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

It's also amazing that people actually call a media outlet dropping someone who contributes to their content who says "white people shouldn't be around black people anymore" "cancel culture".

If someone is going to call that cancel culture, then it makes it very clear that this whole time the people who used the term most were just people who wanted to avoid all social awkwardness, Shane and consequences from crap they say.

 

honestly I thought that was pretty obvious all along. I think where he crossed a line was with the videos of blacks beating up on whites comment . . . that was unnecessary and offensive. The rest of it was pretty much ironic/satirical

 

He's claiming it is ironic and satirical but he admits it's done poorly and also says nobody shoudl disagree with "avoid anything that statistically looks like a bad idea for you personally." in regard to that white people shouldn't live near black people.

If this is meant to be satire he doesn't seem to be exactly disowning it just trying to rationalize it and claim he's misunderstood.

 

I don't consider it ironic or satire. The satire part for him is Black people not being okay with "it's okay to be white". That's the part he finds outrageous.

His 'dont mingle with black people' might be a slight hyperbole but his point in the hypberbole is essentially "if black people can answer and say things in openly racist manners, why can't I?". That is the entire satirical point of his and that is a bad satirical point that still makes someone racist. It's the same racist energy as that white dude asking why he can't say the "n" word.

He refuses to acknowledge that black people associate that term with white supremacists who continuously claim they are the true victims of systemic racism.

You are educated. You very well know the vast majority of white nationalist rhetoric and literature has less to do with being "supreme" and more to do with being victims. Even most Nazi rhetoric portrays Aryans as victims.

The phrase is a leading phrase that forces an acknowledgement of a preceding premise that "yes, white people are victims of oppression in America". Good luck convincing majority of Black people that is a true narrative.

 

Of course, that's what makes this situation so hilarious. He's too smart to realize the bubble he's in, a mass hysteria bubble of white victimhood. By the way, less than three dozen black people disagreed with a troll question. Rasmussen found a willing participant in Adams, who has been spewing white victimhood for years, and he bit hard. Now he's backpedaling. The seeds were all there; it just took the right amount of water to blossom publicly. He's not making points; he's exposing his true self and regretting it.

 

I wonder if he can make more money as a Rogan-esque podcasting influencer for the white supremacist crowd than he used to make as comic strip writer.

 

What seemed obvious to me was he’d use irony/satire as cover for his own racist sentiments. He didn’t make those offensive comments because he got carried away with his satire. He did so because that’s how he feels, and he figured he could get away with it by using satire as an excuse.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990274685/how-extremists-weaponize-irony-to-spread-hate

 

Irony as a cover for extremism. 'Anti-woke' as an excuse for censorship. Banning anything that falls outside of the accepted box in the name of public decency. Ever hear a bully say 'aw, I was just playing around' when caught?

This is neo-fascism 101 in the 21st century.

 

Joe Rogan already has that mantle...For the White Supremacist crowd.

 

The fields of hate are vast and fertile.

 

it was only a matter of time before the backtrack came, but nobody’s buying it

u fcked around and found out

fck this dude

 

When I went to CAL I got assaulted by three people during a riot. I was working for the DailyCal and covering the protest. I snapped a picture of some looters smashing into the Gap. Three people grabbed me and two slammed me against a car while a third tried to take my camera. To this day I don't know how I got away. They were all black.

When I was a kid coming out of the Summit after a concert I and a friend were mugged at knifepoint by a couple of Hispanic men.

I guess it's a good thing that Social Media didn't exist then and that everyone didn't have cameras they could upload to otherwise I might've been on one of those videos that Scott Adams has been watching.

None of those incidences though has made me fearful of blacks or Hispanics. None of that has made me think in mind that Asians shouldn't trust those people and should move away from them.

 

They should replace his strip with the diary of a black woman working at the office.

A lil bit of irony in all of it's flavors.

 

“black Americans wanted to discuss it”

yeah, no…

it’s so obvious what this POS is trying to do

implying that black people saw all that hateful rhetoric and thought that it was something worth discussing making it not that bad while white Democrats are the ones who overreacted and actually had a problem with his racism, not black people

of course republicans had no issue with it, racism is par for the course there

 

There has been a pretty sharp rise of anti-black racism on the bird app since this whole thing went down.

Lots of suspicious "Black women" avatars popping up also being decidedly racist. Not just the usual feminism "Men aint ****" kind of thing but "Black people aint ****" kind of thing. Curious that. Maybe since Lebron won't be playing he'll catch wind of it and make a comment about it again so that they clean up their app again or it'll spiral out of control and force them to.

Lots of people posting random videos of people beating up others. One I saw today wasn't even a video in America and apparently was in Jakarta, close look none of the people in the video are not likely to even be black, yet, the video was posted and the comments after? The usual "This why we have ropes!" and stuff like that.

For Musk, who claimed he wants Twitter to be a force of good, seems to be quite the opposite.

 

My guess, and it is just a guess, is that black people would be more up to date on fringe white racist slogans than everyday white people. So black people would be more familiar with "It's okay to be white" being used in a racist way than some basic white dude. That is why you would see these results

 

How are there 13 pages of discussion about the guy who writes Dilbert?

 

I’m waiting for the day the leak drops that Musk is a closet Nazi. Not a racist **** in private like a lot of industrialists but an active member of some large, organized right wing antisemitic hate group.

Just a hunch I have.