Hundreds Of Newspapers Have Now Dropped “Dilbert”

The Washington Post reports:

Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams’s long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” and said White people should “get the hell away from” them. The Washington Post, the USA Today network of hundreds of newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Times and other publications announced they would stop publishing “Dilbert” after Adams’s racist rant on YouTube on Wednesday.

Asked on Saturday how many newspapers still carried the strip — a workplace satire he created in 1989 — Adams told The Post: “By Monday, around zero.” Adams suggested that he had done irreparable harm to a once-sterling career. “Most of my income will be gone by next week,” he told about 3,000 live-stream viewers. “My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can’t come back from this, am I right? There’s no way you can come back from this.”

Read the full article.

This morning Adams is retweeting praise from notoriously anti-gay Christian podcaster Jesse Lee Peterson, who was recently accused of affairs with multiple men. Peterson, you may recall, has organized “Straight Pride” events attended by the Proud Boys.

“Dilbert” creator says his reputation is ‘destroyed’ after racist rant https://t.co/hWhvdkdPzZ

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 25, 2023

This is the absolute truth what @ScottAdamsSays is saying here. He had to have known that all the coward newspapers would drop his Dilbert comic strip. I admire Scott Adams for doing it anyway. pic.twitter.com/sy0vhHutV2

— Jesse Lee Peterson (@JLPtalk) February 25, 2023