Among the many indignities suffered by prominent normies and conservatives is that news of their death will nearly always include an accounting of their ideological sins.

No one else gets this treatment, not even Third World despots.

Consider this week’s coverage of the death of “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams.

In announcing the cartoonist’s passing, leading newsrooms found it necessary to note that Adams was guilty of holding problematic views.

“Scott Adams, whose comic strip ‘Dilbert’ was a sensation until he made racist comments on his podcast, has died at 68,” went a New York Times news blurb.

The subhead to Adams’ official obituary reads, “His chronicles of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.”

The Washington Post’s blurb concludes: “Adams drew criticism after he veered into far-right political terrain.”

Its obit subhead states, “Publishers cut ties with Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on a YouTube live stream.”

For context, the humorist’s “racist” remarks were spurred by a 2023 survey in which 26% of black respondents disagreed with the statement “it’s OK to be white,” while 21% said “not........

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