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"Scott Adams defends his self-congratulatory commenting and weighs in on the Obama chimp controversy. Make it stop" For those that don't follow this stuff and

by ja27 16y ago

"Scott Adams defends his self-congratulatory commenting and weighs in on the Obama chimp controversy. Make it stop" For those that don't follow this stuff and for whom the article is TL;DR, Scott Adams had nothing to do with "the Obama chimp controversy" except to compare his situation to that gaffe.

jdp23 16y ago
He said "The same thing is happening today with a Republican official who emailed some friends a humorous photo of President Obama's face on a chimp and a punch line about his birth certificate. If your only context is what the Internet says about this story, you assume it's a typical racist act by a Republican who is already guilty by association. But if I add the context that Googling "George Bush monkey" gives you over 3 million hits, and most of them are jokes where President Bush's face is transposed on a monkey, you see what's really going on. Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda at the expense of a woman who was probably so non-racist that the photo in question didn't set off her alarms as being a career-ending risk." That sounds like weighing in to me.
- brg 16y ago
  PlannedChaos: Why wouldn't it be better to just defend yourself online using your real name? Scott: You're not a good listener. Watch what happens now that I have. Every part of this post will be taken out of context and twisted to its opposite meaning.
- tedunangst 16y ago
  The summary sounds like it was Adams's controversy. It wasn't. Yes, comparing == weighing in, but that doesn't mean he had anything to do with it.
- turbodog 16y ago
  "Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda". The agenda that America's long record of comparing African-Americans to apes or monkeys, ie sub-human brutes unlike real, white Americans, isn't OK? How terrible! Googling "black people monkeys" gave me 3.2 million hits. Do I win? "black people apes" rings in at 1.9 million. I just ran "george bush monkey" and only got 2.7m, so I guess I do win the Internet.
  - jdp23 16y ago
    Yeah really. And why was this post downvoted?

by ja27 16y ago

jdp23 16y ago

He said "The same thing is happening today with a Republican official who emailed some friends a humorous photo of President Obama's face on a chimp and a punch line about his birth certificate. If your only context is what the Internet says about this story, you assume it's a typical racist act by a Republican who is already guilty by association. But if I add the context that Googling "George Bush monkey" gives you over 3 million hits, and most of them are jokes where President Bush's face is transposed on a monkey, you see what's really going on. Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda at the expense of a woman who was probably so non-racist that the photo in question didn't set off her alarms as being a career-ending risk." That sounds like weighing in to me.

brg 16y ago
PlannedChaos: Why wouldn't it be better to just defend yourself online using your real name? Scott: You're not a good listener. Watch what happens now that I have. Every part of this post will be taken out of context and twisted to its opposite meaning.
tedunangst 16y ago
The summary sounds like it was Adams's controversy. It wasn't. Yes, comparing == weighing in, but that doesn't mean he had anything to do with it.
turbodog 16y ago
"Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda". The agenda that America's long record of comparing African-Americans to apes or monkeys, ie sub-human brutes unlike real, white Americans, isn't OK? How terrible! Googling "black people monkeys" gave me 3.2 million hits. Do I win? "black people apes" rings in at 1.9 million. I just ran "george bush monkey" and only got 2.7m, so I guess I do win the Internet.
- jdp23 16y ago
  Yeah really. And why was this post downvoted?