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Scott Adams may have had several racist AIM screen names [1]

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Date: 2023-03-02  

A KillerMovies.com message board post from 2004 may have unearthed Scott Adams’s penchant for unadulterated racism; Adams regularly places his AOL email address (scottadams@aol.com) on his own Dilbert comic strips. The AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) nicknames linked to Adams’s email address are anti-Black and anti-Asian.

When AOL released their Instant Messenger software several years ago, I downloaded it and tried it. It was ok, but what I found intriguing was that I could search for anybody else who was online the same time as me by simply putting in their email address and searching.

I thought it would be cool to search for celebrities whose email was public knowledge, and I knew that Scott Adams put his email address on his Dilbert comic strip every day (and still does), scottadams@aol.com.

So I searched for "scottadams@aol.com". What came back was both surprising and shocking. The software told me that there were 3 other AOL Instant Messenger nicknames registered under scottadams@aol.com's account.

Nickname #1: niggerape

Nickname #2: ura_****** (rhymes with "chigger"

Nickname #3: die_u_chink

I'm not making this up. I remember this clear as a bell for obvious reasons. So, I called AOL and discussed this with someone there. She pulled up the information just as I had, and sure enough, there it was. At first, she said that this must be some OTHER scott adams. I said, "no, there's only ONE scottadams@aol.com in the entire world." I mean, if there were more than one, how could the email be routed. No, there was no denying that this was, indeed, THE scott adams.

So, what next? Well, I emailed him. I presented to him what I had found, and inquired as to whether he had created these nicks under his account. Here is his response in its entirety:

"No, of course not."

That's it! No "Wow, thanks for bringing that to my attention", or any kind of reasonable explanation.

So, is Scott Adams a racist? Who knows? Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. But this is very strange.

By the way, I can't say as I have ever seen an African American depicted in any Dilbert strip.

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