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Обичен дилер will no longer carry the “Dilbert” comic strip, according to an најава by the Cleveland newspaper, citing a recent “racist rant” by Scott Adams—who created the comic strip—while joining an effort by other newspapers to cut the strip after Adams made comments that have been widely criticized as racist.
Dilbert, a comic strip created by Scott Adams, was cut by newspapers because of a “racist rant.”
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Chris Quinn, editor of Обичен дилер, рече Friday that “reprehensible” comments by Adams—who се нарекува Black Americans a “hate group” in a recent video—and a string of “mostly hateful and racist” statements caused the newspaper to cut the strip.
Adams, who regularly posts his podcast “Coffee with Scott Adams” on YouTube, said Wednesday that white Americans should “get the hell away from Black people” and cited a Rasmussen survey indicating 53% of Black people agree with the phrase “It’s OK to be white”—which has been етикетирани a hate slogan.
Quinn notes Обичен дилер is a subsidiary of Advance Local, which owns news outlets in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Alabama, Massachusetts and Oregon, which have all also decided to stop running the strip.
The comic strip has already been cut from 77 other newspapers owned by the publisher Lee Enterprises, според to The Daily Beast.
Во најава Friday, USA Today said it would no longer publish the comic “due to recent discriminatory comments” by Adams.
на Сан Франциско кроникл, which dropped the comic in October 2022, додадени that its parent company Hearst Communications had decided to cut the strip from its newspapers.
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Quinn said a decision to stop running “Dilbert” is “based on the principles of this news organization and the community we serve,” adding “we are not a home for those who espouse racism” and “we certainly do not want to provide them with financial support.”
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“Dilbert” was recreated as a primetime, animated TV series in the late 1990s, though it was canceled after two seasons and 30 episodes. Adams рече in June 2020 he “lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience,” indicating it was the “third job I lost for being white.” Two years later, Adams Твитер that he would “self-identify as a Black woman until Biden picks his Supreme Court nominee.”
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“Dilbert” was created by Adams in 1989 and is смета by publisher Andrews McMeel Syndication as “the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed and emailed comic strip in the world.” The comic strip has appeared in an estimated 2,000 newspapers across 65 countries and 25 languages. Adams has been го осуди for comments criticized as racist in recent years, including comments that some of his projects have been canceled because he is white. Previously, Adams was criticized for поставување survivors and witnesses of a 2019 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, to sign up for an app he helped create. Andrews McMeel did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Форбс.
Дополнителни информации
Bay Area Cartoonist Who Created Dilbert Goes On Racist Rant, Draws Condemnation (Сан Франциско кроникл)
We Are Dropping The Dilbert Comic Strip Because Of Creator Scott Adams’ Racist Rant (Обичен дилер)
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/02/25/dilbert-comic-strip-cut-by-publications-over-creators-racist-rant-heres-what-we-know/