'Dilbert' cartoon dropped after racist rant by creator Scott Adams | Reuters
By: Sharon Bernstein (Reuters)
The cartoon "Dilbert" has been dropped from numerous U.S. newspapers in response to a racist rant by its creator on YouTube.
Talk about things that make you go: HUH?! Why you do that??
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'Dilbert' cartoon dropped after racist rant by creator Scott Adams By Sharon Bernstein Feb 25 (Reuters) -
The cartoon "Dilbert" has been dropped from numerous U.S. newspapers in response to a racist rant by its creator on YouTube. Scott Adams called Black Americans a "hate group" and suggested white Americans "get the hell away from Black people" in response to a conservative organization's poll purporting to show that many African Americans do not think it's OK to be white. "If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people ... that's a hate group," Adams said on his YouTube channel on Wednesday. "And I don't want to have anything to do with them." The comments ignited a furor on social media, along with calls for the conservative cartoonist's work to be dropped from publishers' rosters. His once-popular comic strip, which lampoons corporate culture and was launched in 1989, will no longer be carried by the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the USA Today-affiliated group of newspapers and others, the newspapers announced in statements on Friday and Saturday. "This is not a difficult decision," Chris Quinn, editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland said in a letter to readers posted on Friday. "We are not a home for those who espouse racism."
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Talk about figuratively shooting oneself in the foot, neck, and butt all with one 'fatal' shot! Was this necessary ?
Scott Adams (creator of 'Dilbert'):
"By Monday, I should be mostly canceled . So most of my income will be gone by next week ," he said. " My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed . You can't come back from this."
Oh my, consequences for being a racist, too bad.
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Ya, he went the Michael Richards route. Huge mistake.
Shaking my head.....
I feel he actually did this for reasoning related to the idiom: "Crazy like a fox." Clearly, no one 'shoots' their professional career down in this manner (he ran into the open arms of cancel culture) without giving it some forethought. So what could this man be after? I think a 'career' in a limited capacity/smaller circulation (at this point). He wants to align himself with right-wing politics solely. Thus, he is cutting himself off from the larger mass by temporarily ending his career as we know it. "Watch this space" to see where he finds a professional landing within a couple of years-assuming he has not been given an offer already.
This clown is a poster boy for white grievance and has been for a long time. People are going too easy on him. He is a racist nutcase.
Hmm. I have never heard of him apart from 'Dilbert' the comic strip; which I have liked all my life for its sketchiness and durability. And now he admits to. . this. As black people and minorities in this country, it is dreadful how some white people and in response some blacks and other minorities too, keep putting out these political 'buzz saws' for the unsuspecting to get 'sliced' by verbally and emotionally.
John, I don't mean to 'butter you up,' but I do appreciate a 'welcoming' personality online who gets 'it.' More importantly, you are someone who has proven he is not easily intimidated or peer-pressured to be pretentious and go along to get along (with the flow). I ain't bothered to tell you:
1. You are not the 'warmest' tool in this 'box.'
2. You are solid as a 'rock.'
He's a Trump fan. No further explanation needed.
- Nobody.
Just another right wing victim. He should invest in trumpcoin.