Scott Adams will be 66 years old this June.
He is reportedly worth around $50 million, nearly all of which came from his popular comic strip “Dilbert.”
Do you think it’s possible he just got tired of working and that’s why he sabotaged himself with racist comments that have led many of the papers that carry “Dilbert” to drop the strip?
Makes perfect sense to me.
In his online video program last Wednesday, Adams apparently went off the edge of the earth when he referred to African-Americans as a hate group.
Now Adams has pretty much always been a conservative, but I don’t recall any references to him as being racist. I have read dozens of his collections of the comic strip, and for years I enjoyed “Dilbert” in newspapers or on the Internet every day.
Apparently he has claimed in the past that he was a victim of racism in his dealing with Hollywood and he has also questioned the accuracy of the death toll in the Holocaust.
Not just a Klansman, but a Nazi too?
At its peak, which may have been as recently as last Tuesday, “Dilbert” appeared in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries and 25 languages.
Adams referred to a poll done by Rasmussen Reports, a conservative-leaning group which might have asked the most asinine question in the history of polling.
“Do you agree or disagree with the statement, ‘It’s OK to be white?”
Whether or not that’s true, it is not OK to ask moronic questions.
At any rate, Adams was apparently outraged that only 53 percent of African-Americans polled said it was OK to be white, while 26 percent said it wasn’t and 21 percent said they weren’t sure.
Adams said that showed it made no sense for white people to help black people and the two groups should just stay apart.
Elon Musk, who is more than a thousand times more wealthy than Adams, said he agreed with the cartoonist and said that the media is racist against whites and Asians.
He said it was wrong that newspapers were dropping “Dilbert.”
Now Musk is so obscenely wealthy that he can throw away nearly $50 billion on Twitter and still be one of the richest men in the world. But sadly, you can’t buy intelligence or good judgement.
We will hear from him again … and again … and again ad infinitum and ad nauseam.
But with only $50 million, which isn’t what it used to be, maybe Adams will go away.
We can always hope.