Kanye West’s latest collaboration might be his most bizarre yet: the rapper and fashion designer is now touting the work of Dilbert comic strip author-turned-viral Trump supporter and men’s rights activist Scott Adams.
After a weekend in which Kanye tweeted an endorsement of Candace Owens — the far-right media personality who got famous by appearing on Infowars and calling herself the “Red Pill Black” — the rapper posted a series of clips of Adams from his livestream. He didn’t tweet any captions with the clips, which primarily focus on Adams praising Kanye for his comments on Owens, except for one video that featured three “?” emojis.
While Kanye has been off Twitter for quite some time, he’s recently reappeared on the platform to post information on his future projects and, more controversially, heap praises onto Trump supporters. As strange as it seems, fans of the Chicago rapper shouldn’t be too surprised, as Kanye said in the past that he would have voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election
However, by promoting Adams and his livestream video — titled “Scott Adams tells you how Kanye showed the way to the Golden Age” — Kanye has taken a turn for the more fringe side of the pro-Trump movement, as the author of the famous office-themed comic strip is known for promoting odd theories on behavioral science and supporting the so-called men’s rights movement.
In one post on Adams’ blog that has since been deleted, the comic writer wrote, “The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone.”
Adams went on to say that “a man’s best strategy for dealing with” women is to take “the path of least resistance most of the time” — i.e., women are too emotional to talk to like normal humans, so they must be dealt with like children or mentally challenged people. However, Adams disavows the MRA label and claims he actually “mocked the men’s right movement” in that controversial blog post.
In another men’s rights-related post, Adams claimed the “biggest unreported story of [the 2016] presidential election is the humiliation of the American male.
On an arguably more controversially note, Adams even appeared to defend Holocaust deniers over a decade ago.
“Is it the sort of number that is so well-documented with actual names and perhaps a Nazi paper trail that no historian could doubt its accuracy, give or take ten thousand,” Adams wrote in a now-deleted post from 2006. “No reasonable person doubts that the Holocaust happened, but wouldn’t you like to know how the exact number was calculated, just for context?”
Adams is also a big fan of the current president. He recently claimed Trump had “one of the most successful first years of any presidency” and added that all future presidents will be “boring and timid and low energy compared to him.”
The videos Kanye shared do not focus on Adams more extreme thoughts, though, as they instead appear to be just another way for “Yeezus” to praise himself:
Despite conservatives’ supposed disdain for celebrities and coastal elites, the far-right reacted with predictable excitement at the attention their ally received from Kanye.
Pizzagate conspiracy theorist and infamous Bumble user Jack Posobioc praised Adams for being featured on Kanye’s page, claiming he caused a “tear in reality”:
Infowars host Alex Jones — who is famous for pushing conspriacy theories about 9/11 and the Sandy Hook shooting — went so far as to invite Kanye on his show:
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