Dilbert, whose last name is unknown, was launched this week by several newspapers that printed his kind remarks at work in their comics pages, where the office drone spent his nearly 34-year career years.
Umbrella publications USA Today and Advance Local said they had dropped the strip following creator Scott Adams’ latest inflammatory comments during a live stream Wednesday.
“The best advice I would give white people is to get rid of black people,” Adams said.
“Just go. Wherever you have to go, just run,” he continued.
And again: “This cannot be solved. This cannot be fixed. … You just have to run. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very small black population.”
Adams said polls have found that “nearly half of black people disapprove of white people” and that means black people are “a bunch of hate.”
“And I want nothing to do with them,” she said.
Newspaper editors then decided they wanted nothing to do with Dilbert’s single-minded, single-minded gaze.
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Gannett-owned USA Today called Adams’ comments “discriminatory” in a statement posted on social media on Friday. Editors at Advance Local publications, including Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, NJ.com and MLive.com, wrote letters to their readers explaining why they chose to drop “Dilbert” as well.
“It’s not a difficult decision,” wrote Chris Quinn, editor of The Plain Dealer.
John Hiner, editor of MLive.com, which serves the Mid-Michigan area, declined to even link to videos of Adams’ latest comments.
“If you’re curious enough to submit to this garbage, I’m sure your search engine or social media will direct you to it,” Hiner wrote.
Adams has long declared himself a right-wing reactionary, using his Twitter account and other venues to support Donald Trump since 2015. When protests against police brutality hit the streets of major cities in 2020, Adams She said the Black Lives Matter movement has turned into a “domestic terrorist organization that sets race relations back about twenty years.”
“If Biden is elected, there’s a good chance he’ll be dead within a year,” he said. he wrote in July 2020, as the Trump administration continued to seek a global response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The Republicans will be kicked out,” he added.
Adams spent part of Saturday retweeting people who agreed with his stance on black people and suggested that even those who took revenge on him did not believe that he was wrong.
“Imagine what would happen if they didn’t agree with me. Much worse,” he said without further explanation.
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