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

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by MojoMan, Aug 19, 2017.

  1. Space Ghost

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    Or he is being controversial to stay relevant. He makes a lot of money off of stupid people (MAGA). Stupid money has made a lot of people very rich. (See Kardashians)
     
  2. DonnyMost

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    The results of that poll were disappointing but not really surprising.

    Adams' commentary on it was pretty much what you'd expect.

    It's pretty clear why he's able to write a comic with an out-of-touch, pseudo intellectual, egomaniac as a main character... takes one to know one.
     
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    I'm worried that people can make stupid money by saying basic racist **** like white people shouldn't be around black people.
     
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    They don’t arrest people in San Francisco
    And Oakland is super violent
    I’ll take Houston over Oakland for being safe
     
  5. Space Ghost

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    This is what Adams is trying to suggest. To be fair, this is not what I interpreted from his original message.

    Again, he is trying to be controversial.

     
  6. Reeko

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    “it’s ok to be white” is in the same bucket as “white lives matter”

    What kind of poll question is that anyways? The only reason it was asked is for agenda purposes

    that’s why that dumbass poll is the way that it was
     
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  7. DonnyMost

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    It was asked because it could generate interest, and it did.

    "It's OK to be white" is like a Rorschach test of a question.

    Some people see that statement and say "yes, of course, why would it not be?" (these people are correct, btw)

    Some people see that statement and hear a dogwhistle due to any number of factors like who is asking the question, the origin/history of the question itself, your past experience (if any) with perceived or actual white racists/nationalists, etc.

    Adams isn't wrong that the results of the poll are disturbing, and pointing that out isn't a character flaw.

    It's his response/answer to it that are pretty disgusting.
     
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  8. Reeko

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    go ask black people some “white lives matter” question in a poll right now and see what the response is…

    and it won’t be because there’s this notion that white lives don’t matter, it’s because most will see it for the obvious dog whistle that it is

    people really think they’re being slick with this sh*t…it’s obvious why that question was asked and what agenda it was trying to push
     
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    That's the root of his message, yes, but there was a lot of dressing on the salad that came along with it.

    First, he lumped the "unsure/no answer" responses in with the "affirmative no" group... which is really not OK.

    He then goes on to say he "identifies as black" (probably a jab at liberal identity issues or something) because he "wants to be on the winning team" (a jab at affirmative action or something) and "wanted and does help that community" (uhh OK) but no longer will due to the results of this poll.

    As if those statements weren't nauseatingly jerkoff behavior enough... he continues...

    "My best advice to white people is to get the hell away from black people" and that "this is not fixable" and that it makes no sense for white people to help black people anymore.

    This is toxic pompous dumbass trolling of the highest order. It reminds me of some of the conservatives we have around here who contribute absolutely nothing beyond trying to irritate liberals with purposefully stupid questions and obtuse non-answers.
     
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    He also said he was sick of seeing videos of black Americans beating up non-black Americans. Not sure what poll question that was referencing.

    Anyhow, **** him and those that would try and defend him.
     
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    Oh yeah, that was insane.

    Mr. "you're in a hysteria bubble" complaining about seeing a constant stream of black-on-white hate crime on his newsfeed? lmao
     
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    He's seeing them over and over because that's what he's fixating on and that's what social media algorithms are feeding him.

    Social media is worse than every addictive drug on the street combined for humanity. It's corporate brainwashing at a level never before seen with a hit of dopamine every time you click. It's straight-up evil.
     
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    Fixed it for you.
     
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    Clearly someone at Rasmussen Reports is sympathetic to a white nationalist campaign - playing it up exactly how they intended:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_okay_to_be_white
     
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    Agreed. I had no idea the simple declaratory statement, "it's ok to be white" had been co-opted and referred to anything racial.

    This Dilbert dude though? **** him.
     
  16. StupidMoniker

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    If you interpret the poll question literally (as Adams is obviously doing in this scenario), then unsure/no answer is just as bad as no. There should be absolutely no doubt that it is okay to be white (or black, or any race or ethnicity).
    Why feed the agenda by answering anything but yes? It seems like such an easy agenda to thwart. Where would they go if the response was 100% yes, of course it is okay to be white?
     
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    include a “fck u and your agenda” option so people can select that on the poll instead

    this is what u want black people to validate…

    The suggestion for the use of posters with the saying originated on the message board /pol/ of 4chan, with the intent of provoking reactions. The saying was later spread by neo-Nazi groups and politically organized white supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and The Daily Stormer. A report by the Anti-Defamation League states that the phrase itself has a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001 when it was used as the title of a song by a white power music group called Aggressive Force as well as fliers with the phrase being spotted in 2005 and the slogan being used by a member of the United Klans of America.

    please…

    it’s not gonna happen
     
  18. DonnyMost

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    Based on what I know about polling, that's not true. Beyond that, nobody reads it in a vacuum. Very few people don't have some sort of baggage associated with phrases like "black lives matter", "it's OK to be white", "make america great again", etc.

    I agree that, in an ideal world, nobody should have a problem with or second guess the statement "it's OK to be white"... but as somebody who grew up down the road from Klan rallies, I'd be worried things were getting a little lynchie if I started to hear that floating around too much.

    Giving the devil his due, however, "it's OK to be white" was started as a way to illustrate just how discriminated against white people are... and to that extent, the social experiment has worked as intended. We all know that you can't substitute "white" for "black" in any capacity in polite society without getting banished to the shadowrealm.
     
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    Got to be a pretty stupid person to expect people to take a poll question like that literally. Adams and the Rasmussen pollsters are not stupid people.
     
  20. JuanValdez

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    He is such an egomaniac now, he thinks he deserves a counter-argument and that he can be the arbiter of what a genuine counter-argument is.

    That's like I saying I did you a favor by paying you back the hundred bucks I borrowed last week. They don't want help, they want recompense.
     
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