SemiOT: The Dilbert guy still isn’t funny

[Kevin M.]

For those who haven’t heard the latest racist tirade from Scott Adams, it was bad. Which is not to say any of his numerous prior racist tirades weren’t also bad, but this one gave newspapers good reason to drop his comic strip. 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/25/business/dilbert-comic-strip-racist-tirade/index.html

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Tom Wolper]

The weird part is that Dilbert stopped being funny or relevant before the end of the nineties and nobody cared.

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[Doug Eastick]

aaand he's been dropped by his syndicate as of Sunday 10pm.

Andrews McMeel on Twitter: "https://t.co/ciMvbNKwjC" / Twitter

On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 10:19 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Kevin M.]

I caught a few minutes of his subsequent livestream when he feebly tried to walk back what he’d said. He claimed he does not discriminate and would never discriminate. To be clear, two days earlier he told white people that they should not associate with black people and they should not live in neighborhoods with black people. But to him, he does not discriminate. 

He deserved to get called into Dogbert in HR. 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Steve Timko]

This is an interesting turn.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRnnRRYU/

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[David Bruggeman]

The most relevant part of that video, to me, was the acknowledgement from the person that she didn't even know Dilbert was a thing anymore.  Getting shuffled off to the business section from the comics pages (like the Post did years ago) provides a combination of little scrutiny and relative obscurity.

An interview with someone called 'Hotep Jesus' suggests little to no added value, if the Hotep is reference to a movement known in part for its own variety of conspiracy theories.

David

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