"Adams satirized the world of cubicle-based IT and engineering in Dilbert, which at its height appeared in 2,000 daily newspapers and was later anthologized in numerous books. Dilbert was an engineer with few social skills, but he always knew more than his pointy-haired boss, a caricature of terrible supervisors everywhere who managed to make the life of those who actually knew what they were doing-the engineers-much harder than it needed to be."
""If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people," [Adams] said on the podcast episode, then they are a "hate group." He added, "I don't want to have 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.""
Scott Adams created Dilbert, a satirical comic about cubicle-based IT and engineering that reached roughly 2,000 daily newspapers and was anthologized in many books. The strip featured an engineer protagonist who often outperformed his incompetent pointy-haired boss, lampooning terrible supervisors. Over the last two decades, Adams pivoted from comics to politics, openly supporting Donald Trump and voicing abrasive conservative views. Controversial remarks about race and a strip introducing a Black character used to mock 'wokeness' prompted many newspapers to drop Dilbert, culminating in widespread cancellations that eroded his earlier success. Adams died of prostate cancer at 68.
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