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Dilbert Dropped by Newspapers over Creator's Racist Rant
- russfink 4y agoAlso (NSFW) https://news.yahoo.com/dilbert-finally-gets-fired-creator-201315690.html https://news.yahoo.com/dilbert-finally-gets-fired-creator-20...
- walrus01 4y agoI'm sure Adams and his supporters will find a way to cosplay as if they're being terribly oppressed by the results of a free market.
- sander27home 4y agoMany papers in America are already racist. This is just their projections. Our organizations specifically ignore any special treatment to blacks and do fire any employees pro that movement. Good thing we are outside of American reach.
- satvikpendem 4y agoIs it really so difficult for people to just (to put it harshly) shut up and do their work? I don't understand why people, especially prominent people, feel to need to go on social issue tirades that jeopardize their livelihoods.
- simplotek 4y agoMight it be possible that the guy is undergoing a mental breakdown? I mean, he might still have been extremely racist, but it's strange how he recently came off the hinge and out of the blue decided to just spew all kinds of extremely racist statements and conspiracy theories.
- 55555 4y agoHe’s rich already and so maybe doesn’t care?
- voisin 4y agoJK Rowling has been clear this is her stance with respect to her bizarre anti Trans stance.
- dekhn 4y agoShe doesn't have a bizarre anti trans stance, that's made up and willfully repeated by a media that wants to stir up clicks. What she's said is that she supports trans people but has limits on what people are obliged to call/consider them, in terms of factual gender.
- locopati 4y agoThis isn't true. Her own words have questioned whether trans people exist and she has donated to anti-trans organizations.
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- rogerb 4y agoNever meet your heroes.
- greenyoda 4y agoPrevious discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34942090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34942090
- danjac 4y agoHard to say whether Adams is suffering from online radicalisation and cognitive decline, or whether he was always of this opinion and online radicalisation and cognitive decline have just meant he no longer has the self-control to hide it.
- totetsu 4y agoit can be called 'online radicalisation', but the ease with which many people I know can just start repeating crazy ideas they've heard on some podcast or something.. really scares me. Its like so many people on a search for meaning or dissatisfied with some part of their life are being funneled into people transmitting batshit crazy ideas.
- flandish 4y ago“Manufacturing Consent” works in ways other than a nation state’s desire for war. People are very much easy to mold. Thanks to the internet it’s even easier.
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- dragonwriter 4y ago> Hard to say whether Adams is suffering from online radicalisation and cognitive decline, or whether he was always of this opinion and online radicalisation and cognitive decline have just meant he no longer has the self-control to hide it. Hasn't most of Adams’ public life and career been a very sharp public reaction to being passed over for promotion on a basis he has always blamed on racial and gender politics, even if in the early part of it more of that resentment was channelled into more broadly palatable forms than it has been recently?
- jl6 4y agoYou can listen to some kind of long rambling excuse / doubling down on his podcast here: https://www.scottadamssays.com/episode-2030-scott-adams-welcome-to-the-third-act-dont-try-this-at-home/ https://www.scottadamssays.com/episode-2030-scott-adams-welc...
- bigyikes 4y agoI was trying to read this charitably, but here’s a quote from Adams’ Twitter: > 1. Treat everyone as an individual (no discrimination). > 2. Avoid any group that doesn't respect you. The irony is that the second point is literally discrimination. Wholesale avoiding a specific race, regardless of your reasoning, is racist by definition. This is no different than Kanye talking about “the Jews”. Don’t take group generalizations (especially distorted ones) and prejudiciously apply them to individuals.
- ihatepython 4y agogroup != race You inferred race
- hackerlight 4y agoAdams himself inferred race when he defined Black people to be a group that fits into category (2) on his podcast yesterday.
- Y_Y 4y agoI have no skin in this game, but a quick reading gave me the impression that he is claiming that Black Americans on average don't like White Americans, and therefore the latter should avoid the former. I don't know if he says that in good faith, or if there's a subtext I'm missing, but it seems like there's a reasonable way to interpret this that doesn't involve Adams harbouring an unfair negative prejudice. I don't expect anyone is going to come along and steelman his argument for us, but I do have difficulty seeing how the NYP's article and the general reaction follows from what I naively impute from Adams' quotes. To be clear, I'm not trying to say who's right or anything, I'm saying that I think as someone disconnected from US racial politics I seem to lack some necessary context.
- stranded22 4y agoSaying that Black Americans don’t generally like White Americans - it’s generalising based purely on skin colour. Pretty much text book prejudice.
- hislaziness 4y agoI have always had this predicament. Should we separate the art from the artist?
- kleene_op 4y agoI think we should always separate the art from the artist. The main problem I have with Dilbert's comics is that they are nowhere near as great as they were 10, or even 20 years ago.
- theshrike79 4y agoI intentionally don't want to know _anything_ about the personal lives of artists I like, be they musicians, comic book artists or book authors. It's a lot easier to separate the art and artist if you don't dig into the artist's fandom at all. I didn't figure out that Tracy Hickman of Dragonlance fame was a man until the 2010s - and I read the books in the late 80's / early 90's. Teenage me happily thought that the books were written by two women and didn't think past it.
- voisin 4y agoShould we or is it even possible? I was a big fan of Kanye West and now when hours music comes on my feed a find I suddenly don’t enjoy it after all his latest rantings. I get the visceral feeling that I don’t want to support him even by listening to him, so I can’t enjoy it the way I used to.
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- senectus1 4y agoI dont understand the question.. what does "is it ok to be white" actually mean?
- eesmith 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white
- cykros 4y agoThis was my issue -- "okay" seems a synonym for "acceptable." And 47% of those polled saying that they cannot accept the existence of white people, taken at face value, would indeed be quite alarming. But, most people won't take it at face value, and those who responded to the survey didn't likely have this interpretation either. Adams fell right into the trap of responding to this sort of bait. Not that he'd ever have been the spokesman for radically rethinking race relations. But no, I don't expect he's secretly a klansman.
- jakeinspace 4y ago26% I believe, not 47%. The rest said "unsure".
- senectus1 4y agoyeah my point exactly.. me saying "i don't understand the question so no idea" would be "unsure" in the Rassmussen world.