Rest in piss, racist trash
I used to like Dilbert
I feel weird about this. Like it’s his second death or something.
He used to be someone who was just giving welcome comic relief to office workers, and came off as reflected and humble.
Then he got a stroke and …opinions. How related they were I don’t know, and how latent his cruel opinions were I honestly don’t know.
Whether he always was utterly evil but it just didn’t surface, or he just broke someway, it felt like a person died back then. I still miss who I thought he was.
And now he is dead again.
There are so many family caretakers that have a similar unfortunate dichotomy in their minds. Like everyone else is mourning at the funeral, but they saw that person “die” a decade ago, leaving behind a husk of hate, forgetfulness, or missing energy.
I feel the same way, but had no idea he’d had a stroke around the time of the big change. If true that makes it a bit easier to separate the man from his art for me.
Didn’t something similar happen with the US politician John Fetterman? I recall he was a darling of the Democratic party, then post-stroke turned radically ‘right’.
brain damage is needed to be a Republican, look at orange shit for brains, he doesn’t have a brain and he’s their leader
He was always a racist.
Nice!
He could have built upon his early success and become an agent of change in the corporate world. Instead, he turned into another fascist troll and destroyed all of the goodwill he had previously had.
He died for me long ago.
This thread hates with great enthusiasm.
“I never wished a man dead, but I read some obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
It’s such a great shame that he died
after ruining his legacy
Agreed. Not a fan of what he became, but Dilbert was great.
WAS. Hadn’t been for a long time.
Fair. Admittedly, I haven’t read it in a long time.
Based on accounts I’ve read, he was always racist and an anti-intellectual. He just got more bold. He was a very early Trump supporter.
Prostate ductal adenocarcinoma. A particular bad cancer. Absolutely terrible for anyone who gets it. Hate how he went, but but don’t mind that he’s gone. Hell, being dead is likely a better situation than the one he was in with the cancer, just an absolutely terrible way to go.
To paraphrase Max Plank:
Society progresses one funeral at a time
Well shoot. I was holding out for a change of heart from him because I really resonated with his comics back in the day.
Unfortunately, it seems he only ever had sympathy for those whose misfortunes he shared and never came around on that.
For what it’s worth, the parts of it that resonated with you were probably just lifted from office stories that he encouraged readers to send in. The dude himself was a lifelong grifter (you can listen to the Behind the Bastards episode about him for more info).
Damn, this is the first time I’m hearing about this guy being a piece of shit. Would love to hear people chime in with the shit he’s pulled for others like me to see.
There’s an episode of the Behind the Bastards podcast devoted to him. Covers it pretty well.
A lot of Adams’ conservative activities were summarized in the Variety article, which is why I chose to post a link to it, as opposed to other articles.
Here’s a scratch off the top:
He previously questioned the death toll of the Holocaust, said he had lost multiple jobs for being white and falsely claimed that people who didn’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 “clearly are the winners” of the pandemic (he acknowledged getting vaccinated in Monday’s video). Dozens of newspapers dropped the strip in 2022 after Adams introduced its first Black character and veered into anti-woke plotlines.
I don’t know if I’m more shocked that Adams didn’t have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist’s strip in 2022.
wait, i thought the elbonians were black.
They’re white. Sort of Russian caricatures, I think.
I always saw them as some kind of Eastern European caricature
Here is the first episode of Behind the Bastards covering the guy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlIuEIgLRNxfJWxiv4asn
There’s a pretty thorough write-up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/150bkal/comic_strips_so_i_think_it_makes_no_sense/
maybe, people should have different names for different periods of their lives and we should treat them as different people.
Is this a transgender reference?
no
Fuck cancer, but it gets a pass for this one
Between Scott Adams and Rush Limbaugh cancer has two solid wins.
a sad day not just for comics, but for many IT tech’s as well … he drew a fine picture (pun intended) of our lives with management.
Edit: okay I got it. I did not know anything else than him writing dilbert. But clearly he wasn’t a nice/good guy.
I’m not going to ignore the utter piece of shit he became
It really is such a shame. I genuinely liked his IT/office humor and even had Dilbert & Dogbert plushies decorating my own cubicle. Now they’re at the bottom of a storage crate; I can’t bring myself to either look at them or trash them.
Yeah I remember the same disappointed feeling
It was an influential and popular comic back in the day when it broke out.
Scott Adams tarnished his legacy when he went off the deep end into conservatism, and it remains to be seen whether the comic will become even more dated than it already is, but it did capture something relevant to a lot of people back then.
