Nice!
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.
Rest in piss, racist trash
I used to like Dilbert
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.
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
In 2023 Scott Adams drew criticism for comments made on his podcast Real Coffee With Scott Adams. He said, among other things “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” He also noted that “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they should be called a “hate group.” His remarks were widely seen as racist, and many newspapers dropped his cartoon Dilbert.
Is this the thing that has everybody in a huff?
Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.
I don’t celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won’t miss him one bit.
Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views
I am unimpressed. Seriously, nothing I see in your list is too heinous.
Also, creating a list of a person’s “crimes” like this. It’s messed up. It’s like something out of the Chinese cultural revolution.
Well, it’s not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you’re like “he seems fine to me”, then let’s just agree we have very different opinions.
Holding people accountable for shitty things they publicly do, declare, and promote is not “messed up.” Being publicly shitty will result in people knowing you’re shitty, and I find that good.
Fuck cancer, but it gets a pass for this one
Between Scott Adams and Rush Limbaugh cancer has two solid wins.
