billionaire elon Musk called the US media “racist” this Sunday after several newspapers decided to stop the publication of the comic strip “Dilbert”, whose author compared the black population to a “hate group” in a video.
“The same thing happened with America’s elite colleges and high schools. Maybe they could try not to be racist,” she added.
Scandal in the American press
On his YouTube show Wednesday, “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams called black people a “hate group” and said he wanted “nothing to do with them.”
“Vu la manière dont les choses se passent actuallemente, le meilleur conseil que je pourrais donner aux Blancs est de ficher le camp loin des Noirs”, a dit l’auteur, devenu célèbre dans les années 1990 grâce à sa BD satyrique sur le monde from work.
He was reacting to a Rasmussen Reports poll that showed, according to him, that a small majority of blacks polled think “it’s okay to be white.”
The USA Today Network, which runs hundreds of US newspapers, announced Friday night that it will “no longer publish” this column “due to recent discriminatory comments by its creator.”
The wildly popular Washington Post explained on Saturday that “Dilbert” would no longer appear in its pages, “in light of recent statements by Scott Adams,” although it was too late to remove it from the weekend editions.
Accustomed to controversy
The editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, Chris Quinn, said it was “not a hard decision” to drop “Dilbert.”
MLive Media Group, which heads eight Michigan newspaper titles, said it practices “zero tolerance for racism” and said it would drop Scott Adams’ comic because of its “racist rants.”
elon Musk and Scott Adams have been causing controversy of late with their views on social issues.
since elon Musk took the helm at Twitter, the network is seeing a rise in hate speech, researchers say. In particular, it restored the accounts of users banned for making these types of comments.
His electric car company, Tesla, has also been the subject of several lawsuits for alleged racism.
Source: BFM TV
