Scott Adams has died

Re:Scott Adams has died by closetkantian on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @08:41PM (#46611267)

It seems that you're not very familiar with what actually happened. The phrase "It's okay to be white" had become associated with white supremacists, And black people's responses to the pole had nothing to do with their opinions of white people as a whole. You, as well as Scott Adams, decided to misinterpret it. Scott Adams took things a step further and decided that he wanted nothing to do with black people on the simple basis of this poll, which is absolutely wild.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by unwise-exe on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:13PM (#46611860)

>>> The phrase "It's okay to be white" had become associated with white supremacists

It was a way of calling out BLM on their open hatred of white people. Which meant that anyone who used it was opposing BLM, and was therefore a white supremacist. Even if they clearly weren't, never had been before, etc.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by jmye on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:28PM (#46612333)

> BLM on their open hatred of white people.

I think my eyes just rolled out of my head. Firstly because you think “BLM” was a someone you can attribute an opinion to, and secondly, the mind-numbingly idiotic view you did ascribe to “them”.

Turn off cable news and Twitter; it may help.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by serf on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:40PM (#46612420)

>Firstly because you think “BLM” was a someone you can attribute an opinion to

three people coined the phrase and made a lot of money on it through donations, interviews, grants, books, media, etc.

Yes, BLM the movement and actions may be decentralized -- let's not pretend there weren't profiteering ringleaders at any given point[0], and they most definitely had vocal opinions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Garza , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrisse_Cullors , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay%E1%BB%8D_Tometi

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Re:Scott Adams has died by sapphicsnail on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:45AM (#46613789)

None of those articles mentions any of them saying they hate white people and they all link to a BLM wiki article that contradicts your claim that they were ringleaders if the movement.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by jmye on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:52PM (#46625070)

> three people coined the phrase and made a lot of money on it through donations, interviews, grants, books, media, etc.

And tons of people said it with no affiliation to those three people. What a ridiculous load of nonsense. Also, given the links you provided, I'm curious what, specifically, you think:

"Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement"

means? Would you like for me to define "decentralized" to you? Is there some other part of that completely unambiguous sentence that I can help with?

> let's not pretend there weren't profiteering ringleaders at any given point[0], and they most definitely had vocal opinions.

Great, what does that have to do with anything I said?

Y'all are so utterly boring and predictable.

'Someone, somewhere said something mean about white people, and I'm going to brainlessly attribute that to everyone I hate for not advocating for me, personally, enough!' is, paraphrasing your take, the lamest, most childish shit imaginable. Grow up.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by grosswait on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:41PM (#46612038)

My gosh talk about projecting your own feelings onto others.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by bjourne on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:32AM (#46614417)

Modern discourse is all about smearing groups and people you dislike. BLM hates whites, BDS Jews , Muslims Christians and so on

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Re:Scott Adams has died by jsight on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:10AM (#46612566)

I wonder who gets to decide when something is "associated" with something else in a way that makes any and all uses of that thing a cancelable offense.

This mechanism sounds more dangerous than useful.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by defrost on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:10AM (#46612567)

> Or are you only cool with black culture when it comes to online messages and status updates.

Why would you assume the commenter isn't "black" and doesn't already live or have relatives in South Chicago already?

Regardless, see the Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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