Walnut Creek is one of many cities that ended remote public comment because of racist Zoombombs, so one of the racist Zoombombers showed up in person at Tuesday’s meeting in hopes of blaming it all on Jewish people.

When city council and government meetings went all-remote across the country during the pandemic, the switch to virtual meetings had some unintended consequences. One of these unintended consequences was the proliferation of racist Zoombombs during public comment, which caused San Francisco and other cities to end remote public comment.

Walnut Creek was one of those cities, and KTVU reports that one of that city’s most notorious Zoombombers showed up in person at Tuesday night’s meeting to deliver an antisemitic rant during public comment. He did so in a “White Power” shirt that also displayed a swastika.  

The speech is disturbing, though we are embedding it below, as it has been retweeted by Walnut Creek councilmember Kevin Wilk, who was the target of the rant. “Freedom of Speech allows stupidity and hate,” Wilk says in the tweet, “ Note the ‘courageous’ man hides his face.”

Wilk has a point there, as the commenter who identifies himself as “Scotty” points directly at Wilk saying, “I’m here today because people like you think we’re scared to show up and show our face.” Yet this fellow’s face is obscured by sunglasses he is wearing indoors for a 6pm meeting.

“You people disgust me,” he continues, using the k-word to describe the Anti-Defamation League. “It’s only a matter of time until another inevitable Jew expulsion,” he adds, threatening another holocaust, before signing off with a Nazi salute and the words “Heil Hitler, white fucking power.”

Wilk, who had previously been Walnut Creek’s first Jewish mayor and is now a city councilmember, was the first to respond.

"We live in a free country, and there is free speech, and that means we have to listen to awful and heinous comments like we listened to," Wilk said at Tuesday night’s meeting. "And I would like to apologize on behalf of the city council and anybody who had to hear that horrible, horrible speech."

In comments to KTVU after the meeting, Wilk said that the man’s real name is not Scotty, and the individual lives in Modesto. Wilk also added that the FBI is "aware of him."

Related: Racists Have Been ‘Zoombombing’ Public Meetings Across US, and SF's Board of Supervisors May End Remote Commenting Entirely [SFist]

Image: City of Walnut Creek via Youtube

More newspapers are dropping the cartoon Dilbert this week, after its creator Scott Adams went full racist granddad in a podcast rant declaring “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the fuck away.”

The comic strip Dilbert still exists, though as of today, it’s being published in fewer newspapers. And the strip is still drawn by its original creator, the now Pleasanton-based Scott Adams, who in recent years has made himself newsworthy for a lot of the wrong reasons (e.g., trying to monetize the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting on his app). But now even more papers are dropping Dilbert, after Adams went on a racist rant on his podcast Wednesday, classifying Black Americans as a “hate group,” and saying “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f*** away,” as the Bay Area News Group reports.

The podcast is called Real Coffee with Scott Adams, and his rant was allegedly inspired by some poll by Rasmussen, whose results Adams interprets as saying “nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people.” I am not personally familiar with this poll — the conservative Washington Examiner reported on it Wednesday — but I am aware that Rasmussen had the distinction of being the least accurate pollster in the 2022 midterm elections.

Technically, per Bay Area News Group, the poll of 1,000 American adults found that in reaction to the phrase "It's OK to be white," 26% of Black respondents said it’s "not OK to be white" and 21% said "they weren’t sure." Likely inspired by some other conservative pundit, Adams interprets that as "47% of Blacks not willing to say it’s OK to be white."

A clip from the segment is seen above, “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that’s a hate group. That’s a hate group. And I don’t want anything to do with them.”

“I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” he continued. “Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”

Dilbert had already been dropped by 77 newspapers last September, after introducing the strip’s first Black character, but only as a means of mocking “woke” culture. The strip is being dropped by more publications in the wake of Wednesday's rant. “This is not a difficult decision,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer explained today.  “Until we decide what to replace Dilbert with, you’ll likely see a gray box where it has been appearing.”

Related: Bay Area-Based 'Dilbert' Cartoonist Scott Adams Sparks Outrage For Using Gilroy Shooting To Promote His App [SFist]

Photo via Scott Adams/Twitter

It's been quite some time since we posted a Taiwanese animation bit -- because, you know, it's getting extraordinarily old -- but we couldn't resist sharing with you Next Media Animation's harrowing take on the UC Berkeley republican's bake sale. If you recall, the controversial group offered white $2 for each baked good; Asians/Asian-Americans, $1.50; Latinos/Hispanics, $1; Blacks/African-Americans, 75 cents; Native Americans, 25 cents; women received 25 cents off the price.

The point, it seems, was to draw attention to Affirmative Action.

As promised, the Fair Trade movie screened at Dolores Park last night. Conversation about this film shouldn't cause as much rancor as last month's showing of the "straight up racist" movie 16 Candles that attracted 7000 viewers to the park. (They are still talking about that one). Anyway, check out fair trade issues here and the Black Gold movie trailer here. If you want.

--Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.]

--An Oakland Tribune sports columnist apologizes for calling the A's racist. [92510; read the original column cached on Google here.]

--Come to California, Barack Obama! [Calitics.]

--A pedestrian was hit by an SUV at Folsom and Main. [A reader, who requested that we give you the link to WalkSF, which we're happy to do.]

--Peter Ragone's in Rio. [Chron Politics Blog.]

--The guy who attacked Elie Wiesel last year pleads insanity. [Chron.]

--Hunger strike for immigrant rights outside Rep. Zoe Lofgren's office. [Merc News.]

--They might close the one Toyota union shop in Fremont. [The Truth About Cars, from a reader.]

--And finally, SFist MattyMatt asks us to remind you that Muni's going to be celebrating independence tomorrow by switching all lines to a Sunday schedule, so expect even longer wait times. Also, the trains will start running that day at 8am, three hours later than usual.

--No parking for your bulldozer? Just leave it on the beach. (Thanks to reader Joe, who sent this absolutely gorgeous postcard picture to us. GREETINGS FROM THE BULLDOZER!)

--Another reader, Erin, was accosted by Recall Jake McGoldrick people, did some research, and found out the consultant group doing their outreach is based out of the Mission.

--This link's for you, commenter Tin Man! (You Swells By The Numbers always kicks off Sunday mornings!)

--Google and YouTube's involvement in the 2008 elections.

--H. Brown endorses Robert Haaland. Kidding!

--People dressed up as gorillas.

--New GavinWatch video! (Budget.)

--Lawyers prevent us from giving you a full review of Bad Bugs Bunny, a collection of sexist, racist, and otherwise offensive Warner Brothers cartoons which screened as part of Another Hole in the Head -- but it was good, if disturbing.

In the show, Schwarzenegger will get his 1965 Chevy Impala all fitted up with a biodiesel engine. Why, we've never watched the show, but we hear pimping out cars with biodiesel is all the rage these days, especially with the rappers. Supposedly, 50 Cent went biodiesel and is so into the environment, he's doing a song called "Environmental Gangsta" on his next album. There's no word on whether Arnie will also request things like a fish tank in the back or a Jacuzzi in the trunk.

The show will be the first one of the season and will air conveniently enough on Earth Day.

SFGate, however, mentions that there might be more to it than Arnie going green. Apparently, the garage the show is filmed in is owned by Galpin Motors. The owners of Galpin Motors also just happen to be big donors of the Governator and the general consul is on the state's New Motor Vehicle Board.

Coincidence or not? You decide.