If you’ve spent any time on Twitter over the last few days, you already know about this. Everyone is talking about it. Without getting into his comments, I will say that Scott Adams was already a target over his vocal and early support for Trump. The left was looking for an excuse to cancel him.From the Aspen Beat blog:
Dilbert is dead – killed by his creatorHere’s the scene of the crime. Rasmussen is a political polling company. In the lull after the 2022 midterms and before the 2024 general election, they had some time to kill. And could use a few clicks.They found some. Last week they released the results of a poll posing the question:
Do you agree or disagree with this statement: “It’s OK to be white.”
Rasmussen reported that 72% of those polled – of all skin colors – agreed with that statement.
Among Blacks, too, most agreed that it’s OK to be white but the percentage was lower. Some 42% strongly agreed and another 11% somewhat agreed. About 18% said they strongly disagreed and 8% said they somewhat disagreed. About 21% said they were not sure.
If you take out the “not sure” category, 53% of Blacks agreed strongly or somewhat that “it’s OK to be white” while 26% disagreed strongly or somewhat. More than twice as many agreed as disagreed.
Enter the murderer. The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, Scott Adams, picked up on the poll, as Rasmussen undoubtedly intended people to, ran off a cliff with it, and splattered spectacularly. In a Twitter storm, he lumped the 21% of not sure Blacks with the 18% of Blacks who disagreed strongly and the 8% who disagreed somewhat. Then in a bit of sophistry, he concluded that “add them together, that’s 47% of Black respondents [who] were not willing to say it’s OK to be white.”
But of course a different bit of sophistry – no less valid – would lump the 21% of Blacks who were not sure if it was OK to be white with the 42% of Blacks who strongly agreed that it was and the 11% who somewhat agreed. Then you could state “add them together, that’s 74% of Black respondents who were not willing to say it’s not OK to be white.” That 74% comprised nearly three-quarters of the Black respondents.
But that wouldn’t have fit Adams’ narrative. His narrative called for a glass of Black-on-white racism half full rather than three-quarters empty. To be sure everyone got his narrative, Adams made and posted a YouTube video pounding it home:
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with white people…that’s a hate group. I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people…because there is no fixing this.”
Here’s the video:
Featured image via Twitter video.
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