This week, Scott Adams, the author of the workplace comedy comic strip Dilbert, went viral for a different reason. It was instead because of his advice for White people to “stay the hell away from Black people.”
During the Wednesday episode of Real Coffee with Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator quoted a Rasmussen survey asking the topic, “Is it Okay to Be White?” Adams has earned notoriety in recent years for his writings and comments on Donald Trump.
In the survey, 26% of Black participants indicated “no,” while another 21% indicated uncertainty. Out of the 1,000 persons who participated in the survey, the majority of Black respondents felt it was acceptable to be White, but Adams blasted other aspects of the finding.
“The best counsel I could give White people, according to the course of events, is to get the hell away from Black people,” Adams stated. “This is unfixable. You simply need to get away.”
The cartoonist claimed it’s no longer a rational impulse for a White citizen of America to try to help Black residents, enlisting CNN’s Don Lemon as some sort of support for his views after openly admitting to moving somewhere because it had a very low Black population. Scott Adams defended his remarks in numerous answers and comments after the diatribe shocked social media and received criticism.
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Newspapers Drop Dilbert
Meanwhile, the internationally syndicated comic strip Dilbert will no longer be published by a number of publications, including USA TODAY after the creator called Black people members of a “hate group” that white people should “stay away” from.
In response to remarks he made on his YouTube channel “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” on Wednesday, Scott Adams, the creator of the strip that parodies office culture and debuted in 1989, faced criticism.
Adams’ comments were the reason for news companies withdrawing the comic strip, but the creator of the comic strip persisted in defending them.
When Adams made reference to a Rasmussen Reports poll asking respondents if they agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white,” the backlash against him started on Wednesday.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the phrase gained notoriety in 2017 as part of a trolling campaign by users of the discussion platform 4chan, but it was then adopted by certain white supremacists.
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