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Dilbert creator Scott Adams is the latest to be canceled
American Thinker ^ | 25 Feb, 2023 | Rajan Laad

Posted on 02/25/2023 5:27:18 AM PST by MtnClimber

Newspapers pulled Adams's 'Dilbert' comics and the left thundered its umbrage after Adams reacted to a poll suggesting significant bigotry among black respondents.

We know that the left is always looking for an opportunity to silence those who challenge their groupthink. Their target isn’t only conservatives but anybody who disagrees with their worldview even in the slightest possible way.

They left lives in the hope that contrarians to their groupthink will either misspeak or express a nuanced and detailed idea that can be extracted, stripped of context, and made to appear bigoted. This gives them reason to mount a social media campaign and initiate cancellation.

Yesterday it was satirist and thinker Scott Adams's turn to be cancelled.

USAToday announced that it would stop publishing Adams's "Dilbert" cartoon because they ‘lead with inclusion and strive to maintain a respectful and equitable environment for the diverse communities we serve nationwide.’

Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper also decided not to publish any of Adam’s cartoons.

John Hiner of MLive Media in Michigan wrote in an editorial, “We will work quickly to find a replacement that will entertain you and not violate basic standards of decency and respect for others.”

Many other outlets followed and did away with Adams.

Adams has been producing Dilbert for three decades and they are seen as a devastatingly satirical commentary on workplace policies.

What did Scott Adams do such that he merited cancellation?

Adams become a nationwide trending topic after he said that black people are "a hate group and I don't want to have anything to do with them."

He also said the following:

"Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: dilbert; hesatool; proabortion; scottadams; wokeism
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To: MtnClimber

You think it’s bad now with the ‘cancel culture.’ Wait until they completely corrupt AI, which they are fast about doing, programming in their biases and canceling truth in all the AI platforms. It’s happening right now as we speak. Future AI analysis of data and work product will be tilted ‘subtly’ only one way - - in favor of wokism. That’s why I am so critical of AI.


41 posted on 02/25/2023 6:30:53 AM PST by iontheball
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To: MtnClimber

He did this knowing what the reaction would be. I’m waiting for his next move.


42 posted on 02/25/2023 6:36:56 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: dynachrome
“In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, its highest honor.”

Was that award named after Paul Ruebens of Peewee Herman fame? ;-)

43 posted on 02/25/2023 6:43:05 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Does so

“My office invited a black intern from The Bahamas.”

We’ve spent time in the Bahamas and have friends there, many are mixed race, they range from black as night to white in appearance. They are fantastic, sweet and accepting people and I love them. We’re going there next spring for bonefish and permit fishing, we have a fishing guide friend there.


44 posted on 02/25/2023 6:44:29 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: rbg81

It’s not just LA


45 posted on 02/25/2023 6:44:40 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: MtnClimber

For progressives, Kissing Black Ass is an existential necessity


46 posted on 02/25/2023 6:44:57 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: MtnClimber

“Newspapers pulled Adams’s ‘Dilbert’ comics ...”

The most ridiculous statement in the article. Multiple publications behaving as though they are a single entity.


47 posted on 02/25/2023 6:45:33 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: MtnClimber
basic standards of decency and respect for others


48 posted on 02/25/2023 6:47:34 AM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: MtnClimber
Adams has the best daily cast on YouTube and Locals. 10:00AM Eastern. He said he was going to be cancelled, but the explanation in the article leaves out the context (as usual).

Best hour of the day...I can't miss it.

He's an expert in explaining persuasion and logical thinking.

His books are great, too.

49 posted on 02/25/2023 6:49:29 AM PST by paul in cape
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To: Regulator
People read USAToday?

I don't think the reading public of USAToday can actually read.

50 posted on 02/25/2023 6:49:56 AM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: MtnClimber

If you’re not in lock-step with the Left then you’re not ‘diverse’ enough for them. They exclude you in the interest of inclusiveness.


51 posted on 02/25/2023 6:50:24 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber
Dilbert creator Scott Adams is the latest to be canceled

Adams just got many more of the New Nazis to Self-Identify.

Thanks Scott, Welcome Aboard.

52 posted on 02/25/2023 6:52:53 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: MtnClimber

“Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.”

Based upon what I hear from the wokesters and blacks, day in and day out, WOULDN’T THEY WELCOME THIS? Whites are evil, whites are racist, whites are haters. Sounds like just what they would want at this point…


53 posted on 02/25/2023 6:54:30 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: teevolt

It’s fine to have individual friends, but if you’re out and about and you see a grouping, get outta there.
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I was traveling this week and stayed at a hotel a few nights. The other morning at the breakfast room off to the side of the hotel lobby, a mother waddled in with a boy who looked to be about 3. The boy was quiet and showing some excellent behavior but not good enough for the mom who at one point shouted out loud enough to make my ears hurt...”you get ovah here right now or I’ll beat the sh!t outta ya!”

Talk about heart breaking.... Who talks like that to a 3 year old? What kind of person would remotely consider uttering that kind of language and exhibiting that kind of behavior in a public space let alone in private? What lessons are being learned by that 3 year old and what behavioral patterns are being set into motion and what will he be like by the time he gets to be a teenager? I regret I didn’t say something but the first thought I had was that anything I say would quickly escalate into something that was far worse. What to do, what to do.... pray for that boy and his mom.


54 posted on 02/25/2023 6:54:45 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: brianr10

Thanks for the reminder on Derbyshire. I was racking my brain trying to remember that. BTW, the Derb was right then & Adams is even more right now.


55 posted on 02/25/2023 6:55:37 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: MtnClimber

56 posted on 02/25/2023 6:55:41 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Vigilanteman

I use newspapers to start fires in my wood burning stove and no other reason.


57 posted on 02/25/2023 6:56:21 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: zipper

I’m sorry, but being white today means shut up, step aside, hand over your stuff and take your ass beating. Now put your meat suit on and walk through bear country.


58 posted on 02/25/2023 6:56:36 AM PST by Hipshot 6 (Hipshot 6, Out)
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To: cymbeline

Probably the newspapers canceling are all owned by the media companies.


59 posted on 02/25/2023 6:58:36 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, that IS a pretty radical thing to say…in public.

But, nonetheless, I’ve long tired of this faux “tolerance” (really celebration) of various groups, and wish people would just be allowed to think or say what they wish. It’s up to us if we like it or not, but most of such statements shouldn’t be means to fire someone, much less jail them.

The commie way in America is to try to use our traditional systems of fairness and justice against itself. We cannot yet jail them, but let’s make them such pariahs they cannot make a living and will actually be forced to be “homeless”…which is kind of funny since that’s another grouping commies love.


60 posted on 02/25/2023 6:58:37 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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