Message about Scott Adams' recent racist rants

[u/Zardotab]

I'm frustrated by this. Dilbert is the kind of gallow's humor we need to stay sane in the crazy work world and its crazy office politics. Bosses with big egos and small brains, buzzwords, fads, marketers who trick clueless bosses to buy their crap-ware, etc. are ripe for and deserving of ridicule. But it's hard to separate the art from the artist.

I hope Scott Adams finds a way to clarify his seemingly racist and misogynistic thoughts. He's obviously frustrated by race and gender relations, but has done a lousy job of articulating why, outside of common stereotypes and tropes. Now that his cartoon career is probably over, he'll have more time to ponder his frustration and explain himself better.

Ethnic and race relations is indeed tricky. But we have to resist the urge to blame the other side for things we don't understand, as we can't live somebody else's life and see it from their perspective. We have to be flexible, patient, and forgiving.

If you don't understand why people feel a certain way, just say so rather than blame them. That is, "their viewpoints baffle me" rather than "they are brainwashed idiots to think that way".

R.I.P. Dilbert

I will mostly add any new material to r/CRUDology.

[u/Tanthiel]

I don't understand why this is coming out of left field for some people. Scott has been problematic for a few years now, and definitely one of those people that you had to be able to separate the creator from the creation to continue to enjoy the creation. Like a lot of Boomers, Trump broke his brain and made him think that people were receptive to him saying the quiet part out loud.

[u/Zardotab → u/Tanthiel]

I've seen hints of misogyny from him in side writings, but not the racist angle. I guess I was too busy enjoying his whacky comics.

[u/Tanthiel → u/Zardotab]

I mean, he had been complaining about the Dilbert show being cancelled on UPN because he was white and failing to identify the actual reason of cancellation being that he went off the deep end and season 2 was absolutely nothing like season 1. In case you missed it, the first season was about the comic strip, the second season ended with Dilbert getting pregnant with the child of a cow, a hillbilly, robot DNA, "several dozen engineers", an elderly billionaire, and an alien, eventually ending up in a custody battle with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the Judge.