Several American dailies, including The Washington Post, have canceled the Dilbert strip after its author, Scott Adams, made racist remarks.
Newspapers that have canceled the comic include The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the more than 300 titles that make up the Gannett group, one of the largest North American media groups, owner of the popular USA Today .
The decision of these newspapers was announced after Scott Adams said in a live broadcast on the digital platform YouTube on Wednesday that the black community in the United States is “a hate group” and that white people should “get away from it”.
In a statement, the Gannett group justified its decision to cancel the Dilbert strip with the author’s “discriminatory remarks” and explained that while it respects free speech, Adams’ opinion “does not align” with the values of the group.
The Washington Post, for its part, indicated through a spokesperson on Saturday that it had received calls from readers asking for Adams’ contract to be terminated and today the comic was finally removed from most of its print editions.
However, some editions kept the ‘cartoon’ today because the order didn’t arrive on time, before printing; but on the internet it has been completely eliminated.
Scott Adams, age 65, created the comic Dilbert in 1989 – which revolves around an engineer with little social skills and his dog Dogbert – and its success turned it into a television animation series.
Through Dilbert’s eyes, the “cartoonist” has spent years denouncing various situations in the world of work, from excessive corporate bureaucracy to difficult relationships with bosses or the connections that are formed between colleagues.
Source: DN
