Notorious bigot Scott Adams claimed that all black people were members of a hate group because of a response to a survey question about the surveyed's sentiments in regards to the statement "It's ok to be white", a question which was asks in the context that a hate crime watch group identified it as being related to white supremacist groups. And your response is that black people, who white supremacists groups actively hate and target should've answered that yes, that statement that I saw on the news that the KKK is using? Just fine. Again, literal insanity, from the literal insane. And sadly I'm stuck in this asylum of a country with you.
"It's why you believe [...]" But you don't know what I believe.
"Scott Adams claimed [...] because of a response to a survey question [...]" But his statement is, if one applies some very basic "media literacy" (as you like to call it), clearly rhetorical, with the underlying message that there seems to be a lot of racial hatred from blacks towards whites in the United States in 2023, and that this racial hatred seems to be institutionally supported, and that as a white person of means he'll use his means to avoid this racial hatred and suggests others do the same. The cited survey is merely one data point he presents to support this belief. Arguing as if he arrived at this conclusion purely off of that alone is total sophistry.
I don't live in the US, so perhaps that will give you some reprieve. Scott Adams might well have been wrong. I don't claim to know here if he was, just that you haven't actually contended with his position at all despite writing a lot of angry words, and that this excess of sophistry justifies a dismissive response.
Sadly, racism along with so many other isms have been so watered down to the point of being completely meaningless.
When i saw the title i knew people would be calling this guy racist as if he said blacks were an inferior race rather than saying the most milquetoast of statements.
We need to start using rpg systems with our hate speech. Am i a level 5 racist because i dont find Scott Adams even remotely offensive? Am i a level 10 communist because i want universal healthcare? Or does that make me a whitemage?
Someone who makes their living from their art adjusts it to the preferences of the remaining customer base. And levying hate at someone makes them like you and those you represent less. This is neither surprising nor is it a valid post-hoc justification for the original outrage at a perfectly moral statement.
> Could it perhaps have anything to do with the fact that that's a 4chan-originated dogwhistle that was hyper-viral at the time?
All that means is that everyone else is either racist against white people or too much of a coward to speak out of the racism of their peers. It doesn't make the statement worse or any less correct. Maybe instead of cancelling people for stating reasonable opinions that other people you hate also say, think hard about why you and your friends are not willing to say those things. Do you care more about your making statements in accordance with your morals or more about not being seen as part of the wrong tribe?
> The president of the most powerful country on earth and the richest man in the world say things like that all the time. Why the victim complex?
Even if that was true, it doesn't change the fact that the woke crowd objects to that while being fine with essentially the same statement levied against whites.
If that means "making racist art", then I think that says a lot of validating things about why most of his original customer base abandoned him.
> the fact that the woke crowd objects to that while being fine with essentially the same statement levied against whites.
This reads like the classic "things right-wingers believe about leftists that have nothing to do with what leftists actually believe".
Nah, he continued to grift off the right wing while saying more and more unhinged shit until he shuffled off this mortal coil.
> Also let's remember that he was cancelled for saying that if black people (poll respondents) say "it's not okay to be white" that's espousing hate and he wants nothing to do with them.
Could it perhaps have anything to do with the fact that that's a 4chan-originated dogwhistle that was hyper-viral at the time? Why do you think they were asking about it in the first place? It was in the context of the fact that the ADL had identified it as secret hate speech, in the same line of the 14 words.
> If white people said "it's not okay to be black," that's certainly white supremacy. But the rules are different.
The president of the most powerful country on earth and the richest man in the world say things like that all the time. Why the victim complex?