Adams and Stein - The Racist Twins

The cartoonist and economist share their prejudiced souls.

One can hardly read the news or move through social media without coming across someone decrying “wokeness.”  It doesn’t take long to find someone upset because of their discomfort in the identification and removal of prejudicial tropes and archaic stereotypes.

However, the same people who complain about woke culture inevitably demonstrate the necessity of its existence.

Two of the latest confirmers of societal bias are Scott Adams, famed cartoonist of the popular “Dilbert” comic strip, and political commentator and actor Ben Stein.

Adams, commenting on a specious survey that showed that nearly half of all Black people polled thought that it was not “OK” to be White.

To say that these results bother Adams is an understatement.

“So if nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people, according to this poll, not according to me, that’s a hate group. That’s a hate group and I don’t want anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f**k away.”

 “Wherever you have to go just get away. ‘Cause there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. You just have to escape. So that’s what I did. I went to a neighborhood with a very low Black population.”

This isn’t the first time that Adams has made blatantly racist statements. When a Dilbert television series was canceled by the UPN network, he tweeted:

“I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience. That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.)”

This was after making public statements saying that the show was the victim of network mismanagement.

He also suggested that Black Lives Matter protestors were influenced by the motion picture “Joker,” starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Don’t ask. Trying to explain his reasoning would give both the writer and readers an avoidable headache.

Seems that Adams is less like Dilbert, and more like Catbert, the evil HR director from his comic strip.

As for Stein, he misses the days when corporations would shamelessly use racist symbols to advertise their products.

He posted a video on social media lamenting the loss of a beloved product mascot:

“Aunt Jemima, yummy, pancake syrup. Now, this used to show a large African American woman chef, but because of the inherent racism of Americans’ corporate culture, they decided to make it a white person, or maybe no person at all.”

“But, I prefer when it was a black person, showing their incredible skill at making pancakes. So, God bless you all and have a good evening.”

My heart bleeds for Stein. His treasured memories of pouring syrup from a mammy-shaped bottle is all he has left of an insulting, ridiculous advertising campaign.

I’m sure he misses Uncle Ben, the Cream of Wheat chef, and reading “The Story of Little Black Sambo” when he was a child.

For people like Adams and Stein, their happiest memories were when Black people knew their place and that place was beneath White people.

When you feel that you have to move away to a place where there are few Black people, you’re racist.

When you care less about a racist trope’s removal, and more about your fond memories of a Black woman “showing her incredible skill at making pancakes,” you’re racist.

You’re racist, and you not only need to be woke,

You need reviving.