Dilbert creator Scott Adams has admitted that his long-running comic strip will probably no longer have a place in any newspapers at all after he went on a bizarre tirade urging white people to “get … away from Black people.”
As of last night , hundreds of newspapers had dumped his cartoon and condemned his remarks. Asked by The Washington Post how many papers were still willing to run the comic strip, Adams was quoted saying, “By Monday, around zero.” The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today—which operates more than 200 newspapers—were the latest to ditch Dilbert.
The Los Angeles Times said its decision was a reaction to Adams’ “offensive” and “racist” remarks, but the paper also suggested Adams’ work had been slipping even before his bizarre rant. “In the last nine months The Times has on four occasions printed a rerun of the comic when the new daily strip did not meet our standards,” the Times said in a statement. Adams, for his part, has only doubled down on his calls for segregation and complained about his “cancellation.” Read more.
{Matzav.com}
I don’t know the context is his “rant”, but I suspect that he was referring to the increasing trend of vilifying all white people with a broad brush and aiming to segregate them out of society (as can be seen in certain universities for example).
I am not saying his message was just or correct, just that with a bit more context it may come out that it wasn’t much of a bizarre rant, and rather a treatise on the radical end of our culture.
Some people need to be canceled. This is one.
You are another one
This is the United States of America. I don’t know if you’ve heard. We have something called free speech in this country. I kid you not. Look it up.
Says a died-in-the-wool leftist, who never has anything to say except left-wing propoganda
He must be doing a good job if he’s upsetting the left.
This.
This is very bad. Dilbert is funny.
Anyone can have a feeling black white relations are not working today. His right is not bigot.
My local paper runs black interest articles and glbtq articles seemless every day.
It grants a candle to favoritism in a very two toned world.
I read Dilbert
https://dilbert.com/
every day and haven’t seen anything about blacks or whites. What day was this from?
Cancelling Dilbert and vilifying Scott Adams is a blatant attack on fundamental American privilege and rights. We aren’t a third world country run by despotic jungle lords or drug lords. We are not divorced from satire or from the necessity of calling out the ridiculous. This country would not have had a civil rights movement without many Caucasians sticking their necks out and dying for change, not the phony political change which keeps the status quo for the self-absorbed. Cancelling means you have no guts or brains to engage in discourse about issues. Cancelling means you’re a bully. Cancelling means you have divorced from reality.
Are they discontinuing only the black and white comic print or the colored one as well?
My local bakery stopped selling black&whites. They told me it was racist and the thought police “recommended” that they remove them from the shelves.