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May 20[edit]

The Ku Klux Klan and religion[edit]

I know the Ku Klux Klan was against Catholics and Jews. Does that mean they were all Protestant? If so, did they describe themselves as a religious group? Did they base their terrorism on Calvinist ideas like the Westboro Baptist Church, or other aspects of Christian theology? SuperfluousSpecies (talk) 17:29, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No. Have you read our article on the Ku Klux Klan? Shantavira|^{feed me} 18:27, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many Klan members hated Catholics and Jews as much or more for ethnic reasons, or because they were recent allegedly unassimilable immigrants, or because they allegedly took orders from the Pope, rather than because of any odium theologicum. Meanwhile, Westboro Baptist was extremely obscure outside the Topeka, Kansas area before the 1990s... AnonMoos (talk) 19:11, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Some folks are less interested in theology and more interested in using religion as a tribal identifier. Alansplodge (talk) 22:15, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we should mention the general lack of sophisticated theological accomplishment of those spewing hate as if it were an ideology. DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 17:00, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dilbert.com[edit]

I know that Dilbert author Scott Adams has been in some controversies recently, but many old Dilbert cartoons were memorable. They used to be archived on dilbert.com and that site now directs to some kind of linktr.ee page with no old cartoons. Does anyone know what happened? E.g. some issue with the publisher? Thanks. 2601:644:8500:B770:0:0:0:BD59 (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently the Dilbert comic was dropped by its syndicator. The article says that "Dilbert Reborn" is now a "subscription webcomic". Anyway, many of the old comics were printed in paper books that are now often available at relatively cheap prices... AnonMoos (talk) 01:12, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it was simply nice to be able to remember a specific one, and find a link to it that could be shared with another person. So I wondered what had happened to the online archive. Oh well, thanks. 2601:644:8500:B770:0:0:0:BD59 (talk) 02:19, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to spoil the fun, we don't know if the copyright holder uploaded that archive, which means we assume it wasn't. --Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 04:55, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dilbert.com was clearly an official site of a very high profile work [1], I don't think there's any doubt it had the right to host the comics at the time. Probably one of the reasons why no one has seemed concerned about our articles Dilbert and Dilbert (character) extensively linking to the site. The question over what to do with them now the site is dead does arise, but for the general issue of linking to them before they died, this is no different from peanuts.com for example [2]. Nil Einne (talk) 10:32, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]