Dilbert creator Scott Adams claimed ‘black America’ was ‘completely fine’ with his racist tirade and blamed ‘the white people who canceled me’ after 77 newspapers launched his comic.
Last month, Adams urged viewers of his YouTube channel to “stay away from black people” and said he had moved to a neighborhood with “a very low black population.”
The 65-year-old, who has made millions from his internationally syndicated comic strip, is not backing down on the comments despite being dropped by 77 newspapers, including The Washington Post and the LA Times.
“Black America is completely fine if you look at the context,” Adams said last night, arguing that his remarks were hyperbolic and “intended to irritate people.”
“So far, every black person I’ve talked to has said, ‘I understand what you’re saying,'” he told Chris Cuomo on News Nation.
‘It’s almost entirely white people who canceled on me. It may be entirely because they own the publishing houses and newspapers.
“So far, every black person I’ve talked to has said, ‘I understand what you’re saying,'” Scott Adams (right) told Chris Cuomo on News Nation. ‘It’s almost entirely white people who canceled on me. It may be entirely because they own the publishing houses and newspapers.
Dilbert has been around since 1989 and frequently pokes fun at office culture.
Attempting to explain his comments, Adams stated, “What I want your audience to know is that when I complained about black people having a bad attitude towards white people, I was the one saying nothing about black people.” She would say, ‘I don’t want to be around people who have a bad feeling about me.’
In addition to Adams being abandoned by a large number of newspapers around the world, he also lost the endorsement of his publisher Penguin Random House.
Dilbert has been around since 1989 and is known for poking fun at office culture. Adams has amassed a fortune of 75 million dollars thanks to his work.
The backlash began after last Monday’s episode of his show Real Coffee.
Among other topics, Adams referenced a Rasmussen Reports poll that had asked if people agreed with the statement: “It’s okay to be white.”
Most agreed, but Adams noted that 26 percent of black respondents disagreed and others were unsure.
The Anti-Defamation League says the phrase was popularized in 2017 as a trolling campaign by members of the 4chan discussion forum, but later began to be used by some white supremacists.
Adams, who is white, repeatedly referred to black people as members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help black Americans.”
The backlash began after last Monday’s episode of his show Real Coffee (pictured). Among other topics, Adams referenced a Rasmussen Reports poll that asked if people agreed with the statement: “It’s okay to be white.”
Adams is worth an estimated $75 million from his works with the comic strip ‘Dilbert’
Adams, pictured in 2001, has come under fire for “racist” comments posted on his Real Coffee with Scott Adams YouTube channel.
He urged white people to “just get away from the bullshit.” Wherever you have to go, just walk away.’
Adams added: ‘There is no way to fix this. This can’t be fixed… You just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low black population.’
Adams has long been active at Twitter, whose CEO Elon Musk was one of the few to publicly endorse him. He also blogs regularly and posts a regular podcast on YouTube.
She drew attention for comments she’s made in the past, including saying in 2011 that women are treated differently by society for the same reason as children and the mentally handicapped: “it’s easier for everyone that way.” She said 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina had an “angry wife face.”
Adams became a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, saying that Trump had the ability of a hypnotist to attract followers. He said that stance cost him money in lost speaker fees.
He said he lost the two-season primetime animated series “Dilbert” for “being white” when the network decided to target a black audience, and that he lost two other corporate jobs because of his race.
Announcing that “Dilbert” would be removed from the Kansas City Star, the paper’s community engagement editor, Derek Donovan, said Adams’ “childishly macho, antagonistic persona” has been a constant for years.
“This is not about cancel culture,” said editor Richard Green of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in California. You are doing the right thing.
Scott Adams, cartoonist and author and creator of ‘Dilbert,’ poses for a portrait in his home office on January 6, 2014 in Pleasanton, California.
The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, left a blank space Monday where “Dilbert” would normally run and said it would keep it that way until March “as a reminder of the racism that permeates our society.”
The San Francisco Chronicle stopped publishing “Dilbert” last October, a move that drew only a handful of complaints. Editor-in-chief Emilio Garcia-Ruiz told the paper that he had opposed a strip that said, in an effort to diversify workplaces, straight men should pretend to be gay.
In a ‘Dilbert’ strip on September 2, a boss said that traditional performance reviews would be replaced by a ‘wake up’ score.
When an employee complained that that might be biased, the boss said, “That’ll cost you two points off your awakening score, you bigot.”
In an August strip, the boss said the company was entering the “pandemic prevention market” and creating demand by unleashing a deadly virus.
A black employee featured in an Oct. 20 strip said his boss ignored his actual accomplishments to recommend him for a job he was unqualified for. The employee backed down when told it would be a big raise in salary.
Peterson said there are other examples of how Adams’s attitudes had replaced the biting humor that Peterson and a legion of middle managers loved. Adams seemed to run out of jokes.
“The strip jumped the shark,” he said.