I don’t get the paper, so I only see Dilbert accidentally. Sometimes I think it’s funny—mostly just amusing. It will still be published on Adams’ subscription platform.
Here are his comments (about 7 minutes) if you want to hear them for yourself.
I’ve listened to a number of his podcasts and found that he often makes declarative statements, sometimes controversial, and sometimes to see if the statements gain traction online or in the media, and then in a subsequent podcast, he’ll draw on semantics to explain that he didn’t say what people thought he said or use it to illustrate how media narratives are created..
The problem is that he frequently has blind spots when it comes to his arguments and one shows up right away in the clip above. In the poll, 26 percent of Black Americans disagree or strongly disagree with the statement “It’s OK to be white” and 21 percent are “not sure.” Adams correctly rolls this up into 47 percent of Black respondents not being willing to say “It’s OK to be white” and then stretches it further to “nearly half of that team doesn’t think I’m OK to be white” and then “nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people” and then “the only outcome [of helping Black people] is that I get called a racist.”
So my first blind-spot thought is isn’t it possible that ‘not sure’ means “how the fuck should I know?” It’s kind of silly to pin that level of vitriol on the ‘not sures’ when the prompt could be interpreted a few different ways.
But it turns out this is worse than just Adams. According to this article, the poll itself is racist. Rasmussen was playing games by polling Black Americans with what is, not coincidentally, a white supremacist slogan. Ick.