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