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What did he say this was so inaccurate?


Why are people mad at him for what he said? What was so inaccurate?

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He pointed out the fact that the majority of black people are racist and black people confirmed this with the way they answered questions in a poll.

You’re not allowed to speak truth to the Democrat party and it’s lemmings or you’ll be canceled. Gotta let them remain in their brain dead fantasy world.

Fun fact: the majority of blacks hate Mexicans and Asians too.

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i never knew how much black people hate white until i go on social medias hahahahaha. i mean wow!!!

before i just watch film and tv that show black and white in harmonys (except in american south states) and think everything ok in america apart from mississipi but no hahahahahah

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The biggest social catastrophe in the West was allowing university professors to redefine the word racism in such a way that all non-white people can now be racist while claiming it's impossible for them to be racist...

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Adams rant was that half of the blacks polled by a conservative organization disagreed with the statement “it’s OK to be white.” The actual results for black respondents were

53% agree

26% disagree

21% not sure

Adams lumped the last two together to come up with his “half.”

It’s OK to be white started out as a 4chan troll campaign as a wink and a nod to white nationalism. Obviously not everyone uses it that way, but the context of the comment is likely well understood.

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Unfortunately, the far-right are not *quite* as stupid as we make them out to be.

They're taking what are on the face-of-it entirely innocuous phrases like "It's OK to be white" and "All lives matter", which from a literal POV, no-one should have any issue with, but weaponising them to imply something different, and as a means of silencing Black people who highlight legitimate racial grievances.

The question is, how does the left respond? For the most part, I think we ignore the attempts by the far-right to get into this semantic rabbit-hole. The point at which it becomes a practical problem, is where such messages are posted across university campuses and other specific communities, as a means of intimidating other individuals (or even where that may not be the intent, but POC in particular feel, reasonably, threatened by such slogans).

But in publicly confronting such nonsense, we have to be careful and nuanced. A lot of ordinary voters aren't particularly educated or nuanced, or don't have very high IQs. That isn't a criticism by the way, but just something to bear in mind. So, when we criticise slogans like "It's OK to be white" and "All lives matter" we need to be clear that we're not arguing the opposite (i.e. that it isn't OK to be white, or that only some lives matter), but asking why we need such slogans to begin with? What good are they doing? Is anyone arguing otherwise? And pointing out who the groups are who are actually facing systemic bigotry (with specific and clear examples of where that bigotry manifests).

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What part of "All" do you fail to comprehend? All lives includes black lives. It's just a rational response to the exclusionary "black lives matter". To be against saying "all lives matter" is racist.

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Because of the intent.

Why does anyone *need* to say that 'all lives matter'? Is anyone arguing otherwise?

Yes, literally-speaking the line is correct. All lives *do* matter, but as a de facto response to 'Black lives matter' it's clearly a means of diversion. It's a means of distracting us from grappling with any solution to those Black lives that have thus far been shown to apparently *not* matter.

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Naturally, you could ask whites if "it's OK to be black" and you would probably get close to the same numbers. Maybe even more strongly in the negative.

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Nobody but deranged Lefties thinks “it’s OK to be white” is racist!

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Nothing. He was speaking the truth. But he's a lunatic. You shouldn't say that crap in a bar, let alone in an interview. And you sure as hell shouldn't go out of your way to post a video online about it. It's like he wanted to sabotage his career. That Dilbert money must have been pretty good to set him up to give nunfuks.

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You think demonising an entire race of people is 'accurate'?

What about the time he claimed that either Trump, Biden or Sanders would die from COVID? Or when he stated that Republicans would be hunted within a year of Biden's election, and then switched that to 'within 2 years of his election' after his *first* prediction fell completely flat?

How about when he suggested that parents should murder their mentally ill or drug-addicted sons, if they believed he posed a 'threat' to themselves or society?

Bear in mind, this is a man he was 'more left-wing than Bernie Sanders', and yet proceeced to support Mitt Romney, despite being unable to articulate why, and demonised Hillary Clinton for wanting to raise inheritance tax.

The man's politics are all over the place.

It's one thing to say you support Trump (who I obviously despise), because as ignorant and dangerous as I think Trump is, I'm also 100% certain he knows what he's doing (at least as a campaigner, if not as POTUS), and that there is a clear 'method to his madness', but to agree with Scott Adams, is basically saying you support a crazy, inconsistent, mentally-confused, ranting flake. He makes Marjorie Taylor-Greene seem cogent.

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This coming from the man who defended a common jack-boot thug who pulled a gun on an unarmed person. Sheesh...

And being against increased taxation makes someone less liberal how, exactly?

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He's not an American, so nothing he says is relevant.

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Seeing that the man is a racist and a sexist, he clearly isn't a social liberal, so, what does that leave? Maybe he could be a socioeconomic leftist, who supports progressive taxation...Nope, clearly not that either.

So, like I ask, what makes him a liberal? What basis does he have for saying he's further to the left of Bernie Sanders, whilst supporting Romney and Trump, and consistently coming out with right-wing nonsense?

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You're not answering the question: What does someone being against taxation have to do with them not bing a liberal? Answer that question.

Your mystical Bernie has more closet space than I live in. He's far from a leftist. He profits from the left, sure. But his actions aren't leftist at all.

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Are you talking about a modern liberal, in the manner often used in US vernacular, or a 'classical liberal'?

If you mean a modern 'liberal,' which tends to be synonymous with 'left-wing,' then, yes, supporting progressive taxation in order to support public services, is what might be described by man as 'liberal'.

And I'm not particularly a Bernie-stan. I think his contribution to US politics is important, because it offers an alternative perspective to the neoliberal GOP and DNC. Still, I don't deny that many self-identifying 'leftists' in the public eye can be hypocrites. Still, what matters far more to me, is what they are doing to help people like me, irrespective of any hypocricies in their personal life. Theire hypocricies don't affect me. Their policies/contributions to public life, potentially do.

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LOL!!!! Defending another shitbag. And a shitbag by your won admission. Wow. What an appeaser.

There are plenty of liberals who don't support heavy handed taxation. Maybe since you don't care if your idols are lying sons of bitches that kind of thinking doesn't matter to you either.

How high does your leg kick as you goose step?

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He's not defending anyone or anything. He is a foreign national troll who camps out at this and other sites trying to pass as American, embedding himself in political and cultural discussions that have nothing to do with him or his country.

He carefully researches controversial American figures so he can embed himself in political discussions and disrupt the ability of Americans to talk about their politics and culture clearly.

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Guess what? This site isn't exclusive to Americans.

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You're not from the United States. Stop talking as if you were.

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"What about the time he claimed that either Trump, Biden or Sanders would die from COVID?" CNN, Google, Bing, and Duck Go don't seem to know about this claim. Do you have a link from a MSM source? I would think the MSM would have noted this claim?

"How about when he suggested that parents should murder their mentally ill or drug-addicted sons, if they believed he posed a 'threat' to themselves or society?" I didn't bother to search for this one, but I am sure you have CREDIBLE documentation.

"Or when he stated that Republicans would be hunted within a year of Biden's election, and then switched that to 'within 2 years of his election' after his *first* prediction fell completely flat?" I see fringe sources covering this, but no MSM.



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