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 cancelation.
Yesterday, it was satirist and thinker Scott Adams’s turn to be canceled.
USAToday announced that it would stop publishing Adams’s “Dilbert” cartoon because the people running the paper “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 Adams’s cartoons.
John Hiner of MLive Media in Michigan wrote in an editorial, “We will work quickly to find a replacement that will entertain you and not violate basic standards of decency and respect for others.”
Many other outlets followed and did away with Adams.
Adams has been producing “Dilbert” for three decades, and they are seen as a devastatingly satirical commentary on workplace policies.
What did Scott Adams do to merit cancelation?
Adams became a nationwide trending topic after he said that black people are “a hate group and I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”
He also said the following:
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.
Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed, right. This can’t be fixed. You just have to escape.
He then cited CNN anchor Don Lemon to claim that there’s a “correlation” between a “mostly Black” neighborhood and “a bunch of problems he didn’t see” in majority-white areas.
He went on to say that he moved to an area with a “very low black population.”
Adams also said that he was going to stop helping black America because it doesn’t seem to pay off.
It makes no sense to help black Americans if you’re white.
He added that videos of black people beating white people had convinced him that whites should not help black people and whites should not live in communities with a large percentage of black people.
The clip of Adams’s comments garnered more than 1.8 million views on Twitter.
This real or deep fake? pic.twitter.com/coDrYJcHEo
— Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) February 23, 2023
For the left, this was a dream come true. Leftists had all the reasons they wanted to cancel Adams and silence another powerful contrarian.
The usual suspects in the media were outraged.
The Daily Kos carried a piece with the 1963 quote from former Alabama governor George Wallace: “I say, segregation today…segregation tomorrow…segregation forever.” What they did not reveal is that Wallace was a Democrat.
The Daily Beast’s headline called Adams “unhinged,” and yes, it began its piece by linking Adams to Trump.
Expect the bigger media houses to follow and remind all that Adams supported Trump.
So what caused Adams to engage in “unhinged” behavior?
You can judge by proceeding to 13:25 of the following video.
Adams was referring to a Rasmussen Survey that revealed that only 53 percent of Black Americans believe “it’s okay to be white.” Twenty-six percent think “it isn’t okay to be white,” while 21% remain undecided.
BLACK AMERICANS ONLY:
“It’s okay to be white.”
53% agree, 26% disagree, 21% not sure
“Black people can be racist, too”
76% of agree, 27% disagree, 8% not sure.
"It's okay to be white."
72% of Americans agree, 12% disagree
69% of Democrats agree, 12% disagree"Black people can be racist, too"
79% of Americans agree, 12% disagree
71% of Democrats agree, 19% disagreeDiscussion on Youtube:https://t.co/GGSswZnumk pic.twitter.com/gYaeH2UpBm
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 22, 2023
The results are nothing short of shocking, suggesting that only 53 percent of African-Americans surveyed think that Caucasians should be allowed to exist.
The rest think otherwise: 26% think Caucasians should not exist, while 21% remain undecided on a matter that should be obvious to all.
This is the definition of bigotry: when you think another group should not exist owing to differences.
This is what the Nazis and other genocidal despots think.
Let’s also be clear that this isn’t a matter that requires deep thinking. You either believe in equality or you do not. If you are in the 21% undecided about equality, there is no gray area. You are a bigot.
Clearly, 47% percent have been heavily influenced by Critical Race Theory taught in schools, radical demagogues on the political scene, and media coverage amplifying race-related issues.
Following any Islamic terror attack, the left goes out of its way to say that one terrorist doesn’t reflect on all Muslims.
Whenever the culprit in a violent crime is black, the race of the culprit is not revealed.
However, when the culprit is white and the victim is black, they call it a hate crime even before the facts emerge.
When 29-year-old Tyre Nichols died at the hands of five black Memphis police officers, the media called it a race-based crime.
When failed actor Jussie Smollett staged a race attack on himself, claiming that the culprits were Trump-supporters, the media treated his words as God’s truth.
When a filmmaker didn’t get nominated for an Oscar, she called it racist.
Clearly, hateful groups such as Black Lives Matter and race-hustlers such as Al Sharpton who enriched themselves by spreading hate are also having an impact.
The result is a large section of the black population who seem to think all of their progress in life is halted because of white people. Their conclusion is that getting rid of white people will solve their problem. Hence, they develop genocidal thoughts. This may be the primary cause of the violence seen against white people.
What is also amazing is that this 47% didn’t mind expressing their racist or perhaps even genocidal view in public. They may understand that the political climate is such that they will receive no criticism or ostracism.
Ideally, the media should focus on the outcome of the poll and introspect. But the self-righteous seldom see their faults.
So they focus on attacking Scott Adams.
What Adams was saying is that he would stay away from and avoid helping those who are so hateful that they think he should not exist because of his race.
Adams wasn’t making a statement; he was reacting to a poll.
We could ask if one poll is enough to pass such a broad judgment, or whether it makes sense for whites to ostracize the 53% of non-bigots because the of 47% who hold bigoted views.
Let’s just ignore the race issue and assume there are people who hate your existence.
Would you like to be around such people or to help them?
The answer is obvious.
One thing we must be sure of is that Adams is no fool.
He knows the polarized climate we are living in and knows the consequences of such claims. He knows that the nuance will be lost and he will be made to look like a racist. He knows that his argument could make him vulnerable to physical attacks. He knows that this cancelation is a point of no return.
Yet he did it.
Adams is known to perform sociological experiments.
Perhaps he was hoping to get knee-jerk reactions so he could make a larger point eventually.
Perhaps he’s trying to start what the left calls “a conversation” about race relations.
Based on what plays out, we shall know very soon.
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‘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.” Sounds like typical insane Democrat ideological advice to me, because by cancelling and eliminating white people in the name of diversity, makes about a much sense as cutting off black people in the name of diversity. These idiots obviously graduated from the Democrat University of diversity, adversity and perversity, who do not understand that you become less diverse when the number being counted declines, unless what being spoken about is diverse community safety, which goes up when blacks get redlined from the community. No brag, just fact.
THEY cancelled him BECAUSE HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH.
Biden woke team is the most diverse in history. Incompetent… but diverse.
When diversity and inclusion take the place of merit, hard work, and talent, bad things will happen.
The woke Biden administration is a textbook example of how NOT to build an organization.
Hate, Racist???
Yusra Khogali co-founder of the anti-racist “Black Lives Matter” movement, does not hide her hatred of white people in her comments on social media. Yusra Khogali also made comments on Twitter, where she asks Allah for “strength” so as not to “kill” or harm “white folks.”
Clearly, hateful groups such as Black Lives Matter and race-hustlers such as Al Sharpton who enriched themselves by spreading hate are also having an destructive impact.
The persecution of Scott Adams for expressing his opinion is a violation of his Civil Rights and the Constitution. The media in general is denying his right to free speech and hindering his ability to earn a living for stating his opinion. Why wasn’t Maxine Waters singled out when she told people if they see a republican or a conservative in a restaurant to get a crowd & harass them? Or the mobs that stormed the homes of Supreme Court Justices? This is the type of harassment that the patriots in 1776 fought to end. I’m starting a Scott Adams support group called Free Dilbert Now”
WOKISTAS don’t give a rats butt, about the constitution..
I have been saying for a while now that the conniving, power-mad Demmunists are scapegoating white people in EXACTLY the same way that Hitler scapegoated the Jews, and the stunning increase of unprovoked attacks by blacks on white people are the result. In one breath they sanctimoniously declare that blaming or attacking people for characteristics they were born with and had no control over–like skin color–is racist. In the next breath, they are saying that white people are evil, racists white supremacists, simply for the “crime” of having been born white. This is RACISM in its MOST severe and toxic form, and it is designed to divide, create chaos and violence, in order for them to seize more power and hang on to what they have, which was STOLEN through a fraudulent “coup by ballot box” in 2020.
ITS literally Govt approved Discrimination vs WHITES..
While I am not racist and strive to treat people on their merit, I know racism exists. It is not always white people who are racist and that leans credence to Scott Adams’ remarks about racism. In the past ten years, I have witnessed the transformation from the White Supremacy Theory to the Black Supremacy actions of the black community. Black people say “Black Lives Matter” as if no other race is worthy of living. Black people riot and destroy everything in their path if a court decision does not go the way they think it should. To bring to fruition the theory that black people are as racist as white people I direct your attention to the NAACP.
The NAACP began as an organization to promote equality both in the workplace and in society in general. That initiative led to better working conditions for many Black citizens and a more stable social standing within the community. Since achieving these monumental goals, the NAACP needs a new cause to survive and allow the leaders to maintain their affluent lifestyles. The NAACP cannot survive without racism and knowing this, NAACP leaders excel in promoting racism, not to better the Black community, but to maintain the leader’s affluent lifestyles. For this reason, I agree with Scott Adams’ assessment of Black/White relations in our current society. Liberals infiltrated our news and media outlets to the point they now challenge the First Amendment. Oh, do not get me wrong: liberals support freedom of speech, so long as it parrots liberal beliefs! Canceling someone for making statements you do not approve of is in direct violation of that person’s Constitutional Rights. I hope the Justice Department steps in to restore constitutional equality and fine each media outlet that denied Adams his constitutional rights.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the DOJ to do anything like that. The DOJ has been TOTALLY co-opted by the power-mad, conniving Demmunists, and is now little more than the GESTAPO enforcers of WOKE ideology for the Demmunists.
IF anything the dept of JUST us, will HELP the left..
NOT work to hinder them.
You can’t trust words Leftists use to mean the same thing you understand them to mean. Some claim that only one with power can be racist. “Woman” is another word that Leftists use that don’t mean the same thing that most people believe it means. They hijack the meaning of words to control how people think. They can’t coin a new word because it won’t have the mind control effect that they seek.
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means” – Inigo Montoya
One of the ladies working on my mother, at OSU, is from Africa (Jobuti), and says she’s experienced MORE RACISM from blacks born here, than from ANY WHITE, anywhere…
Our local paper is part of the USAToday/Gannett empire. If they drop Dilbert from the comic section, lotta folks gonna be dropping them.
The paper used to be owned by locals, and has really gone downhill since Gannett snapped them up. Example – they think “human interest” stories from the other end of the state will be interesting to readers here. Especially when they fill up an entire section of the paper with them.
I hope “diversity” includes clowns because we are living in clown world.
I have worked with them for years and he is right. They are a hate group and violent. We need to stay away from them. They have been lied to so much and for so long by democrats that they now believe the lies as fact. We know who sold them but they believe they were stolen. that’s the biggest lie by socialist democrats and that’s why they hate only us. They don’t hate africa or the Muslim slave traders
Exactly. EVERY TIME reparations are brought up, ITS ONLY WHITES, who either bought the slaves, or transported them, who are ORDERED To pay.. NEVER THEIR FELLOW BRETHREN who sold them, OR THE MUSLIM SLAVE traders who they got sold to, who are even LOOKED at for paying!
More proof that the left is a bunch of humorless hate filled totalitarians who wouldn’t know real liberty and freedom if it hit them in the face. Everything about these woke idiots screams intolerance, hate, and bigotry. I doubt most of them can even tolerate one another because they have already begun feeding on the weak among them.
If you take what Scott Adams said and swap white and black,…. He would be a contributor on CNN or MSNBC.
I’m white and in my late 70s. I have experienced racism in all populations and been put out of black, asian, or hispanic only bars and mercantiles. On a visit to Hawaii I was pushed around by cops for being a haole on the beach after sunset. Racism is taught, not innate. It doesn’t belong to one color, it’s evil and, therefore, universal. Pray to have our minds and leadership renewed with justice, with godliness. The Lord hears.