7 biting cartoons about Dilbert creator Scott Adam being 'canceled' after racist rant
- Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later.
Dilbert has gotten a pink slip and cartoonists have a lot to say about it.
Hundreds of American newspapers, the Columbus Dispatch and all others in the USA TODAY Network publication included, and a major comic distributor have announced they will stop running the widely syndicated comic strip Dilbert.
The news comes after Scott Adams, the strip's creator, described Black people as part of a "hate group" in a YouTube video, saying last week that the best advice he can "give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.”
No, the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, isn't being cancelled. He's getting fired for extraordinarily racist remarks. As you can see in the video below, he called Black people "a hate group."
For some context, he was replying to a right-wing Rasmussen Poll asking black people… https://t.co/NFwN6IOMm2 pic.twitter.com/mW7HJjDGWW— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) February 28, 2023
Fellow cartoonists weigh in on the controversy in editorials cartoons below.
More:I apologize to 'Dilbert' comic creator Scott Adams for forcing him to be racist
More:USA TODAY Network, newspapers and distributor drop Dilbert comic after creator's racist comments
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Editorial cartoons about Dilbert creator Scott Adam being dropped for racist rant
