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It takes a lot of privilege to ignore a person's overt racism and only remember a person's more agreeable qualities. Whitewashing a person's legacy in this way

by RIMR 9mo ago

It takes a lot of privilege to ignore a person's overt racism and only remember a person's more agreeable qualities. Whitewashing a person's legacy in this way is a disservice to all of the people that person directed hatred at, as if it didn't really happen. He was a racist person, and the people he was racist towards would prefer that people not forget that, even in death, because the problems that Scott Adams embodied at the end of his life did not die with him.

tac19 9mo ago
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- quesera 9mo ago
  Whitewashing literally means applying a wash (which is white, typically being lime or chalk) over a surface. The wash covers whatever was underneath with a uniform coating that hides what's underneath. It's like paint, but ancient. Whitewashing has been a thing since before races (which are biologically meaningless) were called colors. As a metaphor, it means exactly the same thing -- hiding the parts underneath with something that covers them. Whitewashing is not sanitizing. Sanitizing something actually fixes it. A whitewashed surface is not implied to be sanitary. Lime is basic (high pH) so it also discourages (eg) mold growth, but it's not sanitary. More generally, not every word that includes the substring "white" is a part of the conspiracy. Whichever conspiracy you are demonstratively opposing here.
  - tac19 9mo ago
    Then everyone should embrace blacklisting, and master-slave system architecture. But they don't, and it's time to extend that sentiment all the way. We need to stamp out all hint of racism, lest we all be bigots.
    - quesera 9mo ago
      What should we call the color of walls when they are painted white?
      - tac19 9mo ago
        Condensed Rainbow.
        quesera 9mo ago
        > Condensed Rainbow That's actually funny! I like it much more than your implication that I am a bigot for whitewashing the walls of my basement last weekend. But you avoided the point. Whitewashing is literally applying a wash which happens to be white.
- tw-hnw99 9mo ago
  The term isn't racist. Whitewash is a lime-based "paint" often used to conceal faults, and is literally the most direct a metaphor could be for glossing over a person's faults. Please educate yourself.
  - jimmydddd 9mo ago
    Agreed. But you're fighting a losing battle. "Calling a spade a spade" is similar. Has nothing to do with race, but can't use it in modern context.
wasmainiac 9mo ago
Can you clue me in? I only knew about Dilbert, and “drilbert”
stetrain 9mo ago
I'm not sure the comment is saying to ignore the racism. "...you don’t get to edit out the parts that shaped you before you understood what was happening. The racism and the provocations were always there, maybe, just quieter. The 2023 comments that ended Dilbert’s newspaper run were unambiguous."
coderc 9mo ago
I'm black, and I can ignore Adams' "overt racism", because I understood the context of his words, and I can empathize with him. Please don't speak for an entire group of people.
- dennis_jeeves2 9mo ago
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  - sanktanglia 9mo ago
    Ahh yes being politically correct aka not being a racist maga
  - RIMR 9mo ago
    Scott Adams said that Black people are inherently dangerous, and that white people should move to enclaves to get away from them. While you're out here conducting pseudoscientific IQ readings of internet commenters you disagree with, some of us are actually aware of what overt racism looks like.
    - coderc 9mo ago
      I can't find any evidence of him saying those exact words, that black people are "inherently dangerous".
      - spicymaki 9mo ago
        I think you are being deliberately obtuse here is the quote: “Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. So I don’t think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens any more. It doesn’t make sense. There’s no longer a rational impulse. So I’m going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off”
- RIMR 9mo ago
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tac19 9mo ago

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quesera 9mo ago
Whitewashing literally means applying a wash (which is white, typically being lime or chalk) over a surface. The wash covers whatever was underneath with a uniform coating that hides what's underneath. It's like paint, but ancient. Whitewashing has been a thing since before races (which are biologically meaningless) were called colors. As a metaphor, it means exactly the same thing -- hiding the parts underneath with something that covers them. Whitewashing is not sanitizing. Sanitizing something actually fixes it. A whitewashed surface is not implied to be sanitary. Lime is basic (high pH) so it also discourages (eg) mold growth, but it's not sanitary. More generally, not every word that includes the substring "white" is a part of the conspiracy. Whichever conspiracy you are demonstratively opposing here.
- tac19 9mo ago
  Then everyone should embrace blacklisting, and master-slave system architecture. But they don't, and it's time to extend that sentiment all the way. We need to stamp out all hint of racism, lest we all be bigots.
  - quesera 9mo ago
    What should we call the color of walls when they are painted white?
    - tac19 9mo ago
      Condensed Rainbow.
      - quesera 9mo ago
        > Condensed Rainbow That's actually funny! I like it much more than your implication that I am a bigot for whitewashing the walls of my basement last weekend. But you avoided the point. Whitewashing is literally applying a wash which happens to be white.
tw-hnw99 9mo ago
The term isn't racist. Whitewash is a lime-based "paint" often used to conceal faults, and is literally the most direct a metaphor could be for glossing over a person's faults. Please educate yourself.
- jimmydddd 9mo ago
  Agreed. But you're fighting a losing battle. "Calling a spade a spade" is similar. Has nothing to do with race, but can't use it in modern context.

wasmainiac 9mo ago

Can you clue me in? I only knew about Dilbert, and “drilbert”

stetrain 9mo ago

I'm not sure the comment is saying to ignore the racism. "...you don’t get to edit out the parts that shaped you before you understood what was happening. The racism and the provocations were always there, maybe, just quieter. The 2023 comments that ended Dilbert’s newspaper run were unambiguous."

coderc 9mo ago

I'm black, and I can ignore Adams' "overt racism", because I understood the context of his words, and I can empathize with him. Please don't speak for an entire group of people.

dennis_jeeves2 9mo ago
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- sanktanglia 9mo ago
  Ahh yes being politically correct aka not being a racist maga
- RIMR 9mo ago
  Scott Adams said that Black people are inherently dangerous, and that white people should move to enclaves to get away from them. While you're out here conducting pseudoscientific IQ readings of internet commenters you disagree with, some of us are actually aware of what overt racism looks like.
  - coderc 9mo ago
    I can't find any evidence of him saying those exact words, that black people are "inherently dangerous".
    - spicymaki 9mo ago
      I think you are being deliberately obtuse here is the quote: “Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. So I don’t think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens any more. It doesn’t make sense. There’s no longer a rational impulse. So I’m going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off”
RIMR 9mo ago
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