‘Dilbert’ dropped by newspapers over creator Scott Adams’ ‘racist rant’

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More newspapers say they are dropping the “Dilbert” comic strip after creator Scott Adams this week advised white people to “get the f–k away” from Black people.The Cleveland Plain Dealer announced the paper is cutting ties with Adams for the “racist rant” on his online show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.” The move comes five months after Lee Enterprises cut the cartoon from its newspapers as it scaled back its funny pages. “This is not a difficult decision,” Plain Dealer Editor Chris Quinn wrote Friday in his letter from the editor. “Adams said Black people are a hate group, citing a recent Rasmussen survey which, he said, shows nearly half of all Black people do not agree with the phrase ‘It’s okay to be white.'”The Anti-Defamation League has noted that phrase was popularized on the website 4chan in 2017 for trolling purposes and adopted by white supremacists as a “hate slogan.” The Post reached out to Adams and Quinn for comment.The hourlong YouTube clip was posted Wednesday, racking up 119,000 views on Adams’ channel, which has 118,000 subscribers. “I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” he stated.Adams also said it doesn’t “make any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” arguing that it is “no longer a rational impulse.”“So I’m going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off,” he said.Quinn, in the letter, claimed the paper’s move to sever ties with Adams wasn’t a “‘cancel culture’ decision,” but rather, “a decision based on the principles of this news organization and the community we serve.”The Plain Dealer is part of Advance.