Dilbert’s Creator is a Sad Racist Troll (and Not Very Good at Reading Polls)

Scott Adams doesn’t do math or social science nearly as well as bigotry — and now, he doesn’t do Dilbert either

Tim Wise
AfroSapiophile

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Image of Dilbert (and, appropriately, a clown), Ol.v!er [H2vPk], Flickr, Creative Commons, 2.0 Generic license.

Scott Adams, the one-time Trump-supporting creator of the Dilbert comic strip, has tanked his career. In the last few days, Adams’s strip was pulled from over 300 newspapers, his syndicator dropped him, and he lost a book deal with his publisher.

And all because of his idiotic interpretation of an absurd opinion poll by the grifters at Rasmussen Reports — the GOP-friendly outfit that somehow managed to be the only folks ever to find Donald Trump with majority-favorable approval ratings when he was in office.

According to Rasmussen, only 53 percent of Black folks answered affirmatively when asked if “it’s OK to be white.” Twenty-six percent responded that it wasn’t, while the remainder weren’t sure.

To Adams, this means that roughly half of Black people are hostile or at least ambivalent to white people’s very existence.

As such, as Adams put it, Blacks constitute a “hate group,” and whites should “keep the hell away from them” at all costs.

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Tim Wise
AfroSapiophile

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)