Dilbert's Scott Adams Explains "How To Know You're In A Mass Hysteria Bubble"

Of course many people feel that way and he is just admitting to what many of his cohorts actually believe. Let’s not sugar coat it though. What he’s advocating is Apartheid and there are good reasons why that and segregation were rejected.

White flight is real and exists but I don’t think younger generations of it are as accepting of it as older generations. For well off Gen X and Gen Z class appears to be more of an issue as many of them don’t seem interested in living with poor white people or poor people of color. That’s the idea behind gentrification.

What Adams is advocating isn’t its disliking poor crime ridden neighborhoods but generalizing to all blacks people and going so far as to even say that white people shouldn’t associate or trust black peoples. That is far more than what I think even most White Americans think.

 

That’s it. I’m going to go another 15 years without buying a newspaper and reading the comic section.

 

Hard to tell these days. Since then he's been advertising his podcast and having other black people on I guess to discuss what he's said.

I wouldn't past these being his real beliefs but the grift of it is also very real. He's now being discussed and now people know he has a podcast (I didn't know he had a podcast for example) and these people might be interested in seeing him talk more about it.

So many of these people are just saying things to get attention and then monetize it later it really is hard to find sincere opinions in the political sphere today.

 

That sounds very plausible that this is just for attention grabbing. It’s another sad sign though of our culture that people are willing to deliberately say offensive and even outright racist things just for attention that they can then profit from.

 

He's openly bragging about it.



He also told someone earlier, some guy who wanted to speak with him, that he couldn't wait to make 'Free Money' off of him.

Yeah, it's not a good a trend. Sometimes it burns out but being openly hateful can do a lot for people these days. Look at someone like Nick Fuentes who has no actual skills other than going on racist, sexist, rants, managed to get in the room with a former president, get paid off of Kanye West, and also have his own live streaming show just on being as edgy as possible.

It's not just being a bigot that is popular though, just doing outlandish things seems to be the thing nowadays.

1. Do/Say something crazy
2. ???
3. Profit

Cancel Culture is mostly a myth. These people get MORE popularity after being controversial, monetize the controversy, get more of a platform, then never get actually canceled. Alex Jones the perfect example, he'd just say crazy outlandish things and would continue to grow in popularity to what he is today. Alex Jones is to grifting what Kim Kardashian was to social media influencer.

 

right now, "anti-woke" is code for being racist or prejudiced. even if the person is so unwittingly.

 

Absolutely, but a lot of white people and wealthy people make this decision individually every day, when they have the means, and it is largely either sugar coated or not really discussed.

 

People move from bad areas to better areas when they have the means. It isn't some sinister thing, it is a natural desire to improve your situation. It isn't South Africa in the 80s, it is the Jeffersons in the 70s, movin' on up.

 

I’m honestly surprised that someone with such shrewd innate insight into human behavior (based on his comics) came to form such a skewed, biased and myopic opinion.

OTOH, just another case of a white Boomer biting the dust of right-wing propaganda and social media algorithms feeding him an endless loop of what he fixates on. Enjoy the toilet, Scott.

As for what he said, no one wants to live in an unsafe area. Associating that with a specific race is pure ignorance. I can show you neighborhoods in the Houston area where it’s the same case with white people, Hispanics or asians. Poverty and desperation doesn’t see color.

 

took a bit of looking around but here's the full segment, starts around 13:20 and runs through 21:00

https://www.youtube.com/live/K6TnAn7qV1s?feature=share

 

Except that Scott Adams was taking about moving away from poor people. He was specifically talking about moving away from Black people.

 

Yes this is a big problem with our culture that we like the outrageous and event he offensive.

People though who agree with Adams and Jones are helping to finance them and advertisers are willing to advertise on their shows. As we see though with Alex Jones there is a push back that can hurt them financially.

 

Yup, he takes everything and ties it into black people and then uses a poll to justify his decision and remove any guilt.

 

Maybe there were signs.

https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=racism

 

There were signs in some of his public comments — including his early support of Trump’s candidacy in 2015. Not in these comics, though. None of that is even mildly offensive to me.

 

Typically when I see white people playing victim, they’re closet racists. Most of those strips are of the boss playing victim.

Anyways

 

It's a very common tactic that probably is most famously used by Nazis in 1920s Germany. Remember, their entire narrative was that white people in Germany were a oppressed group being oppressed by Jew, Romani, homosexual and migrant people.


For some reason people assume most white supremacist doctrine is rooted in being "superior". Obviously that element exists but most of the white supremacy movement is about being victims.

So it's not even closeted for me as soon as a white person expressed rhetoric of them being victims because of their race. They are openly white supremacist at that point in my book given the historical nature of that narrative.