I have no issues with cancel culture. It exists for ass-clowns like Scott Adams that wantonly work to marginalize minorities and promote ignorance. Glad to see karma bite him back.
The vast majority of conservatives bitching about cancel culture are simply upset that there is now a social stigma and actual repercussions for saying the hateful shit they used to get away with. My favorite part of Adams' rant is when he was like "I'm gonna back off from being helpful to Black America". LOL, I cannot fathom what Adams thinks he was previously doing that was "helpful". Maybe barely restraining himself from yelling the you-know-what-word whenever he had the courage to venture into an urban area and saw one single Black person? Is he... helping Black America through a newspaper comic strip about a white guy working a white collar job? Did he... not call the police when a wealthy Black couple showed up to a dinner party? I wanna know! What's scary is that instead of admitting an objectively bigoted rant is over the line, conservatives have largely rallied around Adams. Including Elon Dumbfuck Musk. (p.s. I love that Hubski could smell Elon's shit from a mile away 5+ years ago) edit: update, hahahhah, new favorite part of the rant, where he says "I'm so sick of seeing videos of Black Americans assaulting White people on social media". Dude, lol, he really doesn't realize that he's getting served that shit because he engages with it and subscribes to people putting out that type of content?!? This guy's such a fucking idiot, holy hellllllllll
The common racist trope of "blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime" usually omits that nearly all of the victims of that crime are also black. There isn't an epidemic of black-on-white violence, so Adams is truly deep into a racist rabbit hole if he's being regularly exposed to that narrative.Black Americans assaulting White people
Scott Adams skulked into Reddit back in 2007, 2008 or so. He mostly seemed to want to defend himself against mild allegations that there was a real libertarian core to all his writings - and he did it third person. "Scott Adams doesn't seem to hold these ideas by my read," said Scott Adams. "He holds these other ideas that are very much like what you said, but couched in dog-whistle phrases that illustrate that Scott Adams is much smarter than you." He was utterly eaten alive and found out within like six posts. At which point the laugh-and-point circle grew quite wide indeed - Scott Adams being dismantled in /r/Dilbert? What's not to love? But I could see how that could be radicalizing So if you take as a baseline that the guy has been filtering for Friendly Press Only since Bush was president? Yeah the hole's prolly pretty deep.
Blacks disproportionately commit crimes because Blacks are disproportionately poor. Blacks are disproportionately poor because Blacks were literally enslaved, and then oppressed via the legal system until just two or three generations ago. Anyone pretending like that generality is wrong or difficult to understand is stupid, racist, or some combination of both.
I tell you what - I consider myself a fairly enlightened individual and it was sumpin' going back through Ancestry.com, watching the census reports, finding ancestors that owned slaves, and deducing that not one, not two but three sets of grandparents became itinerant farmers the minute their slaves were freed. Going back to 1827. And I mean... we're talkin' plantation owners who were in positions to sell their plantations. Not people with nothing who all of a sudden weren't in chains? But also weren't picking and choosing from a cornucopia of career choices. Give or take two or three generations...and then oppressed via the legal system until just two or three generations ago.
One of many differences between the folks here and the folks on, say, Hacker News, is the amount of Elon lapdogging that has and continues to be occurring from the last 5+ years to today.
Saw a tweet the other day that was quoting The Daily Show - "I’ve noticed one thing about a certain type of rich person. When they don’t have problems of their own, they have to just make up problems just to make their lives interesting ... I can guarantee you, JK Rowling had zero opinions about trans people when she was on welfare."
Sure.Be willing to admit your white privilege is that you've never been stopped for driving while black, or that having never had your ancestors.owned, or redlined while. buying housing, or being subjected to Jim Crow Laws has left you with a privileged head start in life over those whose ancestry were purposely penalized in their efforts in working to achieve financial success. Being white seems cool. Being white and ignoring the challenges of those that are not , is a dick move.