Nah, Scott Adams is a hateful bigot. He thinks black people are a "hate group" - he truly went off the rails.
I don't really think this comic reflects its author's personal views at all. C&H has always been filled with shock comedy, black comedy, deliberate insensitivity, and silly puns, and everything is a target. This one doesn't really stand out as any different to how the comic's always been.
I don't really feel like there's ever really been a right-wing slant to these comics either. And I say that as someone who's ardently left-wing.
I mean, I remember it from like a decade ago when it first came out.
But before Lemmy it had been maybe 5 years since I saw one?
So maybe that's why it seems like a big change. Back then it was just dark humor, now it seems like it tries to piss people off and say "just a joke". Like, the quality isn't what I remember, even if it's trying to be the same thing.
Like comparing The Onion to Babylon Bee, they're both trying to do the same thing, the result isn't the same tho. There's a conservative slant that just makes it annoying. Like, both of those things are giant wastes of money, why are they the two options?
The only webcomic I kept up with was SMBC and xkcd