The Plain Dealer is dropping the Dilbert comic strip after creator Scott Adams' racist rant

[tenderfoot]

Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer.

This is not a difficult decision.

Adams said Black people are a hate group, citing a recent Rasmussen survey which, he said, shows nearly half of all Black people do not agree with the phrase “It’s okay to be white.”

“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,” he says in the video.

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We’re not the first newspaper to drop Dilbert. Last year, according to The Daily Beast, 77 newspapers published by Lee Enterprises dropped it after Adams introduced his first Black character, apparently to poke fun at “woke” culture and the LGBTQ community.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

[irisblue]

1. Good

[mountain grammy]

2. As they should.. good.

[gratuitous]

3. "This is not a difficult decision"

But watch how hard some newspapers will work to make it difficult.

[thucythucy]

4. I have always thought Dilbert was about as funny

as an untreated hemorrhoid.

It's a complete waste of space in any publication, almost as bad as "Mallard Fillmore."

[ShazzieB]

18. I think it used to be quite funny.

Emphasis on "used to be," of course. But as someone who spent many years working in offices, I always felt like he got a lot of things right. Especially when it comes to the behavior of clueless, incompetent bosses.

So yeah, I really enjoyed it once upon a time. I still find many of the old strips entertaining. But I think it's run its course, and Adams certainly doesn't deserve to make another dime off of it (to go with the huge pile he's no doubt already amassed).

[hatrack]

19. NOTHING is as bad as Mallard Fillmore

[thucythucy]

22. So true. nt

[dem4decades]

5. The rag near me will probably pick the strip up, if it doesn't have it already.

Maybe even move it to the editorial page if it's racist enough.

[Cha]

6. Good News.. More to Follow .. I Hope! TY

[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. Based on a generic and vague question on a Rasmussen poll is his impeccable evidence?

The Conspiracy Virus needs a vaccine, it’s spreading to the comics ffs!

[ToxMarz]

16. It's not necessarily a generic and vague question to everyone

There is some history behind "It's okay to be white". It could also be purposely polled and presented in a way to trigger the 'right' people.


https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white


The phrase “It’s Okay To Be White” is a slogan popularized in late 2017 as a trolling campaign by members of the controversial discussion forum 4chan. The original idea behind the campaign was to choose an ostensibly innocuous and inoffensive slogan, put that slogan on fliers bereft of any other words or imagery, then place the fliers in public locations. Originators assumed that “liberals” would react negatively to such fliers and condemn them or take them down, thus “proving” that liberals did not even think it was “okay" to be white.

Whether the original trollers were white supremacist or not, actual white supremacists quickly began to promote the campaign—often adding Internet links to white supremacist websites to the fliers or combining the phrase with white supremacist language or imagery. This was not a surprise, as white supremacists had themselves used the phrase in the past—including on fliers—long before the 4chan campaign originated.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

21. Rasmussen is propaganda, everything it pumps out is fake.

[Stuart G]

8. More to follow after this racist rant.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. More please

[Hassler]

10. The Peanuts reruns are more entertaining than Dilbert.

[Wednesdays]

11. The Plain Dealer only?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

12. all should drop him

[LAS14]

13. I'm pretty much in favor of judging art apart from the politics of the artist.

Picasso (women), Wagner (racism), there are lots of others, but I can't think of them.

But Dilbert, much as I enjoy it, doesn't stand up to the awful opinion of it's author. He's not Picasso. Cancel Dilbert!!!!

[FakeNoose]

14. This is going to happen all across the country - Bring it on!

[AllaN01Bear]

15. good . hope more do same soon.

[dalton99a]

17. No decent newspaper should support that anti-American racist piece of shit.

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. 30 years ago

Dilbert had some amusing takes on the workplace. And that’s about it. Long past time for him to recede from the public eye.