By Jerry PDX
friday, november 4, 2022 at 7:30:00 p.m. edt
Dilbert has been cancelled by almost 80 newspapers for poking fun at extreme wokeness in the workplace:
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/dilbert-comic-strip-removed-from-nearly-80-papers-author-says-scott-adams-cartoon
Apparently, Scott Adams’ satire has triggered woke editors across the country. Here is one of the strips that got him in trouble:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dilbert+nicholas+stix&t=ha&va=j&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-a_yaecGBw58%2FV2-GDOKeXuI%2FAAAAAAAAhnY%2FoIH0_qAQ5fQIjwErhutcCkDJ3z9hZ0CywCLcB%2Fs640%2FDILBERT%252Bdt151120.gif
If you do a little search online you can find others, but one thing you notice is how mild his strips are. Compare them to the vicious, mean-spirited, and unfunny Doonesbury strip penned by the wildly overrated humorist Gary Trudeau, and it’s illustrative of the political hypocrisy that rules this country right now. Though to be fair, he has had certain strips pulled by newspapers but Doonesbury isn’t getting cancelled en masse, due to political reasons.
Dilbert is one of the few comic strips I bother to read anymore, if I even happen to glance at the comics page, that is. Most comic strips are dreadful now. It’s obvious papers have picked up many comic strips simply because they have “diversity” creators. The general rule now is the more “diverse” they are, the worse they are. At one time, we had brilliant strips like Shoe, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes, but now the funny pages are filled with mediocre or less than mediocre talents for a snowflake audience that can’t deal with anything that might be the slightest bit challenging or non-pc.
On a more positive note. Far Side creator Gary Larson has posted all his work online, and has even been drawing new cartoons, which can be found in the “new stuff” area. It’s enjoyable scanning through his past work, though his recent comic strips don’t seem to have the spark of genius his old stuff did. Still fun to read, and infinitely better than current woke garbage. https://www.thefarside.com/
The punchline is very funny.A coal colored black guy--who identifies as White--is asked by his boss to identify as gay,so the company can get higher ESG scores.
ReplyDeleteThe black guy says,"How hard to have to pretend to be gay?"
"Just wear a better shirt."
GRA:For that--he gets kicked out of 77 papers?
--GRA
Even Dilbert. Even him. That does say a lot. Even a trivial thing as a cartoon character can be deemed to be so dangerous. Where is the front: where Dilbert is? Please world let it not be so.
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