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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

IGNORANT AND INCENDIARY: He Says, 'WHITE People need to get the Hell away from BIack People'!?!

          

Scott Adams Remains Unapologetic After Calling Black People a ‘Hate Group’; Elon Musk Comes to His Defense As Others Swiftly Condemn His Rant: ‘Try Not Being Racist’

Kavontae Smalls | ATLANTA BLACK STAR 

“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is grappling with cancel culture after a racist rant made the rounds revealing his thoughts about Black people and calling African-Americans a hate group.

“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people, that’s a hate group,” Adams said on his video blog.


Adams, the long-time comic strip creator’s rant went viral on Feb. 22 after he reacted to a conservative-leaning poll that asked, “Do you agree or disagree, it’s OK to be white.”

The 65-year-old, upset with responses to the poll, criticized Black people by questioning the community’s desire for education, quality of neighborhoods and outlook on life.


“I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people…because there is no fixing this,” Adams ranted.

The poll in question was conducted by Rasmussen Reports, a conservative-leaning polling group. The poll criticized “woke” culture, a political talking point, especially among conservatives criticizing social justice efforts. The poll suggested 26 percent of Black Americans disagreed with the statement “It’s Ok to be white,” and 21 percent were not sure.

Adams, who once claimed to identify as Black, quipped in response, “I’m going to re-identify as white because I don’t want to identify as a hate group.”

Adams went on to reference CNN anchor Don Lemon to leverage personal commentary that claimed predominately “Black neighborhoods had more problems than white neighborhoods.”

Adams further espouse his efforts to help the Black community although he did not provide specific examples in his monologue. He then implied Black Americans do not value education as much as white people.

“Everybody who focuses their priority on education does well, if anybody in the Black community focuses on education, they’ll do well as well because the system allows that. If they don’t, I just can’t make that my problem anymore” Adams said.

The cartoonist also claimed he was “sick of seeing video after video of Black Americans beating up non-Black citizens.”

In the days that followed, reaction was swift to condemn Adams’ comments.

“He should just grab up his boys and head to some remote island where they can love on each other and not have to see us,” wrote fwilk513 on Atlanta Black Star’s Instagram page.

Fellow Instagram user, KellyKalz simply asked, “I’m confused we’re ‘The Hate Group’.

“Shidd. We wish you would,” thacashcoll3cta wrote.

Theresa Cross tweeted to The Columbian, a Washington newspaper, “The next time you review your comics selections please stop carrying Dilbert. Our community doesn’t support this kind of rhetoric.”

Adams’ Dilbert comic strip has been in circulation since 1989. The comic features the Dilbert character that portrays an office manager typically mocking office culture through satire. The cartoon ran in newspapers across the country and internationally. The comic strip was later turned into a cartoon in the late 1990s.

Adams’ net worth is an estimated $75 million, but after his viral rant, he admits that could soon change.

“Most of my income will be gone by next week,” Adams said.



Newspapers across the country have announced they are dropping his comic strip from The Washington Post to The San Francisco Chronicle. Prior to his viral rant, Adams’ comic strip already faced pressure from media outlets due to racially insensitive jokes about enslaved people, reparations and workplace inclusion efforts, according to The Washington Post.


Despite cancel culture’s widespread condemnation of Adams’ remarks, he has at least one vocal supporter, Elon Musk.

In response to a tweet by The San Francisco Chronicle about Adams’ controversy, Musk called the media racist.

“For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites and Asians. Same thing happened with elite colleges and high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist,” Musk wrote.


Dilbert concluded his roughly seven-minute rant against Black people by claiming he no longer aligns with Black people.

“I do not align with any group, not the white supremacist and not the Black racists,” Adams said.

“My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can’t come back from this, am I right? There’s no way you can come back from this,” Adams went on to say.


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The Poll That Did in Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Is Even Dumber Than You Can Imagine

AYMANN ISMAIL | SLATE

On the Feb. 23 episode of Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ podcast and nightly YouTube livestream, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, he began his hour-long show like he always does, by inviting his audience for a ceremonious “simultaneous sip.” He went on with his standard fare—a handful of headlines accompanied by his quick takes—until he steered to a “provocative” new Rasmussen poll.

“They said, ‘Do you agree with or disagree with the statement ‘It’s OK to be white?’’” Adams reported. He paused and looked directly into the camera. “That was an actual question.”

Adams read the result of the Rasmussen poll: “47 percent of Black respondents were not willing to say it’s OK to be white. That’s actually­—that’s, like, a real poll,” he said.

The rest you’ve probably already seen clipped online: “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people—according to this poll, not according to me,” he said, “that’s a hate group.” He added that white people should “get the hell away from Black people.” Adams later tried to walk back his comments as misunderstood—“everyone should be treated as an individual,” he said in another episode of his show—but not before hundreds of newspapers committed to dropping his strip and his publisher killed a planned book.

I cannot overemphasize how dumb it is that Scott finally filleted his reputation in full over a trolly Rasmussen poll. If you’re not familiar, Rasmussen is a right-leaning pollster that produces semi-mainstream polls but is noted for its murky methods and what the New York Times has called “dubious sampling and weighting techniques.” Rasmussen’s results are often an outlier when it comes to, say, presidential approval numbers, as when Donald Trump famously cited a Rasmussen poll when it claimed to show a 50 percent job approval rating, more than 10 points higher than Gallup’s report at the time.

We don’t know the exact methodology used for the poll. In a press release touting its results, Rasmussen teased “additional information” behind a paywall. I signed up for a platinum membership, but I found only a brief text summary of the findings.

Rasmussen said it presented 1,000 respondents with a two-question prompt to quantify “the woke narrative” in America: “Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ‘It’s OK to be white.’” and “Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ‘Black people can be racist, too.’” Respondents were asked to choose between “strongly agree,” “somewhat agree, “somewhat disagree,” “strongly disagree,” and “not sure.” The results, as shared on Twitter once the firestorm began:


Rasmussen said 13 percent of poll respondents were Black, so about 130 people. If we take the results entirely at face value—which I’d discourage—that means it found about 34 Black people who answered “disagree” or “strongly disagree” with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” We have no more information about why. (Adams got to his figure by also including Black respondents who answered “not sure.”)

If you have any doubt about what Rasmussen is doing here, I encourage you to take in the big doofus energy in the video below, this time featuring Rasmussen’s head of polling, Mark Mitchell:


Mitchell, who until a couple years ago worked on Walmart e-commerce, assumes the posture of a wannabe truth-telling media personality: “We tell you what America really thinks. And I can tell you that increasingly the reality of American public opinion does not match what you’re being told in the news.” He says the “Is it OK to be white?” question “would literally melt the brain of a mainstream journalist if they try to put these numbers to ink.”

I’ve just put these numbers to ink, and my brain isn’t melting. But it does hurt a little bit. That’s because, as Rasmussen surely knows, the phrase “It’s OK to be white” is a right-wing troll that originated in the forums of 4Chan. As the Washington Post chronicled in 2017, the term was originally intended as a covert way to force an overreaction from progressives, including liberal journalists, if it started to spread, which in turn would show “lefties” hate white people. Soon, signs bearing the slogan did crop up on campuses and other places around the country. The hysteria never arrived, but as Mitchell notes, the Anti-Defamation League did mark the phrase a “hate slogan”—reasonably, given that it was white supremacists (most notably David Duke) who ran with the 4Chan prank in the first place.

Rasmussen apparently assumed its audience would be too stupid to know any of that, and in the case of Scott Adams, it was clearly right. Perhaps some of the people Rasmussen polled were aware of the history of the phrase, which at one point made it into a Tucker Carlson monologue; it’s hard to say, and Rasmussen didn’t care to ask. But the whole charade seemed clearly designed to end up on shows like Adams’, where it purported to become a referendum on whether or not Black Americans hate white people. Better pollsters would tell you that if you really wanted to assess Americans’ views on race, as the Pew Research Center has done well, you would avoid terms with strong political associations like “it’s OK to be white,” or even “Black Lives Matter.” That is far from what happened here.


"We are now shaming people for the stuff that they CAN'T change and we are REFUSING to shame them for the stuff that they really MUST change. And that is indicative of something: it is indicative of the fact that these conclusions are NOT based on some deep model of REALITY. What they are is about POWER." 

‐ Bret Weinstein -


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