INGERSOLL: Scott Adams Never Said Anything ‘Racist,’ And He Was Right To Boot

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

I’m yet again filing this the night before. It’s daddy daycare for me these last few days. That means breakfast, drop-off, pick-up, bedtime routine. The whole shebang.

My daughter is four. She doesn’t care. Life is puppies and kitties and cupcakes.

My son, on the other hand, is just past one and loves his mommy something fierce.

The crying wasn’t so bad though, nothing a little warm whole milk wouldn’t solve.

In any case, shall we?

WHAT SCOTT ADAMS SAID

Wanda Sykes was on stage for less than 30 seconds before she said something racist.

“I want to thank the Golden Globes for having me” — these are literally her first words — “because you know this will piss people off that a queer black woman is up here doing the job of two mediocre white guys.”

Actually nobody ever thinks of you, Wanda. You haven’t been funny in decades. Sometime right before Trump got elected, Sykes was taken by the whole racial delusion that swept this country. Her face has been pinched and angry ever since.

It was exactly not a mediocre white guy who won the award she was presenting for best stand-up.

Ricky Gervais couldn’t be bothered to show up. He’d famously ripped the awards during his last stint hosting five years ago, telling the crowd not to make a “political speech” if they win. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,” he said. “You know nothing about the real world.”

Sporting a “Be Good” pin, to memorialize Renee Good – because it’s just like the left to usher a bad person into sainthood, nobody should be surprised after George Floyd – Sykes accepted the award for Gervais, and said she’d like to thank the “trans community.”

The New York Times flew right over the casual racism and insisted that while Ricky is funny, Sykes “got the last laugh” since Gervais was mean to Caitlyn Jenner once.

A day earlier, the Times subhead for the obit of Scott Adams recalled that his comic “Dilbert” was widely distributed “until racist comments on his podcast” led papers to drop him.

That’s not exactly it, though, is it? It wasn’t what Scott said. It was the scourge of online activists and the secondary scourge of newsroom leaders with gelatin spines that led to publishers dropping him. It was Scott Adams having the gall to be a Republican and famous.

It was never really about what Adams said either, because he really didn’t say anything wrong.

Adams was discussing a Rasmussen poll in 2023. The pollster had found that nearly half the black population in America disagreed with the phrase, “it’s okay to be white.”

At this point in The New York Times’ coverage of Adams’ life, they make sure you know it’s “a phrase that has been promoted by white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.”

Any well-read reader with even baseline critical thought knows that entire phrase is a giant red flag, to include its attribution.

“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people — according to this poll, not according to me, according to the poll — that’s a hate group, and I don’t want to have anything to do with them,” he said. “And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give white people is to get the hell away from Black people.”

I want you to know I copy-pasted that quote out from the Times website myself, just so I could say that it was not I who capitalized the B in “Black people,” but The New York Times itself, and notice that the w in “white people” does not get the same treatment, no sirree.

There’s nothing remotely racist or wrong with this statement. Racism is a belief in racial inferiority, like the phrase “mediocre white men.” He makes no such qualifying statement.


Yes, Scott Adams got cancelled as a racist because he told his audience to stay away from people who hate you.

It’s not a particularly Christian sentiment, but you certainly cannot call it racist.

Here’s how People Magazine covered Adams’s obit.


He was “disgraced” because of what he said, but OJ killed a couple people. No bigs.

From Sykes to The New York Times, People and CNN, casual racism toward white people barely even raises the room temp. You might even be rewarded for it.

Just last year, Ana Navarro blithely said a fellow guest on Abby Phillip’s popular panel show “might” have difficulty wrapping his head around an immigration debate because he was a “white man.”

It led commentary writer Brad Polumbo, toward whom the comment was made, to at first chuckle and say, “oh okay, so now we’re being racist?”

As far as I can tell, Navarro’s contention that white men are intellectually incapable of debating immigration led to no censure from the network that pays her salary, despite being a Hall of Fame racist statement. 

The hell Scott Adams bore blots it all out.

“Most of my income will be gone by next week,” he said in the middle of the storm. “My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can’t come back from this, am I right?”

And yet he did. He came back and he did his thing independently, as so many others like him who were put out of polite media circles had done. Then he got cancer and he survived that much longer than anyone, even he, expected. And he bore all of that, the cancelling, the reputational destruction, the bodily destruction, in public with the poise of an absolute bulwark. Indeed, even a saint.

Yet here they are, flexing their “Do Good” Renee Good pins, casting judgment, morally superior, especially to you, parenthetically reminding the public on a man’s grave that he was “racist” once, but deeply more guilty of much worse sins of racial bigotry than dear old Scott.

Life isn’t fair, as they say, but at least my eyes are open.

Here’s to you, Scott Adams. Even in death, your strength is a light in dark times.