Re Scott Adams, I agree with Peter Suderman in that I don't want to use the Adams example as a data point on cancel culture. Scott Adams knew exactly what he was doing.
It reminds me (just a bit) of the example of sculptor and potter (even painter) Charles Krafft who did images that were considered darkly ironic - so of Hitler, also o…
Re Scott Adams, I agree with Peter Suderman in that I don't want to use the Adams example as a data point on cancel culture. Scott Adams knew exactly what he was doing.
It reminds me (just a bit) of the example of sculptor and potter (even painter) Charles Krafft who did images that were considered darkly ironic - so of Hitler, also of a Luger. But then it was found out that he was active in white supremecist sites and was a holocaust denier.
So in the end, Adams was holding it all in and in the end he just had to get it out. He was always the bitter racist.
I am a bit older than Adams and so dealt with issues that he talks about. He mentions that he could not get a promotion because he was white. Well such was real - I remember leaving graduate school with my MFA in 1976 and only the women and the one black kid got offers of jobs right after school - we only had 13 graduates in our small MFA program. A few year later one of the guys who found an academic job after a longer search was recommended for tenure by his college (Ohio State - the Arts college) but at the University level, he did not get tenure. So he moved on. Left academia. The understanding was that it did not fit the goals under affirmative action.
The difference with many of us who faced affirmative action and Scott Adams is that we also remember that blacks had been entirely excluded from so much, so it is hard to know what else would have moved America along other than affirmative action.
Adams is 6 years younger than I am. I ended up fine. He did too. I wonder why he retained the bitterness? Even the hate.
Re Scott Adams, I agree with Peter Suderman in that I don't want to use the Adams example as a data point on cancel culture. Scott Adams knew exactly what he was doing.
It reminds me (just a bit) of the example of sculptor and potter (even painter) Charles Krafft who did images that were considered darkly ironic - so of Hitler, also of a Luger. But then it was found out that he was active in white supremecist sites and was a holocaust denier.
So in the end, Adams was holding it all in and in the end he just had to get it out. He was always the bitter racist.
I am a bit older than Adams and so dealt with issues that he talks about. He mentions that he could not get a promotion because he was white. Well such was real - I remember leaving graduate school with my MFA in 1976 and only the women and the one black kid got offers of jobs right after school - we only had 13 graduates in our small MFA program. A few year later one of the guys who found an academic job after a longer search was recommended for tenure by his college (Ohio State - the Arts college) but at the University level, he did not get tenure. So he moved on. Left academia. The understanding was that it did not fit the goals under affirmative action.
The difference with many of us who faced affirmative action and Scott Adams is that we also remember that blacks had been entirely excluded from so much, so it is hard to know what else would have moved America along other than affirmative action.
Adams is 6 years younger than I am. I ended up fine. He did too. I wonder why he retained the bitterness? Even the hate.
“It is hard to know what else would have moved America along other than affirmative action.” Yes. Thank you.