បន្ទាត់ពេលវេលានៃការដួលរលំរបស់វិចិត្រករគំនូរជីវចល 'Dilbert' ពីព្រះគុណ

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Here’s a timeline of possibly career-ending backlash against cartoonist and Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who after years dabbling in controversy made racist comments in a YouTube livestream on February 22 that launched a series of grim consequences.

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Adams is best known for creating the តុក្កតាពេញនិយម Dilbert, whose eponymous main character struggles eternally against his incompetent boss, in 1989. Dilbert was featured in 2,000 papers at its peak, នេះបើយោងតាម ទៅ​ដល់ ស៊ីនតោនប៉ុស្តិ៍, but numbers have dwindled in recent years due in part to controversial statements Adams has made. In his first live stream, Adams not only labeled Black Americans a “hate group,” but suggested white people shouldn’t help the Black community because they will be labeled racist. In subsequent videos, Adams tried to provide context, claiming people are more economically successful if they avoid groups of people that might dislike them. He also denied being racist, emphatically claiming he had spent time and money helping Black Americans improve their economic standing.

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A self-described attention lover, Adams is no stranger to controversy—he went so far as to ទស្សន៍ទាយ his own cancellation in 2021 after suggesting in a livestream that the modern Nobel Prize is more focused on physical identifying markers than knowledge or achievement. Adams told the ស៊ីនតោនប៉ុស្តិ៍ his blogs during the 2016 election, some of which endorsed former-President Donald Trump, tanked his career as a motivational speaker and took a chunk of his income. In 2019, he half-apologized for using the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting to market his news service app, and he came under fire again in late January for calling anti-vaxxers “the winners” of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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អាដាម ' ប៉ុស្តិ៍ YouTube, where he posts episodes of his vlog Real Coffee with Scott Adams, has over 130,000 subscribers.

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Adams said Saturday he has identified as Black for many years partly because “it was an option” and partly because he wanted to reap the benefits of the time and money he claims to have poured into Black America. Dilbert’s first Black character, Dave, was ណែនាំ in 2022 and identifies as white.

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It’s debatable, experts say. The ស្ទង់មតិ asked respondents if they agreed with the phrase, “It’s okay to be White,” which the ភ្នំពេញ​ប៉ុស្តិ៍ របាយការណ៍ បានក្លាយជា popular in 2017 as a way for conservatives to provoke liberals on social media. The history of the phrase could have biased survey participants’ responses, University of Michigan political scientist Nicholas Valentino told the ភ្នំពេញ​ប៉ុស្តិ៍. Rassmussen skews conservative, according to ច្រើន របាយការណ៍, and reportedly ផ្សព្វផ្សាយព័ត៌មានមិនពិត about Covid-19 vaccines and the 2020 election. Adams also incorrectly framed the survey in his livestream, saying 47% of the 117 Black survey respondents មិនបាន agree with the statement, “It’s okay to be white.” The data is more nuanced: 26% Black respondents disagreed with the statement, 21% were unsure and the majority—53%—agreed.

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Adams’ is actively responding to critics on Twitter—he’s Tweeted hundreds of times since the backlash erupted a week ago. He’s also posted six new livestreams addressing the controversy and other hot topics like the Wuhan lab leak theory.

អានបន្ថែម

‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonists’ racist rant (វ៉ាប៉ូ)

Publisher Drops Plan to Release Book From ‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams (WSJ)