Several prominent newspapers will no longer publish the
Gilbert comics because the cartoonist Scott Adams has
been accused of engaging in a racist rant
during one of his live streams over the weekend.
Now, we'll show you examples of the rant in question.
But before we do, let me give you
some context on what sparked his commentary on race.
Now, in the video, Adams discussed a
poll conducted by right-leaning Rasmussen reports that
said 26% of black respondents disagreed with
the statement quote, it's okay to be white.
In his video Adams called Black people who rejected that phrase, a hate group.
Now let me pause for a second because it's important to
understand what might have motivated the response from some of the respondents.
And I should also note that Rasmussen leans conservative, and that's pretty well
known, but in case you didn't know, it's important for you to know that.
Now, the anti defamation league has labeled
the phrase it's okay to be white as
a hate slogan because it started over at four chan at least that's what they claim.
And it was a response to some of the concerns about
racial tensions in the country, some calls for equality in the country.
And so it was basic, meant to celebrate whiteness, I guess in these forums.
And so if you are, let's say, a black
respondent to the survey and you know, that history, you
might have a negative reaction to it without really trying
to conclude that it's not okay to be white, right?
So I think that context is kind of important here.
>> Yeah, so let me add just a tiny
bit more clarity to Rasmussen is doesn't just lean, right?
It's trash, it's 100% right wing, even puts that right wing conspiracy theories.
And it's a little confusing because Rasmussen
used to be a legitimate polling organization.
I don't know when and how they made the turn, but the way that you could
tell that their trash is their actual polling,
which is what they're supposed to be doing.
For example, in the 2020 elections, they were wildly off.
They keep saying, I was gonna win,
everything Trumps the best he's totally gonna win.
He's they have winning by large margins and loses by seven million votes.
Their dumpster fire.
So they ask questions like this to antagonize people.
>> 1000% I mean, it's ridiculous and intentionally provocative
poll right to drive further racial tensions and division in
the country and like clockwork, you have this cartoonist
Scott Adams take the bait and engage in the rant.
So let's watch.
>> I'd like to focus a lot of my life resources in helping black americans so
much so that I started identifying as black
to just be on the team I was helping.
But it turns out that nearly half of that
team doesn't think I'm okay to be white, which
is of course why identified as black because so
I could be on the winning team for a while.
But I have to say, this is the
first political poll that ever changed my activities.
I don't know that's ever happened before.
Normally you see a poll, you just look at it, you go whatever [LAUGH].
Yeah, this is interesting what other people think,
but as of today, I'm gonna reidentify as white
because I don't want to be a member of
a hate group, I'd accidentally joined a hate group.
So if you know, nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people
according to this poll, not according to me,
according to this poll, that's a hate group.
And I don't wanna have anything to do with them.
>> All right, so he keeps saying nearly half
of black people think it's not okay to be white
when the poll says that 26% of the black
respondents disagreed with the statement, it's okay to be white.
What he's referring to is the 21% of black
respondents who were unsure of how to answer that question.
>> Yeah, look, I don't know what the real number would
be if a non trash organization asked the same trash question.
And by the way, I don't know what it would be for white people if you ask
it about black people either okay or asians
or christians or jews or any of these groups.
I guarantee you that there'd be a very
unhealthy number in every category, not just the
ones we like or something that would say it's not okay to be fill in the blank.
Okay, because people got issues, man, we're
all obsessed with race and our tribes.
>> So hard of it.
>> And it's yeah, it's absolutely okay, but Scott Adams who's a moron?
So I used to identify as black.
He thinks that's cute, like, yeah, if you can
identify as a woman, I can identify as black.
Okay, I got it.
You're an idiot.
And now all black people are a hate group.
All black people.
My favorite part of all this whole spiel was, he's like, you know what?
That's it, I'm not associated with black people anymore, really?
Did you have a lot of black friends before?
>> Yes, seriously?
>> [LAUGH]
>> Okay, no, but with that said I want to go to the next clip
because the next clip, man, I think the
next clip was actually the really bad part.
So let's watch.
>> The best advice I would give to white
people is to get the hell away from black people.
Just get the way wherever you have to
go, just get away because there's no fixing this.
This can't be fixed, right?
This can't be fixed.
You just have to escape.
So that's what I did.
I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low black population.
>> He then referenced Don Lemon and
alleged that Don Lemon even admitted that he
felt safer in a whiteer neighborhood and that
bad things happened in a majority black neighborhood.
Look, I don't know if that reference is accurate.
I don't even care what he's saying is pretty gross and disgusting and
only further divides the country at a time when division is killing the country.
>> Yeah, so look, they put us in a situation where we have
to say things that are obviously true like this guy is obviously a racist.
He says get away from all black people.
It's like the definition of racism, right?
But no the right wing says nope, not racist.
You guys are being politically correct and this poor guy is getting canceled.
I can't believe that he they're canceled.
So what you're supposed to run this cartoon from an
avowedly racist guy in places like the Cleveland plain dealer.
What's one of the newspapers that canceled them?
Yeah they did, they canceled them.
Okay, another guest racist.
Okay, cry about it.
I don't care.
But what they said was do we have an obligation to print the
work of a white supremacist to our majority black readers?
That's an insane entitlement complex you guys have, right?
So I'm now I'm paraphrasing what they said.
Okay, I'm saying you have an insane entitlement complex.
I demand that my racist positions be shoved down the throat of all Americans.
I demanded otherwise I'm being canceled.
They have no obligation, not the government.
They have no obligation to run your stupid racist cartoons.
>> Here let me, let me put it in a different context.
That's not as divisive I guess since it's not having
to do with race were never invited on corporate media.
Want to know why because we call out
corporate media and we call out the corruption.
We call out the biases, we call it all out.
We don't then come on the show and then whine about how
CNN won't have us on or MSNBC won't have us on right?
We say what we say because we believe it.
This guy is saying what he says because he unfortunately believes
it and no one is obligated to feature his work anywhere.
I thought it was a free market, right?
>> Yeah, they hate the free market they hated meanwhile later in this show
we're gonna have a story about Donald Trump saying I want to meet kim Wilkinson.
I wanted, he couldn't, he made a joke about me in the right way.
He's like, yeah firearm, firearm where you
love cancel culture, where you love cancel culture.
Which one is it?
Okay, so anyways look if you can't tell that
guy's racist, I got really bad news for you.
Okay, but I don't want to say it.
I hate to be divisive.
I hate all black people.
I don't want to be anywhere near them.
You're racist.
How dare you, my feelings are offended.
All right get offended.
I don't give a damn.
But by the the way for anyone in any poll that says it's not okay to be any race.
Don't be an idiot.
Okay, so [LAUGH] to say that white people are not okay, I
don't even know what that means or black people are not okay.
What does that mean?
Okay, please stop being unintelligent.
I God damn it.
I hate saying that.
But what do you want me to say when people say, it's not okay to be a race?
>> I don't know, I just, the discussion about race in America is unhinged.
Certainly we've seen it on the right, but you also see
some stuff going on the left that I don't understand, right?
Like segregation, but with the argument that the segregation is
a good thing and it protects various groups of people, right?
So on college campuses, for instance, a
relatively new phenomenon is now having like
segregated graduation ceremonies and it's so black
graduates feel safe or whatever graduates feel safe.
Like what is this?
I thought the whole point or one of the
best parts about college is you get to go to
a campus where you converse and debate with and
have engagement with people from all sorts of different backgrounds.
>> Yeah, so look.
>> Okay, so now segregation is okay, as long as the left
is doing it by using a left argument in favor of it.
>> No, so look, that one is more complicated because if you
say dorms there's been predominantly African American dorms for a long time.
And yes there is some value and feeling
some degree of comfort as you're going to school.
But on the other hand, when you have there was an effort a bunch of years
ago at college to say some class should be only for black students.
That's crazy.
That's nuts, why?
Because they want to feel safe in class.
No guys, we all have to learn together.
You can't come into a school whether you're
black, asian white, it doesn't matter and then go
okay I don't want to be with white
people asian people, whoever, no we're gonna learn together.
You want to have your own apartment, have your own
apartment, you wanna sit together in the cafeteria, that's everybody's choice.
Everybody makes different choice.
For example, I told a story recently about how during Ramadan I
would go break fast with the muslim students back when I was muslim.
Right, and then they asked me, hey do you want to
just eat with muslim students all the time like every day?
And I'm like no I don't why would I only want to eat with muslim students?
>> Yeah.
>> I want to eat with everybody.
Why would I randomly say to my Asian friends, black
friends, Latino friends, I don't want to eat with you.
I only want to stick with my group.
>> Right?
>> How's that America?
Look, I think the distinction is if
the students create a group for themselves, right?
And that's their safe space, whatever they want to call it, have at it, right?
I have nothing against that.
I do have a problem with the institution baking it into their system.
Yeah.
>> That is a problem.
That's what I'm saying.
>> Guys, so look, it's easy to get super
frustrated as I am with guys like Scott Adams
who are over the top races and so he is you just a country of 330 million people.
What's more frustrating to to me is how much support he gets online, right?
Including by Elon Musk, by the way, who
put out a couple of tweets supporting him, right?
So cry me a river Ellen.
I know your dad's Emerald, mine didn't give you enough of a break.
I know people are being raised against you for being white.
I know Ellen, I know.
So that's super frustrating.
But don't let that split us apart, right?
Whether it's the right wing or some of the absurd
policies of the extreme left, that are less of a problem.
But still a problem, right?
At the end of the day, we all got to live together
and there's no differences between the
races, whether you're black or you're white.
It does doesn't matter for God's sake if Scott
Adams had never met a black person in his life.
He probably wouldn't be as deeply racist as
he is trying to get away from black people.
I live in a white neighborhood.
I try not to, that's why you don't know black people.
That's why you don't understand them at all.
You know what they're like people, [LAUGH] that's all they are, other human beings.
>> Yeah, all right but don't forget Cenk he did
that after he tried to help them by identifying as black.
Yeah, I'm sure.
And now he called blacks the winning team.
I know [LAUGH] poor white folks in this country.
Look guys, most progressives are white, okay [LAUGH].
We're never gonna discriminate against white people.
That's insane but to say that minorities have had all the advantages in
this country, it's so counterfactual that you belong in asylum, if you think that.