He shared his dying with us right up to the end. We knew he was going, and now, suddenly he's gone.
I received the news through my son John, who's put up this post at Facebook that provides a gift link to the Washington Post obituary, which has a headline that I don't like, "Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68/His three-panel comic strip was once published in more than 2,000 newspapers. Publishers cut ties with Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on a YouTube live stream."
From the obituary: "His former wife Shelly Miles announced his death in a live stream Tuesday morning, reading a statement she said Mr. Adams had prepared before his death. 'I had an amazing life,' the statement said in part. 'I gave it everything I had.'"
Coffee with Scott Adams moves to The Scott Adams School 01/13/24 https://t.co/RsXWMvV6yA
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 13, 2026
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You really did, Scott. People will be reading Dilbert decades from now. RIP.
RIP Scott. You fought the good fight.
And Althouse is right about the WaPo headline. What a bunch of graceless assholes.
When will people get tired of being lied to by the media? Never it seems, "racist comments" is a handy cudgel and if you make a comment that require having two brain cells to rub together to understand, it's way easier for your enemies to appeal to the partisanship of your followers to steer them away from understanding these comments with context and so giving hearers the benefit of the doubt on IQ leads to a lot of trouble.
This place has become proof of how easy it is to tear down rationality and turn every discussion into a food fight.
Adams identified Trump as a "Master Persuader" very early on, and analyzed Trump's techniques with an insider's knowledge. He said Trump would win in 2016, when few others did.
Thanks for the laughs. RIP, Scott.
Scott Adams showed his character to his very end, as did the Washington Post.
It would have been a service to her readers had Althouse explained the “racist comments” controversy.
Soory to hear…and yes, it is a yet one more data point how civilization is broken. The propaganda should end and media companies should fail. Unfortunately the combination of corruption and Congressional helicopter money keep the firehoses of political money flowing…
If I recall, one of his "racist" comments related to a poll in which more than half of US Blacks said they would eliminate Whites if they could (or something similar). Adams said that if more than half of a group would do away with me, I'd recommend simply avoiding Blacks altogether.
I knew 'persuasion' was important, before I started listening to Scott Adams. I just didn't really know how much.
Scott Adams and Charlie Kirk...
begone!
Publishers cut ties with Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on a YouTube live stream..
Can someone post (with Trigger Warnings..Of COURSE), these comments?
Rest easy with Jesus, Scott.
From 1993-1995, I worked for MCI. Whatever management fad de jour they cooked up, it seemed to appear in Dilbert a few days later. Scott Adams was perhaps the first cartoonist to solicit ideas via email from his readers. That’s what made his cartoons so topical for the IT industry, so funny, and so accurate. RIP Scott, and thanks for all the laughs.
i mean, i'm SURE,
that they weren't just Horrible, but were Horribly Racist;
But i think it would be a lerning occasion for us to see HOW Racist a person can sink.
I've been fallng asleep to his 7 day a week podcast since 2015 or so. Not too boring, not so interesting that it kept me awake. Soothing voice and interesting enough to listen too every single day.
What I found most amazing was that, other than the occasional medical update, one would have had no idea he was ill. A little bit hoarse in the past week or so but that could have been anything. I doubt he missed more than 5-10 shows in all the time I listened to him.
He was incredibly positive until the very last. I hope I can be half as positive when my time comes.
Bye, Scott
John Henry
Would like to hear more from Our Hostess on what about the headline she disliked.
He’s a loss. RIP.
RIP Scott. Bad head line. I did not find his comments to be racist.
Can anyone tell me what he said that was so racist as to cancel him? I know what is alleged and it is nothing. I suspect that most people will just call him racist the way they do PDJT with no idea why.
He was really cancelled for being a Trumpista.
John Henry
I still detest the WAPo(D) - with the heat of a million suns.
"Avoid people who want to kill you."
universal truth.
I'm just sad. A profound loss.
"a headline that I don't like" The left still fights 24/7, on all fronts, from the streets of Minneapolis to WaPo obits. Their hegemony may be gone, but they still command plenty of troops and institutions. The right has been desensitized to their vilification and cancellation strategies, but that doesn't mean progs have lost the culture war. A luta continua. As Adams would have wanted.
Those "racist comments" was Scott Adams following the sound logic stemming from a Rasmussen Reports poll that asked if "it's okay to be White".
Scott Adams dared say what any reasonable person would assume to be the case under similar circumstances. That being; take people at their word.
This sticks with me:
https://x.com/i/status/1983276698498978059
I'll restate Adams' "alleged" racist statements. They're not, of course. His theory is:
If you tell a bunch of people day after day after day that the entire white community has established a country and system of life to keep them down ... those people are going to hate you and you probably should stay away from them.
You shouldn't hire them. You shouldn't hang out with them. You shouldn't eat with them. You should do everything you can to avoid such people because they're going to be dangerous.
So maybe we shouldn't create that kind of hate with a bunch of lies.
That's Scott Adams' point and he's 100% correct. Black people's hate for white people has been ginned up by the very people who used to whip them with straps.
Stay away from them.
I had to chuckle. An engineer to the end. He calculated the risk for award ratio and decided to become a believer in Jesus. I don't think he was being sarcastic. I think he said it because he knew a lot of his fans were true believers and he wanted them to feel good when he passed away. That's a real Mensch move.
Scott's comments weren't racism. They were a logical, reasonable response to the real, pervasive and abject racism shown by a poll of black Americans. If you blame Adams for that, then you don't care about real racism at all.
"Publishers cut ties with Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on a YouTube live stream."
Adams assumed speaking what he believed to be an inconvenient truth would be welcomed by the primary beneficiaries of the First Amendment. He was mistaken, though not necessarily wrong. Thankfully, those publishers are themselves terminally ill.
We await justice for the other speaker of an "inconvenient truth" who enjoys an multi-billionaire's lifestyle despite being both mistaken and wrong.
His support for Trump probably means he's been darned to Heck, and that Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, is poking him with that big spoon now.
Pascal’s Wager may have been the original risk analysis, Howard!
The Washington Post was the paper that started the cancel Dilbert movement.
Best podcast on the internet for years.
I put AI on the case:
"According to the Rasmussen survey:
Overall Results: 72% of all respondents agreed with the statement, while 12% disagreed.
Black Respondents: 53% agreed, 26% disagreed, and 21% were "not sure".
Other Metrics: The survey also asked if "Black people can be racist, too," with 79% of all respondents agreeing."
Scott Adams' Response: Adams combined the "disagree" (26%) and "not sure" (21%) percentages to claim that nearly half of Black Americans are a "hate group," advising white people to "get the hell away from Black people".
Dead terrorists get more sympathetic headlines to their obituaries. Few things make me angrier than when the MSM says someone said or wrote something racist without giving me a full quote in context so I can judge for myself.
You are safe in God's hands now, Scott. May you rest in peace and rise in glory.
The Knack
He calculated the risk for award ratio and decided to become a believer in Jesus. I don't think he was being sarcastic. I think he said it because he knew a lot of his fans were true believers and he wanted them to feel good when he passed away.
Just Pascal's bargain, Howard. No need for him to be concerned about what his fans would think or feel.
I actually had no idea of what he believed. But if he did become a Christian, I'm glad of it and hope that it gave him what he needed in his waning days.
Yes, "Wager," of course. Oops. The "bargain" comes from an American Catholic... bishop, I think?
We've have been watching COFFEE WITH SCOTT ADAMS from the get go. His analysis, commentary and encouragement was always welcomed. His idea that life was a simulation evolved. At the end of the road he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. I, for one say, Hallelujah! Scott's conversion was his shining hour and the last message that was the most hopeful and best.
I’ll miss you, buddy.
Its too bad he never tried to do another Dilbert cartoon show after the 1999-2000 one was cancelled. I think it would have worked well with the right network (not UPN).
I'll stick with my conclusion as the deathbed conversion pleases Jamie and Fandor. He engineered those feelings.
He will forever live in our memory.
https://youtu.be/HWjB1X-cqsM?si=LyFYcSwZIPaD3IZ0
The king is gone
But he's not forgotten
This is the story
Of a Johnny Rotten
It's better to burn out
Than it is to rust
The king is gone
But he's not forgotten.
RIP Scott. A damn good man, who followed the truth as he found it.
The left canceled him , or tried to, for his open and honest view of Trump.
WaPo headline is typical of small minded fools.
This the sad day that I knew would be filled with regret and lost opportunity. For years I had been challenging Scott Adams to do a public debate on the "Charlottesville Hoax" Hoax with Virginia conservative author and writer Robert Tracinski. Tracinski was the author of the brilliant essay published at The Bulwark, incisively titled, "'The Charlottesville Hoax' Hoax." Link HERE:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-charlottesville-hoax-hoax
When Adams' terminal diagnosis was made public, I practically begged him, on a near-monthly schedule, to agree to a debate with Tracinski on the subject of Charlottesville and more particularly Trump's messaging on the subject. Sadly now, it never happened.
There are of course other proponents of the claim that the media promoted a "Charlottesville Hoax." Steve Cortes, who was named in the Tracinski essay, was one. But I was so familiar with Adams from his Althouse blog exposure, and Adams himself was so adamantly exposed to the kind of attack that Trasinski made in his Bulwark essay, that I wanted Adams to be the face of the pro-Trump side in a pointed, focused debate on the matter.
Buh-bye, Scott Adams; I'm sorry you never really debated the Charlottesville Hoax Hoax.
I probably started listening to Scott in 2018 and have "tuned in" every single day at 9AM. If I couldn't listen to the live broadcast, I always made sure to listen later in the day. To be honest, it was getting tough the last week or so to see and listen to him as he continued to slowly lose more control of his body - but I am glad that I did. He will be missed.
"Would like to hear more from Our Hostess on what about the headline she disliked."
I don't like "he made racist comments." It's a conclusion and it's unseemly to put that in the headline of the obituary of a person unless you intend to reject them as evil.
The first sentence of the obituary uses more appropriate language: "Scott Adams, who became a hero to millions of cubicle-dwelling office workers as the creator of the satirical comic strip “Dilbert,” only to rebrand himself as a digital provocateur — at home in the Trump era’s right-wing mediasphere — with inflammatory comments about race, politics and identity, died Jan. 13. "
Decent respect demands something like "inflammatory comments about race" and not "racist comments."
For the record, those comments in question caused me to stop listening to the podcast. I'd been a regular listener and then I felt actively averse. I couldn't make myself listen even though I often wanted to know what he had to say. I may have listened to (and blogged) some clips after that. But I never just put not he podcast and listened. It was a very unfortunate thing to say and he said it with intensity and what felt like sincerity.
Is it racist to hold a group accountable for something that 25-50% (depending) of its members agree with? I'll take either answer here. But it has to be the same answer if the group composition is reversed.
I know, there I go being "fair" again. People have warned me about that for years.
“I think he said it because he knew a lot of his fans were true believers and he wanted them to feel good when he passed away.”
Those were my thoughts. (This doesn’t mean his conversion was inauthentic. It just means that’s what I think the impetus for his statement was.) He was a kind man. RIP
He discovered what is important in life, these hacks never will
"Shouting Thomas said...
I’ll miss you, buddy."
You hear this a lot when famous people die, even when they die at an old age and haven't really done anything for years, decades. Scott was prolific to the end, which came way too soon. I'm with you ST.
’I practically begged him, on a near-monthly schedule…’
Poor, Scott.
’Buh-bye, Scott Adams; I'm sorry you never really debated the Charlottesville Hoax Hoax.’
Stay classy, Chuckles…
We don’t hate the Washington Post enough.
Even the recoil, about being wrapped in bezos paper
Im working on it
"Jamie said...
He calculated the risk for award ratio and decided to become a believer in Jesus. I don't think he was being sarcastic. I think he said it because he knew a lot of his fans were true believers and he wanted them to feel good when he passed away.
Just Pascal's bargain, Howard. No need for him to be concerned about what his fans would think or feel.
I actually had no idea of what he believed."
Just take him at his word.
Scott didnt suffer fools and theres a whole host of them at the Bezos
"But I never just put not he podcast and listened."
Should read: "But I never just put not the podcast and listened."
Well, of course Chuck would return to wipe his ass on this particular thread.
He criticized the Hutu, not the Tutsi; the Xhosa, not the Zulu; the Kenyan elite, not the deplorables. He criticized Diversitists of all classes, with equity and inclusion. RIP
He pointed African Americans hate white people certainly a pluity
"Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on ...."
Oh, that was NOT a racist comment.
The comment was 'You should move away from people who don't like you'.
Didn't address any race.
That's just WAPO doing WAPO sh*t. WAPO is not a reliable 'news' delivery system.
"But I never just put not the podcast and listened."
I thought that should read: "But I never put on my pajamas and listened."
I agree the Wash Post headline is inappropriate.
The post even before bezos bought it, hates whites and western culture in general
https://t.co/c7R1G2Y7qc
They arent the only ones
Scott Adams is handed his pink slip.
The honest and reasonable comments from a man that clearly loves humanity and thus surely regretted having to admit his observation, is a poorly arrived at reason to reject listening to him more if you liked what you heard before that. He deserved better from many. He deserved the grace he gave.
In my long government career, when people complained about government, my standard response was "Dilbert's not written about government - it's written about big business."
I would also challenge counterintuitive policies by calling them Dilbertian.
Thanks Mr Adams for creating such a repository of commentary on the way we live today. CC, JSM
I'm trying to to apply Sodom and Gomorrah math to this problem of "nearly half" and I'm failing miserably.
So I wonder if in the afterlife they meet, will Adams and Charles Schulz and Ted Geisel sit down over some beer and burgers, and tell really funny stories to each other?
AI Answers: Had Scott Adams met Richard Feynman, would they have struck a friendship?
"While it is impossible to say with certainty, an analysis of their philosophies and personalities suggests..."
Areas of Potential Compatibility
Skepticism of Authority: Both figures built reputations on questioning established norms. Feynman famously stated that "science is the belief in the ignorance of experts", a sentiment that aligns with Adams’ frequent criticism of expert consensus in fields like corporate management and political punditry.
Simplification and Clarity: Both prized the ability to explain complex ideas simply. The "Feynman Technique" focuses on teaching a concept to a toddler to identify gaps in understanding, while Adams' career is built on distilling human behavior into simple, often cynical, comic strips and "systems-based" mental models.
Playful Irreverence: Both were known for their unconventional, often "naughty" or provocative sense of humor. Feynman's penchant for practical jokes and "out-of-the-box" thinking could have meshed well with Adams' satirical worldview.
Potential Friction Points
Truth vs. Persuasion: Feynman’s core philosophy was an unyielding pursuit of objective truth through rigorous experimentation and "bending over backward" to prove oneself wrong. In contrast, Adams often argues that "facts don't matter" and focuses on the power of persuasion, cognitive dissonance, and "hallucinations" that shape human perception. This fundamental disagreement on the value of objective reality could have led to intense intellectual conflict.
Humility and Ego: Feynman was known for his "down-to-earth" nature and his willingness to admit when he was wrong or didn't know something. Adams, particularly in later years, has been characterized by his self-assured claims as a "Master Persuader" and his firm public stances on highly controversial social and political issues.
Social Values: Feynman's private comments sometimes reflected the biases of his time, but he generally focused his public energy on the "joy of discovery". Adams has increasingly focused on divisive social commentary and identity politics, which may have clashed with Feynman’s "obliviousness to social distinction" when in "physics mode"."
RIP Scott Adams… you were a good man, thoughtful and funny ‘til the end.
My work colleague Monte and I will always remember your stoic persona back in the day when regaled with tales of (Project) Victoria and Bunny Fru Fru by VP Edrington.
Pascal's bargain is kind of a philosophical mush, because there are an infinitely many possible imagined religions and what if you subscribe to Christianity, and in the actual "true faith," that consigns him to Hell?
I go with Howards' interpretation.
"I'm sorry you never really debated the Charlottesville Hoax Hoax."
Adams knows that debating with morons and debating with people who are vested in not examining the issue honestly are both complete wastes of time, and the effective difference between the two is zero.
"For the record, those comments in question caused me to stop listening to the podcast. I'd been a regular listener and then I felt actively averse. I couldn't make myself listen even though I often wanted to know what he had to say. I may have listened to (and blogged) some clips after that. But I never just put not he podcast and listened. It was a very unfortunate thing to say and he said it with intensity and what felt like sincerity."
Derbyshire got fired for saying the same thing, and they were both mistreadings. Derbyshire:
(9) A small cohort of blacks - in my experience, around five percent - is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks - around half - will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
(The Talk: non-black version)
The misunderstanding is that in both cases it's meant to be read by blacks, not whites. It's to unincite blacks, not to incite whites.
I enjoyed listening to him because of his insightful way of looking at things. He made me think.
Wow! Last I heard was that he was (going to) take some experimental drugs and reported positive effects.
A thought-provoking person indeed. May he rest well.
I loved his intro -- the simultaneous sip.
Sad he died so soon. What was he 68? Anyway he was had loved ones around and he died at home. Its sorta of shock, he didn't look that bad 2-3 weeks ago. Thought he'd hang around another couple months.
RIP.
As for them calling Scott a "racist" in the Obit - If you expect decency from the MSM or for them to forget for one second you are a political "enemy" - you'll be disappointed.
IRC, they call Rush one too. And they'll say it about Trump. "Racism" is being used as a weapon by the Leftwing Establishment. In the UK they put you jail. Here they cancel you and attack you in the press. Even when you just died.
“ It's to unincite blacks, not to incite whites.”
Specifically to incite or “unincite” what? And for what purpose?
A death bed conversion would only work if it is foreshadowed.
There has to be effort and an end underlying willingness to move yourself.
Blacks are holding themselves back by holding a racial grudge. Get rid of the grudge and blacks do better.
“ As for them calling Scott a "racist" in the Obit”
To be fair, the WP did not call him a racist [noun]. They described his comments as racist [adj.]
Ann Althouse said…
For the record, those comments in question caused me to stop listening to the podcast. I'd been a regular listener and then I felt actively averse. I couldn't make myself listen even though I often wanted to know what he had to say.
Ann took his advice and lived in a lily white neighborhood.
She just got mad when he said it out loud. Ann couldn’t afford to live around Black people in Madison Wisconsin because democrats control the area.
I live in a 50/50 Neighborhood. It only works because Republicans are in control of the state and this is a FAFO area.
The problem comes when you have “diversity” and you have intellectual cowards running things.
The problem is that nobody will be honest about the conditions for creating a free high trust society because they don’t want the beautiful people to think bad things about them.
I worked with Scott a half dozen years ago, doing diligence on a medical startup company. Sharp guy, very quick mind. Friendly. Not modest, exactly, but unostentatious.
I drive by his home occasionally and always remember that association with pleasure.
RIP
I began listening to Adams' podcast when Althouse noted his prediction during the 2016 campaign season. My thanks to both.
Incite (strongest) — nag (strong) — try one’s patience (least strong)
Only two people predicted Trump in 2016, Scott Adams and Althouse commenter Mick. Check comments back then and see that most here gave Trump zero chance.
Ann Coulter predicted Trump’s win in 2016. For what it’s worth.
A full life. I always admire a person who lives a full life. He did. And he touched and connected with people right up to the very end.
My bet would be that it is not Scott Adams that is "darned to Heck, and that Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, is poking him with that big spoon now" but rather the writer and editors of the headline "... Publishers cut ties with Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on a YouTube live stream."
His "racist comments" would have gotten him a show on MSNBC/MSNow if he'd only been smart enough to "flip the script." Maybe a good rule of thumb though is if doesn't work in your comic strip, it's not going to go across better coming from you directly.
Here’s the way the NY Post handled it: "In 2023, Adams was accused of racism after commenting on a Rasmussen poll in which only 53% of black respondents agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” Adams quipped that it would be good to move away from people who felt that degree of hostility. He immediately found himself canceled, his comic strip dropped, and his publishing contracts terminated."
Adams was canceled for noting that 47% of black people surveyed didn’t think it was OK to be white. So of course, he’s labeled the racist for pointing out that nearly half of the black population holds a racist opinion and for discussing rational steps to avoid confrontation with people holding that view.
RIP
A very sad thing happened last night. Scott Adams, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented cartoonist and author, has passed away,l, reportedly due to the tumor he caused himself through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of being in the cult of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious idiocy reaching new heights as the Trump Administration imposed fascism and destroyed the underpinnings of our democratic republic, and with the rapid decline of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Scott rest in peace!
I always liked Scott's "whiteboard lectures." He is one of the few Trump true believers who was able to make me aware of some of my confirmation biases, and I will always be thankful to him for that.
"Specifically to incite or “unincite” what? And for what purpose?"
I don't think Scott intended to DO anything with that commentary. He was expressing disappointment in having to accept the reality he wished was not true. But if he did intend to do something it was to do what victims of racism have always tried - to shame the racists and warn the victims. Seems noble to me. At least more noble than silence.
Achilles at 1:17. I think you nailed it. Exactly what I thought when I read that.
The "racist" label that the mainstream media has stuck him with is unfortunate. No doubt, there are some technical definitions of "racist" that activists will apply with some justification, but Adams' point was rather subtle and, I think, fair. Unfortunately, the label almost certainly will stick and diminish the appeal of a brilliant career.
I genuinely feel sad.
People Magazine referred to him as the "Disgraced Dilbert creator". That was nice...
Buh-bye, Scott Adams; I'm sorry you never really debated the Charlottesville Hoax Hoax
Maybe someone can now debate someone else on the Charlottesville Hoax Hoax Hoax.
I read about people who've worked with Adams and the reactions are universally positive. That says something about the quality of the Man.
RIP.
I hate democrats.
"Incite (strongest) — nag (strong) — try one’s patience (least strong)"
I always liked the word "inveigle" and feel like it fits here.
"I loved his intro -- the simultaneous sip."
That's an old group psychology thing, when you get people synchronized, they become part of a group on a deep level, drum circles, what have you.
Like in Roger Stone's documentary Ukraine on Fire where he shows the ultranationalists having school children jump up and down in unison while chanting in Ukrainian "Who's not jumping is a Russian!" Building hatred in the population, preparing for war.
So the simultaneous sip thing kept me away from his podcast.
Maybe you should take seriously the pushback on what he really said, andconsider what peoplelike him did for you blogging career. How petty.
In case anyone thinks that NYT did any better than WaPo: "His chronicles of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him." But as AA corroborated, the 'racist comments' was, from their perspective, a quite accurate distillation of what he actually said (but I never listened to the podcast). Requiescat in pace.
Althouse, I've lived in majority-minority cities and towns for most of my life. You have not, and it shows. It's pretty typical of people like you to keep one foot in each camp, which is actually the opposite of neutral. But it is cruel. You should show some gratitude for what he did for your chosen second career. I'm disgusted. You're "too fragile" to listen to him, but you read the Times every day? Pathetic.
Oh, come on, Meade. They didn't call him a racist? I understand loyalty, but that's just plain beneath you.
Yes they have (redacted) on his tombstone, this is the same paper that treated that butcher baghdadi as an 'austere moslem scholar' not to mention what they said about charlie kirk
https://t.co/99wEI6fsjG
In all his years, Adams made not a single mention of Jesus Christ - until now, Last minute decisons to make a change on any matter, not considered before, are not the way life works. Sorry Scott, you knew that you were lying and sadly you lied to the people who most admired you. I was not one of his admirers.
I practically begged him, on a near-monthly schedule, to agree to a debate...
Gee. It's a total mystery why he never responded.
Psycho.
FullMoon said...
Only two people predicted Trump in 2016, Scott Adams and Althouse commenter Mick. Check comments back then and see that most here gave Trump zero chance.
Salena Zito was a journalist “on the ground” in the western Pennsylvania rust belt, and by talking to real people instead of talking only to other journalists she became Trump’s favorite journalist in 2016 by publicly predicting his victory.
Michael k was another who thought this would happen
Fly: "Last minute decisons to make a change on any matter, not considered before, are not the way life works"
True. But JC changed the way life works. CC, JSM
Adams rejected Diversity [dogma] (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry) as nonviable fetuses... features of DEIst doctrines and practices as progressive wokes of liberal arts. #HateLovesAbortion
That wasn't the worst. This one from "People" is awful:
https://x.com/philthatremains/status/2011118610199023733
Just when I thought Chuck was a nasty POS, he becomes a near psychotic POS.
Adams was canceled for noting that 47% of black people surveyed didn’t think it was OK to be white. So of course, he’s labeled the racist for pointing out that nearly half of the black population holds a racist opinion and for discussing rational steps to avoid confrontation with people holding that view.
I am old enough to have lived through the era of Jim Crow, the time of the Freedom Riders, the rise of the Civil Rights movement, and ultimately the passage of the Civil Rights Act. And I would not be surprised if you told me that more white Southerners expressed the sentiment that “it’s okay to be black” in 1965 than black people who think it’s okay to be white in more recent times.
RIP Scott Adams.
I'm white, non-Hispanic, and for the past 30 years I have lived in predominantly Mexican neighborhoods in Chicago, with no concerns for my personal safety.
(Twice my parked car was violated - once for the radio, another time for the catalytic converter, and it's likely that both crimes were committed by outsiders who lived elsewhere.)
There are no predominantly black neighborhoods in Chicago that I would feel comfortable driving through, much less living in. This isn't a condemnation of all blacks living in those neighborhoods, but an acknowledgment of the increased risk based on a subset of the people living there.
@Jaq -- Seriously, you were afraid of the simultaneous sip because you feared you would be unable to maintain your personal integrity? Do you feel that personally powerless? That's really sad.
Gee, i thought from the obit that scott adams had said something awful. Y'know like blacks are inferior. Or should be discriminated against.
But looks like he didn't say anything like that. He said that since 53 percent of blacks think "Its not OK to be White" or are "Unsure" the racial problem in the USA cant be fixed. And white people should just avoid them. Which is what people in real life acutally do. Most Whites don't send their kids to majority black schools. And they don't live in majority black neighborhoods.
And well-to-do whites insulate themselves in rich neighborhoods and send their kids to private schools.
But Adams had been tagged as a "trump supporter". And they were out to get him. And they'll never stop.
Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68 ~ People.Com
People has been getting the job done for a bit now. It's really something.
Scott was a magnificent communicator with a genius level mind.
RIP to a brilliant and clever voice, silenced too soon.
Even the most Progressive Whites don’t live in the Hood. But when someone points that out and says I don’t blame them, the person is branded a racist. Instead of taking what people say at face value, watch how they live. You can deduce what they believe even if those people are in denial about it. White people calling other white people racist is in the top 3 most stupid things people do.
One of the problems I have with polling is all the racist assumptions pollsters make. You talk to 100 black people, and all of a sudden you know how millions of black people think? I call bullshit. Utter bullshit.
Statistics is a sham science, a very "soft" science. It's an engineering mistake to treat it like a bridge. It's not a fucking bridge. It's built on nothing.
I love Dilbert. It was so funny. I would never cancel Scott Adams over a mistake. RIP, brother, you made our world a better place.
"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Mark Twain
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