Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams dead at 68

NBC announced Scott Adams, once famous as cartoonist of the Dilbert comic strip, has finally died of prostate cancer at 68. The leftist press, however, has certainly spared no expense in tearing down on his image, even if there is valid grounds on which to take issue with his MO:

Scott Adams, the "Dilbert" creator whose cartoon was dropped by hundreds of newspapers after he made racist remarks, died months after revealing his diagnosis with prostate cancer, his family said on Tuesday.

Adams told fans in May last year that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had spread to his bones.

He'd recently been in hospice care in Northern California.

"Unfortunately, this isn't good news," his ex-wife Shelly Miles told Adams' fans on YouTube on Tuesday. "He's not with us ... anymore."

In a statement he penned on Jan. 1 and shared by Miles on Tuesday, Adams said he hoped his work brought joy to "lots of lonely people."

"I had an amazing life," Adams said. "I gave it everything I had."

Well I don't deny Dilbert had its values, but did Adams make racist statements against Blacks? What I definitely did think at the time was that he was painting a whole segment of society with far too broad a brush as though they were all the same. His statement was dreadful and went after easy targets, when here, he had a big chance to take issue with the leftist education system and the indoctrination it resulted in. How does it help to merely take issue with the Black community itself as a whole? It does not. And there are other troubling things Adams did, if the following says anything:

If Adams had harbored any far-right theories, he had largely kept those thoughts to himself as his cartoon flourished in popularity.

But then Adams questioned the scope of the Holocaust in 2006 and compared women to "children and the mentally handicapped" in 2011.

Adams in 2023 said Black Americans are members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help Black Americans.”

What he said about the WW2 Holocaust and women was uncalled for, and when viewed in the context of those incidents, that's one more reason why his statements about Blacks were uncalled for as well. Did he believe that all research and documentation on the Holocaust was invalid? Did that even sum up what he thought of the Armenian Holocaust during WW1? Who knows? Adams had a chance to acknowledge poor education is a culprit in how people think, resulting in whole generations rejecting Martin Luther King's arguement that people should be judged by color of character, and not color of skin. Yet he took the easy way out, instead of proving he had the courage to confront the really challenging issues. He may have apologized for his statements since, but it's a horrible shame he didn't consider the damage he could end up doing before.

But perhaps the following news at Breitbart could explain why Adams took such a questionable approach and made stupid statements that weren't informed:

Adams had been publicly fighting a metastasized form of prostate cancer. Early reports indicate that the day before his passing, the former atheist converted to Christianity.

Could it be he screwed up in his approach to Blacks, women and the Holocaust because he lacked faith before? Good question. Of course, he's gone now, and so, it's now moot. His conversion to Christianity prior to his death is admirable, and it's to be hoped he showed remorse for what he said about the aforementioned groups, instead of taking issue with the education system, and whether it had anything to do with corrupting any particular segment of society. And Dilbert, for all we know, might regain better status and be admired by more people over time.