Dilbert Comic Strip Axed By Newspapers Following Racist Rant From Scott Adams

[ZariusTwo]

Newspapers across the country are pulling the “Dilbert” cartoon after a podcast racial rant from creator and author Scott Adams.

Adams said on his his Coffee with Scott Adams online video program that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” labeling Blacks as a “hate group.”

The Dilbert cartoon is a satire on office politics and has been around for more than three decades. It has spawned a media empire featuring dozens of books, a video game, an animated television series, and thousands of coffee cups and related merchandise. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, its highest honor.

Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer published a Letter from the Editor Friday, stating that it was “not a difficult decision” to ax the Adams cartooon. “We are not a home for those who espouse racism,” the editor wrote. He added that Advance Media, its publisher, was instituting similar moves at its other properties.

John Hiner of MLive Media in Michigan echoed the Plain Dealer. He wrote in an editorial, “we will work quickly to find a replacement that will entertain you and not violate basic standards of decency and respect for others.”

https://deadline.com/2023/02/dilbert-cartoon-dropped-from-many-news-outlets-over-scott-adams-racial-remarks-1235270803/

[AquaParade]

That’s a deranged thing to say. I wonder what happened to the guy.

There are culture issues, but it doesn’t come down to skin color. You can be any combination of skin color and personality.

[Vegita-San]

this is someone who is the opposite of the sjw and spends too much time looking at that type of stuff.

[AquaParade]

this is someone who is the opposite of the sjw and spends too much time looking at that type of stuff.

These types are just two sides of the same coin, for sure. You can’t give into all the bs out there that is designed to turn us against each other. Racism is being encouraged.

[ZariusTwo]

Strip will be exiled to a creator-owned paywall service

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1630181061543211009

[CyberCubed]

Making a rant about black people in 2023?

[Andrew NDB]

Hm... I'm naturally super suspicious of this. Particularly when the article makes it a point to neither show the full quotes nor the context.

* Edit: I found the full quote. "If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with White people – according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll – that’s a hate group. I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people, just get the f**k away … because there is no fixing this."

So he doesn't want anything to do with the reportedly half of black people that are not OK with white people. That's his crime.

[AquaParade]

Yeah, I can actually see a little bit of where he is coming from but the way he ran with it didn't help his case at all.

The video he is reacting to is appalling but his response is a little extreme.

Idk. Madness all around. Wish we could just drop the race debate.

[Andrew NDB]

The first part of his quote isn't unreasonable, if we're talking specifically about black people who are not OK with white people, though I'd take far more umbrage with all the white people who are actively trying to make black people not be OK with white people everyday. And like anything with race, you have to flip it to test it to see if it works both ways. Would it be racist if he said he wants nothing to do with white people who aren't OK with black people? No, that'd be a perfectly reasonable thing to say. Ergo...

The second part of the quote is dicier. Just stay away from all black people, not just the ones that aren't OK with white people, as a general cautionary rule? Eh, no.

[Cowabung-Gal]

I get what Scott is saying, but I don’t completely agree with him. Distancing yourself from all black people is definitely not a solution to the current racial tension in this country. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from 2016, it’s that polls don’t mean squat.

But really, why are the so-called “progressives” whining about this? This is exactly what they want: racial segregation. Of course, they call it “black safe spaces” to make it sound less controversial, even though we normal people can see right through their b.s. With all this talk about “whiteness” and “white privilege”, of course a good percentage of black people will start to distrust white people. It’s all part of the Far-Left’s agenda to create division in this country, Marxism 101. They don’t really believe in harmony between races.

Don’t believe me? Look up Occupy Wall Street and CHAZ and their attempts to divide people by their skin color.

[IMJ]

People weaponize anything they can in any way possible nowadays. And regular thinkers don't go the limit and find the actual quote or choose to understand intellectualism.

There is no going back to "normal" because these behaviors give black people "complaint power". Just like woke $#!( - normal people are very slow to see or act on reality out of personal fear and preservation - but over time people will just keep walking away from this nonsense.

The first step is to, as consumers bankrupt a company who acts on these things. So stop buying any newspaper or hitting any website that cancelled Dilbert over an intellectual truth from the creator. It's that simple.

[IndigoErth]

'Good' ol' seniors losing their racist filters as they age. :roll:

Maybe people rather aught to just distance themselves from garbage human beings no matter their color. Not like there aren't also plenty of fellow white people worth staying away from for one reason or other, too, and would be fine to trade them for those darker skinned individuals who are worth knowing.


edit: At least it doesn't sound like he ever had kids (excluding ex-step-kids) so no one out there is forced to have a sizeable "Wtf, Dad/Grandpa" moment. Baby Boomer parents are tough enough in the age of social media without a public spotlight.

[ZariusTwo]

edit: At least it doesn't sound like he ever had kids

Adams had a son who died some years back

[sdp]

lol
I'm a fan of Scott Adams, he's intelligent and I've followed him since the mid 00s and have read most of his books. He's a well read person and insightful. He's also full of himself, And yes he's definitely racist and more importantly sexist and if you don't want to use the "ist" word then he's just "holds a deep grudge against women and non-whites". Not because of recent comments, if you're familiar with his books, it's all in there. He generalizes things but he says it all in there how he lost his jobs because of black people or how women get ahead because of their pussies. Of course he says it in nicer words. But I mean he always clearly says that it's in his experience. And well not to be politically incorrect but he isn't exactly incorrect in some of his examples.

Now the Scott Adams of today sadly is a shadow of his former self, he became addicted to his fame. He was basically not that important and not many people cared what he had to say but he was the first person who predicted Trump would win. He wasn't even a republican. Only when Trump finally won did he get a lot of attention from the media and the right wing and Scott LOVED it. while he was smart enough to make a good prediction based on Trump's A/B testing, he thought he couldn't do anything wrong since then and would just try to hold on to the newly acquired attention by basically making sh-t up and predicting things as if he knows everythng. He thinks he's David Xanatos and his opinion is "always" correct, because his predictions are always vague, so even if he's wrong he says "GOTCHA!!!! I didn't say ____ you only interpreted it that way". And he's very good at that, so when he got it right again he was praised and when not he'd say it wasn't what he really said.

He lost a lot of his fanbase over the last few years so he's been trying to say more and more controversial things since it gave him attention again for a bit, and this is what lead to the current rant. which of course he knew it would be controversial, it's what he wanted. He just didn't think his main source of income would finally get cancelled. Though of course if you read his social media he's still "BUT I didn't say that GOTCHA!!! haha I'm so smart", sadly that's how he has been for the last few years and it's become boring. His last book was not as good, but if you're interested in Scott Addams check out some of his books, they're a good read, not exactly classics but fun and insightful.

The bad news is I loved the Dilbert cartoon and now we will never get another (then again it's not like anyone was asking for another one either sadly). On the bright side he said that he'd start writing edgier Dilbert cartoons since he's cancelled. I don't think they'll be extreme edgy but any edge shold definitely help the comics be more entertaining than they have been for the last 20 years when the original formula got stale.

[ZariusTwo]

On the bright side he said that he'd start writing edgier Dilbert cartoons since he's cancelled.

Sure enough, the "Dilbert Reborn' era will see the character killed off and revived with no profanity filter

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/scott-adams-returns-with-new-strip-dilbert-reborn-now-with-f-words/

[oldmanwinters]

Sure enough, the "Dilbert Reborn' era will see the character killed off and revived with no profanity filter

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/scott-adams-returns-with-new-strip-dilbert-reborn-now-with-f-words/

:blanksta:

That's... a very weird thing for an artist to do with one of his iconic creations.

I can't say I feel any real emotion about it because I was never a fan of the comic from Day 1; Dilbert replaced the front page spot occupied by Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes in most Sunday newspapers, and my juvenile brain just wasn't in the mood for "adult office humor and heavy text-based social commentary.

Adams' grandstanding suggests he never really loved his own characters in the way somebody like Watterson or Charles Schultz would have.

[Coola Yagami]

Not gonna lie. Kinda curious how this is gonna go. Though I wonder where these new strips will be since obviously no one is going to want to publish them and I sure as hell won't be subscribing to anything.

I wonder if he's just gonna keep burying himself even further.

[Papenbrook]

He got what he deserved.

[Coola Yagami]

He got what he deserved.

The irony is if the races were reversed, he's be the left's next big hero, alongside such greats like George Floyd.

There's your racism.

I'm not defending his stance by any means, he's an idiot, but let's not pretend we'd be just as outraged if he said 'stay the hell away from white people' instead.

[TurtleManiac]

Scott Adams probably just felt his career was over. He was injured by the vaccine with blood clots, he’s been pretty open about it on Twitter saying things like “conspiracy theorists were right” etc. I don’t think he’s truly racist. If someone was truly racist wouldn’t they be loud and proud about it? Like wouldn’t an actual white supremacist want that to be known and openly use racial slurs? Even the current US President has said worse racist things than Scott Adams, and his crime and segregation policies did actual harm to the black community.

If it wasn’t for that “hate group” comment, the Adams backlash may have been less severe. It sounded like he was trying to raise awareness at the racial divide in America today. The extremist left has been grifting off racism for a long time. Now there’s all these videos circulating twitter of a group of guys assaulting a white guy, even kicking them in the back of the head repeatedly when they are already down. That’s not normal behavior. We are witnessing a crumbling society, thanks to years of radicalized race hustlers pushing a narrative that America is the most racist country in the world.

This is what the elite globalists want. Racism. Divide and conquer. Communist celebrities like Brian Cranston says that “Make America Great Again” is racist:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/1629885267283681281

Cranston says “when was America ever great for African Americans”…. As if he speaks for all black people and it sounds kinda racist what he’s saying like he’s suggesting that it must be terrible to be black and he is their savior. These woke celebrities are just paid shills, their true colors are showing.

United we stand, divided we fall.

[Leo656]

Alright, I can't believe I'm coming out of retirement for This Sh*t but some people are too idiotic to be left unchecked.

- America has NEVER been "great" for black people... Or gay people... Or women. And it still isn't. I know this because I TALK TO A LOT OF F*CKING PEOPLE and they make their feelings abundantly clear on the subject. They resent being told that their "laziness" or "bad attitude" is why they struggle so much harder, across the board, then straight white men do.

Let me be clear: Most of the people I talk to don't automatically think that just because America has never been "great" for those people, that by default it is "horrible" for those people either. Few of them think that. They might be inclined to say that America can, and has been, "Good, but not Great" for their group. But the facts are, America has only EVER been "great" for one group of people, and the ramp is a lot more steep for everyone else. Thus, "Make America Great Again" IS a loaded statement by definition. To say otherwise is intellectually dishonest.

- If you honestly think that "real" bigots only wear Klan robes, and otherwise they're not hateful people... Well, that's nuts. These are the nonsense statements that constantly make me suspect that very few of you spend much time outside among the rabble.

Your action figure customs are great. Your political opinions are terrible. I really hope to never have to come back here but when people show me sh*t like this it's like Jesus Christ. I can only HOPE these are sh*tposts and that people don't actually think these things, but sadly I know better.

[TurtleManiac]

Alright, I can't believe I'm coming out of retirement for This Sh*t but some people are too idiotic to be left unchecked.

- America has NEVER been "great" for black people... Or gay people... Or women. And it still isn't. I know this because I TALK TO A LOT OF F*CKING PEOPLE and they make their feelings abundantly clear on the subject. They resent being told that their "laziness" or "bad attitude" is why they struggle so much harder, across the board, then straight white men do.

Let me be clear: Most of the people I talk to don't automatically think that just because America has never been "great" for those people, that by default it is "horrible" for those people either. Few of them think that. They might be inclined to say that America can, and has been, "Good, but not Great" for their group. But the facts are, America has only EVER been "great" for one group of people, and the ramp is a lot more steep for everyone else. Thus, "Make America Great Again" IS a loaded statement by definition. To say otherwise is intellectually dishonest.

- If you honestly think that "real" bigots only wear Klan robes, and otherwise they're not hateful people... Well, that's nuts. These are the nonsense statements that constantly make me suspect that very few of you spend much time outside among the rabble.

Your action figure customs are great. Your political opinions are terrible. I really hope to never have to come back here but when people show me sh*t like this it's like Jesus Christ. I can only HOPE these are sh*tposts and that people don't actually think these things, but sadly I know better.

As a non-white person, I tell you that living in America has always been great to me, not good, GREAT. And no paid Hollywood shills are gonna change my mind or tell me what to think, what to wear, how to act. I’ve been to other countries, so yes I do go outside and know how the world works.

Was racism a problem in the past? Yes. And that’s history. We’ve come a long way. Racism was abolished in the Civil Rights movement. It became too great in America, now our corrupt politicians and race hustlers wanna take a step back and make reverse racism acceptable, encourage violent protests and rioting, while the elite globalists are busy enriching themselves. Why the left gotta be such doomers?

[Andrew NDB]

Now, a simple question: has the government (and the media, their propaganda wing)-forced obsession on race and race relations and perceived racial inequalities made things better or much worse, these past 3-4 years? Objectively?

[Cowabung-Gal]

Now, a simple question: has the government (and the media, their propaganda wing)-forced obsession on race and race relations and perceived racial inequalities made things better or much worse, these past 3-4 years? Objectively?

WORSE.

I’m tired of everyone pretending that things are hunky dory.

[AquaParade]

Alright, I can't believe I'm coming out of retirement for This Sh*t but some people are too idiotic to be left unchecked.

- America has NEVER been "great" for black people... Or gay people... Or women. And it still isn't. I know this because I TALK TO A LOT OF F*CKING PEOPLE and they make their feelings abundantly clear on the subject. They resent being told that their "laziness" or "bad attitude" is why they struggle so much harder, across the board, then straight white men do.

Let me be clear: Most of the people I talk to don't automatically think that just because America has never been "great" for those people, that by default it is "horrible" for those people either. Few of them think that. They might be inclined to say that America can, and has been, "Good, but not Great" for their group. But the facts are, America has only EVER been "great" for one group of people, and the ramp is a lot more steep for everyone else. Thus, "Make America Great Again" IS a loaded statement by definition. To say otherwise is intellectually dishonest.



This is anecdotal though. Your point is based on who you have personally encountered.

"I know black people have it bad because I talked to a lot of black people and they told me so." That's just not a strong argument. We all have our own personal experiences but they don't just equate to objective truth.