Posted on 09/21/2022 2:01:46 PM PDT by DFG
A popular comic strip has been canned by 77 newspapers after its creator Scott Adams started incorporating anti-woke plotlines, including a character black that identifies as white.
Adams' much-loved 'Dilbert' comics have been in circulation since 1989 and frequently poke fun at office culture, but he announced he was sensationally dropped by publisher Lee Enterprises.
The media company owns nearly 100 newspapers across the country - including The Buffalo News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Arizona Daily Sun - and has been publishing Adams' jokes about the corporate ladder for years.
One of his most recent controversial comic strips included a black worker, who identifies as white, being asked to also identify as gay to boost his company's environmental, social, and governance ratings.
Dave, his reoccurring character, replies: 'Depends how hard you want me to sell it,' before the boss responds: 'Just wear better shirts.'
Adams, 65, is believed to be worth nearly $70million - a fortune he amassed thanks to the popularity of his characters, as well as his non-Dilbert related works.
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Agree with your remarks.
He has rather low morals IMO.
I watched is Youtube stuff for several months.
He has said some interesting things.
But one Scott Adams is a little bit too much.
(I will admit that a world without Dilbert would be a sadder world.)
See Tagline.
The postings were by the "Midnight Skulker", not the "Midnight Lurker".
Adams was perhaps the first to recognize the extremely powerful persuasiveness of Donald Trump. Those well-attended rallies are a self-perpetuating persuasion mechanism. We will see more of them.
Newspapers are all going away, victims of the “progressive left”. It cannot happen too soon.
Bob Dylan on freedom of speech.....and the swamp....and FBI....
Motorpsycho Nitemare (1964) Ending.
Well, he threw a Reader’s Digest at my head and I did run
I did a somersault as I seen him get his gun
And crashed through the window at a hundred miles an hour
And landed fully blast in his garden flowers
Rita said, “Come back” and he started to load
The sun was comin’ up and I was runnin’ down the road
Well, I don’t figure I’ll be back there for a spell
Even though Rita moved away and got a job at a motel
He still waits for me, constant, on the sly
He wants to turn me in to the F.B.I.
Me, I romp and stomp, thankful as I romp
Without freedom of speech I might be in the swamp
In places without freedom such as making fun of a Muslim in the French comic——
Charlie Hebdo
On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. CET local time, two French Muslim terrorists and brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others.
In the US we have freedom of speech. (That’s a punchline, so laugh.)😡 🤬
Purchase some of his books. He has a different perspective than most. I found some enlightening.
Didn’t realize he’d gone there. Scott Adams has risen a couple of notches in my eyes.
Scott Adams on perplexing energy bills, ugly lawns and the true meaning of ‘green’
https://archive.ph/2hlmm#selection-2305.0-2309.186
I confess that we put in the photovoltaic system partly for psychological reasons. I heard great stories of energy meters “spinning backwards” and I wanted in on that. But thanks to our local power company, PG&E, I’ve been unable to determine if the system is working at all. I know for sure that during the first four months I generated power for PG&E, gave it to them for free and then bought it back at full price. It had something to do with a delay in PG&E getting the right kind of meter installed.
***including a character black that identifies as white.***
I remember fifty three or so years ago when Al Capp introduced a black character and boy into his Li’L Abner comic strip.
It never worked and they never appeared in the strip again.
It is a type of social credit score mostly used against businesses.
Some time later, a world support effort was organized to protest these murders and for freedom of expression by light shows of the French Tri Color. Almost every national capitol did it EXCEPT Washington! This was after the Obamas had upgraded the White House exterior lighting for colors. They showed that off with the 'rainbow' when the Supremes nixed the Marriage Act but for this terrorist attack, the Obamas could not be bothered! So simple, so easy but not interested.
There was also an invitation by Paris and the French Government for world leaders to walk by that building in solidarity against terrorism. The US Rep was the Ambassador to France. Most other countries sent their leaders or significant substitutes. Could it have been that Barrack was worried that Joe might take a wrong turn even then?
Informative post. Great stuff.
It has become somewhat dated now, but I remember when Al responded to the 1960s College Protestors by introducing his readers to the "Students Wildly Indignant on Nearly Everything" (SWINE)! Yep, he could and did skewer quite a few people and movements!
Thanks for the memories there!
since when did they start reporting someone’s net worth at the end of a hit piece?
Lee Enterprises declared bankruptcy a few years ago.
They are still dying.
I still remember how the SWINE skit ended. The university was so terrified of the SWINE that they sold out to the Mafia.
When the SWINE students came protesting they attacked the mafia enforcer’s brass knuckles, with their front teeth!
I, even today, get a thrill of remembering how the front tooth kissed the brass knucks. No more problems at the university.
***including a character black that identifies as white.***
I remember fifty three or so years ago when Al Capp introduced a black character and boy into his Li’L Abner comic strip.
It never worked and they never appeared in the strip again.
As bad as the Dennis the Menace fiasco?
I’m sure he appreciates you apologizing for him.
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