• tigeruppercut
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    Unfortunately people like him rarely do. He got Dilbert dropped from most papers in 2023 for (in the most charitable interpretation) having a completely tone deaf reaction to a poll about race relations. Rather than think about why everyone got so angry with him he said his words were taken out of context and that they were hyperbole.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams?useskin=vector#Race

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      2 months ago

      Part of the plotline involved a black character who “identif[ied] as white” and the company management asking him if he could also identify as gay.

      I know he never would, but I really want him to give the proper context for that to not be offensive.

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        That’s pretty funny in the sense of a company trying to sell themselves as diverse and whatnot while being really offensive to the actual people. I can see a corporation doing that