Scott Adams is a trained hypnotist. He knew exactly what he was doing and exactly what the consequences would be when he did it. Thinking you know what he is doing here is like trying to guess how a magician performed their magic trick. He has more than enough F you money and he has a new book in pre-release... he gives it about 50/50 that the book will get cancelled.
The whole point of what he said is calling out the racial divisiveness. Anybody who thinks he is trying to add to it has no idea what they are talking about. Anybody who listens to him for an hour every single day knows he is the exact opposite. A few weeks ago he was talking about how great diversity is - everything else equal. If you have two groups who are equal in every other way, the group that has more diversity is on average going to do better on their project or task, according to him. His nextdoor neighbor is black, they are great friends. His community and his friends are all extremely racially diverse, although it is a lot of silicon valley tycoon types.
The point is, watch and learn, he is going to turn this all into something very good for everyone.
Additionally, he now has complete control over all licensing of everything Dilbert. The comic will live on, but probably just on the internet. It will be much spicier than it was.
Here's a guide to what ~90% of the conservative "voice" is getting wrong about the race-narrative and related narratives:
We've forgotten that the Gospel was the original voice of the oppressed. It wasn't an evolutionary improvement to some underlying process of "general humanist improvement" as we are told by the Steven Pinkers and other Enlightenment apologists, no, the Gospel was a completely revolutionary turn in the diametric opposite direction of every pagan culture it entered into. It was a smackdown of the ruling demonic powers that had imprisoned those cultures for eons. By "smackdown", I am not talking about any kind of physical violence... the Gospel of Jesus cannot be furthered by human methods, such as those employed by Cortez. Nevertheless, the Gospel itself was able to piggy-back over top the colonial wars for gold and flesh, bringing the light of the Gospel everywhere that it went.
In the West, and especially in the US, the Gospel reached a "saturation" and people began to look elsewhere for enlightenment, mistaking the rot and corruption within the church for some flaw within the Gospel itself. So, when the civil rights movement began in the US in the 1960s, it was seen as some kind of reformation of Christian society itself, ignoring the blatantly obvious point that it was the Gospel itself that declared to mankind that there is no longer "Jew nor Gentile", "slave nor free", but we are all one in Jesus Christ. And that 1,900 years before the first civil rights hero stood up to oppression. And I don't want to hear about "the real history" of the civil rights movement because that is irrelevant to the
narrative of the civil rights movement which, at this point, is practically etched in stone. Those who want to quixotically tilt at windmills may do so to their hearts' content, but that narrative is not changing. Nevertheless, the narrative itself is fundamentally flawed in its own heart, in its very origins. We do not need to dispute the details of who did what to who, when, who started what and who finished it... those details are lost in a morass of tit-for-tat. As far as our generation can tell, it was a wash, at best, and both sides gave as good as they got, at various times. The
real flaw in the narrative of the civil rights movement is that it claims to have somehow improved upon the Gospel itself! And if you really want to challenge the racial narrative at its root, to really push back at Woke nonsense,
that is the part that conservatives should be pushing back on.
But this raises an important question -- how has it happened that we have so completely forgotten our own ideological and cultural heritage that when our enemy tells us, "We are more committed to righteousness and justice than you are", we become defensive about it? That's the question of conscience that conservatives need to start soul-searching over. There is a time for everything, including repentance. I think that time is now, and I think that the ascendancy of Wokism is the prophetic sign to our culture that it's time to get on our knees again, start praying again, start repenting of sin, start getting right with God, and ask him to deliver us, our culture, and our heritage. Because, if we don't, we are going to be obliterated. These demonic powers being channeled by the Wokists are like nothing humanity has ever encountered in its history. There is
nothing you can compare this to, not WWII, not the Civil War, not the Revolutionary War, not the Reformation, not the Magna Carta, not the Great Schism... this is bigger than all the great conflicts of church history and Western culture added together. There is growing recognition among many believers that we are entering a prophetic period of deep repentance, personal holiness and turning back to God...
"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14)
Believe me, Wokism will never be defeated with egotistical, holier-than-thou chest-pounding...
