Local newspapers are dying, one of the few reasons the print editions still exist is for the comics section. Cancelling cartoons because of a podcast is commercial suicide, and so is amplifying idiotic stories about Scott Adams, FourChan, Q, 'the alt-right' (AKA the 'far right' presumably), 'Black Lives Matter' etc etc.
There is terrible black on asian violence in the bay area (where I live), I just saw video of a guy being hacked to death with a machete in San Francisco's tenderloin last month. Adams lives near Oakland, an extremely violent, gang dominated area. In the bay area you can watch fresh video on Twitter every day of black thugs breaking into cars, beating people up, retail theft at a massive scale, holding up restaurants at gunpoint and on and on.
This is all completely unacceptable and it's hard to reconcile the endless bleeding heart restorative justice, reparations for people with ancestors who were slaves, endless victim hustling in the same urban area. I suspect Adams was to a large extent influenced by 'lived experience', to co opt a progressive cliche.
I'd expect an aging author to become wiser and more understanding, Adams was getting more and more radical and the segregationist comments were just the straw that broke the camels back.
Local California newspapers are already full of junk establishment syndicated news stories and woke oped pieces written by junior journalism graduates who have strong radical progressive activist views and agendas. Reader comments (if allowed) tell a story of dissatisfaction in these publications. There is less and less reason to buy them.
I think Dilbert is a terrific cartoon strip that punctures the pretense of large corporation human resources hubris. I don't care what the author of this cartoon strips views are. I'm not interested in what Charles Schultz (Peanuts) political views were either.
Recent strips are all about "woke millenials don't want to work" and other right wing facebook tropes.
20 years ago Dilbert strips were sometimes funny, the recent ones just aren't anymore.
Why are people trying to make this guy sound clever and self aware? He sounds unhinged
For example: It was common for alt-right speakers to find and doxx trans people at universities they would be invited to. Of course, allies would try to protest these speakers coming to universities because they would doxx trans people at them. But trying to keep them off campus plays right into the "we're being oppressed, academia is a leftist hivemind hellscape" narrative that the very same doxxers try to spin. So the only option is to let them come on and doxx trans people? I don't really know. It's nasty.
They've been doing it the entire time. There was no amplification feeding frenzy, but the racists have been patently forcing hte meme for something like 18 months with stickering, banner drops, coordinated shitposts etc.
going to absolutely set more than a few people down the path of radicalization
Who, the ultra-late adopters? Dilbert went on an anti-woke trajectory a few years ago.
But that's not all he said at all...
He said:
"Black America is a hate group"
"the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed."
"So that's what'd I did. I went to a neighborhood with a very low black population."
"I don’t think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore"
...pretending all he said was "It's ok to be white" is completely disingenuous.
The entire EXPLICITLY STATED point of these /pol/ campaigns is to manipulate the media into acting as an engine of radicalization.
“It’s okay to be white” would have died on the vine right next to “Islam is right about women” if the media didn’t go into an amplification feeding frenzy.
Edit: and sure, the cat’s out of the bag and actual racists are probably using the phrase now. But clearly no lesson has been learned - ditching Scott Adams for supposedly making reprehensible racist remarks is going to absolutely set more than a few people down the path of radicalization when they look up what he said and see “it’s okay to be white”. I can only imagine the glee over on 4chan right now.