'Dilbert' Removed From Newspapers Nationwide After Creator's Racist Comments

DANVILLE, CA — Newspapers across the country have announced they will no longer publish the comic strip “Dilbert” after its creator, Scott Adams, referred to Black people as a hate group.

The cartoonist, a Danville resident, made the remarks last week in a video on his YouTube channel, Real Coffee with Scott Adams. He was discussing a recent Rasmussen Reports poll and noted that 26 percent of Black poll respondents disagreed with the statement, “It’s OK to be white,” and 21 percent weren’t sure if they agreed.

“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people, according to this poll — not according to me, according to this poll — that’s a hate group,” he said. “That’s a hate group and I don’t want to have anything to do with them.

"And I would say, you 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.”

The phrase, “It’s OK to be white,” was popularized in late 2017 on 4chan and promoted by white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

On Friday, two days after Adams’ statement, the USA Today Network announced it would no longer publish “Dilbert,” “due to recent discriminatory comments by its creator.” The Gannett-owned network includes hundreds of publications, such as The Detroit Free Press, The Indianapolis Star and The Des Moines Register

The Los Angeles Times followed suit Saturday, making note of Adams’ “racist comments” and “offensive remarks.”

“Further, in the last nine months The Times has on four occasions printed a rerun of the comic when the new daily strip did not meet our standards,” the newspaper said of the long-running workplace satire.

Also Saturday, The Washington Post made a similar announcement.

“In light of Scott Adams’s recent statements promoting segregation, The Washington Post has ceased publication of the Dilbert comic strip,” a Post spokesperson told the newspaper.