Dilbert

Last week, the Andrews McMeel Universal syndicate dropped Dilbert creator Scott Adams following racist statements he made on his “Real Coffee” YouTube show on February 22. The syndicate’s announcement came after Adams’ comments led several newspapers to drop his strip. While some outlets, such as The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, “decided to keep the space blank through March ‘as a reminder of the racism that pervades our society,'” per Associated Press, other newspapers have replaced Dilbert with a fresh,…

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Scott Adams is asking members of his channel to help him rename his cartoon strip Dilbert, now that it will be moving to subscription only.Scott Adams is asking paying members of his subscription channel on locals.com to help him rename his cartoon strip Dilbert, now that it will be moving to a subscription only paywalled publisher. "Naming Dilbert 2.0. What should I call the upcoming Locals-only version of Dilbert? Dilbert Unleashed? Dilbert Unchained? Dilbert Raw? Canceled Dilbert? Ideas?" I am sure you have a few.…

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images)Twitter CEO Elon Musk voiced his outspoken support for cartoonist Scott Adams who received criticism for posting a racist rant on YouTube last week. Adams has since been fired from news outlets after calling Black people a “hate group” adding, “I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”Musk defended Adams’ video, claiming it is the mainstream media that is racist, not the cartoonist. “For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist…

Scott Adams made racially insensitive remarks last week, leading many newspapers to drop his ‘Dilbert’ comic strip. Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press…

Scott Adams has taken his Dilbert comic strip, and related video content, to a private subscription site, after newspapers and syndication cancelled the strip.Once upon a time, bad actors on the internet began popularising the phrase "It's OK to be white" as an attempt to troll society, something that was objectively true and inoffensive, and then tagging it to white supremacist groups, and claims of white victimhood, to the extent that to many, and quite deliberately, it became a dog-whistle signifier of racism.…

The creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip faced a backlash of cancellations Saturday while defending remarks describing people who are Black as members of “a hate group” from which white people should “get away.”Various media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments by “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams as racist, hateful and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work.Andrews McMeel Syndication, which distributes “Dilbert,” did not immediately respond Saturday to requests for…

Multiple newspapers around the U.S. dropped Scott Adams’s long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” in a racist rant he posted online. The USA Today Network, which includes hundreds of newspapers, Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, the San Antonio Express-News, the Washington Post and other publications all said they would stop publishing “Dilbert,” which has poked fun at corporate drudgery for decades. Mr. Adams, 65 years old, on…

The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, Scott Adams, faced a backlash of cancellations Saturday while defending remarks describing people who are Black as members of “a hate group” from which white people should “get away.” Various media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments by Dilbert creator as racist, hateful and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work. Andrews McMeel Syndication, which distributes Dilbert, did not immediately respond…

The Times has decided to cease publication of “Dilbert.” Cartoonist Scott Adams made racist comments in a YouTube livestream Feb. 22, offensive remarks that The Times rejects. Further, in the last nine months The Times has on four occasions printed a rerun of the comic when the new daily strip did not meet our standards. It will be discontinued effective Monday in most editions. But because Sunday Comics are printed in advance, “Dilbert” will last appear in the March 12 paper. A replacement title will premiere soon. The…