Hundreds of newspapers in the USA will no longer publish the “Dilbert” comics by artist Scott Adams. In a live stream last week, Adams described blacks as a “hate group” from which whites should stay away as much as possible. He was referring to a survey by the polling institute Rasmussen Reports: Almost half of the black respondents disagreed with the statement that it was okay to be white, according to Adams. “As things are going right now, my best advice to white people is to get the fuck away from black people because there is no solution. You just have to flee,” Scottt continued.
Newspaper publishers, including the USA Today Network, which publishes more than 200 newspapers, condemned the animator’s comments and said they would no longer publish Adams’ cartoons. The Dilbert cartoons have been satirizing American office culture since 1989 and are very common in the USA, internationally they are printed in 57 countries. Among the newspapers that they no longer want to publish in the future are the New York Times, Come on Angeles Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe.
A spokeswoman for New York Times For example, the reason given was that the decision was made not to publish the “Dilbert” comics anymore because of Scott Adams’ “racist comments”. The comic had only appeared in the international print edition there, but not online or in the US print edition.
Scott Adams, born in 1957, defended himself on Twitter against the allegations against him. His statements were taken out of context. “Dilbert” has now been removed from all newspapers, websites, books and calendars because he gave advice that everyone would agree with. (“Dilbert has been canceled from all newspapers, websites, calendars, and books because I gave some advice everyone agreed with.”)
Tech billionaire Elon Musk soon got involved in the Adams controversy. When a Twitter user on the Musk-owned social network spoke out against coverage of Adams, Musk replied, “The media is racist.” And wrote: “For a *very* long time the US media was racist against non-white people, now they are racist against whites and Asians.”
Musk had repeatedly said in the past year that Twitter’s former management had gone too far in moderating content on the platform, thereby violating freedom of expression. For example, shortly after taking over the company, Musk poked fun at T-shirts he found at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters that said “#StayWoke” from the time of the rise of Black Lives Matter -Movement originated.
