Updated on 3/7/23 at 4:41Β p.m. E.T:
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In response to public scrutiny and having his cartoon βDilbertβ dropped from dozens of newspapers, Scott Adams pinpointedΒ in an interview with NewsNation on Monday (March 6) the exact group of people who he believes is responsible for the backlash.
βItβs almost entirely white people that canceled me, it might be entirely,β Adams stated, βbecause theyβre the ones that own the publishing companies and the newspapers.Β Black America is actually completely fine, both conservative and liberal, if they see the context.β Adams then remarked that his claims that Black people are a βhate groupβ were βhyperbole.β
He also insisted that he βintentionally courted controversyβ so Adams could βhave a productive argument.β
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During the March 4 episode of βSaturday Night Live,β the βWeekend Updateβ segment of the show tackled Scott Adamsβthe racist creator of the comic βDilbertβ who recently went viral for a disturbing rant he made in a YouTube video last month. In the footage, Adams called Black people a βhate groupβ but didnβt stop there:
βIf nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with White people β¦ thatβs a hate group. I donβt want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people β¦ because there is no fixing this.β
And as a result, dozens of newspapers dropped the cartoon. Michael Che, alongside co-anchor Colin Jost, gave viewers background information on Adamsβ most recent actions. βNewspapers dropped the cartoon strip [Dilbert] effective immediately,β Jost said. βAnd to rub it in, theyβre replacing Dilbert with βPeanuts: Oops All Franklin.ββ
The pair then interviewed βDilbertβ (portrayed by SNL star Michael Longfellow) to understand why Adams would make such hate-filled statements. βMichael, I think I can speak for myself and the entire all-white staff at the βDilbertβ offices when I say this is a total shock. I mean, most cartoonists are weird. But racist weird? Letβs just say, I never got that memo,β Longfellow sarcastically explained.
The cartoon character then stated that the reason for him appearing on SNL was to apologize to Che βfor racism.β However, things quickly went left when Longfellow said that after reading the works of Black radical and socialist thinkers, his βDilbertβ character was way more progressive than Adams.
βAre you ready,β Longfellow asked, βbecause Dilbertβs ready. I woke up this morning ready to take the streets and paint the city with the blood of the white man.β He also warned that a βrace warβ was coming.
We doubt that this will be the last time someone takes aim at the repulsive cartoonist.
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