Damn, this is the first time I’m hearing about this guy being a piece of shit. Would love to hear people chime in with the shit he’s pulled for others like me to see.
He previously questioned the death toll of the Holocaust, said he had lost multiple jobs for being white and falsely claimed that people who didn’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 “clearly are the winners” of the pandemic (he acknowledged getting vaccinated in Monday’s video). Dozens of newspapers dropped the strip in 2022 after Adams introduced its first Black character and veered into anti-woke plotlines.
I don’t know if I’m more shocked that Adams didn’t have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist’s strip in 2022.
Wow I didn’t realize how much I missed the hobbydrama subreddit, one of the goat communities.
Also yeah, that’s very accurate but also it’s worthwhile to understand he was also incredibly cringe in an old school atheism subreddit way. Fully convinced he was the smartest person in the world and everyone who disagreed with him was because they’re stupid. He was basically 4chan the person
A lot of Adams’ conservative activities were summarized in the Variety article, which is why I chose to post a link to it, as opposed to other articles.
Damn, this is the first time I’m hearing about this guy being a piece of shit. Would love to hear people chime in with the shit he’s pulled for others like me to see.
Here’s a scratch off the top:
Me: “Everyone’s hating on him. Lemmy is so sensitive, it’s probably over nothing”
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ohhh, ohhhhhhhh
I don’t know if I’m more shocked that Adams didn’t have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist’s strip in 2022.
wait, i thought the elbonians were black.
I always saw them as some kind of Eastern European caricature
it’s been so long i really don’t remember. we’re both right maybe
They’re white. Sort of Russian caricatures, I think.
There’s a pretty thorough write-up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/150bkal/comic_strips_so_i_think_it_makes_no_sense/
Wow I didn’t realize how much I missed the hobbydrama subreddit, one of the goat communities.
Also yeah, that’s very accurate but also it’s worthwhile to understand he was also incredibly cringe in an old school atheism subreddit way. Fully convinced he was the smartest person in the world and everyone who disagreed with him was because they’re stupid. He was basically 4chan the person
Thanks. That was… a lot.
Here is the first episode of Behind the Bastards covering the guy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlIuEIgLRNxfJWxiv4asn
A lot of Adams’ conservative activities were summarized in the Variety article, which is why I chose to post a link to it, as opposed to other articles.
There’s an episode of the Behind the Bastards podcast devoted to him. Covers it pretty well.
Me too.
But it Expains the 20+ down votes I got. Reading more comments, they are well deserved