emboldened certain people into taking their masks off.
I don't think it's possible to want to troll about those things without at least somewhat believing them. To troll about them at the expense of your career and reputation takes a deeper belief that goes beyond trolling.
You must be one of the people he hypnotized to have the strongest possible orgasm.
https://www.tumblr.com/manlethotline/616428804059086848/hey-...
He was not trolling. Please don’t persist the lie that people spouting racism are “only joking.” It’s harmful, disrespectful, and either purposefully in bad faith or embarrassingly naïve.
I'm sympathetic to the idea there was some trolling, but it certainly wasn't all, so this becomes a moot point to hinge on.
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Context?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/dilberts-scott-adams-...
Adams was talking about a poll:
> He said it revealed that 26% of Black respondents said it’s “not OK to be White” and 21% said “they weren’t sure.” With a degree of amazement, Adams said: “That’s 47% of Blacks not willing to say it’s OK to be White. That’s like a real poll. This just happened.”
> Adams said that the poll demonstrated that there is “no fixing” current racial tensions in America, which is why White people should live in largely segregated neighborhoods.
> “Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people,” the 65-year-old author exclaimed. “Just get the (expletive) away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
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> “I’ve been identifying as Black for a while because I like to be on the winning team,” Adams continued. “And I like to help. I always thought if you help the Black community, that’s sort of the biggest lever, you could find, the biggest benefit.”
> “But it turns out that nearly half of that team doesn’t think I’m okay to be White,” Adams said.
> Given the poll results, Adams said he’s now “going to re-identify as White,” arguing that he doesn’t “want to be a member of a hate group,” which he claimed he had “accidentally joined” with his supposed Black identification.
What context would make that statement acceptable?
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