[yamal4321]

I did a quick look at Wikipedia - he has racist views, a vaccine denier, and to top it all off, of course, a Holocaust denier...

I tried reading his comics—just some run-of-the-mill jumble for a corporate audience.

So who is he? And why are there so much praise in the comments?

[pcthrowaway]

> In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in The Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research

This is probably a result of contracting brainrot by adjacency, but I wouldn't outright call this holocaust denial.

Dilbert is an iconic comic, and perhaps the most culturally impactful "office humor"

[krapp]

Hacker news is full of people who worked in tech in the 90s and vibed with the comic.

And Hacker news has its share of racists, anti-vaxxers and Holocaust deniers for whom Scott Adams became not just a prophet but a soldier on their side of the culture war.