Dilbert Gets Cancelled

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4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Scott Adams has always had a sharp pen, and he is perhaps the only cartoonist with the technical background and sense of the absurd to make an engineer hilarious. But after a recent outburst of double-plus ungood crimethink, he has been dropped by many papers that have carried Dilbert for decades. Is there a line for free speech, and if so, what should happen when you cross it? Steve, Scott and Zo wrestle with the problem while Bill wrestles with five days without studio internet. Help keep speech free while you still can. Help us resist YouTube's repeated attempts to smother this content by becoming a Citizen Producer right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	Is calling someone racist?
0:02.4	Racist?
0:03.5	I'm Scott Ott with Zo Rachel sitting in for Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.
0:07.4	And this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.
0:11.1	I did not just stutter, gentlemen.
0:13.3	But this question arose after Scott Adams, the guy who draws Dilbert.
0:20.0	All I knew it.
0:20.7	All three of us.
0:22.7	We should have taken a bet, man.
0:24.7	We should have taken a bet.
0:26.1	Oh, are you kidding?
0:27.0	I bet myself a hundred bucks.
0:28.8	I got, and now I have to pay and collect that money for myself.
0:32.8	I have, before we came on, members saw in our backstage show that I begged to be able to go first
0:39.6	this week because I knew that my colleagues were likely to choose the same topic. However,
0:45.7	as usual, I've got a weird perspective on this that it's probably not going to be the same as
0:51.5	yours. I really am not going to get into the issues about
0:54.9	whether Scott Adams pronouncements on his YouTube podcast-y kind of thing involve racism or not.
1:03.0	What's more interesting to me are three aspects of this. So for those of you who have not yet
1:08.1	heard, Scott Adams first lost a few newspapers who said they would no longer
1:12.6	carry the Dilbert cartoon, and then he lost his syndication company.
1:17.4	They dropped him, too, based on some comments he made in reaction to a survey that showed
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