What came over Scott Adams last week, that he would take to his YouTube channel and pour gasoline on his career as a well-compensated, even well-loved cartoonist, and set it on fire? In a rant that was immediately recognized as racist, the "Dilbert" creator called Black Americans "a hate group" and told white people that they should "just get the hell away" from Black people. In a later YouTube segment, Adams dismissed any societal progress as "racist change," including alterations in the tax code.
I would call Adams' rant "me-too racism" if the phrase "me too" didn't have such a powerful association with sexual harassment and violence. Adams did, however, jump on a reverse racism bandwagon that has been around since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s, when white southerners first started claiming that an end to segregation violated their rights to free association, as they objected to being forced to attend schools and eat at lunch counters with people they held were inferior because they were Black.
