Dilbert Comic Strip Creator in the Soup Over Supposed Racist Rant

Wow...just WOW! Ya never know until they rear their ugly heads. I guess he thought there are enough racist people like him in this country that his tirade would be deemed reasonable, therefore acceptable. Hope this reality (being dropped en masse) hits him upside the head as well as hurts his pockets. :mad:
 
He has his opinion. I will not judge him by just this.
One’s life is not summed up in one statement no matter how foolish in this current climate of quick to dismiss and judge.
Here is my 🪨 (stone) please feel free to toss it at me at the end of my life.
I have made many stupid statements in my 67 years and will probably be saying things that at one time or another will not be socially correct for the moment (might be accurate) but…
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Wow...just WOW! Ya never know until they rear their ugly heads. I guess he thought there are enough racist people like him in this country that his tirade would be deemed reasonable, therefore acceptable. Hope this reality (being dropped en masse) hits him upside the head as well as hurts his pockets. :mad:
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He worth over $10 million, he's not hurting
 
I think there's a lot of lip service about being for racial equality, but all the while harboring the same old biases and prejudices. The only difference is that voicing them is unfashionable, but not much is needed to activate them into action and violence.
 
Disgustedman said:
He worth over $10 million, he's not hurting
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Not yet. Rich people who spend like rich people then suddenly find their money drying up and having to reduce their standard of living are subject to "hurt". Now if he's money savvy enough and or deeply in debt, maybe he won't be hurting. I believe it might be an ego buster though not to be able to "sell" his passion anymore (at least not for awhile).
 
I quit reading his comic not too long after our paper started carrying it; I found his take on women that work in an office setting--being one myself--to be sexist, maybe even misogynistic sometimes. So it doesn't surprise me about this latest from him.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Not yet. Rich people who spend like rich people then suddenly find their money drying up and having to reduce their standard of living are subject to "hurt". Now if he's money savvy enough and or deeply in debt, maybe he won't be hurting. I believe it might be an ego buster though not to be able to "sell" his passion anymore (at least not for awhile).
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My error, he's north of 75 million. I'm fairly sure he's not going to lose sleep over this. Funny how I'm not mad at his comments nor supporting them.

We used to just let people rant and rave, never worrying about what they said. Now it's pitchforks and torches. "We'll take away his ability to make money"

Yeah, he's got enough to have long invested and reaping the benefits. So "Cancel Culture" isn't going to hurt his wallet, or him.
 
perChance said:
I presume everyone watched this. Too often people judge someone based on what other people say.

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Thank you for that, it helped put the comments in context. Lately, I've tried to find the source of these cancellations because we usually just get a sound bite followed by a string of companies anxious to distance themselves before they go down the drain with the person who's in trouble.

All the news outlets are calling his remarks a racist "rant" or "tirade," and I can't find a single thing by him that sounded angry, his tone is more ironic or sarcastic.

I did like his idea of making reparations through greatly improved education, because he feels that nothing else would make black lives better, or correct systemic racism more, than really good schools in all the inner cities.

I think what the news outlets should be talking about is that 48% of black people think it's either not okay to be white or they are unsure if it's okay to be white. That's a whole lot of anti-white feeling and they should be asking what to do about it. Some media have been pushing that anti-white idea hard for the last few years, CBS and NPR in particular. It's an attempt to fight racism with another type of racism and two wrongs just never make a right. Instead it just drives us further apart.
 
His Dilbert comic strip was one of the few that dealt with the travails of the workplace, with situations many of us could relate to, and stereotypic co-workers such as Wally, Alice, and the Pointy-Haired Boss. The strip could even get surreal, with a demonic figure occasionally visiting called Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, who “darned people to Heck!”

Now I’m wondering if my Dilbert watch and Catbert plushie are going to ultimately be worth more or less due to Scott Adams‘ fall from grace…

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I wrote 'Supposed' Racist Rant in the Header, because I never listened to it myself and don't rely on second-hand opinions.
 

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