I liked Dilbert for a while in the 90s and early 2000s. Scott Adams was first a weird guy in an autistic sort of way and then transitioned to a fucking crazy Trump-loving moron. The world is a slightly better place now.
Hopefully this is a prelude to some more significant deaths.
To paraphrase Max Plank:
Society progresses one funeral at a time
Prostate ductal adenocarcinoma. A particular bad cancer. Absolutely terrible for anyone who gets it. Hate how he went, but but don’t mind that he’s gone. Hell, being dead is likely a better situation than the one he was in with the cancer, just an absolutely terrible way to go.
Shame he won’t live to see a world without ethnics, women, gays, etc etc…
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He could have built upon his early success and become an agent of change in the corporate world. Instead, he turned into another fascist troll and destroyed all of the goodwill he had previously had.
In 2023 Scott Adams drew criticism for comments made on his podcast Real Coffee With Scott Adams. He said, among other things “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” He also noted that “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they should be called a “hate group.” His remarks were widely seen as racist, and many newspapers dropped his cartoon Dilbert.
Is this the thing that has everybody in a huff?
He was flirting with holocaust denial decades ago, was a Trump supporter from the beginning, became more and more of a generic unhinged conspiracy theorist following that, and yes as you noted was a pretty blatant racist. Sprinkle some misogyny in there for good measure as well.
Behind the Bastards has some good episodes about him
Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.
I don’t celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won’t miss him one bit.
Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views
I am unimpressed. Seriously, nothing I see in your list is too heinous.
Also, creating a list of a person’s “crimes” like this. It’s messed up. It’s like something out of the Chinese cultural revolution.
Well, it’s not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you’re like “he seems fine to me”, then let’s just agree we have very different opinions.
Holding people accountable for shitty things they publicly do, declare, and promote is not “messed up.” Being publicly shitty will result in people knowing you’re shitty, and I find that good.
Thanks for the link
That’s one of the least deranged things he has uttered. His usual routine included unfettered metastasizing of everything Trump was saying.
This thread hates with great enthusiasm.
a sad day not just for comics, but for many IT tech’s as well … he drew a fine picture (pun intended) of our lives with management.
Edit: okay I got it. I did not know anything else than him writing dilbert. But clearly he wasn’t a nice/good guy.
It was an influential and popular comic back in the day when it broke out.
Scott Adams tarnished his legacy when he went off the deep end into conservatism, and it remains to be seen whether the comic will become even more dated than it already is, but it did capture something relevant to a lot of people back then.
I’m not going to ignore the utter piece of shit he became
It really is such a shame. I genuinely liked his IT/office humor and even had Dilbert & Dogbert plushies decorating my own cubicle. Now they’re at the bottom of a storage crate; I can’t bring myself to either look at them or trash them.
Yeah I remember the same disappointed feeling
I feel weird about this. Like it’s his second death or something.
He used to be someone who was just giving welcome comic relief to office workers, and came off as reflected and humble.
Then he got a stroke and …opinions. How related they were I don’t know, and how latent his cruel opinions were I honestly don’t know.
Whether he always was utterly evil but it just didn’t surface, or he just broke someway, it felt like a person died back then. I still miss who I thought he was.
And now he is dead again.
There are so many family caretakers that have a similar unfortunate dichotomy in their minds. Like everyone else is mourning at the funeral, but they saw that person “die” a decade ago, leaving behind a husk of hate, forgetfulness, or missing energy.
I feel the same way, but had no idea he’d had a stroke around the time of the big change. If true that makes it a bit easier to separate the man from his art for me.
Didn’t something similar happen with the US politician John Fetterman? I recall he was a darling of the Democratic party, then post-stroke turned radically ‘right’.
He was always a racist.
“I never wished a man dead, but I read some obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
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What’s up with that emoji?
It’s the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when a piece of shit is no longer polluting the world.
:)
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And no one of value was lost
He was an artist of power and insight. He will be missed.
