Social Media Outrage/Cancel Culture

[Jeff Lebowski]

SUwish!

This made me guffaw.

This is exactly the type of thinking that his strip parodied so well.

Yes indeed. The man has zero self-awareness.

[myboynoah]

I predict almost every newspaper in America drops him within a week. He deserves a good cancelling.

SUwish!

‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist’s racist rant

The Washington Post, the USA Today network of hundreds of newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Times and other publications announced they would stop publishing “Dilbert” after Adams’s racist rant on YouTube on Wednesday. Asked on Saturday how many newspapers still carried the strip — a workplace satire he created in 1989 — Adams told The Post: “By Monday, around zero.”

This made me guffaw.

Asked to comment in more detail about his remarks and the mass cancellations, Adams initially declined. He later told The Post in a text message: “Lots of people are angry, but I haven’t seen any disagreement yet, at least not from anyone who saw the context. Some questioned the poll data. That’s fair.”

This is exactly the type of thinking that his strip parodied so well.

[Northwestcoug]

Well since Biden wasn’t actually elected we don’t know that he is wrong.

[All-American]

He once claimed that if Biden were elected, all republicans would be hunted down and killed within a year.

Well since Biden wasn’t actually elected we don’t know that he is wrong.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Very disappointing as I've liked a lot of his stuff. He used to live a mile from us and had a restaurant downtown (where CJF bought us dinner, if I recall correctly). Recently, Adams moved up the road to Danville where there are even fewer black people than here in Pleasanton, I'd wager. Our favorite neighbors happen to be black and are great people, but apparently they're the exception. Perhaps the most significant line in Adam's diatribe is "..every damn day I look on social media and there's some black person beating the shit out of some white person." He probably sees such things, but I don't recall ever seeing an example on social media, and it's telling what Adams looks for when he's online. After his sophomoric analysis of the COVID, vaccines, and governmental involvement this compels me not to follow him anymore.

He once claimed that if Biden were elected, all republicans would be hunted down and killed within a year.

[chrisrenrut]

I guess when your cartoon strip gets pulled from some newspapers for highlighting crazy woke culture, you can either go low for a while, or go full on racist?

I started his book a few years back but couldn’t finish. Now I don’t feel as guilty about it.

[smokymountainrain]

Very disappointing as I've liked a lot of his stuff. He used to live a mile from us and had a restaurant downtown (where CJF bought us dinner, if I recall correctly). Recently, Adams moved up the road to Danville where there are even fewer black people than here in Pleasanton, I'd wager. Our favorite neighbors happen to be black and are great people, but apparently they're the exception. Perhaps the most significant line in Adam's diatribe is "..every damn day I look on social media and there's some black person beating the shit out of some white person." He probably sees such things, but I don't recall ever seeing an example on social media, and it's telling what Adams looks for when he's online. After his sophomoric analysis of the COVID, vaccines, and governmental involvement this compels me not to follow him anymore.

i follow a twitter account called bestfights (just a bunch of random people getting in fights) - don't take this as a suggestion it as i am very dumb and the things that entertain me are dumb - and it's nearly always black on black or white on white. iow, my experience is similar to yours and i have no clue where he's seeing this stuff. what a racist, moronic, piece of trash.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Very disappointing as I've liked a lot of his stuff. He used to live a mile from us and had a restaurant downtown (where CJF bought us dinner, if I recall correctly). Recently, Adams moved up the road to Danville where there are even fewer black people than here in Pleasanton, I'd wager. Our favorite neighbors happen to be black and are great people, but apparently they're the exception. Perhaps the most significant line in Adam's diatribe is "..every damn day I look on social media and there's some black person beating the shit out of some white person." He probably sees such things, but I don't recall ever seeing an example on social media, and it's telling what Adams looks for when he's online. After his sophomoric analysis of the COVID, vaccines, and governmental involvement this compels me not to follow him anymore.

[falafel]

Wow. That is scary.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I predict almost every newspaper in America drops him within a week. He deserves a good cancelling.

[Jeff Lebowski]

never heard of that racist sob. i hope he isn't too famous or that he doesn't wield too much influence.

Very famous. Author and creator of Dilbert. MAGA. UT quotes him occasionally.

[BigPiney]

never heard of that racist sob. i hope he isn't too famous or that he doesn't wield too much influence.

He writes the Dilbert cartoons. When Trump came about he predicted Trumps rise and made it sound like he did not support him. Turns out he is not a good person and his current not so veiled support of Trump is a good indication of that.

He has quite a bit of influence now.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Wow. That is horrible.

[smokymountainrain]

never heard of that racist sob. i hope he isn't too famous or that he doesn't wield too much influence.

[BigPiney]

yeah, that is racist