A moment of gratitude for Scott Adams. He worked hard to share his thoughts and knowledge (freely) on X even though he didn’t need the cash or any additional fame. What do we have from the folks who charge money for their thoughts and often-incorrect knowledge? “Scott Adams, Whose ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip Mocked Clueless Bosses, Dies at 68” (WSJ) is typical:
Cartoonist lost much of his platform in 2023 after remarks that were considered racist
On his “Real Coffee” podcast in 2023, discussing a poll that found only 53% of Black Americans agreed with the statement “it’s OK to be white,” he said the data provided evidence that Black people were a hate group. “I would say, 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,” Adams said. … Adams responded on his website that he was “speaking hyperbolically.” He already had alienated some of his fans by supporting Donald Trump.
(The WSJ implies that it might be possible to support Donald Trump without being a racist?)
Hmm… the Wall Street Journal editors and journalists say that it’s “racist” to suggest that white people might want to exert some effort or pay some money (equivalent to exerting more effort in the workplace) in order to avoid being among Black people. Can anyone think of a white WSJ editor or journalist who lives in a neighborhood that is at least 30 percent Black? If not, isn’t the WSJ staff actually doing what Scott Adams was merely suggesting as a talking point?
Here’s the executive team at the WSJ after boldly opposing Adams’s hypothetical advice:
And the folks from whom you’re getting the opinion that Scott Adams was an outlier racist:
(See also Guy with a “Whites Only” sign in his conference room tells others not to discriminate, regarding Apple and Tim Cook)
Here’s an Adams strip that encapsulates Bill Burr’s thoughts regarding Steve Jobs:
And one that is ancient yet remarkably still relevant for another few months (until the next release of Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT?):
R.I.P.
Related, the conversation with a Maskachusetts resident in an all-white town within The Florida insurance bubble seems to be deflating:
So you didn’t avoid Blacks, you just avoided looking at any houses in places where Blacks live. You paid about 3X per square foot to live in [nearly-all-white town], which is 0.5% Black and is inconvenient, rather than in Brockton, which is 50% Black and blessed with many walkable neighborhoods.
Related:
NYT on Scott Adams (“racist”):
NYT on Joseph Stalin (“rose from oppression”):
The first Dilbert comic I ever saw parodied the awkwardness of working in the large office, and walking past the same co-workers in hallways repeatedly throughout the day: 1st time in the morning you say hello, the 2nd time a head nod, but by the 5th time in the afternoon you pretend to look at the floor and avoid eye contact. Its funny because its true!
Then I came across my first Dilbert book in a bookstore. It had me laughing out loud like a lunatic, as I browsed it in the store.
My favorite Dilbert (relevant if you’ve ever worked in IT): https://tinyurl.com/kem64mf9
Thanks for all the laughs, Scott
Phil, here we go again. A celebratory eulogy of yet another Racist, White Supremacist Colonizer. Your joy in demagoguing hard-working black welfare and SNAP recipients who murder folks at 8x the rate of whites is unmatched.
He was one of the first to predict Trump would win in 2015, if I remember correctly.
Looks like he converted to Christianity at the end.
Became a Christian? Why converted? From what religion? Budism?
All you conservatives should watch this instead of reading NYT and WSJ
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6387680519112
As Per American Justice system OJ did not murder his wife.
RIP Scott, sorry they cancelled you. Thanks for all the laughs and making corporate America slightly tolerable.
From dilbert.com
> If you look into the context, the point that got me cancelled is that CRT, DEI and ESG all have in common the framing that White Americans are historically the oppressors and Black Americans have been oppressed, and it continues to this day. I recommended staying away from any group of Americans that identifies your group as the bad guys, because that puts a target on your back.
Apple’s management team and board of directors got a little more “diverse” since Phil’s posting on Tim Cook, mostly white women. I didn’t see Lisa Cook on the board, oddly.
People should remember that Scott Adams was a humorist. I think the best humor forces us to acknowledge our foibles. Woke DEI advocates apparently don’t have any. I had a white friend in the 1980s who thought Eddie Murphy was a racist for material like this (I disagree):
Dweeby, well said.
RIP Scott Adans.
For the first time ever, I purchased the Dilbert Page-a-Day Calendar for 2026 for the macabre reason that I didn’t think there would be a 2027 version. I have to say when I arrive at work each day it brings a smile to my face. I paid $22 for mine but when I just went on Amazon to see if the price went up, it no longer seems to be listed at all. The product was an Amazon exclusive and enterprising customers have listed them on eBay for $200
Scarlet, like Dweeby earlier you brought a smile to my face. Thanks.
Here is the best tribute for Scott Adams.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1402111348594249&set=a.478119714326755
> another Bill Burr video regarding Steve Jobs
Here’s `s/Steve Jobs/Gavin Belson`, `s/real life/Silicon Valley`:
https://youtu.be/jnDk8BcqoR0
RIP Scott Adams:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-scott-adams-man-who-interrogated-reality-made-talk
At one aerospace company, my workgroup had a collaborative comic strip called Boob (the Clown) which we drew on a whiteboard. Boob was a cheap knockoff of Dilbert, around the time that Adams started publishing it. As Steve Jobs noted, real artists steal. It was a kinder, gentler time when our collective outrage was primarily directed at clowns. (Remember Homie the Clown? Ever notice that the pointy-haired boss kind of looks like Bozo?) We also borrowed the humor of the Far Side. One of the motivations was frustration with management and vendors. The fun part was that it was a collaborative effort, and the third shift would remove any politically correct content overnight.
Some people suggested that we should have syndicated it. I however have been cancelled nearly from birth, there already was Dilbert, and aerospace humor has a limited market. The pinnacle was “Boob, The Clown (The Movie)” where Danbo, the hardware technician, hunted Boob down like Rambo after Boob supplied a part with the original serial number filed off, and the new fake one rewritten in Comic Sans font. I drew each frame by hand in MacPaint, and assembled a Quicktime movie — with interstitials in Comic Sans. One reviewer, a DER, said: “Thumbs up. Danbo was quite diligent about enforcing the FAR.”
Sorry to hear Scott Adams has gone to that great cubical farm in the sky.
“I’ll get right on that, guy!” — Boob the Clown, responding to a customer complaint