Elon Musk defends racist tirade by Dilbert creator Scott Adams

Nike7 said:
Only, he said to stay away from black people, not just racist black people, which is kinda racist, don’t you think?
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When you know an area has a lot of crime, do you still go to that area? Or do you avoid it completely?
Avoiding a crime ridden area is makes you a phobe or an ist.
 
Bewlen said:
Imagine that poll run amongst whites, but with the races reversed, and the question asked and answered: "Is it okay to be black", and 26% said "no".... can you even begin to imagine the armageddon.

But it's fine, as long as it was done according to the correct color palette? This sure is one crazy planet we find ourselves on.
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Good thing we can only imagine the one and actually witness the other.
 
konfab said:
He did not say that.

As for his "advice", yeah it is stupid and divisive.
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People are jumping on a bandwagon yet again without knowing any, or very little, of the context around this incident.
No wonder it's so easy to rile people up regarding race, especially in the US.

LOL at the attempts of saying "it’s okay to be White" is a loaded question. It's as simple as it needs to be with the answer being "Yes". That barely 50% answered in that fashion is worrying.
 
Gyre said:
Today we learn all black people are from the same area.
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Gyre said:
Now you're generalizing too?
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Am I? Because it's literally happening everywhere. Everywhere I look black people talk about how much their race means to them and how proud they are of being black. There are award ceremonies celebrating everything black in entertainment and sport and nothing else, there are black history months, there are black people who only vote black (in entertainment and politics which I guess is another form of entertainment). Black characters are celebrated just because they're black, black leaders are celebrated because of their skin colour, people are proud of appointing black women etc etc.

Here in SA it's celebrated when a company is 100% black, black owned and whatever. People want more BEEeE. The whole clicks shampoo thing showed us how proud people are of their race.

It's all around.
 
I have been going through Scott Adams's YouTube episodes, and he regularly touches on the Rasmussen polls, anyhow, since the media didn't link to his segment on that topic here it is - For those interested in what he said:

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wbot said:
Am I? Because it's literally happening everywhere. Everywhere I look black people talk about how much their race means to them and how proud they are of being black. There are award ceremonies celebrating everything black in entertainment and sport and nothing else, there are black history months, there are black people who only vote black (in entertainment and politics which I guess is another form of entertainment). Black characters are celebrated just because they're black, black leaders are celebrated because of their skin colour, people are proud of appointing black women etc etc.

Here in SA it's celebrated when a company is 100% black, black owned and whatever. People want more BEEeE. The whole clicks shampoo thing showed us how proud people are of their race.

It's all around.
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Sometimes, it takes years before there is a female winner or female representative in something. The same thing for gay people, black people, disabled people, etc - so historically, it's a pretty big thing when somebody is the first to do something. There are also people that feel marginalized(and Scott's rant is just proof that he views a whole group differently, so it's not exactly a lie).

"Pride" events are people that fought for their rights, not people celebrating a skin tone or their private parts. If people had not fought, they may not have had rights today either.

Also, what 5 people do is not representative of what the next 5 people do, or their attitudes. So if you see one person doing something, don't judge the next person by what that person did.

If the whole country rioted over the shampoo ads, there wouldn't be a country left. You see what you want to see.
 
Gyre said:
Sometimes, it takes years before there is a female winner or female representative in something. The same thing for gay people, black people, disabled people, etc - so historically, it's a pretty big thing when somebody is the first to do something. There are also people that feel marginalized(and Scott's rant is just proof that he views a whole group differently, so it's not exactly a lie).

"Pride" events are people that fought for their rights, not people celebrating a skin tone or their private parts. If people had not fought, they may not have had rights today either.

Also, what 5 people do is not representative of what the next 5 people do, or their attitudes. So if you see one person doing something, don't judge the next person by what that person did.

If the whole country rioted over the shampoo ads, there wouldn't be a country left. You see what you want to see.
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Once AA and BEE is killed we will have a lot of pride events.
 
Kieppie said:
People are jumping on a bandwagon yet again without knowing any, or very little, of the context around this incident.
No wonder it's so easy to rile people up regarding race, especially in the US.

LOL at the attempts of saying "it’s okay to be White" is a loaded question. It's as simple as it needs to be with the answer being "Yes". That barely 50% answered in that fashion is worrying.
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The reason why some people might have issues with the statement..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_okay_to_be_white

The saying was later spread by neo-Nazi groups and politically organized white supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and The Daily Stormer.[5] A report by the Anti-Defamation League states that the phrase itself has a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001 when it was used as the title of a song by a white power music group called Aggressive Force as well as fliers with the phrase being spotted in 2005 and the slogan being used by a member of the United Klans of America.[
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If the poll was actually looking for an honest response they could have worded it differently rather than using the exact wording of an alt-right trolling campaign...
 
Vrotappel said:
Once AA and BEE is killed we will have a lot of pride events.
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I'd love for AA and BEE to be killed, I'd also love for racists to follow the same route of AA and BEE because without racists, we wouldn't have had BEE in the first place.
 
MikeaMatrix said:
When you know an area has a lot of crime, do you still go to that area? Or do you avoid it completely?
Avoiding a crime ridden area is makes you a phobe or an ist.
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Then perhaps he should have said that people should avoid crime-ridden areas, or do you think that white areas can't be crime-ridden?
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I have been going through Scott Adams's YouTube episodes, and he regularly touches on the Rasmussen polls, anyhow, since the media didn't link to his segment on that topic here it is - For those interested in what he said:

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Caveat being he doesn't think the poll is accurate, but assuming it is then XYZ even though XYZ might be the incorrect approach.
Most important part of that segment is where he says anyone that focusses their priority on education will do well.
 
Cray said:
The reason why some people might have issues with the statement..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_okay_to_be_white



If the poll was actually looking for an honest response they could have worded it differently rather than using the exact wording of an alt-right trolling campaign...
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Nonsense. None of what you quoted from that wiki article carry any weight. No objective person believes entries like that when they cite ADL or such organisations.

That you believe it's alt-right trolling says more about your own and others preconceptions than the poll itself.
It's a perfectly framed question in the current setting where they are inundated with articles claiming "whiteness" is bad. It's so simple that even a grade schooler can answer it.
 
Kieppie said:
Nonsense. None of what you quoted from that wiki article carry any weight. No objective person believes entries like that when they cite ADL or such organisations.

That you believe it's alt-right trolling says more about your own and others preconceptions than the poll itself.
It's a perfectly framed question in the current setting where they are inundated with articles claiming "whiteness" is bad. It's so simple that even a grade schooler can answer it.
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So you are basically saying that the large percentage of people who voted "not sure" (21 %) are just idiots and that the people who voted against the statement (26%) are all racists, that there can't be any other explanation for why those people chose to vote the way they did...
 
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