Over the weekend, newspapers all over the country stopped running the “Dilbert” comic strip after the man who made it called Black Americans a “hate group” and said that White people should “get the hell away” from them.
The USA Today Network, which runs a lot of newspapers, said that the long-running comic strip would no longer be published. The Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Washington Post both said they would stop selling the comic.
The move came after Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, made a shocking rant on YouTube in which he basically called for segregation. In response to a poll from the conservative firm Rasmussen Reports, which found that 53% of Black Americans agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be White,” he said, “It’s OK to be Black.”
The Anti-Defamation League says that the phrase started as a trolling campaign on the well-known message board 4chan in 2017 and has a “long history” in the white supremacist movement.
