(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Newspaper drops Scott Adams 'Dilbert' strip over his ugly racist rant [1] ['Daily Kos Staff', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-25 On Friday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced that they were dropping Adam’s strip after he used his coffee time show to engage in a racist rant. As he sprayed coffee around whatever passes for a studio, Adam’s declared that Black people, as a whole, are “a hate group” and gave his 2023 spin on segregation, saying that, “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” Much to the credit of the Plain Dealer … “This is not a difficult decision. … No, this is a decision based on the principles of this news organization and the community we serve. We are not a home for those who espouse racism. We certainly do not want to provide them with financial support.” As the announcement points out, Adams made his vile statements during Black history month, which wasn’t lost on Adams, because complaining about the existence of Black history month was already part of his rant. The only thing wrong with the Plain Dealer’s decision is that it’s coming late in the game. Last year, 77 other papers owned by Lee Enterprises dropped Adam’s scribbles after he introduced the strip’s first Black character in over 25 years; a character which he used to make fun of “woke culture” and to attack the LGBTQ+ community. As Hunter covered back in 2016, Adams was a rabid supporter of Donald Trump. Just how violent and disconnected from reality Adams already was seven years ago can be seen in his statements at the time. My promise: If Trump gets elected, and he does anything that looks even slightly Hitler-ish in office, I will join the resistance movement and help kill him. That’s an easy promise to make, and I hope my fellow citizens would use their Second Amendment rights to rise up and help me kill any Hitler-type person who rose to the top job in this country, no matter who it is. Adams regularly justified his opposition to Hillary Clinton through outright misogyny, saying that electing a woman would “diminish” the role of men — though at one point he claimed he had temporarily supported Clinton because he feared his liberal neighbors would kill him for supporting Trump. In a repeated statement, Adams compared women seeking equal pay to “children demanding candy.” Other cartoonist, including Tom Tomorrow, have long pointed out that Adams’ cartoons have always been anti-worker, depicting its characters as lazy, incapable parasites for their corporate betters. In previous episodes of his podcast, Adams has claimed that the idea Trump supporters were involved in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol has been “debunked” and instead argued that this was a conspiracy, a conspiracy he blamed on the racist and anti-Semitic “replacement theory.” At one point in “Dilbert” was a regular feature in over 2,000 newspapers. There was even a short-lived animated series in 1999 and for years a film was in development. Those plans have been dropped. Since 2010, Adam’s strip has been bounced around between several distributors. How many outlets still remain isn’t clear. But at least, that number dropped again this week. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/25/2154927/-Newspaper-drops-Scott-Adams-Dilbert-strip-over-his-ugly-racist-rant Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/