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dalton99a

(90,964 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 08:17 PM Feb 2023

Media drop Dilbert after creator's Black 'hate group' remark

Source: Associated Press

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 comment. But Adams defended himself on social media against those whom he said “hate me and are canceling me.”

Adams, who is white, repeatedly referred to people who are Black as members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help Black Americans.”




Read more: https://apnews.com/article/animation-and-comics-business-e2266a2356d4159b7f43fdc095be9fcb



When did Scott Adams help a Black American or any American of color?
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Media drop Dilbert after creator's Black 'hate group' remark (Original Post) dalton99a Feb 2023 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Tetrachloride Feb 2023 #1
I've been boycotting Scott Adams since I learned he has a MAGA conspiracy nut. Rizen Feb 2023 #5
Consequences... GB_RN Feb 2023 #2
Karma's a bitch! COL Mustard Feb 2023 #4
... Major Nikon Feb 2023 #19
Lol. GB_RN Feb 2023 #27
And take Mallard Fillmore with him. JohnnyRingo Feb 2023 #3
is that dismal attempt at humor thucythucy Feb 2023 #28
Good lord, these racists just don't have a filter! Lunabell Feb 2023 #6
Scott adams, a disciple of Joseph goebells BOSSHOG Feb 2023 #7
No apology necessary! skamaria Feb 2023 #22
+1 MLAA Feb 2023 #8
I was never a fan IbogaProject Feb 2023 #9
Hey asshole, you canceled yourself! WVreaper Feb 2023 #10
First, they politely ask to be fired! Mopar151 Feb 2023 #11
That right there GenThePerservering Feb 2023 #12
I'm sure he'll cry about being attacked for "just having an opinion" XorXor Feb 2023 #13
So help me, he had yellow eyes Tetrachloride Feb 2023 #14
Already running the "no free speech" gambit Bengus81 Feb 2023 #15
Yep, it was a perfect speech and the liberal media is unfair to him dalton99a Feb 2023 #17
These dipshits continuously think "free speech" means anyone is obligated to give them a soapbox Major Nikon Feb 2023 #18
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one The Mouth Feb 2023 #31
I knew he would say "cancel" - waiting to hear the stupid word "woke" SouthernDem4ever Feb 2023 #16
Remember!!! What he says publicly.... Grins Feb 2023 #20
I had to hunt to find this comic by XKCD IbogaProject Feb 2023 #21
Very apropos! ShazzieB Feb 2023 #29
Dilbert/Scott Adams CANCELLED! Cha Feb 2023 #23
Who actually thinks he is funny? LiberalLovinLug Feb 2023 #24
The strip has gotten very stale in recent years. ShazzieB Feb 2023 #30
Has MTG chimed in on this development yet? durablend Feb 2023 #25
I have no issues with banning this idiot LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2023 #26
Adams is much "TOO STUPID" TO KNOW HE IS STUPID.!! K and R Stuart G Feb 2023 #32
The WaPo dropped it tonekat Feb 2023 #33
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2023 #34
I wonder what would snap in a guys newdayneeded Feb 2023 #35

Response to dalton99a (Original post)

Rizen

(982 posts)
5. I've been boycotting Scott Adams since I learned he has a MAGA conspiracy nut.
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 09:05 PM
Feb 2023

What an idiot.

GB_RN

(3,456 posts)
2. Consequences...
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 08:48 PM
Feb 2023

Dilbert was a witty commentary on the corporate office mentality that was the "cubicle farm". I lived it in my previous life as an IT guy, so I could relate to what went on in the strip. But, Adams is such a POS, he had to make it known and now, he's suffering the consequences of his actions/choices. I have no sympathy for the asshole.

Oh, well...

COL Mustard

(7,755 posts)
4. Karma's a bitch!
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 09:03 PM
Feb 2023

Sorry Scott had to learn the hard way. Dilbert was a classic that many of us could relate to, but this was just stupid on his part.

JohnnyRingo

(20,257 posts)
3. And take Mallard Fillmore with him.
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 08:55 PM
Feb 2023

Even though he's turned against the Orange Idol in recent weeks, I get sick of his caricatures of liberal.

thucythucy

(9,001 posts)
28. is that dismal attempt at humor
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 06:37 PM
Feb 2023

still running anywhere?

Heavy handed, ill-informed, straw-man arguments and deathly unfunny, the only possible chuckle I ever got from that malformation of a comic strip was the title. But my lord, what a quack of a cartoonist.

 

Lunabell

(7,309 posts)
6. Good lord, these racists just don't have a filter!
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 10:31 PM
Feb 2023

I guess that's a good thing. Let's you know exactly who they are and they don't all wear hoods or have swastikas tattoos.

BOSSHOG

(43,980 posts)
7. Scott adams, a disciple of Joseph goebells
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 11:12 PM
Feb 2023

Hitlers minister of propaganda. Blame your enemy for what you do. Tell a lie over and over again. Ignorance and hate fuel conservatism. Often funded by social entitlements which we are all told by those who speak loudest wil destroy freedom. While failing to turn down said entitlements. Old white people sitting in front of the tv shaking their fists, screaming about what is wrong with this country while surviving on what this country gives them. Trained to turn a blind eye to the “capitalists” who take it from them aided and abetted by their Republican mine workers in Washington. I apologize for rambling on. Too much material to work with.

WVreaper

(669 posts)
10. Hey asshole, you canceled yourself!
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 11:51 PM
Feb 2023

I never wanted to be put in a position where I had to fire people. It happened. Then, a friend told me,"you don't fire them, they fire themselves". Same thing.

Mopar151

(10,339 posts)
11. First, they politely ask to be fired!
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 01:25 AM
Feb 2023

And progress to begging on their knees to be canned. When that proves insufficient, they'll pull something so amazingly bad that it becomes LEGEND! When the ax falls, they choke back tears and say "Why me? I didn't do anything!"

XorXor

(690 posts)
13. I'm sure he'll cry about being attacked for "just having an opinion"
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 01:41 AM
Feb 2023

I don't think I've ever seen a tweet from that dude that seemed normal. I don't mean that as "something I agreed with", but rather that wasn't completely idiotic or insane.

dalton99a

(90,964 posts)
17. Yep, it was a perfect speech and the liberal media is unfair to him
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 10:21 AM
Feb 2023

"Reinstate Dilbert! I need my income stream to buy food"





Major Nikon

(36,925 posts)
18. These dipshits continuously think "free speech" means anyone is obligated to give them a soapbox
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 10:23 AM
Feb 2023

All they really manage to do is prove their ignorance of the 1st Amendment.

SouthernDem4ever

(6,619 posts)
16. I knew he would say "cancel" - waiting to hear the stupid word "woke"
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 10:19 AM
Feb 2023

We don't need assholes like Adams around stinking up the place.

Grins

(9,052 posts)
20. Remember!!! What he says publicly....
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 12:05 PM
Feb 2023

… is mild compared to what he says privately.

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.“ - Republican J.C. Watts, who never wondered why the room at the Republican Club went quiet as soon as he walked in.

ShazzieB

(21,900 posts)
29. Very apropos!
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 07:51 PM
Feb 2023

This is one of my favorite XKCD strips of all time. Best explication of what freedom of speech really means (and what it doesn't mean) ever!

LiberalLovinLug

(14,526 posts)
24. Who actually thinks he is funny?
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 03:57 PM
Feb 2023

Like all right wing comics and comedians, he just has no sense of humour. I just went to Google images and searched for any cartoon of his to see if a random strip might prove me wrong.



I see that this one is making fun of people who he thinks exaggerate the act of gas-lighting by someone else? Just when one political party is being continually accused of gaslighting, hmmmmm.

But the main thing for a comic is.......Is it funny?

No. and neither are any others I found but didn't post. So lame, so vanilla, so repetitive.

ShazzieB

(21,900 posts)
30. The strip has gotten very stale in recent years.
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 08:04 PM
Feb 2023

Once upon a time, it WAS funny (emphasis on WAS). I loved it back in the 80s and 90s, and I have some books of old Dilbert strips that can still make me chortle.

But as the saying goes, that was then, this is now. I think he ran out of ideas a while back, and should have quit while he was ahead. Instead he keeps recycling old ideas, and when he does have a sort of new one (like this), he has trouble making it work.

Also, his misanthropy and bitterness are creeping into his work more and more. He really should just pack it in. He's got to be rich af by now and well past having anything to gain from continuing.

EDITED TO ADD: Not just his misanthropy and bitterness. His misanthropy and bitterness AND his misogyny. Exhibit A:


Response to tonekat (Reply #33)

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