Plot Twist: “Dilbert” Creator Scott Adams Canceled for Being a Poster Child for Critical Race Theory
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Dilbert has been officially canceled. After a controversial video of Scott Adams circulated the internet, the fate of the iconic comic strip was inevitable. But not only has Dilbert been dropped from major publications; even Adams’ non-Dilbert upcoming book has been canceled “and the entire backlist,” according to Adams. “My book agent canceled me too.”
And what sort of horrible ideology did Scott Adams spread to garner such a backlash? What sort of horrid hate speech did he espouse?
Critical race theory.
Of course, he didn’t call it that, but its tenants were easily recognizable.
This controversy began after Rasmussen released a poll stating 72% of Americans agree “it’s okay to be white.” Honestly? With so much racial tension—much of it manufactured—I was a bit relieved to see a majority of the nation hadn’t totally lost their minds. But an unusual amount of Americans answered, “not sure.” I’ll chalk this up to moral cowardice rather than simply being immoral racists, though both are awful options.
In Adam’s video, he marveled at 26% of Black Americans disagreeing and 21% stating they’re not sure if being white is okay.
“If nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people…that’s a hate group,” Adams said. He also lamented that our current racial relations couldn’t be fixed, and white people were best simply getting away from black people. The reason is, why would you want to be around people who don’t like you? Adams also upset black users on Twitter by stating he had helped black people in the past, but there was no point if they would still hate white people.
Critical race theory has a few tenants. The first tenant is that racism is ordinary. It’s not rare. It’s the way we operate and do business. Therefore, treating everyone “the same across the board, can thus remedy only the most blatant forms of discrimination” according to Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. That is why the Democrat Party Platform believes “race-neutral policies are not sufficient to rectify race-based disparities.” That’s why they push for equity over equal opportunity.
The second tenant of critical race theory is “interest convergence.” Authors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic explain, “Because racism advances the interest of white elites (materially) and working-class people (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it.” They explain even if white people try to end something racist, it may be more “from the self-interest of elite whites than a desire to help blacks.”
CRT teaches that white people are racist, they don’t have an incentive to not be racist, and when they do something that’s the opposite of racist, they’re still racist—but their selfishness is more important than their racism. I don’t believe Scott Adams necessarily agrees with critical race theory’s tenants, but he is responding to the reality of its conclusions and impact.
If what Scott Adams said was evil and worthy enough for him to be canceled, then the same people who canceled him should do everything within their power to cancel CRT from every form of our lives, from schools to entertainment.
But they won’t do that because racial hatred is largely a creation of the media and the institutions of the elite. Do you remember when The Washington Post created a video tackling “whiteness” in America? How about when the Smithsonian created an infographic detailing whiteness, and listed traits like being on time, being attracted to men with money, being polite, respecting authority, or rational and linear thinking? The game appears to be that we should associate these positive traits with “whiteness,” so that if black people don’t have these traits, we can excuse them and blame the expectation on colonization. And if black people do possess these positive traits, you can’t dismiss the premise as being silly; they’re simply infected with whiteness. It was one of the most racist documents I’ve ever seen, and it was produced by the African American History Museum in our nation’s capital.
There’s a lot of talk in the country about “systemic racism,” but the “anti-racists” aren’t going to solve the problem. They’re largely the ones making it worse. There is a concerted effort in this country to ruin black Americans. This isn’t anything new. Manning Johnson, a black man who defected from communism, talked about this in Color, Communism, and Common Sense back in 1958. We see an example of this when activists complain about the disproportionate disciplining of black and brown children in schools without asking the question of whether or not they’re disproportionately being disruptive. The ACLU supported eliminating a mandate in California to report certain criminal activity in schools, such as when an employee is attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by a pupil. The ACLU said students who make contact with law enforcement are “more likely to end up in jail or prison.” And their beef is that it happens to “marginalized groups” disproportionately.
Being in an inner-city school, surrounded by unruly classmates, feels like you’re stranded in the middle of the ocean with an anchor chained to your ankle. And if you’re a black child who succeeds in staying above water, you’ll be accused of “trying to act white.”
Who do these people think their virtue signaling is actually saving?
Everyone knows strengthening the family unit and improving fatherless home stats would solve many of the problems facing the black community, yet organizations like Black Lives Matter made “disrupting the western-prescribed nuclear family” a priority. They even made it clear that transwomen were a larger focus of their organization than straight black men. On their “what we believe” page, BLM made sure they were inclusive and uplifting to everyone except a black father.
Our institutions don’t want black people to regain their sense of community and family because it builds agency. Royal Meeker worked under the Woodrow Wilson administration, and he thought it would be good if minimum wage led to unemployment and then led them to government assistance. “Better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind.” Meeker was a eugenicist, and he didn’t want those he looked down upon to be masters of their own destinies.
Black Americans have legitimate reasons to have racial grievances. Unfortunately, they’re continuously siding with the perpetrators and choosing virtue signaling over constructive solutions. Manning Johnson, for example, explained this was the strategy for communists, yet your loyalty to the black community could never supersede the agendas of communism. On a side note, the founders of Black Lives Matter are self-described “trained Marxists.”
Adams often makes comments to challenge people’s thinking. Even though I don’t follow him religiously, I’ve followed him long enough to know there was an underlining purpose to his words.
But I absolutely knew he was going to get canceled, and I said he needed to be prepared for it.
In an interview after much backlash, Scott Adams explained his motivation. It certainly wasn’t for money or for fame. “I discovered the price of free speech is really high, and there are only a few people willing to pay it, so I decided to pay it so that I could extend the conversation to something that everybody needs to hear.”
Scott Adams keeps noting on Twitter that no one really disagrees with the opinion that got him canceled. I’ve certainly seen activists, woke schools and companies advocate for black safe spaces. When Disney separates black employees into “affinity groups,” they’re called “Wakanda.” Ben Shapiro pointed out that if you swap out “blacks” with “whites” in Adams’ rant, it would have gotten him a totally different reaction.
How is what Scott Adams said more racist than the anti-white videos that are often produced?
Scott Adams recently asked his audience what the first rule of persuasion is. Buried beneath the angry replies of trolls was the correct answer: “Attention is influence.”
Now that Adams has everyone’s attention, let’s see if we can fix the racial issues or genuinely talk about whether those who profess to fight racism have any intention of ending it.
