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Dilbert creator Scott Adams dies aged 68 after prostate cancer diagnosis (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

Guess not. He was MAGA or something? Saw that after I posted this.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Scott Adams was a massively racist piece of shit.

In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in the Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research.

In 2020, Adams claimed on Twitter that the Dilbert TV series was axed years ago because he was white and UPN had decided to shift toward African American viewers.

That same year, he predicted that if Biden were to win the 2020 presidential election, then Republicans would be “hunted”. He said there was a “good chance” they would be “dead within a year”.

He has also previously compared women asking for equal pay to children demanding candy and has claimed there were “satanic coincidences” in the Joe Biden presidential campaign.

In September 2022, Dilbert was pulled from 77 newspapers after Adams started to incorporate “anti-woke plotlines”, including one about a Black character who identifies as white. His cartoons also mocked the ESG movement (also known as the environmental, social and governance movement).

Reacting to a poll that found that 26 per cent of Black Americans said they disagreed with the phrase “It’s OK to be white”, Adams posted a video in which he said that Black people are a “hate group”.

He announced that he would no longer be helpful to Black people, claiming he had “done it all his life and the only outcome is getting called a racist”. He advised his white fans to “get the f*** away from them as fast as possible”, and made many other racist comments.

Rest in piss.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 38 points 1 month ago

Funny that Trump got re-elected and he was dead within the year.

I guess he didn't get all of his facts straight.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Throwing his 2007 blog post titled Fossils are Bullshit on the pile.

[-] blitzen@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago

Was crazier/shittier than simply being MAGA, although he was also that.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah he was kinda just a lunatic who also was maga. Like, bigoted as all hell, incredibly racist, but also edgy internet atheist who thought he was far smarter than everyone else and was certain trump was playing 420D chess

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