Once-popular cartoon scrapped from hundreds of papers after Scott Adams calls Black people a ‘hate group’ on his YouTube show
The cartoon “Dilbert” has been dropped from numerous US newspapers in response to racist comments by its creator, Scott Adams, on his YouTube channel.
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people ... that’s a hate group,” said Adams, who is white, on his YouTube channel on Wednesday. “And I don’t want to have anything to do with them.” “In light of Scott Adams’s recent statements promoting segregation, the Washington Post has ceased publication of the Dilbert comic strip,” the newspaper said on Saturday, noting that readers had contacted the newspaper calling for the cartoon to be dropped.
The Los Angeles Times on Saturday said it too would drop the strip. “Cartoonist Scott Adams made racist comments in a YouTube livestream Feb 22, offensive remarks that the Times rejects,” the newspaper said on its website. Andrews McMeel Syndication, which distributes Dilbert, did not immediately respond on Saturday to requests for comment by the Associated Press.
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