The creator of the Dilbert comic strip faced a backlash of cancellations Saturday while defending remarks describing people who are Black as members of “a hate group” from which white people should “get away.”
Various media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments by Dilbert creator Scott Adams as racist, hateful and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work.
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Adams, who is [obviousy] white, repeatedly referred to people who are Black as members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help Black Americans.”
“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,” Adams said on his Wednesday show.
The best advice that I can give to anyone who isn't a Christian Nationalist/white premacist is to get the hell away from Scott Adams. He can run his comic strip in Trumpist media, and he can iron his Klan robes whilest he watches his income crater.
It seems that I am here again, just to say that you are totally right. For Scott Adams to say what he did makes him a jackass.
ReplyDeleteMy dad and I both worked in foundries with men of every color and religion and educational background. He had many friends of color who would come to our house to visit, and I also followed the same pattern. A friend is a friend, no matter their color, and my black friends were also not ashamed or afraid to be seen with me. I count myself lucky to have been raised by parents of good character, who instilled the same thing in myself.
I don't read too many comics, but I certainly will avoid his crap now. And as a Christian, for someone to call themselves both a Christian and anything else, like nationalist, or separatist, or such, makes me wonder just whether or not they are in fact, an actual Christian, or one who finds it convenient to take that moniker.
I stopped reading Dilbert back when he first started cheerleading for Fergus. Kept calling him a "master communicator" and other such horse shit.
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Long before I began dabbling thirty-five almost forty years ago in activist journalism my wobbly g'da taught me that you can learn stuff from the local paper that isn't necessarily "news." For example: you can learn a great deal about the quality of a communities' life reading the classifieds, what's for sale, what's for hire; learn a great deal about the paper itself by the comics on their pages.
ReplyDeleteI long ago, quite probably the first time I read one, drew the conclusion that any paper that features the strip "Dildo" is not a "news"paper, not something of value. Yellow journalism at best, with apologies to yellow journalists everywhere. Blatantly racist, misogynist and homophobic it is Christo-Fascist, is Christian White Nationalist, is NAZI propaganda rammed down your throat. Trash.
Not a paper you want to waste your time, or money, reading ...
Have you read the totality of what he said, or just the headlines and excerpts?
ReplyDeleteCause the actuality is somewhat different than the headline.
He doubled down later Saturday, quoting Mike Pence to justify it.
ReplyDeleteI haven't really followed any comic for ages now but am not totally surprised when one runs itself out of business. I wonder what prompted this outburst of racism though? I have seen adults lose it more than once now. They don't usually go to racism, but I am sure that is possible too. Perhaps a medical timeout and some stronger medications are in order. I know that meds don't cure everything but I also know they can make a world of difference. "Better living thru modern pharmaceuticals". There is a world of people out there that need calming.
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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,” the 65-year-old author exclaimed. “Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
ReplyDeleteReiterating that whites need to “escape,” Adams said that he had already done so by moving to an area “with a very low Black population.” He then cited Black CNN anchor Don Lemon to justify his assertion that there’s a “correlation” between a “mostly Black” neighborhood and “a bunch of problems he didn’t see” in majority-white areas.
Go ahead and parse that out for me, B. Explain to me why calling for segregation in
housing isn’t racist. Explain why saying that, to be Black, is to be a member of a hate group: “Turning back to the poll results, Adams said he’s now “going to re-identify as white” because he doesn’t “want to be a member of a hate group,” which he claimed he had “accidentally joined” with his trollish Black identification.”
He got exactly one thing right, one time.
ReplyDeleteIn no way makes up for his otherwise complete assholery.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-05-24%2000:00:00%20-0700
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AMU, who handled all of his publication deals has cut ties with him.
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https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2023/03/killbert.html
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I just stopped in to check and see if someone took offense with my post. While here, I saw Ten Bears wrote about how a newspaper who published Dilbert was not a paper of value. However, I think on that issue he is mistaken.
ReplyDeleteMy own hometown newspaper, the Muskegon Chronicle, here in Michigan, dropped Dilbert after the bigoted nonsense spewed by the venomous Mr. Adams. They are a very liberal paper, who has very good coverage of both the area news and the national and international news, via other sources, such as the Washington post, the NY Times, and the Wall Street Journal. I believe that some of those national newspapers ran the Dilbert comic and dropped it after Adams showed his true colors.
The thing that bothered me the most was not his right wing BS, as much as it was the fact that so very many people could support him, even after the racist, inhumane ideas that he voiced. It is ok to like a comic and be fooled by the creator. But once you are shown just what the man is about, to still support him is just a bad move on your part.
Until people everywhere call out such hatred, it will continue. As a conservative, who has voted for Republicans at the federal level many times in the past, I cannot fathom why they would support people like Scott Adams. Such rot will infect the entire group, and cause many to leave, while stoking the fires of those who remain.
Much like the NRA, which is soon to be a memory, they are not killed from the outside, but it is much more likely that the death will begin from within.