The comic strip B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� following racist remarks by creator Scott Adams, but it shouldnB次元官网网址檛 come as a shock to anyone who has followed them both.
Adams, who is white, was an outspoken presence on social media long before describing Black people as a B次元官网网址渉ate groupB次元官网网址� on YouTube and, to some, B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� had strayed from its roots as a chronicler of office culture.
The editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which dumped B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� last year, said the comic strip B次元官网网址渨ent from being hilarious to being hurtful and mean.B次元官网网址� The Los Angeles Times, which joined dozens of other newspapers in dropping the comic following last weekB次元官网网址檚 remarks, had quietly replaced four of AdamsB次元官网网址� strips last year.
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As individual newspapers told readers they were dropping B次元官网网址淒ilbert,B次元官网网址� the company that distributed the strip, Andrews McMeel Universal, said it was severing ties with Adams. By Monday, B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� was gone from the GoComics site, which also features many top comics such as B次元官网网址淧eanutsB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址淐alvin and Hobbes.B次元官网网址�
Adams said Monday that the strip, which first appeared in 1989, will only be available on his subscription service on the Locals platform.
B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� is effectively dead, Peterson said.
Adams said Monday on YouTube that his distributor didnB次元官网网址檛 really have a choice because clients and other cartoonists were mad. B次元官网网址淭hey were just forced into it,B次元官网网址� he said.
On Twitter, he said his book publisher and book agent had B次元官网网址渃anceledB次元官网网址� him. The Penguin Random House imprint Portfolio said it wouldnB次元官网网址檛 publish AdamsB次元官网网址� book B次元官网网址淩eframe Your BrainB次元官网网址� in September, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Adams has long been active on Twitter, whose CEO, Elon Musk, was among the few to publicly back him. He also blogs regularly and puts out a regular podcast on YouTube.
HeB次元官网网址檚 attracted attention for comments heB次元官网网址檚 made in the past, including saying in 2011 that by society for the same reason as children and the mentally disabled B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址渋tB次元官网网址檚 just easier this way for everyone.B次元官网网址� He said 2016 GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina had an
Adams became a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, saying Trump had a hypnotistB次元官网网址檚 skill in attracting followers. He said that stance cost him money in lost speakerB次元官网网址檚 fees.
He said he lost the prime-time animated B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� series that ran on UPN for two seasons for when the network decided to target a Black audience, and that he lost two other corporate jobs because of his race.
During the Feb. 22 episode of his YouTube podcast B次元官网网址淩eal Coffee with Scott Adams,B次元官网网址� he referenced a Rasmussen Reports survey that had asked whether people agreed with the statement B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 OK to be white.B次元官网网址� Most agreed, but Adams noted that 26% of Black respondents disagreed and others werenB次元官网网址檛 sure.
The Anti-Defamation League said the phrase at the center of the question was popularized as a trolling campaign by members of 4chan B次元官网网址� a notorious anonymous message board B次元官网网址� and was adopted by some white supremacists. Rasmussen Reports is a conservative polling firm that has used its Twitter account to endorse false and misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines, elections and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Adams repeatedly referred to people who are Black as members of a B次元官网网址渉ate groupB次元官网网址� or a B次元官网网址渞acist hate groupB次元官网网址� and said he would no longer B次元官网网址渉elp Black Americans.B次元官网网址� On his podcast Monday, he called his B次元官网网址渉ate groupB次元官网网址� remark B次元官网网址渉yperbole,B次元官网网址� but continued to defend his advice that white people B次元官网网址済et the hell awayB次元官网网址� from Blacks.
In announcing that B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� would be cut from the Kansas City Star, the newspaperB次元官网网址檚 community engagement editor, Derek Donovan, said AdamsB次元官网网址� B次元官网网址渁ntagonistic, childishly macho personaB次元官网网址� has been a constant for years.
B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 not cancel culture,B次元官网网址� editor Richard Green of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in California said. B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 doing the right thing.B次元官网网址�
The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, left a blank space Monday where B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� would normally run and said it would keep it that way through March B次元官网网址渁s a reminder of the racism that pervades our society.B次元官网网址�
The San Francisco Chronicle stopped publishing B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� last October B次元官网网址� a move that drew only a handful of complaints. Editor-in-Chief Emilio Garcia-Ruiz said in the newspaper that he had objected to a strip that said in an effort to diversify workplaces, straight men should pretend to be gay.
In a Sept. 2 B次元官网网址淒ilbertB次元官网网址� strip, a boss said that traditional performance reviews would be replaced by a B次元官网网址渨okenessB次元官网网址� score. When an employee complained that could be subjective, the boss said, B次元官网网址淭hatB次元官网网址檒l cost you two points off your wokeness score, bigot.B次元官网网址�
In an August strip, the boss said the company was getting into the B次元官网网址減andemic prevention marketB次元官网网址� and creating demand by unleashing a deadly virus.
A Black employee featured in an Oct. 20 strip noted that his boss ignored his actual accomplishments to recommend him for a job for which he was not qualified. The employee backed down when told it would be a big jump in pay.
Peterson said there are other examples of how AdamsB次元官网网址� attitudes had replaced the biting humor that Peterson and a legion of middle managers loved. Adams seemed to run out of jokes.
B次元官网网址淭he strip jumped the shark,B次元官网网址� he said.
B次元官网网址擠avid Bauder, The Associated Press
