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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:

“It’s Okay To Be White” is a slogan popularized in late 2017 as a trolling campaign by members of the controversial discussion board 4chan, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The idea behind the campaign was to choose an apparently innocuous slogan and put it on flyers or websites in public locations and “own the libs,” as the alt-right calls anything that upsets liberals, thus “proving” that liberals don’t think it’s “OK” to be white.

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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