Dilbert being dropped after authors racist remarks

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Media publishers drop Dilbert comic strip after creator’s Black ‘hate group’ remark

I guess it's "cancel culture" to not want to associate with racist as*holes.

Ah, Clot Adams. I suppose even he deserves context:

Well, Rasmussen Poll had a provocative little poll today. They said, er: “Do you agree or disagree with the statement, er, ‘It’s OK to be white’?”

That was an actual question. Rasmussen asked, you know, white and black voters—and probably others—er, “Do you disagree or agree with the statement: ‘It’s OK to be white’?” Twenty-six percent of blacks said, er , “No. It’s not OK to be white.” Twenty-one percent weren’t sure. Add ’em together, that is forty-seven percent of black respondents were not willing to say: “It’s OK to be white.”

That … that, actually … that’s, like, a real poll. This just happened. Did you have any idea [laughs], would you have imagined that that could have happened?

So I realized, um … As you know, I’ve been identifying as black for a while—years now, ‘cos I like, y’know, I like to be on the winning team. And I like to help. I always thought: If you help the black community, that’s sort of the biggest lever, you know, you could … you can find the biggest benefit.

So I thought, well, that’s the hardest thing and the biggest benefit; so I’d like to focus a lot of my life resources in helping black Americans. So much so that I started identifying as black, to just be on the team I was helping.

But it turns out that nearly half of that team, er, doesn’t think, ah, I’m OK to be white. Which of course is why I identified as black—so I could be on the winning team for a while.

But I have to say, er, this is the first political poll that ever changed my activities. I don’t know that that’s ever happened before. Normally you see a poll, you just look at it and you go, “Aaah, whatever. [Laughs.] Y’know: this is interesting, what other people think …” But as of today I’m going to re-identify as white ‘cos I don’t want to be a member of a hate group.

I have accidentally joined a Hate group. So if … if nearly half of all blacks, er, are not OK with white people—according to this poll, not according to me—according to this poll, er, that’s a hate group. That’s a hate group and I don’t want to have anything to do with them.

And I would say, y’know, 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. Just get the f*** away. Where … wherever you have to go, just get away, ‘cos there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. Right? You just have to escape.

thank you, context is important. I was wondering what was "actually said"

So, with the context, my first response is “wow, that guy’s an as*hole.”

Now the question becomes - do you want to give your money to an as*hole? How talented does the as*hole have to be for you to be willing to support him in order to enjoy his art? And “cancel culture” is basically a bunch of people deciding “in light of your recent behavior, we don’t think that your work has enough value to us for us to continue supporting you financially.”

Cancel culture is literally capitalism in action.

Although given that his net worth is variously reported at 50 or 75 million dollars, one assumes that the “currency” that he is being denied that matters to him is attention, or perhaps approval, since I’m sure he’s about to get a big boost of attention.

If anyone here is interested in learning more about this "outrage" than you've read in the MSM headlines, you might find the full context worth knowing:



Darron

Seems relevant, but it seems like Scott Adams would prefer a bigger shovel.

That is a very long video. After about twenty seconds, what I had learned was that I cannot listen to his voice and speaking style for more than about twenty seconds.

I might read a transcript, but honestly, while I sometimes find Dilbert funny when I run across it, I don’t seek it out, I don’t subscribe to a paper that carries it, and I have never bought any dilbert merchandise, so I guess I cancelled him years ago and this is not really relevant to me, aside from the fact that I wish people in general would think about things before they talk.

Maybe he’s like, well that came out all wrong. Ok, learning experience. Some learning experiences suck.

Where I work there is an employee who used bad judgement last week and a kid got hurt. Said employee has always been popular enough with costumers to be an asset to the bottom line. This employee will either be fired or not fired based solely on the decisions made by the child’s parents and the potential effect of those decisions on the businesses financial well being. How the employee feels about the incident and wether any learning occurred will only matter if it matters to those parents. Capitalism.

Dilbert creator, who called Black Americans a 'hate group,' faces more fallout

I don't understand how what he said is racist.
I don't agree with what he said I don't hold the same opinion but I still don't see how what he said is a racist statement.
Can someone explain cuz it just does not compute

Even with the context, he didn't have to call the black Americans answering the poll that way a hate group, and he didn't have to leap to "don't associate with them anymore." Both those statements are pretty bad. My response to that poll result is a simple, "Sad but I guess we all still have a lot to learn about each other." The lesson he needs to learn is to hold his tongue, especially when in doubt about what he's just heard, or feeling hurt by it. Neither are good times to speak.

Newspapers get to act in what they see as their own best financial interest, period. There is no indication they are reacting to pressure. They're reading the room with a very cautious eye and choosing not to take chances for a while.

Some of these cases eventually resolve; some just dig deeper graves. It's the price of being in the public eye.

I just burned all of my 'Dilbert' material.  It just took up space on my bookshelves, anyway.