![]() “It makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” Adams said, adding that he escaped by living in a neighborhood with a “very low” Black population. In Adams’ video, he referenced the poll and called Black people “a hate group,” adding, “the best advice I could give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” White supremacists, who had used the phrase long before the campaign, promoted it on flyers and website links, The Chronicle reported. The phrase itself cropped up as part of a 2017 trolling campaign by members of the white nationalist “alt-right” movement in the online forum 4chan. In his show Wednesday, Bay Area resident Adams referenced a recent Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 American adults who asked whether they agreed with the statement: “It’s Ok to be white.”Īccording to the Rasmussen poll, 72% of Americans agreed with the statement, including 53% of Black respondents, and 22% percent of Americans disagreed, including 26% of Black respondents. The Chronicle stopped carrying Dilbert last October after strips that, among other things, joked that reparations, proposed for African Americans because of slavery, can be claimed by underperforming office workers and that, to get around efforts to diversify workplaces, straight men should pretend they are gay, said Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor in chief. Hundreds of media outlets across the U.S., including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and the USA Today Network of hundreds of papers, announced they would no longer publish the Dilbert strip after the cartoonist made inflammatory comments last week on his YouTube show, “Real Coffee With Scott Adams.” 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.Īdams, who is white, repeatedly referred to people who are Black as members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help Black Americans.The billionaire reportedly also tweeted, and then deleted, a reply to Adams’ tweet about media outlets discontinuing his comic strip, in which he asked: “What exactly are they complaining about?” Rasmussen Reports is a conservative polling firm has used its Twitter account to endorse false and misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines, elections, and the Jan. The Anti-Defamation League says the phrase at the center of the question was popularized as a trolling campaign by members of 4chan - an anonymous and notorious message board - and began being used by some white supremacists. 22 episode of “Real Coffee with Scott Adams,” he referenced a Rasmussen Reports survey that had asked whether people agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” Most agreed, but Adams noted that 26 percent of Black respondents disagreed and others weren’t sure. “They made a business decision, which I don’t consider anything like censorship,” he said of Andrews McMeel Universal, adding that his comments about Black people were hyperbole.Īdams had previously defended himself on social media against those whom he said “hate me and are canceling me.” He also drew support from Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who tweeted that the media previously “was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians.”ĭuring the Feb. In a YouTube episode released Monday, Scott Adams said that new “Dilbert” strips will only be available on his subscription service on the Locals platform. ![]() ![]() While Adams’ strips are no longer on GoComics, he maintains an extensive archive on his own website. The Andrews McMeel Universal statement said the distributor supports free speech, but Adams’ comments were not compatible with the core values of the company based in Kansas City, Mo. Newspapers ranging from the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post to smaller papers like the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette have also said they would cease to publish “Dilbert.” The strip, which lampoons office culture, first appeared in 1989. The paper said it would keep the space blank throughout March “as a reminder of the racism the pervades our society.” Readers of The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro found a blank space in Monday’s edition where “Dilbert” would normally run. 22 episode of his YouTube show, Adams described people who are Black as members of “a hate group” from which white people should “get away.” Various media publishers across the United States denounced the comments as racist, hateful, and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work. In an editor’s note on Sunday, The Boston Globe said it was dropping the strip because of Adams’ “racist comments.” ![]()
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