Scott Adams
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I don’t read comic strips, although it sounds like in at least its early days Dilbert was a welcome bit of satire of the world of corporate middle management. This Times obit indicates that Adams was saying pretty horrible things at least 20 years ago, although he wasn’t “cancelled” until 2023.
In February 2023, he was discussing a new Rasmussen Reports poll that found that only 53 percent of Black Americans agreed with the statement, “It’s OK to be white,” a phrase that has been promoted by white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people — according to this poll, not according to me, according to the poll — that’s a hate group, and I don’t want to have anything to do with them,” he said on the podcast episode. “And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” . . .
The success of “Dilbert” gave Mr. Adams a platform to comment on a wide range of topics on his blog and podcast. Some of his views drew intense criticism. On his blog in 2006, he questioned whether the figure of six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust was accurate or a big number “that someone pulled out of his ass.” Five years later, also on his blog, he wrote that “women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. Its just easier this way for everyone.” . . .
He said his support for Mr. Trump in 2016 proved costly.
“When I decided that I would throw away my entire social life to back Trump and when I eventually threw away my entire career — which even before I was canceled, my licensing business and book sales went to almost nothing — because I was supporting Trump,” he said on his podcast in October 2025. “I sacrificed everything. I sacrificed my social life. I sacrificed my career. I sacrificed my reputation. I may have sacrificed my health. And I did that because I believed it was worth it.”
Adams’s net worth at the time of his death was widely estimated at around $20 million, so his misguided principles didn’t exactly put him on a bread line. But his grievance-filled rants about how a white man who supports Trump couldn’t catch a break made him an ideal MAGA representative.
I’m assuming a lot of LGM readers read Dilbert back in the day, so have at it.