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Dilbert comic, writer made some racist rant, now off my local paper

I used to identify as Human, but now I'm so sick of Humans, that I will begin to identify as ,,,, something else.
 
Johndicezx9 said:
A good reputation is priceless, right?

I mean, Larson and Watterson could be complete a-holes, but they've kept their mouths shut. ;)
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Larson seems pretty cool, perhaps Adams could have used his advice :laughing

wikipedia said:
For the most part, he has also retired from public view: "He refuses to have his picture taken and avoids being on TV", Time magazine wrote in 2003. To Larson, "cartoonists are expected to be anonymous."
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If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own?
 
I retired so much more quietly than him. It’s kind of spectacular but he always seemed sorta misanthropic anyway.

The larger thought is one I often have about the comics, where a generational popular success comic strip keeps going and going. On the spectrum, you have Doonesbury, which just run old strips so the money keeps a-comin’ and on the other end you have ones where the original artist dies and successors keep it going, where, once again the money keeps comin’ in.
Dilbert is kinda dated and its run stale, imho, anyway.

So a misanthropic guy who has enough money to buy a golden passport and live anywhere cancels himself and no longer has to even produce his somewhat tired franchise and can go be anonymous, which he always wanted anyway.

It wouldn’t be my way to go, but it’s a way. In this rude and angry society, he said something bound to be interpreted in the worst possible way and got canceled. He might be trying to make a point, I dunno. The only good of it is creating a spot for some aspiring cartoonist I guess.
He’ll definitely be getting less phone calls in his dotage, that’s for sure.’
Whole thing is weird.
 
byke said:
Yeah, he read a poll on the internet and he's one of those "I don't trust polls" types, but anyway he read a poll on the internet and now all white people should get the hell away from black people. He's like elon musk, in how, someone smart can also be one of the dumbest mf'ers on two legs.
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Haha that's funny.:rofl
But in case you think he didn't bellow out callousnesities, he did

CNBC: Elon Musk calls U.S. media and schools 'racist against whites & Asians'.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/26/elo...nd-schools-racist-against-whites-asians-.html

(There's also an SFgate link about it somewhere, I'm surprised Climber hasn't made a thread with it yet. But maybe it's coming up ..it's Monday..)
 
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Haha, that's pretty funny. Good timing, but also not a surprise. They're of similar varieties.
 
this fuck is no Japanese women

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10:48 yeah I'm a thing
 
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yodaisgod said:
Why can't these successful people just STFU? Why are they never self aware?
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I think he is using his celebrity to say things he thinks should be said, whether we agree on their validity or not.

The poll is a weirdly asked and vague question that invited provocation. How can it not be ok to be whatever you are? It is ok to be white, that should be 100%. It’s just not okay to be an asshole. But it would take some discipline to make the point to a pollster that they were asking a loaded question so you only get those willing to grind that axe or submit to the stupidity. My guess is that 47% said yes and why are you asking such a patently stupid question and trying my patience? The nos might have felt sincere, or felt it was an opportunity to voice their ongoing grievances. And it’s one way. If even 1% of the white people said it was not okay to be black, that would be wrong, too. And that would make some headlines. I GUESS that is Adams’ point but it comes off as cut and run so you don’t have unpleasant conflicts in your immediate sphere of living.

I live with the reality of pissed-off black people in my socio-economic environment, especially with the understanding of how and why they feel that way. I don’t have 75 million to find a neighborhood of smiles, which is ridiculous in concept anyway. I actually wouldn’t want to live in Smug-ville, surrounded by wealthy whites who had insulated and isolated themselves. Or it might seem okay until too many people opened their pie holes. 19 years ago, I began working in Walnut Creek, having previously worked in San Pablo. I was surprised at some unreconstructed attitudes of the prevailing whites there, so yeah, its a real thing that cultural discomfort persists even while the stupidest ideas of superiority have been discredited.

As for the school “learning” and social environment: anyone who has worked in especially but not only urban school districts know that the over-correction of racist history has had negative consequences on a lot of people. I live with a retired teacher, whose daughter is in the thick of education in New York City and there are just some ridiculous, ill-considered statements, accusations and odd consequences involving students, parents, administrators, on and on. Just like every other portion of Angry America, there is plenty in education, with heat coming from both sides of the political spectrum.

The white privilege thing has become an all-purpose sledge hammer that is used with little regard for the damage it causes, as one example. I was regaled with Brooklyn public schools stories during the last week that my step-daughter was visiting. And this is a person who worked at Harlem, then Brooklyn Success Academies, the one they made a movie about. That outfit is controversial and remains so, if for nothing else, really working their employees hard resulting in high turnover (she works for public schools now) . My step-daughter is anything but racist, and has seen some extremes in urban poverty and suffering, but whenever a problem arises, the white privilege might be, and has been, thrown her way.

We have become label-makers and label-throwers and it sucks.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_okay_to_be_white

"It's okay to be white" (IOTBW) is a slogan which originated as part of an organized alt-right trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017.[1] A /pol/ user described it as a proof of concept that an otherwise innocuous message could be used maliciously to spark media backlash.[2][3] Posters and stickers stating "It's okay to be white" were placed in streets in the United States as well as on campuses in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.[1][3]

The slogan has been supported by white supremacists including neo-Nazis.[4] Media coverage of the event, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson asking "What's the correct position? That it's not okay to be white?", was seen as reacting in the way that the trolling campaign had intended.[4]
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I suspect that people think of at least a couple meanings behind "white". Obviously it's okay to be white, as in, your skin color. However, a white guy saying that he identifies as black in order to help them and be on the winning team.....is super effing white. That's the kind of white that sucks.
 
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