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[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 2 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the link

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al -3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That's one of the least deranged things he has uttered. His usual routine included unfettered metastasizing of everything Trump was saying.

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 32 points 1 day ago

He was flirting with holocaust denial decades ago, was a Trump supporter from the beginning, became more and more of a generic unhinged conspiracy theorist following that, and yes as you noted was a pretty blatant racist. Sprinkle some misogyny in there for good measure as well.

Behind the Bastards has some good episodes about him