Newspaper comic strip Dilbert gets canceled after its creator is branded racist

Newspapers are dropping the 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator Scott Adams launched into a racist tirade advising his followers to 'get the f**k' away from black people.

Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US, said it would stop publishing the comic immediately following the remarks made by its creator on his online show 'Real Coffee with Scott Adams.'

It comes after Dilbert was already canned by 77 newspapers in September due to its increasingly controversial plotlines including one about a black character who identifies as white.

The comic has been in circulation since 1989 and frequently pokes fun at office culture.

Adams, who is believed to have amassed more than $70 million from the Dilbert series, said in the livestreamed talk on Wednesday: 'The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.

He added: 'There’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed... You just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low black population.'

The 65-year-old went on to label black people a 'hate group,' citing a poll that found nearly half of black people are not ok with white people.

The hour-long YouTube video was posted to Adams' channel which has 118,000 subscribers. As of Saturday it had 142,000 views.

On Saturday Gannett, which owns over 100 newspapers, confirmed it was dropping Dilbert over the controversy.

'Recent discriminatory comments by the creator, Scott Adams, have influenced our decision to discontinue publishing his comic,' the organization said in a statement Saturday to The New York Post.

Adams appeared to double down on the remarks on Twitter at the weekend. 'A lot of people are angry at me today but I haven't yet heard anyone disagree,' he told his 867,000 followers.

'I make two main points: 1. Treat everyone as an individual (no discrimination).

'2. Avoid any group that doesn't respect you. Does anyone think that is bad advice?'

Adams' satirical strips feature in newspapers across 57 countries, and in 19 languages - and there are over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars in print.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11793295/Newspaper-comic-strip-Dilbert-canceled-creators-racist-tirade.html

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