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February 25, 2023
Dilbert creator Scott Adams is the latest to be canceled
By Rajan Laad
We know that the left is always looking for an opportunity to silence those who challenge their groupthink. Their target isn’t only conservatives but anybody who disagrees with their worldview even in the slightest possible way.
They left lives in the hope that contrarians to their groupthink will either misspeak or express a nuanced and detailed idea that can be extracted, stripped of context, and made to appear bigoted. This gives them reason to mount a social media campaign and initiate cancellation.
Yesterday it was satirist and thinker Scott Adams's turn to be cancelled.
USAToday announced that it would stop publishing Adams's "Dilbert" cartoon because they ‘lead with inclusion and strive to maintain a respectful and equitable environment for the diverse communities we serve nationwide.’
Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper also decided not to publish any of Adam’s cartoons.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/dilbert_creator_scott_adams_is_the_latest_to_be_canceled.html
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Scott Adams video:
https://mobile.twitter.com/amuse/status/1628929459179888641
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Scott Adams video:
https://mobile.twitter.com/amuse/status/1628929459179888641
Wow.. from somebody of this level of fame? That took some bravery to speak that level of truth. And to say the things millions have been thinking but have kept to themselves in the spirit of polical correctness.
Adam's stuff is legendary in lampooning office fodder, way before Gervais, or Mike Judge gave us "The Office" or "Office Space".
Seems the Cancel Culture Police and MSM goons will now be the curly haired idiot boss now. And they are going to throw him in the fire like pig with an apple with its mouth.
I hope he can get a gig at Fox, but this might be even a little too hot for them to touch.
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
I'm not returning hate. I'm advising people to avoid hate. That being my entire point. https://twitter.com/unscriptedmike/status/1629467576269959170
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9:38 AM · Feb 25, 2023
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
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A lot of people are angry at me today but I haven't yet heard anyone disagree. I make two main points:
1. Treat everyone as an individual (no discrimination).
2. Avoid any group that doesn't respect you.
Does anyone think that is bad advice?
8:39 AM · Feb 25, 2023
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The McPaper pulled his stuff not surprised
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USA Today is still around? I thought the only ones that bought it were hotels/motels and fast food restaurants for their guests.
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Wow.. from somebody of this level of fame? That took some bravery to speak that level of truth. And to say the things millions have been thinking but have kept to themselves in the spirit of polical correctness.
Adam's stuff is legendary in lampooning office fodder, way before Gervais, or Mike Judge gave us "The Office" or "Office Space".
Seems the Cancel Culture Police and MSM goons will now be the curly haired idiot boss now. And they are going to throw him in the fire like pig with an apple with its mouth.
I hope he can get a gig of Fox, but this might be even a little too hot for them to touch.
Give Dogbert a TV job. Or a Dogbert/Catbert duo.
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Anecdotal, at best. but I'm not finding reactions to this from the center-right ...
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Adams said out loud what I would guess millions of white people do as a matter of habit….avoid being around black people, or at least avoid being around large groups.
Everybody knows how dangerous it can be for white people to be isolated in a black section of a city.
The reverse is not true for black people in mostly white areas.
But the media would lead people to think that it is blacks who are in the most danger. From white people.
Blacks are in danger, but it’s danger from other blacks as conclusively proved by the daily homicide reports from many major cities.
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So far it seems he's held his ground and refuted the rabid woke mob and their flamethrower of hate.
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So far it seems he's held his ground and refuted the rabid woke mob and their flamethrower of hate.
Good for him!
He has repeated a truth evident in daily news exports, police arrest statistics, crime stats, and surveillance cameras across the country. It wasn't "White Lives Matter" that burned and looted.
While there are a multitude of notable exceptions (including my favorite SCOTUS justice), there are also the huge number of thuglife folks in the news daily. It is a cultural problem, exacerbated by the whole 'gangsta/victim' lifestyle, and the attitude that people today are owed anything but an opportunity to do well, not the results of having done so for nothing.
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Hopefully subscribers of those papers cancel their subscriptions in response.
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He may have a business opportunity. Have a pay-for site to view his content, with 50% off the first year with confirmed proof of a cancelled newspaper subscription, print or online.
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Catfish observes:
"Wow.. from somebody of this level of fame? That took some bravery to speak that level of truth. And to say the things millions have been thinking but have kept to themselves in the spirit of polical correctness."
I will take a guess that Mr. Adams has worked his way through "Fishrrman's dialectic" to arrive at the proper conclusion...
"You may not be interested in the politics of race, ethnicity, and identity.
But the politics of race, ethnicity and identity are VERY MUCH interested ... in YOU."
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He may have a business opportunity. Have a pay-for site to view his content, with 50% off the first year with confirmed proof of a cancelled newspaper subscription, print or online.
:thumbsup:
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Good for him!
He has repeated a truth evident in daily news exports, police arrest statistics, crime stats, and surveillance cameras across the country. It wasn't "White Lives Matter" that burned and looted.
While there are a multitude of notable exceptions (including my favorite SCOTUS justice), there are also the huge number of thuglife folks in the news daily. It is a cultural problem, exacerbated by the whole 'gangsta/victim' lifestyle, and the attitude that people today are owed anything but an opportunity to do well, not the results of having done so for nothing.
It’s definitely a matter of a sick culture.
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Adams explains what he's trying to do in this interview (link below).
Scott Adams Interview - It’s OKay to be White
https://www.youtube.com/live/oeFA-n3SMRw?feature=share
“The story has bifurcated into two realities. This one is from the people who have not viewed the Hotep Jesus podcast from yesterday. See my pinned tweet.”
https://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/1629888221667803143
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"Racist, intellectually bankrupt Leftist bullshit. Gross." (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1629341271503560705
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Adams explains what he's trying to do in this interview (link below).
Scott Adams Interview - It’s OKay to be White
https://www.youtube.com/live/oeFA-n3SMRw?feature=share
“The story has bifurcated into two realities. This one is from the people who have not viewed the Hotep Jesus podcast from yesterday. See my pinned tweet.”
https://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/1629888221667803143
Scott Adams must have known the repercussions that would come from his commentary. I really thought he jumped the shark until I watched this interview.
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Scott Adams must have known the repercussions that would come from his commentary. I really thought he jumped the shark until I watched this interview.
Agree @massadvj
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
My publisher for non-Dilbert books has canceled my upcoming book and the entire backlist. Still no disagreement about my point of view. My book agent canceled me too.
11:48 AM · Feb 27, 2023
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Now that I have no anchor on my free speech, tomorrow will be fun.
6:06 PM · Feb 27, 2023
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"I can't believe they're cancelling Scott Adams for agreeing with Don Lemon" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1630333429513428994
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Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Newspapers are cancelling Dilbert claiming creator Scott Adams "made racist comments" while discussing 26% of blacks don't think it's OK to be white.
Are we going to ignore the fact 12 million blacks think it's okay to hate white people, or just be outraged someone noticed?
4:47 PM · Feb 27, 2023
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Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Newspapers are cancelling Dilbert claiming creator Scott Adams "made racist comments" while discussing 26% of blacks don't think it's OK to be white.
Are we going to ignore the fact 12 million blacks think it's okay to hate white people, or just be outraged someone noticed?
4:47 PM · Feb 27, 2023
:thumbsup:
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Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Newspapers are cancelling Dilbert claiming creator Scott Adams "made racist comments" while discussing 26% of blacks don't think it's OK to be white.
Are we going to ignore the fact 12 million blacks think it's okay to hate white people, or just be outraged someone noticed?
4:47 PM · Feb 27, 2023
Remember a few years ago, that all of us would have been horrified if someone thought or said we are racist?
The BLM woke mob has created a mass event of unintended consequences. And sadly race relations have been set back 50 years.
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(https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/cartoons/MC_dilbert_web-400x0.jpg)
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"Scott Adams explains that the media has been emphasizing race narratives on everything since Trayvon Martin and race relations have cratered since this began" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1630934663001669637
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"Scott Adams explains that the media has been emphasizing race narratives on everything since Trayvon Martin and race relations have cratered since this began" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1630934663001669637
Ii give him credit. He is not backing down, he's doubling down. He will be a pariah in society, but apparently does not care. He is a much stronger man than me. Most of us dare not go where he is going, and in fact you can see in the video that he is very carefully choosing his words.
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Ii give him credit. He is not backing down, he's doubling down. He will be a pariah in society, but apparently does not care. He is a much stronger man than me. Most of us dare not go where he is going, and in fact you can see in the video that he is very carefully choosing his words.
I know I have a deeper respect for the man.
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Leftist nut, but he is starting to see that his path of liberalism does not end with the crocodile eating him last.
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Ii give him credit. He is not backing down, he's doubling down. He will be a pariah in society, but apparently does not care. He is a much stronger man than me. Most of us dare not go where he is going, and in fact you can see in the video that he is very carefully choosing his words.
He probably said out loud what most people think
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Leftist nut, but he is starting to see that his path of liberalism does not end with the crocodile eating him last.
Taking kind of the Bill Maher approach. Guys like him and Derschowitz are about becoming the only brain functioning liberals left in the world.
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Ii give him credit. He is not backing down, he's doubling down. He will be a pariah in society, but apparently does not care. He is a much stronger man than me. Most of us dare not go where he is going, and in fact you can see in the video that he is very carefully choosing his words.
He's got "FU Money".
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He's got "FU Money".
133K subscribers on youtube transates to $13K per month in revenues, more or less. I am sure he is already financially independent from his Dilbert cartoon. So undoubtedly he has no financial incentive to grovel. But still, he is risking a lot socially.
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Scott Adams video:
https://mobile.twitter.com/amuse/status/1628929459179888641
"Notice a pattern?" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffYoungerTX/status/1630795025771626533
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133K subscribers on youtube transates to $13K per month in revenues, more or less. I am sure he is already financially independent from his Dilbert cartoon. So undoubtedly he has no financial incentive to grovel. But still, he is risking a lot socially.
So he won't get invited to party with people who don't like him or who want to try to gig him in public. Real friends will know what he meant, no explanation necessary.
I'm looking for the downside.... :shrug:
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"Notice a pattern?" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffYoungerTX/status/1630795025771626533
First, Keep in mind someone just stood there and recorded that without intervening, without even saying anything. That's tacit approval of the actions taking place.
Second, white people need to learn how to fight.
THird, it;s amazing that the dozens (hundreds?) of tribes of "white" people across Europewho fought tooth and nail for centuries, and then came here and often fought intertribally (Italians v Irish v whoever you got), all get lumped into a monolithic cultural group of "White".
As if we all believed or even talked and thought the same.
Even still, in this age of television, we have not all been programmed into some sort of racist group think.
But there is a group that either has (similarly unlikely)--or the Media wants us to think so--as much as the Media want them to believe "whites" are not only similarly afflicted by a hive mind, but one bent on stealing their stuff and keeping them slaves, as if anyone would want a 'slave' who wouldn't work and ignored the law (common among the group think group) and who wanted to be supported economically and otherwise despite that.
I believe that given a chance to cool down (without the media messing with everyone's heads), in the absence of race-baiting, and with an emphasis on actually accomplishing something, then some progress could be made. I believe we stood on that cultural threshold in the early 60s, and that the intervention of The New Left (read: Communists) interrupted that, fomenting racial unrest far beyond what was needed for a fair shake, and what we are seeing is a redux of that late 60s divisiveness, complete with Martyrs (albeit less deserving of that status than Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who while not a saint wasn't openly advocating burning and looting, but peaceful civil protest). Interesting that far less 'holy' examples held up as 'martyrs' have led to far worse outcomes, for people of all races, in Fergusson, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Baltimore, Seattle, Portland, even Washington, D.C., to name a few.
But, behind it all, the Media bask in their limelight, and count the money they have made selling soap, without regard for the seeds of destruction they have sown. They have sown the wind, let them reap.
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Absolutely nobody on either side of the political equation, liberal or conservative, has bothered to ponder what Adams said. I.e. is it possible that a goodly percentage of black people despise white people and are willing to do them harm if they can get away with it.
Which is probably the case as the 400-500 white people murdered every year by blacks might prove.
Or the thousands of white people assaulted by violent blacks but the news covered up by the mainstream media.
In short, Adams is far more right than he is wrong.
Not every black person hates whites or blames them for their problems. But you can be sure that if close to fifty percent of white people when asked in a survey said no to the question "is it alright to be black?," they would be labeled vicious racists.
But media types, conservatives and liberals, simply do not want to contemplate the possibility that a very large percentage of black people could be haters.
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Absolutely nobody on either side of the political equation, liberal or conservative, has bothered to ponder what Adams said. I.e. is it possible that a goodly percentage of black people despise white people and are willing to do them harm if they can get away with it.
Which is probably the case as the 400-500 white people murdered every year by blacks might prove.
Or the thousands of white people assaulted by violent blacks but the news covered up by the mainstream media.
In short, Adams is far more right than he is wrong.
Not every black person hates whites or blames them for their problems. But you can be sure that if close to fifty percent of white people when asked in a survey said no to the question "is it alright to be black?," they would be labeled vicious racists.
But media types, conservatives and liberals, simply do not want to contemplate the possibility that a very large percentage of black people could be haters.
IIRC, even Jessee Jackson would be relieved to find out the footsteps behind him on that darkened street came from a white person. With the amount of utter white hate being pimped by every source, people who have never even talked with a white person are fuming with hate, often over things that happened well before any living person was born, avoiding unpleasantness may simply be a matter of avoiding contact.
Avoiding conflict is one way to avoid killing someone in self-defense, and unfortunately, that path seems to be just avoidance. Consider Rittenhouse was accused in the media of being racist for killing white attackers, what would have happened had they been black?
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Some say I was too provocative in my communications. How has the non-provocative approach worked so far? Good results?
6:19 AM · Mar 2, 2023
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Some say I was too provocative in my communications. How has the non-provocative approach worked so far? Good results?
6:19 AM · Mar 2, 2023
:thumbsup:
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Apologize? Even my biggest critics agree with my point when seen in context. Only the dopamine gooners, political hacks, and grifters are complaining.
8:18 AM · Mar 2, 2023
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
I own stock in all Americans. I do well when they do well.
I would like to offer Black America some tools to slice through systemic racism like butter. (It's easier to thwart racism in your own life than to end it for all.)
I have your attention, as planned. I have success strategies (that work for anyone) to offer. No one is twisting any arms.
RevTimChristopher
@RevTChristopher
Scott should get himself right with the white community because he doesn’t owe the black community anything because he doesn’t have stock in the black community. he remind me of Jon Justice they love to talk about us and get it wrong all the time.
9:49 AM · Mar 2, 2023
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
I own stock in all Americans. I do well when they do well.
I would like to offer Black America some tools to slice through systemic racism like butter. (It's easier to thwart racism in your own life than to end it for all.)
I have your attention, as planned. I have success strategies (that work for anyone) to offer. No one is twisting any arms.
9:49 AM · Mar 2, 2023
Was Adams' statement in response to RevTimChristopher's statement, or the other way around?
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Was Adams' statement in response to RevTimChristopher's statement, or the other way around?
Top tweet is the reply to a lower tweet.
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Top tweet is the reply to a lower tweet.
Thanks!
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"Update: The City of Springfield, Ohio has released surveillance footage of the elementary school incident from Feb. 10 where white students were held hostage & assaulted on the playground by black students who wanted to force them to pledge allegiance to" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1631464580248485890
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"Update: The City of Springfield, Ohio has released surveillance footage of the elementary school incident from Feb. 10 where white students were held hostage & assaulted on the playground by black students who wanted to force them to pledge allegiance to" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1631464580248485890
That video totally justifies what Scott Adams was saying.