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That One Time That Dilbert Got Cancelled

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0:00 and he's like I've seen problems that don't exist in white communities that exist in Black communities and I don't want to be I just want to go as far away as possible ████ dude yeah Salt Lake City doesn't have that many black people uh maybe don't help his side of the thing [Music] do you guys remember the comic strip uh Dilbert oh yeah you've seen what's been going on with that no it's pretty heavy man it's pretty crazy Dilbert the comic strip the office guy got canceled right yeah I mean they took his comic off about every newspaper Adam Scott Adams Even though it's not like so what it's out of the newspaper have to check the newspaper out of our Lives ages ago I didn't even know they existed still no I didn't either but yeah big whoop but the main thing is what he said was pretty uh what'd he say

0:53 so um he went on this rant it was a good rant too yeah you watched it yeah I saw the clip yeah it was a very you're like oh this guy it's a very out of his mind oh it's a long rant oh yeah yeah I mean it's it the the ramp that you're seeing like posted on social media is like a the rest of it's like pretty good but um what do you mean pretty good like pretty pretty sizable pretty size a lot a lot okay meaning he makes a lot of sense but then the bangers his his singles are the ones that are going out you gotta hit single very little interludes but yeah he basically said uh he started going off about he was citing this one survey that was done that showed that over 50 of black people are not okay with white people that's what he equated to like the thing asks

1:44 um the statement it's okay to be white do you have a do you agree with that or not that's basically what the question was in the survey and over 50 of people uh it's not true that it was over 50 it's like it was something like 20 something percent said no and then the 20-something percent said I don't have an answer or they weren't willing to what the ████ kind of question is that yeah that's a setup are you okay being Asian it's okay to be white why like well the right answer is no which it's not okay to be white obviously it literally says do you agree with the statement it's okay to be white that's the question and uh what do you guys think what do you think a majority let's just say a majority of the black people that answered it did not have a positive answer agreeing to it let's say that yeah so he was citing that and saying like uh like I've stood up for uh different causes for black people for a

2:35 really long time and he's like there's no fixing this he's like if that's what they think then that is a hate group like you cannot you can't vote that direction in that size I think it's a thousand people they asked and he's like I he would say my best advice is just to get as far away from black people as possible get the ████ out get the ████ away oh dang yeah and he's like I've seen problems that don't exist in white communities that exist in Black communities and I don't want to be I just want to go as far away as possible oh ████ dude yeah Salt Lake City doesn't have that many black people uh maybe don't help his side of the thing because he's if he's he's talking about like if I is this guy in L.A because I mean like I just think everyone that's in entertainment doing comic books and everything they're like all living in La I'm like if you don't

3:25 like diversity bro like La is not the place for you I don't know if he's from La oh okay is it wrong for him to not want to be diverse like if that's his own personal opinion like what do you guys think I think it's not wrong but I think at the same time if you speak on behalf of like a credible newspaper or like you know what I mean you represent something that you don't just represent your own voice anymore and I think you need to be conscious of that you think dilberg's racist do you think he's racist bro I don't know the cartoon maybe he might be you know what I'm saying like anytime you're like truly especially from a public awareness point of view you don't just represent your own voice anymore you represent like you know everything that is uh yeah you know so you got to be cautious I I read his book called uh think bigly yeah I think it was called think bigly it was interesting but he was dissecting the Trump campaign and

4:15 all that stuff and um so I think he became a pretty hardcore open Trump supporter and you think you start the capital trip I think um where it started for him you know in Hollywood if you are a Republican or if you are like right wing you're basically the devil right so then I think for him that was his first journey of like yo why can't I just be like Republican or whatever something like that I think and it's like why can't in America you just be one political party or the other why you gotta be painted as like a a horrible human being do you think he wants to represent white pride

5:06 he's like well black people could have pride I don't know man I'll be proud of my race why does it sound so weird when when someone white wants to live around white people but like Asians do that a lot I think it's just the context I think it sounds weird to people that have a weird view on racism because that doesn't sound weird to me it doesn't sound weird to me either like if you want to I'm like if you want to live with like-minded like similar light-skinned digital lifestyle a bunch of round eye I'm like oh yeah like like Salt Lake City go go live over there he's trying to offer a solution right but it's obviously not gonna fix racism but for him his action also doesn't lead to more racism if you think about it because he's just like let me just bounce like because he wants it I don't

5:57 know because the thing is okay so so like if he was an immigrant and he wanted to kind of he misses his like let's say ████ Polish sausages or some ████ right and he's like man where my polish is at like I need to go find my ████ Polish Village so he could get whatever and then he can be into the culture but if he's like white white like American where he's like just basically like he ain't looking for that all he wants to do is live with white folks the historical context about that that makes it taboo is the neighborhoods of segregation that they created so then it just brings it back to that where it's like this side is white this side is and that's the most recent memory we could think of yeah and I think that's that touch in our minds yeah and like like Joe said to you when when we're talking about like

6:47 the Asian immigrants too it's like those people don't come here speaking English all the time so living in a community of people that are like speaking the same language then you build that community in order to survive in this new land whereas that it's like even black people speak English so it's not like a a crippling thing that you can be in a community it's just based off like your comfort which again if you're uncomfortable with it it's not that it's necessarily wrong as an individual point of view but like like Joe said too I mean that I think there is a little bit of a hypocrisy to it especially in like this land America wasn't owned by like white people you know what I mean but also though just don't go on life and say that just kicking out just just but he's also assuming that all of Black America feels this way yeah that's that's what I thought was funny because like for me like I'll read a buzzfeed article and I

7:37 know that that's not how people really feel it's just how people in Silicon Valley feel or like yeah I might read something on Fox or Vox and know that that's a section of America that feels a certain way right because it's a specific Community yeah so like there might be a handful of like yeah let's say like there there are black and Asian tensions like in Oakland or something right but like that might not be the same in Georgia so like how you gonna really apply a handful of people and say all these people feel this way about me therefore I gotta run away from them plus plus what kind of survey is this yeah right it's like what kind of question is that let's ask a thousand black people who have been triggered by like white history in the last couple years that's a really weird questions it's erasmussen poll what's that Rasmussen reports it's like a known polling uh company right kind of

8:29 questions these days huh I know we just have this weird obsession with the race you know what I mean it's so ████ weird man because no matter where the results go it's gonna be some sort of interesting angle that someone can take and like run with a narrative like that's the other thing too it's like I don't know especially with when it's so and the question is probably phrase in a way where it's like I don't want to say it meant to be hostile but it's very easily can be misconstrued as being like a little like divisive I almost wish the like Target wasn't like I would get along like more so like like point that way like how do we be harmonious and everyone can turn and go this Direction versus the way that like the media paints it it's always like oh how are we gonna ████ get along this constant thing that they can milk over and over rather than let's get to that point it's almost like they don't want us to be

9:20 friends and build a community together because they're gonna find out that we're gonna find out that they're ████ with us and then you get guys like this who like have been consuming this type of stuff over a period of time yeah the reviews could probably be very easily skewed so they're just like waiting to react and say crazy stuff feels like a loaded question to me to be like hey hey black people a thousand of you get come over here real quick it's okay to be white agree or disagree I can't get a baby you know what that makes you think of it's like that's that's really difficult for them to answer in the same way that if hey a thousand elderly Asians in San Francisco and Oakland come here real quick it's safe to be around black people yeah like yes you do yeah yeah really you're gonna ask them right now in the height of

10:10 tensions and that's the only choices they get no Nuance they have to say either this or that you're not yeah what's the point it doesn't seem like a fair question to ask and then to cite that as a source of wire moving away like those thousand people may not be the people that live around you and you're this dot like you're not moving away from this is for a Salt Lake City dude another thing that this dude did that like why he ████ up though is like it doesn't matter the opinion of being right or wrong especially if it's his own opinion but I think when you take like a pull of a thousand and even if like over 50 are like negative in some way in your eyes or whatever like what he did was also strike out like all hope like there's no chances I mean he said that verbally he's like there's no fixing yeah and I think that's that's also just like uh an issue with it if you're that's like looking at a problem being like unsolvable you know

11:01 what I mean and that's like not necessarily the way that um communicates best to a broad uh like oh yeah demographic yeah that's not what you hit the podium yeah he's got a Podium yeah not just white people listen to it so it's kind of like yo you gotta think about that you know what I'm saying you can't take out a hundred percent of the hope and with them with him I don't like that statement that he had of um I've done so much already for the black community and this is the thanks I get like that's how it came off as right yeah that's kind of what he said yeah if you're if okay so if you're really genuinely trying to um do things out of Goodwill you wanna make the communities like come together all this stuff right then in my opinion the mission wasn't accomplished until the sentiment is gone so then like it's not up to you how much effort you put in

11:52 and when you're finished it's actually when the mission is completed is when the work was done so then also like people are gonna have different experiences right so like I can do as much work as I can to try to heal a community but there's gonna be other people that are getting bullied by Asians or whatever is going on that'll have different experiences and I'm like but I did almost all this ████ work for 20 years but it's like yeah but we're you're right it should have been gone by now yeah man you have so much for us thank you that's that's experienced something completely different never met me right so it's like because I mean one one thing that I can relate to is like Japan and Korean relations right I'm Japanese American I don't ████ have a connection to this but every time that talk comes to play people that are angry

12:42 about it they just care that your DNA is Japanese yeah right so then they're like oh you know colonizer DNA or whatever like your country this and that I'm like I wasn't even born there bro but then for I think in those situations it's so so much um heartache that they're blind to the differences they can't see that like you know this is an American this is completely different but like you should still feel what we felt and all and I'm like okay cool if that's what it takes to kind of like create an olive branch and then just be like hey like what you know what's going on what's the what's the issue here like can we change perspectives in like real life face to face then imaginary like your peoples this way so I'm like um basically there's generational crazy

13:32 ████ that's going down with angry like people right like because of what they're what they've been told what their family members experience and you can kind of have examples of this of every single ethnic group some people went through genocides holocausts whatever right so there's tension between all of these groups but I think his method of just running away makes it extremely so much more ████ worse yeah I blame the ████ poll that's a dumbass question that's a stupid which is all bad bro it's all bad [Music] foreign [Music]

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