OPINION: We are now in the so-called Information Age, but people like Scott Adams (and others) sadly continue to achieve and maintain relevance by trafficking in age-old patterns of lies and misinformation, writes columnist Eric Foster.
— pulled Adams’ comic strip “Dilbert” from their pages. Undeterred, Adams took to Twitter where, in response to a user claiming his comments were “heartbreaking,” Adams responded, “You should hear it in context. You would agree.”
But if you’ve been following him in recent years, you might not be as shocked. You might say, this is just another episode of a pattern, one that Adams has been using to maintain a modicum of relevance, particularly in conservative circles. Look again at the prior instances that I detailed. Do you see it? Scott Adams has a pattern of using lies and misinformation to manufacture outrage.
. He didn’t have to outright claim that he was a victim of “cancel culture,” his conservative followers did that for him. Never mind that other comic strips were also affected. To get to 47%, Adams included the percentage of respondents who said, “Not sure” , with the 26% who disagreed on some level with the statement. In Adams’ mind, responding with “not sure” was the same as thinking it wasn’t OK to be white. In other words, despite the poll having a fifth option for Black Americans who hadn’t developed an opinion, Adams didn’t really believe people who exercised that option. Either you think it’s OK to be white, or you don’t. It was a Black or white question .
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