Dilbert dropped by newspapers
Scott Adams got tired of playing second banana to his famous cartoon character, Dilbert. So he decided to publish a racist rant. Adams thought it would be an easy way to become the top banana. He couldn’t care less that doing so would force newspapers to drop Dilbert. Because, at long last, he would be famous too.
Scott Adams’s racist rant
Yes, this poor sap was jealous of Dilbert’s fame. Of course, Charles Schulz was just as famous as his cartoon, Charlie Brown. Adams wants to enjoy that same kind of equality with Dilbert. He wants everyone to know his name too.
Thus, Adams abandoned creative arts to peddle racist tropes. Because he knows this will garner the media attention he craves.
The distributor of Scott Adams’ Dilbert comic strip, Andrews McMeel Universal, announced Sunday it was severing ties with the cartoonist.
This came after Adams urged white people ‘to get the hell away from Black people’ during a racist rant on his online video program last week, during which he labeled Black people a ‘hate group.’
(NPR, February 28, 2023)
Following Trump’s racist playbook
Former President Donald J. Trump pioneered this racist gimmick. That is, saying racist things to attract Pavlovian media attention. He plays the victim when he’s criticized. And then he asks supporters to send him money to help fend off the criticism he incited. It’s contrived. But it works every time.
Except that, like Elon Musk, Adams is not motivated by money. He says racist things just for the attention and to “own the libs” for kicks – the consequences be damned.
But even Trump’s demon spawn, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, are following this playbook. They know spewing racist (or anti-Semitic) bile is the best way to get media attention. Adams spewed bile about the imperative for Whites to segregate from Blacks. But he was spewing the same nonsense Greene did only days before.
Sick!