Racist video rant catches up with ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams
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In a video shared last week, 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams called Black Americans a 'hate group' and suggested that white people should 'get the hell away' from them.
The cartoon empire built by Dilbert creator Scott Adams is quickly crumbling.
The latest fallout came Monday, when Adams’ distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, announced it would cut ties with the cartoonist following his racist tirade about Black Americans.
In a joint statement, Andrews McMeel chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and president Andy Sareyan said the syndication company was “severing our relationship” with Adams and condemned his remarks, saying “we will never support any commentary rooted in discrimination or hate.”
Last week, in a video shared to YouTube, Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” and suggested that white people should “get the hell away” from them. He was commenting on a poll from the right-leaning Rasmussen Reports that said 47 per cent of Black respondents disagreed with the statement, “It’s OK to be White.”
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people — according to this poll, not according to me,” he said in the Feb. 22 video. “That’s a hate group.”
Hundreds of newspapers across North America have announced they will no longer run Dilbert on their funny pages, and Penguin Random House imprint Portfolio announced Monday it was dropping Adams’ forthcoming book, Reframe Your Brain.
Portfolio published Adams’ previous titles, including How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big and Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America.
