User talk:2601:445:37F:8A10:1978:5C4F:D7AF:2C77

April 2021
Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Scott Adams. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, please use the sandbox instead, where you are given a certain degree of freedom in what you write. bop34 • talk • contribs 17:15, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.
 * Hello bop34. I appreciate you taking the time to engage with me. I do not, however, appreciate the insulting manner in which you have approached this engagement. Going forward, I would appreciate an assumption of good faith per WP:AGF.
 * With that being said, what makes you believe my edit is a joke? Scott Adams does, in fact, identify as black. As has already been provided by multiple editors, here is the first public announcement of his racial identity. He has reiterated this identification at least a dozen times, explicitly stressing that he is not joking. I won't be citing every such instance, but they can be easily found if you are curious. In the absence of any reliable secondary sources to dispute or verify the sincerity of this identification, it is not the role of Wikipedia to conclude otherwise. As you stated, this is an encyclopedia, not a forum for opinions or unfounded assumptions of private thoughts and motivations. 2601:445:37F:8A10:1978:5C4F:D7AF:2C77 (talk) 18:00, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

To answer your question, the "punchline" is that he thinks transgender people are a joke. It's a variation on the One Joke common to transphobic conservative comedians: "If they can be trans, then I identify as (something ridiculous, like an attack helicopter)." This is obvious in context, especially given that he is clearly not Black.

WP:BLP requires a high standard of truth for potentially contentious statements of fact about a living person. This mitigates against taking a politically-charged joke from a comedian who intentionally courts controversy at face value. The joke itself is not an example of a reliable source for any claim other than that he has made this particular joke (and does not even serve as a source to claim that this particular joke is worth mentioning in his biography). - Desine (talk) 08:40, 5 April 2021 (UTC)