Here’s an example of something offensive that Card has said:
Please don’t mistake my comment as an endorsement of Card’s vile views. He’s disgusting, as was Adams. It’s just sad when any creep shows a fleeting glimmer of humanity - makes me think, “Why couldn’t you channel this momentary act of decency to become a compassionate human being with good values, instead of being the snake that you are?”
Is it irony if you take Ivermectin for your cancer, which cures your worms, then you die of cancer and are, again, riddled with worms, or nah?
I read many of Orson Scott Card’s books in college, including Ender’s Game and its sequels, followed by several books in his Alvin Maker series. I drifted away from reading any more his books after I became aware that he had become a RWNJ. Which is a shame…like discovering a family member has succumbed to nutjobbery.
From the linked article:
It’s never fails to amaze me that the right wing inevitably actually does the very thing they accuse the left of planning. Change “Obama” in his quote to “Trump”, and how is ICE not the encapsulation of his supposed fear?
I wasn’t. I just did some searching for other things that Card has said. I was very surprised that he would say what it says in the link that I give.
I met Card when I was in Salt Lake City. He was hosting the Science Fiction Festival at the (now sadly departed) Hansen Planetarium and I was attending with another fan. During a break I was reading one of my stories to her in the planetarium library, and he came over and critiqued my story (in a nice way). He seemed genuinely “earnestly nice”, as you put it. I haven’t kept up with his doings, so I was unaware of his going over to the Dark Side of the Force.
Ain’t projection great?
It would be amusing to confront him with his prediction that Obama would never relinquish power, just someone arrange for Michelle to be his successor. Hey Orson, how’d that play out, again?
At least he finally got away from black people.
That depends on the layout of Hell, I guess.
I imagine that each person in hell gets to be with the other denizens he least wants to be with.
But what if there are no black, jewish, homosexual, liberal women in hell? Does he get out scott (no pun intended) free?
Or does he at least become someone else’s punishment?
I was about to say “that’s no fair to them” but then I realized - it’s hell! Perfect.
Sartre already knew: hell is other people.
More likely he’d run into Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light in Heck.
For a quarter century, Scott Adams defined workplace humor, and if he had died around 15 years ago, his work would have remained popular long afterward. Unfortunately, because he either started saying the quiet out loud or MAGA-induced mental illness set in, he had time to trash his legacy, set it on fire, and flush it down the toilet, resulting in Adams and Dilbert being memory-holed (i.e., Dilholed).
Aside from being a disgusting MAGA piece of shit, he led one of my best friends down the Trump rabbit hole. Fuck him forever for destroying that friendship.
I don’t care about Scott Adams. His comics never really grabbed me. (I was more into The Far Side and Life in Hell and Tom the Dancing Bug.) But this tweet fromScott Adams showed up on my FB feed:
I wonder if BLM knows Antifa was allied with Hitler and helped him come to power. It feels as if that would be a source of tension, given BLM’s focus on history. Does Antifa owe reparations to anyone who lost a family member or property to Nazi Germany?
Wow. ANTIFA was a fascist ally? Really? 
As a believer myself, only God knows what was in his heart when he passed.
My wife and I both greatly enjoyed Dilbert. There’s only so far you can go in terms of separating the art from the artist. Now, if exposed to any old Dilbert cartoon, I’ll be looking for subtle hints of his racism. Kind of like reading H.P. Lovecraft.
BTW, I also liked “Candorville”. Maybe there’s something with the whole cartoonist subset of humanity.
At least Lovecraft realized later in life that his youthful xenophobia was misguided. Adams went to the grave a hateful little goblin.