Looking back

[u/sdw7sm]

I think that Scott was actually a victim of the Republican party. I know this sounds weird, but hear me out:

• The poll he reacted to was created by Rasmussen Reports, a group that is known to heavily lean Republican. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports
• The poll used a phrase that was created by internet trolls to persecute people that aren't white. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white
• That poll was clearly using the phrase with the intention of causing the same kind of reaction that Scott had from people that didn't know the source of the question.
• The pages related to this poll say January 2023 (before the poll supposedly even took place), including the one with the results of the poll: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/january_2023/not_woke_yet_most_voters_reject_anti_white_beliefs
• The Rasmussen poll supposedly only had three options (agree/disagree/not sure), and it is likely that the pollsters marked people who recognized the phrase as hate speech under "disagree".
• Of the 1000 people in the Rasmussen poll, only 130 were "Black" (13%)
• Another group did a follow-up poll that showed that the Rasmussen was clearly biased: https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/blog/its-ok-to-be-white-rasmussen-poll/ (it was too late for Scott by then)

This is not saying that how Scott was not racist or that his behavior was justified. I am saying that his career was destroyed when he reacted to a poll in the way that was clearly intended to be the reaction from oblivious/racist people in the first place. In other words, he was set up, and ended up being forced to turn to the very group that set him up for support as a result. At that point, he was never going to get his old life back so he had to double down on the behavior that pleased the people that still supported him financially. Whether he ever knew that he was set up is something that will likely never be known.

I know that not everyone will agree with my statements, and it is too late to confirm the truth or change what happened. I just wanted to post my opinion and mourn the loss of a man that I believe was talented but flawed like anyone else, and whose flaws were likely exploited.

[u/merchantconvoy]

"It's OK to be white." is the most benign racial statement imaginable.

The only persecution happening here is by the people disagreeing with this statement and against white people. 

End of conversation.

[u/sdw7sm → u/merchantconvoy]

Did you look up the phrase and the history behind it? I thought the same thing that you are saying at first, and my point was that Scott Adams probably did as well, but the poll was created as rage bait, pure and simple. It would have worded the question differently if it wasn’t.

[u/cerebralshrike]

Scott was a very intelligent man. It’s unfair to him to say he was somehow swindled by a political ideology. The same could be said about radical leftists.

[u/sdw7sm → u/cerebralshrike]

That was not what I said either. I said that the poll clearly used a seemingly innocuous phrase with existing negative connotations to skew the results in a manner that was meant to cause the kind of reaction that Scott had to the poll. The poll was created by a group that has been proven to have an agenda, and the bias has been proven by further research. but this was all happened after Scott’s reaction.

I didn’t mean that Scott was swindled by ideology, as he likely already had similar opinions beforehand, but that is another question that will never be answered. I simply meant that as a result of losing his career to the backlash and/or anger regarding the backlash itself, Scott ended up leaning more towards the party that destroyed his career, as it was a Republicangroup that created the skewed data that he reacted to, and that reaction is what caused his downfall.