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[-] Squire1039@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago
[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 89 points 5 months ago
[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

A good example of a bottom-feeding boomer who went batshit insane.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

This makes me so sad, I really enjoyed the comic for years and years. Then he had to go and open his fucking mouth and ruin the entire thing. Now I feel a twinge of disgust rather than delight when I see a reference of him.

[-] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not sure if I want to know, but what did he say? I'm out of the loop..

Edit: just found the comment with context from TwilightVulpine below..

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Behind the Bastards did an entire takedown on Scott. Dude has never had it together. He can't imagine himself as anything but the smartest person in any room, then he got rich off Dilbert, which only confirmed it. He views all human interaction as an opportunity to impose his views on others while never changing his mind. He blames other races for every inconvenience he has ever experienced. Trump and COVID then sent him into full fascist lunacy.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

He blames other races for every inconvenience he has ever experienced

For those who haven't listened to it, this is not an exaggeration. He blamed diversity initiatives for being fired. It was actually just the company going down the tubes.

That actually sounds like a good Dilbert plotline for a throw away character, maybe named "Scott the vague racist".

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yep. Not just "I took an Ambian", this was full on loon.

[-] Tramort@programming.dev 51 points 5 months ago

Scott Adams is a complete piece of shit

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago

I didn't know what this was about. I found this that can serve as context for others unaware: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1159580425/newspapers-have-dropped-the-dilbert-comic-strip-after-a-racist-rant-by-its-creat

[...] Adams urged white people "to get the hell away from Black people" during a racist rant on his online video program last week, during which he labeled Black people a "hate group."

On his video show last week, the 65 year old said he had been identifying as Black "because I like to be on the winning team," and that he used to help the Black community. Adams said the results of the Rasmussen poll changed his mind.

"It turns out that nearly half of that team doesn't think I'm okay to be white," he said, adding that he would re-identify as white. "I'm going to back off from being helpful to Black America because it doesn't seem like it pays off," he said. "I get called a racist. That's the only outcome. It makes no sense to help Black Americans if you're white. It's over. Don't even think it's worth trying."

This is not the first time Adams' strip has been dropped. Last year, The San Francisco Chronicle and 76 other newspapers published by Lee Enterprises reportedly dropped Dilbert after Adams introduced his first Black character. Quinn noted that the move was "apparently to poke fun at 'woke' culture and the LGBTQ community."

[-] Tramort@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

Thanks for that. I should have included some context.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You don't have to contextualize everything you say, it's fine. Sometimes people gotta look it up, and in this case, they did.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well go figure... Rasmussen polls have been seen to drift with a rightward bias over the last decade or so. In the early 2000s they were the gold standard, but eventually they started with the political manipulation bullshit by wording their polls in a biased way.

More than likely whatever poll this asshat read about was one of those manipulative ones that was created to serve a specific political purpose to help Republicans.

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The whole "it's okay to be white" thing is a dogwhistle to begin with. It might seem benign, if weirdly unprompted without context. The issue is that among some groups this is often followed up with accusing black movements and immigrants of wanting to get rid of white people, rather than just seeking equality, which is done to fuel racism. This is why a lot of black people might be suspicious of that statement. Nevermind that not agreeing with it might simply mean unsure rather than against.

This whole thing is a roundabout rhetorical play to bait people who are more afraid of being accused of being racist, you know, because racism is bad, than understand that racism has a whole history, that black people have good reasons to be wary of people who are a little too proud of being white. But detached white people might be fooled by a superficial read of "why is it okay to be you but not okay to be me, maybe you are the racist".

If anything he proved that he is exactly the kind of white guy that black people might be worried about. He doesn't care about them unless he's on the "winning team" and gets a reward for it.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

See, the thing is it's totally fine to be proud of being white. You can be proud of your family, region, native country, language, whatever. Plenty of people go visit where their family is from.

The problem is dummies (who actually know nothing about their heritage) thinking skin color means you're better than someone. That's probably caused by a lack of information about heritage. Especially in the US, black people are like 25% white. That means a lot of Southern white people have black relatives.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

it’s totally fine to be proud of being white

Why would anybody be proud of their skin colour?

If you think of yourself as Scottish and are proud of Scottish culture and things Scots have done, that's one thing. Especially if you think you were raised with Scottish culture and it shaped who you are today. Same with pride in a religion, or a family, or who knows what. But, pride in a skin colour is ridiculous.

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