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.
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’.
brain damage is needed to be a Republican, look at orange shit for brains, he doesn’t have a brain and he’s their leader
Where does it all come from?
IDK all the great scientists are either working on boner pills, hair regrowth or weapons, so no one knows
Yep, that’s fetterman.
He was always a racist.
Nice!
Rest in piss, racist trash
I used to like Dilbert
He died for me long ago.
It’s such a great shame that he died
after ruining his legacy
Agreed. Not a fan of what he became, but Dilbert was great.
WAS. Hadn’t been for a long time.
Fair. Admittedly, I haven’t read it in a long time.
Based on accounts I’ve read, he was always racist and an anti-intellectual. He just got more bold. He was a very early Trump supporter.
Idk that seems perfect for them
“I never wished a man dead, but I read some obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
Rest in piss
Good riddance. Guy was a piece of shit and I’m glad he’s gone.
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?
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
Thanks for the link
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.
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
That’s one of the least deranged things he has uttered. His usual routine included unfettered metastasizing of everything Trump was saying.
Fuck cancer, but it gets a pass for this one
Between Scott Adams and Rush Limbaugh cancer has two solid wins.
Now we just need cholesterol to do it’s thing.
🥰
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.
:)
Can give more information, wasn’t clear on his personal politics.
Lots of good examples in this thread already.
The normal spread of -ists you’d expect from a MAGA supporter.
To paraphrase Max Plank:
Society progresses one funeral at a time
We are richer for having lost him.
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.
Damn, this is the first time I’m hearing about this guy being a piece of shit. Would love to hear people chime in with the shit he’s pulled for others like me to see.
Here’s a scratch off the top:
He previously questioned the death toll of the Holocaust, said he had lost multiple jobs for being white and falsely claimed that people who didn’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 “clearly are the winners” of the pandemic (he acknowledged getting vaccinated in Monday’s video). Dozens of newspapers dropped the strip in 2022 after Adams introduced its first Black character and veered into anti-woke plotlines.
Me: “Everyone’s hating on him. Lemmy is so sensitive, it’s probably over nothing”
Finds this comment
ohhh, ohhhhhhhh
I don’t know if I’m more shocked that Adams didn’t have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist’s strip in 2022.
wait, i thought the elbonians were black.
I always saw them as some kind of Eastern European caricature
it’s been so long i really don’t remember. we’re both right maybe
They’re white. Sort of Russian caricatures, I think.
There’s a pretty thorough write-up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/150bkal/comic_strips_so_i_think_it_makes_no_sense/
Wow I didn’t realize how much I missed the hobbydrama subreddit, one of the goat communities.
Also yeah, that’s very accurate but also it’s worthwhile to understand he was also incredibly cringe in an old school atheism subreddit way. Fully convinced he was the smartest person in the world and everyone who disagreed with him was because they’re stupid. He was basically 4chan the person
Thanks. That was… a lot.
Here is the first episode of Behind the Bastards covering the guy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlIuEIgLRNxfJWxiv4asn
A lot of Adams’ conservative activities were summarized in the Variety article, which is why I chose to post a link to it, as opposed to other articles.
There’s an episode of the Behind the Bastards podcast devoted to him. Covers it pretty well.
Damn, this is the first time I’m hearing about this guy being a piece of shit
Me too.
But it Expains the 20+ down votes I got. Reading more comments, they are well deserved
