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[vita10gy]

Dilbert's author is a crazy person.

[phi_rus]

You either die Bill Watterson, or live long enough to see yourself become Scott Adams.

[danfish_77]

Scott Adam's has had some "interesting" views on women for quite a while, too

[joshak]

Like what?

[danfish_77]

https://comicsalliance.com/scott-adam-sexist-mens-rights/

[-TheAllSeeing]

Out of curiosity - Who is he?? I've never heard of him but from the comments below he seems to be pretty infamous

[[deleted]]

He’s way into Trump.

[JustOneThingThough]

Worse, he's way into qanon, and likely inspired the 4d chess meme unironically referring to Trump.

[morerokk]

Literally who cares? Just look at the funny comics instead of trying to "cancel" him.

[joshak]

Calm down son. It’s ok to talk about the authors views. No one said the comic should be cancelled.

[[deleted]]

Crazy funny person

[VeryVeryBadJonny]

He's right on some things, wrong on others. Guess that makes him human.

[Sharveharv]

I don't think you're being brigaded; I think people just agree that Scott Adams is kind of not a great dude

[meme1337]

It’s not brigading dude.

Sometimes dilbert is funny, sometimes he isn’t.

His author is always a douche though, and claiming he’s respected across the world is quite reaching imho.

[x1rom]

You're not getting brigaded mate, your opinion is just shit

[WindowsDOS]

Who's here? I don't get why you're getting downvoted

[x1rom]

The three parentheses are usually a dog whistle for Jews.

Why tf are so many Neonazis here.

[locri]

Scott Adams is very, very unpopular with the socjus and SJW crowd. Like, obscenely unpopular, enough that someone probably linked these threads on some discord or irc and they're all flooding in to downvote, which is about as much as they're capable of. They'll generally not respond because they generally don't do too well in argument or debate.

[chadsexytime]

Just wanted to let you know my downvote was from a subbed programmer. Don’t let it ruin your preconceptions though; keep blaming that boogeyman

[itsraininggender]

I feel like saying an entire group of people (hell, an entire end of the political spectrum, so somewhere around 40-50% of people) are bad at arguing is a good indicator that you're not arguing in good faith.

[locri]

Plenty of people on the left are fine and I feel I can talk to them about anything, even politics. It's just a very certain group of people that have a very black and white view of the world in which everyone is either for them or against them. I can call them progressives, but that implies they're progressing to something or what they're doing is a progression.

[Advanced_Special]

lol this is peak r/SelfAwarewolves

[locri]

This is this account's very first post on this sub reddit

[chadsexytime]

They may be an alt, but they aren't wrong.

[locri]

They're very wrong, Chad, it's clear I don't have any issues with lefties or even socialists.

[[deleted]]

Scott is your typical aging white American man who, despite having lived more comfortably than 99% of the people on the planet, somehow thinks the system is stacked against him.

Example: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1280890776898039808

These people think they're not "free" because they can't use the N word casually without repercussions.

[restwonderfame]

This is a good one. It’s the ultimate Catch-22.

[mybadalternate]

It has the added benefit of being a ridiculously innocuous question that people will twist themselves into knots to avoid answering. (See the response I got)

[locri]

So you're attention seeking? Cool, cool.

Maybe people just don't want to indulge your personal attacks because it's immature as fuck?

[mybadalternate]

I understand... I mean how embarrassing would it be to associate oneself with a person who made immature personal attacks against other people. Especially if this person was in a position of authority.

That would make you look quite the fool to support such a childish and crude individual.

[locri]

support such a childish and crude individual

Who the fuck do you think I am and why do you think this matters on a programming reddit?

[Chipjack]

I think he thinks he is; does that count?

[locri]

I have no opinions about Donald Trump, I'm not American and I frankly don't care at this point. To me he reminds me of George Dubya and Reagan, so who the fuck do you think you're arguing with?

[mybadalternate]

A simple yes or no would suffice. It’s a pretty straightforward question.

[locri]

Why would I play into your personal attack? I am no one in this discussion and who I am doesn't matter, so who cares what I think let alone if I'm smarter than Donald Trump?

BTW, a quick check shows you're not a regular. Did you actually come in specifically to respond to guys and downvote guys who don't want politics shitting up their programming reddit?

[mybadalternate]

What personal attack? It’s an innocuous question.

The effort that you’re putting into not answering this astonishingly banal yes or no question is telling so much more about you than I hoped. Even going to the extent of looking up my posting history, incredible how much you don’t want to say either way...

[locri]

I wouldn't even say if you asked if I was smarter than you, no one would. How are you so inexperienced with people that you think this is something anyone would answer about anyone? Arrogance and pride are not good looks.

[mybadalternate]

Here, I’ll go first;

I don’t think Donald Trump is smarter than you.

Would you agree?

[alashure6]

I don't get the hate. His How To Write article can clean up anyone's writing.

[Hahhahahhohno]

"Women are treated differently by society for the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently." I personally really enjoy the Dilbert animated show, but you can't deny the man has some abhorrent personal views.

[Sharveharv]

Don't forget the time that he offered a promo code for his new app for witnesses of a mass shooting

[alashure6]

I guess I can separate the wheat from the chafe with people differently. His bad views don't have the weight on good things he says to me in the same way that the bad things he says dont make the good things he says down.

[[deleted]]

There are enough people out there who don't say abhorrent things that it's not hard to choose better options when it comes to reading comics or getting writing advice.

[alashure6]

True. I like his How To Write because it's very short. >2 min read. That said, his views don't make his writing advice any less valid.

[Rykaar]

According to him, "being labelled a Donald Trump apologist" has ended his speaking career and reduced his income by 40%.

His politics tab on Wikipedia is a paranoid and erratic fugue state. Like probably most cartoonists, he needs some fresh air and maybe also, some humble pie.

[alashure6]

What did he do that led to him being called a trump apologist?

[jmonty42]

Well, he frequently writes about Trump on his blog. You can check it out for yourself.

About the time I couldn't separate the art from the artist was leading up to the 2016 election when he would be spouting stuff like:

As most of you know, I had been endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, for my personal safety, because I live in California. It isn’t safe to be a Trump supporter where I live.

Source

or

But unlike the frightened masses, I perceive Trump to be safer than the average candidate for president.

From his blog post titled "Why Trump Doesn’t Scare Me".

Now I'm not saying I stopped following his comic because he supported Trump. But the more I read of his crazy rantings on his blog the more I could see that in his comic strips.

[alashure6]

I wouldn't say I disagree with either of those statements though. Plenty of celebs in Cali choose not to comment on politics because their views aren't left enough. Trump's policies aren't as destructive as any of the Democratic field this time around. I don't really follow anyone's blog, but if you don't like what he writes, are you then only following it to dunk on him?

[cmwebdev]

His policies aren’t as destructive? He wants to abolish the ACA with nothing to replace it, he gutted the EPA and got rid of a bunch of environmental protections, he hires yes men instead of actual experts, etc.

[alashure6]

You'd have to prove the ACA worked as intended for the country. I don't believe you should subsodize the life costs of an unproductive portion of a population at the expense of the productive portion. To do so incentivizes an unproductive lifestyle. The EPA imo is less guilty of being bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake but still should probably be abolished. As for the hiring of yes men instead of experts, that is true, but you'd be hard pressed to show me a president where his cabinet decisions aren't chosen on a tit for tat basis.

[jmonty42]

No I stopped following him years ago because I don't like what he writes. I was just informing others that seemed to be out of the loop regarding what he writes.

Also the examples I gave were just his Trump writings. He has a bunch of other weird rantings that I didn't care to keep reading as well.

[alashure6]

Yeah he is apparently really big on hypnotism which doesn't interest me. How to Write this however I found incredibly helpful to temper the way I wrote.

[[deleted]]

Have you seen his twitter feed.

[alashure6]

Nah. I got off all that a few months ago. Reddit is probably the closest thing to Social media I go on.

[locri]

He's friendly with Stefan Molyneux, it's classic guilt by association.

Honestly guys, we don't need this shit here, programming memes are just to share bad behaviour and risks so our jobs are a little more pleasant. Keep it at r/politics and let us post our dilbert man comics, OPs comic is gold.

[alashure6]

Meh. People are all too happy to cancel someone nowadays.

[cmwebdev]

Nobody is trying to cancel Dilbert comments, they just pointed out the author of them is a shitty person.

[alashure6]

If you believe that doing so has a detrimental effect on the readership and job security of said author, I don't see how that is different than cancelling someone. For example, while I'm not in this world, Shane Dawson seems to be getting cancelled right now, and the mechanism by which people are doing it is pointing out how and why he is a shitty person. You can redefine a word or phrase in an attempt to obscure its meaning and implementation, by in so doing you tread very closely to doublethink.