Elon Musk Accuses Media of Racism After Newspapers Drop 'Dilbert' Cartoon
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Elon Musk Accuses Media of Racism After Newspapers Drop 'Dilbert' Cartoon
U.S. News StaffJuly 6, 2021 2-3 minutes
By Sheila Dang
(Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday accused the media of being racist against whites and Asians after U.S. newspapers dropped a white comic strip author who made derogatory comments about Black Americans.
The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and USA Today were among newspapers that canceled the cartoon "Dilbert" after its creator Scott Adams said Black Americans were a hate group and posted racist comments on his YouTube channel on Wednesday.
In replies to tweets about the controversy, the Tesla and Twitter chief executive said the media had long been racist against non-white people but are now "racist against whites & Asians."
"Maybe they can try not being racist," Musk tweeted.
In response to an account that said white victims of police violence get a fraction of media coverage compared to Black victims, Musk said the coverage is "Very disproportionate to promote a false narrative."
Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk's views on social issues have been increasingly under the microscope since he took over Twitter in October.
He has sparred with civil rights groups over Twitter's level of protection against hateful content and the reinstatement of some accounts that previously had been suspended. Some advertisers have left the platform over concerns about brand safety, and Twitter has rolled out some new controls for ad placement.
Musk's latest tweets come after the Dilbert creator suggested white Americans "get the hell away from Black people". Adams, the cartoonist, was responding to a poll by the conservative Rasmussen Reports that said 26% of Black respondents said they disagreed with the statement "It's OK to be white."
The move to drop the cartoon was "not a difficult decision", the Plain Dealer newspaper in Ohio told its readers on Friday.
(Reporting by Sheila Dang in Dallas; Editing by Peter Henderson and Lisa Shumaker)
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Trump, Kanye West, and Elon Musk, the unholy trinity of white grievance and white victimhood, and Musk is a hero to millions of conservative whites.
Why he thought someone like Scott Adams, with a national platform in hundreds of newspapers, would survive, or should survive , advising whites to stay away from blacks, is anybody's guess.
Exactly, he should have advised whites to consider staying away from only 26% of Black Americans
BLACK AMERICANS ONLY:
"It's okay to be white."
53% agree, 26% disagree, 21% not sure
"Black people can be racist, too"
76% of agree, 27% disagree, 8% not sure.
Yes black people can be racist too?
The problem comes when many white people assume an equivalency, and there is no doubt that happens every day.
Blacks, American Indians, hispanics and asians suffer from racial prejudice, not whites.
People need to grow up.
"fear of a black (or brown) planet" concerns the belief by white people they will become a permanent racial minority in America and the people of color will mistreat them the same way they mistreated the people of color for hundreds of years, and they dont like it.
It's an Asian planet by population demographics
If want to count Hispanic ethnicity as a race, it's inevitable
Maybe they assume that these people haven't evolved.
Who would?
such insight !!!
hat said white victims of police violence get a fraction of media coverage compared to Black victims, Musk said the coverage is "Very disproportionate to promote a false narrative."
That's very true. The majority of Democrats believe thousands of unarmed black people are killed by police every year. They been bamboozled by the media into believing total nonsense.
55 percent of whites feel they are discriminated against. Are you part of the white grievance group, Elon?
“55 percent of whites feel they are discriminated against.”
That means 55% of whites will not accept the fact that they may, in their lifetime, see their nightmare come true…that they will become a minority and see the tables turned and their past transgressions held in account.
Better to accept that fact and acknowledge our commonalities than to further the divisions, to no one’s benefit.
Well no, it means they understand how affirmative action works.
Are you using the NPR Poll?
It found:
Being paid equally or considered for promotions - 13%
Applying to or while at college - 11%