Let's give thanks to the "Dilbert" guy

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Let’s give thanks to the "Dilbert" guy
In a single YouTube rant, Scott Adams put the lie to reverse racism

By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Columnist
PUBLISHED MARCH 4, 2023 8:00AM (EST)


(Salon) What came over Scott Adams last week, that he would take to his YouTube channel and pour gasoline on his career as a well-compensated, even well-loved cartoonist, and set it on fire? In a rant that was immediately recognized as racist, the "Dilbert" creator called Black Americans "a hate group" and told white people that they should "just get the hell away" from Black people. In a later YouTube segment, Adams dismissed any societal progress are "racist change," including alterations in the tax code.

I would call Adams' rant "me-too racism" if the phrase "me too" didn't have such a powerful association with sexual harassment and violence. Adams did, however, jump on a reverse racism bandwagon that has been around since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s, when white southerners first started claiming that an end to segregation violated their rights to free association, as they objected to being forced to attend schools and eat at lunch counters with people they held were inferior because they were Black.

What Adams advocated in his YouTube rant essentially amounted to the same thing. Confronted with the obvious inadvisability of advocating re-segregating the races in schools, public accommodations and neighborhoods, Adams endorsed a kind of mass white flight with his call to "get the hell away from them."

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Adams referred to a poll by the right-leaning Rasmussen Reports in which respondents were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement, "It's okay to be white," followed by the question, do you agree or disagree with the statement "Black people can be racists, too." Rasmussen itself admitted that it was attempting to quantify "the 'Woke' narrative in America." The questions Rasmussen used are a known right-wing trolling exercise that originated on the far-right internet forum 4chan as a way to bait progressives in an attempt to "prove" they hated white people, and that Blacks could be, in the words of the poll, "racist too."

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You have to ask yourself, don't you, what the attraction is for white people who are suddenly running around and claiming that they are the victims of racism, not Black people? Part of it is no doubt the phenomenon Donald Trump depended on to get elected in 2016 and ran on in 2020 – the whole nexus of victimization and grievance he used to fire up the white working class. Somehow they are the forgotten people, and their kids, who are going to perfectly good, well-funded public schools, need stuff like school choice to get away from those schools…huh…and why is that? Why, it's diversity's fault, of course! And now Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has picked up the anti-woke flag and is waving it wildly about trying to convince white people they are the victims of reverse racism, and on and on it goes. Tucker Carlson recently claimed that the federal response to the train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, was inadequate because – wait for it – the town is nearly all white. ............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/03/04/lets-give-thanks-to-the-dilbert-guy/

[TeamProg]

1. Yep..

[OMGWTF]

2. Subscribe to Lucien's Substack Newsletter

He is an excellent writer, a West Point graduate, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, and my friend’s brother.

[SouthernDem4ever]

3. Whatever

The rasmussen pole is full of shit.

It doesn't matter how people respond to those questions. A civilized society should not create laws or conditions that promote racial favoritism. Just because people have weird fears and tendencies doesn't negate that basic fact. People are gonna hate, and they look for all kinds of crazy reasons for it. Our lawmakers should be above that - not feeding it. Wake up RWNJ voters and quit putting the hating weirdos in office.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. They think they are awake, and those weirdo haters are exactly what they want.

Because that's who they are.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. I am always hoping for a few that might respond to intervention

May be a pipe dream, I know.

[judesedit]

4. There is ignorance in people of all stripes. The question is,

who is infringing on the rights of others? Who is spewing hate retoric and committing violence against others who have any type of differences? White Supremacists is the answer. Should not be tolerated.

How anyone can think they are better than someone else cause they happened to be born with light skin is beyond me. The ignorance is astounding. They make me ashamed to be white.

I'm sorry to say, there are white men that couldn't do a day in the shoes of POC, LGBT, Jewish, Asian, Muslim, Native American, any woman, white or any other. That is how spoiled, self-centered and disillusioned they remain. They're not even aware of it. Society has condoned it for far too long. They use guns to hide their weakness to the detriment of everyone else.

By the way, I adore all nice men. Just don't like what's going on with these proven to be, not-so-nice men.

[Midnight Writer]

6. I use the Chris Rock response when I hear my white friends crabbing about "how good blacks have it"

"Since they have it so good, would you trade places with them?"

No takers yet.

[Skittles]

8. do people like Scott and your white friends even KNOW ANY BLACK PEOPLE

I don't know how you can know / work with black folk and then talk about them that way, WTF

[Midnight Writer]

9. Very few. My town is 98% white. I personally do not know any black people.

That vacuum of personal experience is easily filled by bigoted lies.

I have also never knowingly met a transgender person or a person who admits to being gay. That, I believe, makes these small towns susceptible to messages of bigotry.

[Skittles]

10. oh wow, you live in a bubble

I live in a metroplex, LOTS of diversity and I love it