Hoist on His Own Petard 0
The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page offers a perceptive perspective on the perturbing performance of Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist, who has recently been in the news for recommending racism.
Adams, you may recall, got worked up because of a survey in which a significant minority of black person answered “no” to a survey question. I was particularly struck by this bit, which indicates that Adams punk’d himself:
In other words, it’s a trick question — and Adams, who leans quite conservative on such matters, appears to have been a bit too eager to fall for it.
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