Updated! After Dilbert Creator Gets Blacklisted for Making ‘Racist’ Comments, Doug Wilson’s Canon Press Seeks to Snatch Him Up
Update. Canon Press commented on their offer to Adams, writing:
After famed ‘Dilbert’ creator and political commentator Scott Adams announced that he’d been dropped by his publisher and distributor for making a series of allegedly racist comments, Doug Wilson’s Canon Press sent out a message to him suggesting they’re looking to snap him up, or offer him a place within their publishing organization.
Adam’s recent troubles began during the Feb. 22 episode of “Real Coffee with Scott Adams,” when he referenced a Rasmussen survey where many black respondents disagreed or were unsure of the statement “It’s ok to be white” and then said based on the results, white folks needed to get away from black people.
Author Samuel Sey and many others took exception to Scott’s commentary, writing “Scott Adam’s words in this video are racist. It’s indefensible. And it’s yet another example of the cycle of racism in our culture. Racism begets racism. Stop repaying racism for racism.”
So if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that’s a hate group. That’s a hate group. And I don’t want to have anything to do with them.
And I would say, you know, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people, is to get the hell away from black people, just get the f**** away.
Wherever you have to go, just get away.
Because there’s no fixing this, this can’t be fixed. Right, this can’t be fixed, you just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where you know, I have a very low black population. Because unfortunately, the you know, there’s a high correlation between the density, this is going to Don Lemon, by the way. Um, so here, I’m just quoting Don Lemon when when he notes that when he lived in a mostly black neighborhood, there were a bunch of problems that he didn’t see in white neighborhoods. So even Don Lemon sees is a big difference in your own quality of living, based on where you live, and who is there.
So I think it makes no sense whatsoever, as a white citizen of America to try to help black citizens anymore. It doesn’t make sense. It is no longer a rational impulse. And so I’m going to, I’m going to back off from being helpful to black America, because it doesn’t seem like it pays off.
Like I’ve been doing it all my life and had been- the only outcome is I get called a racist. That’s the only outcome. It makes no sense to help black Americans if you’re white. It’s over. Don’t even think it’s worth trying. Totally not trying.
…And there we go. You didn’t expect that today did you….But those who don’t want to focus on education, you just need to get away from them. Just get as much distance as you can. That’s my recommendation. And I’m also really sick of seeing video after video of black Americans beating up non-black citizens. Um, you know, I realize it’s anecdotal. And, uh, you know, doesn’t give me a full picture of what’s happening. But every damn day, I look on social media and there’s some black person beating the s**** out of some white person. I’m kind of over it. I’m over it. Right. So I quit.
Many Christians jumped to Adam’s defense and say there’s nothing racist about these comments at all, but rather he’s just speaking facts and making thoughtful and rational commentary, resulting in the wailing and gnashing of teeth by bad-faith progressives. When we asked Sey why so many people are quick to claim the comments are not racist, he offered:
“I think many people are defending Scott Adams because of bitterness. They’re bitter about the hypocrisies of the anti-white woke mob, the media, and cancel culture. Their bitterness is leading them to justify racism. They’re repaying racism for racism.”
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I get that Adams was frustrated, and there was, potentially, a good point or two that could be made about the poll, but he butchered it. And he won’t back down. And many reflexively jump to his defense.
Sadly, in all this, we have become distracted from that poll (although I have doubts about those numbers)….that almost half of the black population cannot agree that “It is okay to be white” and that 28% of Americans cannot agree that “It is okay to be white.”
That is crazy. It reveals a deep level of racism that did not exist 12 years ago, or even 3 years ago.
But when do you ask “why is it worse now?” “Who has the most to gain?” Shelby Steele wrote a book about it entitled “White Guilt” and The Rabbit Hole substack wrote about it 5/30/22 “The Racial Industrial Complex: An introduction and the Legacy Media’s Grift.” I grew up outside of Atlanta and went to public school 1st – 12th grades in that same area. We used to play around with each other and make fund of each other as friends and classmates. Today you have polls that he talks about. He is 100% right. I see it all around me. Grifters have to grift otherwise they would have no income. Think about it: where would Waters, Jackson, Sharpton, Lee and Abrams get their millions if not for sowing seeds of racism. Actually it was the Clinton with all the “we are now _______-Americans” crap. They helped to plant the seeds and Obama fertilized them. Obiden is reaping it.
I believe it was the following day Scott was on with Hotep Jesus. They went into more detail about his comments and Scott volunteered to develop a free curriculum for Hotep to use in his home schooling organization.
Mr. Sey is correct. However, the ability to absorb and ignore, to break the destructive back and forth cycle, to leave revenge to the Lord, to let the buck stop with you, without faking it, is something that we’re not born with. It is the result of a changed heart, which only God can do. It is the Holy Spirit within us. This is part of what Jesus meant when He said that we are the salt of the earth.
Of course, that is mostly what makes us the enemy of those who profit from keeping the feud going.
And that is not to say that we are required to extend grace and forgiveness devoid of repentance – we are not required to do so, and often times should not. Yet we must not cross lines that God has put into place, no matter what someone else might’ve done. Leaving perfect justice and fairness to God to deal with in His time, understanding that such may not happen in this life, because He is waiting on a fallen world to repent (2 Pet. 3:9).
But Adams is not a Christian, and he cannot fully understand this dynamic.
They call him “racist” but they don’t call him wrong.
Only in these twisted, desperately evil days can proclaiming an unabashed, verifiable truth can one’s livelihood be canceled and reputation be slandered. Thankfully, Adams has made his fortune.
All this reminds me of the Johnny Hart controversy from a couple decades ago:
https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/nation-world/2001/04/14/b-c-cartoon-stirs/50411294007/