Scott Adams, creator of the popular “Dilbert” cartoon franchise, has become increasingly red-pilled over the course of the last few years. Well, at the end of February, Adams was “cancelled” for comments which sound pretty terrible on the surface. So why can Robin DiAngelo say the exact same thing?

Adams claimed he was using hyperbole, and has not backed down from his comments.

Adams, who said he’s a Democrat who’s “left of Bernie,” used his whiteboard later in the episode to sketch out how he thinks the cancel cycle worked in his case.”

Last Wednesday on his YouTube livestream, he riffed off the results of a Rasmussen Reports poll that asked whether people agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” Among Black respondents, 26% disagreed with the statement and 21% said they were not sure — a total of 47% who didn’t think it was OK to be white.”

The seemingly innocuous phrase “It’s OK to be white” was co-opted in 2017 for an online trolling campaign that originated on discussion board 4chan and was aimed at baiting liberals and the media, the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement at the time. The phrase also has a history of use among white supremacists.”

“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people … that’s a hate group. And I don’t want anything to do with them,” Adams said Wednesday. “And based on how things are going, the best advice I could give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f— away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. ’Cause there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”

The remarks, in and of themselves, are a problem. I think racism lies in the intent, not the actual words. Personally, I don’t know Scott Adams, so I can’t determine if he has racist intent, even though his words sound awful when uttered about a single group. But again, he meant these comments to be inflammatory, and he also knew it would spark a reaction.

The problem is, of course, everyone watching Scott Adams be cancelled for “racism” knew exactly what would happen if the races he was talking about were reversed.

Here, by way of example, is the direct quote from Adams, but the races switched:

"If nearly half of all whites are not OK with black people – according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll – that’s a hate group. I don’t want to have anything to do with… https://t.co/SCIrbXABSt

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 27, 2023

A little less than three weeks later, Robin DiAngelo has proved Ben Shapiro’s point – in spades.

Robin DiAngelo sounding like an old-line segregationist: "People of color need to get away from white people and have some community with each other."pic.twitter.com/HJFQcGejuo

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 20, 2023

Robin DiAngelo can literally say “people of color need to get away from white people and have some community with each other” and the black women she is talking to simply nod and smile – BECAUSE THEY AGREE WITH HER. What is Robin DiAngelo saying that is any different than Scott Adams – minus the profanity and the “hate group” label? Is the only difference in the comments the tone? Because if it’s racist for Scott Adams to say it, then it sure as hell should be racist for Robin DiAngelo to say it.

You're not supposed to notice.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 20, 2023

Will Robin DiAngelo be cancelled for what she just said, even though it is identical to what Scott Adams said? Of course not. DiAngelo is one of The Woke People™, which means that she can say what she wants. After all, she’s pretty much the High Priestess of Woke, meaning that anything she says is given the best possible filter by the leftist media. Saying “people of color need to get away from white people” is somehow better than saying “white people need to get the hell away from black people,” and the people who stampeded to cancel Scott Adams won’t even blink twice at hearing Robin DiAngelo.

America, we have a problem. Here we have two white people saying the exact same thing, except one said it without getting loud and using profanity. Either these comments are racist, or they aren’t. I happen to think both sound racist. It is up to each person to determine the intent behind the comments. But we live in a culture that no longer considers intent. Therefore, if Scott Adams is racist, then Robin DiAngelo definitely is as well. Those are the rules the left created. It would be nice if both sides had to live by the same rules. But apparently we don’t live in that culture, either.

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