Big newspapers in the US will no longer publish his strips, after the utterances of Scott Adams who advised whites “to stay away from African-Americans”
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK — Il Washington Postil Los Angeles Times and other American newspapers will no longer publish the «Dilbert» comic strip after its creator called black Americans “a racist hate group” on his YouTube show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” and advised white people to “stay away from black people.” On the show, in which he comments on daily news stories, Adams cited the results of a poll Rasmussen asked thousands of Americans by phone and online: “Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ‘It’s okay to be white? ?”».
“Stay Away”
72% agreed, including 53% of Black American participants, while 26% disagreed and 21% were unsure of what to answer. In the survey, 79% agreed that: “Black people can be racist too.” The cartoonist concluded that, although he has tried to help the black community in the past, this survey is proof that racial tensions in America “cannot be resolved”: “I am called a racist, that is the only result. There’s no point in helping black Americans if you’re white. It’s over. Don’t even think it’s worth trying.” “I’m not saying start a war or do anything bad,” he added. “Nothing like that. I simply say: stay away.
Two thousand newspapers
Adams, age 65, born in the Catskill Mountains of New York, into a family working class, created his cartoon in 1989 while working in a bank in San Francisco, as a satire on office culture, cubicles and stupid bosses, spreading it in two thousand newspapers. After the reaction of the newspapers, he wrote on Twitter that he had been “cancelled” and on YouTube, dive talks every day with 3000 fans who respond with live comments, he announced that “within the next week my income will be zeroed … My reputation for the rest of my life will be destroyed». He added that his words were taken out of context as often happened with Trump (whose election he had predicted): defining black Americans as a “racist hate group” – he argued – does not mean that one cannot appreciate individual individuals: “I have a black neighbor, a doctor, whom I adore”.
«No censorship»
L’Oregonianone of the newspapers that deleted the cartoon, explained: “Some readers will no doubt deride the decision as an example of an exaggerated culture woke or an automatic politically correct answer. What about freedom of expression? Isn’t this censorship? No one is taking away Adams’ freedom of speech. He is free to share his loathsome comments on YouTube and Twitter as long as they let him. Ours is not censorship: publishers make decisions every day on what to publish, balancing the need to inform and the possibility of offending the sensibilities of readers». The Washington Post he wrote that he made the decision after reader protests over statements “promoting segregation.” Last year 76 newspapers including the San Francisco Time.news they had already stopped publishing the cartoon after the introduction of its first black character, «Dave the Black Engineer», seen as a mockery of the culture woke. The director of Time.news he added that they only arrived few complaints after the decision. She has previously said her TV show was canceled because she is white and in January 2022 she tweeted that she would self-identify as a “black woman.” He had also been criticized for writing in his blog about him want to know how the number of victims of the Holocaust was determined, «just to know the context». In an interview on Saturday, he said his intentional rants are aimed at advancing the debate on race relations.
February 26, 2023 (change February 26, 2023 | 18:06)
© Time.News