Some real good coverage on the history of “Its okay to be white” as an innocuous phrase chosen by alt-right/white nationalists five years ago to be a political slogan of theirs (also mentioned is the “OK” symbol -which was also adopted by white nationalists for the same reasons).
Instead of treating these things like the weighted political slogans that they are, Rasmussen is presenting this phrase context-free and feigning ignorance that it holds any political meaning. Very scummy for this pollster. But Adams swallowed it and replied in his racist manner.
Well, they did start out as an actual polling organization, though 538 and other analysts have usually found their results to be skewed towards conservative candidates, compared to other quality pollsters, at least in part due to their sampling methodology. But, in recent years, they appear to have jumped the shark, and seem to be leaning into trashy “polling,” sponsored by conservative groups.
But what on earth would “reliable” even mean in the context of a deliberately ambiguous trolling question? Reliability in polling would usually mean how close the sample statistic is to the population parameter, but this question is not designed to measure any parameter other than perhaps indirectly how many people are familiar with the cultural context that it’s a slogan and how people respond to provocation.
Obviously, it has no meaning in terms of troll questions. 538 applied that correction to election polls and that was what I was referring to. Sorry for the careless language.
In fact, I regret using the word “reliable”. Should have said “repeatable” or something like that.
I’m just trying to understand the meaning of the word “racist”.
Apparently Scott Adams, disparaging a whole race of people as “a hate group”, that white people should “get the hell away from” isn’t racist. The real racism is when newspapers volunarily end contracts with hateful bastards.
One of Scott Adams’ many failings is to think he’s smarter then everyone else (like vastly smarter too).
Adams thinks so extremely highly of himself, that he believes he can act boorishly racist then handwave it away by reciting classic, right-wing, self-victimizing incantations like: You’re all the real racists. You just don’t understand what I’m really saying.
As for any support he gets, its because they want to obfuscate his racism.
I’ve mentioned before that I work for a very conservative boss. He’s also very religious. He and I talked about this issue and to my pleasant surprise, he agreed with me that this guy is getting exactly what he deserves.
On the other hand, Scott Adams is a misunderstood humanitarian compared to Ben Garrison, who seems to be a weird composite of Hieronymus Bosch and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
