Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams’ long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” and said White people should “get the hell away from” them.
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Adams, who is white, repeatedly referred to people who are black as members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help black Americans.”
When protests against police brutality swelled the streets of major cities in 2020, Adams said the Black Lives Matter movement had turned into “a domestic terror organization that is setting back race relations by perhaps twenty years.”
In recent years, Adams has poked fun at themes related to the workplace, most recently Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues and the introduction of a new character named "Dave," who is Black but identifies as White.
“His strip went from being hilarious to being hurtful and mean,” Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, the editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, said. “Very few readers noticed when we killed it, and we only had a handful of complaints.”
Elon Musk waded into the controversy, first by asking: “What exactly are they complaining about?”
When another account spoke out against coverage of Adams, Musk replied: “The media is racist.”
When another account spoke out against coverage of Adams, Musk replied: “The media is racist.”
Andrews McMeel Chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and President Andy Sareyan said in a joint statement that the syndication company was “severing our relationship” with Adams.
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