# Well dang. If you didn't think Scott Adams was a piece of shit before, just look at him now! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2023, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277 "2023-02-24T06:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/201 "2023-02-27T04:23:33Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > It seems to me that all I need to do to post on the SDMB is to be born. I don’t have a dog in this fight, but y’all are boring the everlovin’ shit out of me, so allow me to address this part of your post (quote was snipped by me): In order to post on this board, you have to be a certain age. Not adhering to this requirement can result in your posting ability being revoked. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/202 "2023-02-27T04:28:43Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > here we go The poll that set Adams off is described in there. WTF were Rasmussen thinking with polling people on the question “Is it okay to be white?” I would guess that there were as many different interpretations of what the question meant as there were responses in the poll. It just seems like utterly meaningless attention-seeking. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/203 "2023-02-27T04:30:35Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > It seems to me that all I need to do to post on the SDMB is to be born. This is incorrect. To post on this board, you must sign up for an account, and signing up requires you to agree to the rules. And the rules specifically say that posting is a privilege, not a right, and the mods can revoke that privilege at their discretion. And that is the difference. You can be banned even if you didn’t break the rules. Because posting is a privilege. This is unlike freedom of movement, as such can only be removed via due process. Unlike if you get banned from the SDMB, there is a means to appeal if it is unfair. Have you never heard the phrase “\_\_\_ is a privilege, not a right”? What does it mean? It means that \_\_\_ can be revoked at any time for any reason. A right cannot. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/204 "2023-02-27T04:32:21Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > WTF were Rasmussen thinking with polling people on the question This is Rasmussen, whose private polling income seems to be entirely made up of far right whack jobs. So they’re just trying to stir up some shit. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/205 "2023-02-27T04:32:49Z")
This has more than run its course, and I’m going to abide by what I said earlier to not continue the hijack if the conversation about Adams revives. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/206 "2023-02-27T04:43:18Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > The poll that set Adams off is described in there. WTF were Rasmussen thinking with polling people on the question “Is it okay to be white?” Considering the way the Proud Boys and their ilk use that phrase, my guess is “trolling the libs”. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/207 "2023-02-27T08:04:34Z")
> [@robby](#): > > But regardless, he is responsible for his own actions, and if he is cancelled by mainstream society, he has no one to blame but himself. I posted in the comments section of the Yahoo article about this: > He’s not getting cancelled. He’s getting “consequenced”. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/208 "2023-02-27T10:46:20Z")
I feel very fucking privileged to have the right to call Scott Adams a bigot and a jerk and an asshole. :raspberry: ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/209 "2023-02-27T13:18:43Z")
Well, I certainly wouldn’t expect that behavior from _you_! Username checks out. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/210 "2023-02-27T13:22:17Z")
Well, he’s gone from Arcamax online comics now too. I understand why this is happening, but Dilbert accompanied most of my working life and I’m going to miss it. I guess the timing is good - I’m retiring in a few months. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/211 "2023-02-27T14:33:05Z")
Dropped by Andrews/McMeel, so that’s pretty much it unless another distributor want to pick him up. Which they probably will, but A/M is the big dog. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/212 "2023-02-27T15:39:06Z")
Next step-Fox or Newsmax secures the rights to his animated series and/or gives him a forum to spew from. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/213 "2023-02-27T15:40:04Z")
Perhaps the Daily Wire can find some use for him. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/214 "2023-02-27T15:59:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > animated series and/or gives him a forum to spew from. Maybe he can call his new show/forum “I HAVE BEEN SILENCED” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/215 "2023-02-27T17:39:07Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > As an increasingly old codger myself, I think it’s more a case of the elderly ossifying and becoming progressively less capable of adapting to social change; or as the elderly might put it “putting up with bullshit”. Basically, get old enough and you start to dismiss everything as a fad or a con. An alternate explanation is losing critical thinking capacity with the passage of time. In the case of once-revered scientists it’s called “Nobel disease”, or for scientists and professors in general, my term is “emeritus disease”. It’s possible Adams was a bigoted jerk early on but now feels sufficiently insulated financially to let his freak flag fly unfettered. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/216 "2023-02-27T17:58:41Z")
James Nicoll refers to it as the “Brain Eater”. It affects SF/F writers as they get older. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/217 "2023-02-27T18:20:32Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > WTF were Rasmussen thinking with polling people on the question “Is it okay to be white?” An article on the Adams/Dilbert meltdown, in today’s Washington Post, addresses this: > [@](#): > > Like Adams, Rasmussen has spent the post-Trump years fervently engaged in culture-war fights. The company, once generally considered conservative but still primarily a polling firm, has shifted its focus. Its online presence includes the results of its Republican-friendly polls, but also amplifies right-wing causes and rhetoric. In the wake of the 2020 [election](https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16), it shared misinformation about [fraud](https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1346810989723987975) and [backed](https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1346267520924315656) Trump’s efforts to reject electors. In recent months, it has boosted anti-vaccination conspiracy theories. Its polls, meanwhile, are often sponsored by hard-right organizations and causes. > > So, earlier this month, it embraced a different aspect of right-wing politics: the idea that White people face discrimination and racism equal to or greater than Black or other non-White groups. > **[Analysis | Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/dilbert-scott-adams-racism/)** > > Cartoonist Scott Adams's self-destruction was visible from miles away. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/218 "2023-02-27T18:41:10Z")
I commend the following essay to everyone’s attention. > **[The Case For Shunning](https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning)** > > People like Scott Adams claim they're being silenced. But what they actually seem to object to is being understood. It’s genuinely the best thing I’ve read in weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/219 "2023-02-27T20:42:02Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > It’s genuinely the best thing I’ve read in weeks. Yes, that was really good. There are several rhetorical approaches in there I’m going to borrow. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/220 "2023-02-27T21:31:24Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > In one of his books (it may be _The Dilbert Principle_ but there are so many now I’m going to going to bother trying to figure out which one), Adams relays an anecdote where he decided to get an MBA at some top flight business school and needed to take the GMAT but he kept getting a subpar score on practice tests. So he did a bunch of affirmations based upon some obscure book he read (not Peale or Napoleon Hill, someone earlier I think…maybe Prentice Mulford) and passed the actual GMAT with a stellar score. So, you can see where he gets the idea that having his fans do some kind of affirmation ritual was going to save his shitty show. Not that it matters too much, but it was _The Dilbert Future_. Which was both not a very good book and yes, probably the first example of him being both weird and cranky. I believe that book also had him complaining about the failure of his attempts to get into food (the complaint was about the failure of a competitor to Lunchables, which I don’t remember ever existing unlike the failure of the Dilberito.) Like most comic strips, he was running out of material after a few years and I don’t think it ever transitioned well into the changes after the 2000 recession, much less the 2008 recession. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277.md?page=12)