I believe we should ALL celebrate our heritage and be proud of it. I sure am.
"It's OK to be white"
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I believe we should ALL celebrate our heritage and be proud of it. I sure am.
BidenPresident
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Adams, who is white, repeatedly referred to people who are Black as members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help Black Americans.”
“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,” Adams said on his Wednesday show.
https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-business-d1d88fe02461930d9c2ad70e1f55b136
Do you agree with those statements of Scott Adams?
Yakuda
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Are you suggesting blacks can't be members of a hate group? There isn't a black person who hates a white people?
Yakuda
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This is spot on.
Dutch Uncle
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Fat Boy, first, if you were really a Christian, then you'd know "Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall."
Second, you prove you are not a Christian almost daily by putting yourself before God and by spreading hate against your neighbors with lies and bigotry.
Dutch Uncle
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You and I both know you're not a Christian either, Yak.
Unlike Fat Boy, you never claimed to be one. Kudos to you.
He’s always been a bigot and a racists. He just finally said it out loud. Trump and the Rasmussen poll emboldened him.
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
If I owned a newspaper and syndicated his comic trip,
and if I had subscribers who enjoyed that comic strip,
I personally would not have stopped carrying it.
Privately owned newspapers can do what they want, and I'm not criticizing them for dropping Dilbert.
Still, without actually having seen the offending cartoon, I'm willing to bet that it wasn't that racist to cause the commotion that it did.
People just refuse to allow humor anymore--that's a fucking fact.
If the cartoon that I didn't see really is overtly racist, that could be a different story.
Based on my experience with wokeness, though, I'm assuming that it wasn't.
and if I had subscribers who enjoyed that comic strip,
I personally would not have stopped carrying it.
Privately owned newspapers can do what they want, and I'm not criticizing them for dropping Dilbert.
Still, without actually having seen the offending cartoon, I'm willing to bet that it wasn't that racist to cause the commotion that it did.
People just refuse to allow humor anymore--that's a fucking fact.
If the cartoon that I didn't see really is overtly racist, that could be a different story.
Based on my experience with wokeness, though, I'm assuming that it wasn't.
It wasn’t a cartoon, it was a video of him uttering his racists thoughts.
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The phrase “It’s Okay To Be White” is a slogan popularized in late 2017 as a trolling campaign by members of the controversial discussion forum 4chan. The original idea behind the campaign was to choose an ostensibly innocuous and inoffensive slogan, put that slogan on fliers bereft of any other words or imagery, then place the fliers in public locations. Originators assumed that “liberals” would react negatively to such fliers and condemn them or take them down, thus “proving” that liberals did not even think it was “okay" to be white.
Whether the original trollers were white supremacist or not, actual white supremacists quickly began to promote the campaign—often adding Internet links to white supremacist websites to the fliers or combining the phrase with white supremacist language or imagery. This was not a surprise, as white supremacists had themselves used the phrase in the past—including on fliers—long before the 4chan campaign originated.
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white
Whether the original trollers were white supremacist or not, actual white supremacists quickly began to promote the campaign—often adding Internet links to white supremacist websites to the fliers or combining the phrase with white supremacist language or imagery. This was not a surprise, as white supremacists had themselves used the phrase in the past—including on fliers—long before the 4chan campaign originated.
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
Thanks. I didn't know that. That's a different thing altogether.
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
I already addressed that in my original post.
And I do not take any characterizations by the media of what he actually said, at face value because I know that when it comes to matters involving race, they have a tendency to try to portray blacks as victims. So until I actually hear the entire interview with his remarks IN CONTEXT, I am not going to form any opinions about them one way or the other.
I will ask you however, do you agree with those blacks who responded to the survey about whether they agreed with the statement "It's OK to be white" with an answer of "no"?
Dutch Uncle
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At least Damo didn't cut off his balls like he did to Legion.
BidenPresident
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Fake news?! Really, you're playing that game?!
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
Show me where I said "fake news".
Don't bother because we both know I didn't.
I specifically said that in matters concerning race, the media has a tendency to try to portray blacks as victims.
That is a far cry from crying "fake news".
But OTOH, what you are doing here is a good example of what I'm basically talking about... twisting words to alter their meaning in order to fit a narrative.
And BTW, Adams also said in another episode of his online show Saturday, exactly what I suggested he might have meant by his comment. He said that he had been making a point that “everyone should be treated as an individual” without discrimination.
“But you should also avoid any group that doesn’t respect you, even if there are people within the group who are fine,”
It wasn't a cartoon, it was a live YouTube rant where he said, "If I were you, I'd stay away from black people".
Dutch Uncle
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Agreed. Done in humor, I have no problem. Chappelle took a ton of shit by the LGBTQ for his comments about transpeople even though he also talked about his friend, a trans, who committed suicide.
Scott Adams wasn't trying to be funny, poking at ourselves or society. He was clearly espousing a racist POV.
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Yep we make fun of ourselves , not out of meanness or hate
BidenPresident
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Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood
Rasmussen didn’t ask if people thought it was okay to be White. They asked if people agreed with the statement, “It’s okay to be White.”
Why is this important? Consider another, even more loaded question: Do you agree with the statement “all lives matter"? No one cognizant of American politics in the last decade would not recognize that statement for what it is. It’s not a comment about whether lives matter; it’s a rebuttal to the activist phrase “Black lives matter.” It’s not about all lives, it’s about the Black Lives Matter movement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/dilbert-scott-adams-racism/
Rasmussen didn’t ask if people thought it was okay to be White. They asked if people agreed with the statement, “It’s okay to be White.”
Why is this important? Consider another, even more loaded question: Do you agree with the statement “all lives matter"? No one cognizant of American politics in the last decade would not recognize that statement for what it is. It’s not a comment about whether lives matter; it’s a rebuttal to the activist phrase “Black lives matter.” It’s not about all lives, it’s about the Black Lives Matter movement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/dilbert-scott-adams-racism/