“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams has just learned that being canceled is more than just figurative. Multiple newspapers and the cartoonist’s syndicate dropped his comic strip after Adams went full David Duke on us and, in a recent episode of his YouTube show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams,” called Black people “a hate group” that white people need to “get the hell away from.”
“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams has just learned that being canceled is more than just figurative.
“We are not a home for those who espouse racism,” Chris Quinn, editor of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, wrote in a letter to readers. “We certainly do not want to provide them with financial support.” Other newspapers used similar language in explaining their decisions to ditch “Dilbert.” The San Antonio Express-News is dropping it because “of hateful and discriminatory public comments by its creator,” and the Los Angeles Times cited Adams’ “racist comments.”
Andrews McMeel Universal, the syndicate that had been distributing his cartoon to those newspapers, has also dumped “Dilbert.”
Adams deserves every cancellation he gets, but he’s not alone in deserving our opprobrium. He might not have made the specific racist remarks he made but for Rasmussen Reports, which, smack-dab in the middle of Black History Month, decided to ask a pair of questions more befitting of Confederate Heritage Month.
Rasmussen Reports pollsters asked 1,000 people to agree or disagree with two statements: “It’s OK to be white” and “Black people can be racist, too.” Nothing good was ever going to come from those questions, and it was irresponsible and incendiary for Rasmussen to use those questions, and only those questions, in a survey.
In promoting its poll results, which depressingly found that most Americans think Black people can be racist, Rasmussen Reports used the headline “Not ‘Woke’ Yet? Most Voters Reject Anti-White Beliefs.” Get it? To be…
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