heres the latest spewing
Thanks. And thanks to him for explaining that “it’s okay to be white” is a white supremacists catch phrase. Because i was confused both that it was in a poll, and also that a lot of people disapproved of the statement. But now that i understand the context of the statement, i disapprove of it, too. Even though i am white and I’m okay with my being white.
Also, add me to the ranks of those who says, “yes, this is an example of ‘cancel culture’, and it’s a good example that shows why it’s sometimes right to ‘cancel’ someone.”
Would you be good enough to explain exactly what you yourself, as an individual, mean when you use the word “privilege?”
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Wut??
It can be difficult to find meaning in the ravings of a madman.
Indeed. I don’t know about the other two, but his cartooning career is ending because of his racism, not some other white guy’s.
Damn, I’m too slow to the punch. What a maroon.
My guess is that Adams is trying to claim that he was ousted from his jobs at Crocker and Pacific Bell due to some kind of “diversity initiative” or similar situation where, in the interpretations common among these “grievance conservatives”, they take it for granted that “being a straight white man is a liability”, etc., etc., etc.
Unsurprisingly, that wasn’t how Adams was describing the situation at the time.
Meh, I think you might be too generous in your interpretation there. I would not be at all surprised if Adams is consciously trying to market himself as the hot new public figure among “grievance conservatives”.
To do so, he has to walk back his direct insults toward Black people and reframe the subject of his complaints as liberal “reverse racism”. The “respectable” (and more lucrative) wing of “grievance conservatism” is uncomfortable with really explicit anti-Black racism; it needs to be filtered through denunciations of “political correctness”/“wokeism”.
See, it’s not that they despise Black people themselves, oh dear no. It’s just that they’re outraged, and feel personally attacked, by any suggestions from (white or non-white) liberals that maybe there are still significant problems with anti-Black racism in American society and maybe we really ought to do something about it.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Scott is preparing to run for office.
Yes. He’s rather… dim I think.
So…he lost 3 careers to white racists and no black person has ever discriminated against him…but says white people should avoid blacks and that white racism is OK?
I disagree. I see all the time how people say “they won’t let you say that.” But there is no “they”. There’s no group or individual that censors free speech. What we’re seeing is public opinion.
Scott Adams is a racist who publicly said racist things. He exercised his free speech in doing so.
Then people all over the country heard what Adams said and were offended by it. Because most people, black and white, are offended by racism. So they decided to stop supporting Adams’ work. And they were exercising their free speech by doing so.
Nobody has been censored. Adams had and still has his free speech. He’s just whining about other people having free speech.
I didn’t claim that anything that happened to Adams was wrong.
I was responding to someone posting an xkcd comic reiterating the spurious claim that if the government is not involved, it’s not a free speech issue.
There is a debate about the social norms of free speech that is much broader than just First Amendment rights. Is the canceling of Adams correct? Of course, this is not even a marginal case, he’s a deranged racist. But this rests on forming a consensus around what free speech norms are good in our society, it’s not sufficient to just say that anything a private entity does is just fine because it’s not illegal. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, and those consequences are implemented by the community - individuals, groups, and private entities like newspapers or advertisers. The question of what those consequences should be is a debate about freedom of speech in our society.
Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Dilbert with a mouth before.
At least Ben Garrison can draw hands.