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  1. Ed G. Member
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    I was hoping you two would address the Scott Adams situation. I continue to be amazed by the reactions or, in most cases, non-reactions. In most cases where there has been comment, very little has been said about the poll that Adams was commenting on. People start with Adams-the-Racist as if his comments were not in response to a shocking poll showing widespread racism among black people; way more widespread than anyone’s wildest fantasies about white supremacy. John mentions it but only to dismiss it. Adams the racist as if his comments weren’t somewhat tongue in cheek and wry.

    If you don’t find the underlying poll shocking and worrisome, then of course the only way to interpret Adams’ remarks is as a racist revealing himself.

    However, if you do find the underlying poll shocking and worrisome, then Scott Adams’ reaction to it is the least of our concerns and is actually a reasonable moral response along the lines that Glen was referring to when he mentioned reasons people are leaving urban blight. Turns out that we do have a racism problem, just not in the way people think.

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  2. Ed G. Member
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    John’s point starting at 62:00 is presented as exculpatory to the underlying poll, but I don’t think it helps the way John thinks it does. If it’s mainstream that what black people mean by “it’s not ok to be white” is that a white person should feel they are inherently a part of an historical tragedy against black people and should think about it, then that really just validates Adams’ point: a large proportion of black people are casually and openly racist and believe themselves to be justified in it. I think John’s mainstream paraphrase is an inherently racist position of the sort that most white people would abhor – group and historical guilt to be borne by people now and into the future.

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  3. Taras Coolidge
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    Ed G. (View Comment):

    I was hoping you two would address the Scott Adams situation. I continue to be amazed by the reactions or, in most cases, non-reactions. In most cases where there has been comment, very little has been said about the poll that Adams was commenting on. People start with Adams-the-Racist as if his comments were not in response to a shocking poll showing widespread racism among black people; way more widespread than anyone’s wildest fantasies about white supremacy. John mentions it but only to dismiss it. Adams the racist as if his comments weren’t somewhat tongue in cheek and wry.

    If you don’t find the underlying poll shocking and worrisome, then of course the only way to interpret Adams’ remarks is as a racist revealing himself.

    However, if you do find the underlying poll shocking and worrisome, then Scott Adams’ reaction to it is the least of our concerns and is actually a reasonable moral response along the lines that Glen was referring to when he mentioned reasons people are leaving urban blight. Turns out that we do have a racism problem, just not in the way people think.

    Scott Adams is very naïve about racial matters, judging from his podcast.   All he knows, it seems, is what the liberal media have to say about the subject; not that the conservative media (leery of being called racist) are much more informative.

    For example, if he had ever seen the statistics on black-on-white crime, he wouldn’t have been surprised by that poll, and wouldn’t have overreacted.

    I think he’s also on the spectrum, as they say, so he doesn’t always get subtleties, and doesn’t always know how people will react to what he says.

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