'Dilbert's Rated R Rebirth ("R" For Racist)

[thechase]

Newspapers across the country are pulling the “Dilbert” cartoon after a podcast racial rant from creator and author Scott Adams.



Adams said on his his Coffee with Scott Adams online video program that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” labeling Blacks as a “hate group.”



The Dilbert cartoon is a satire on office politics and has been around for more than three decades. It has spawned a media empire featuring dozens of books, a video game, an animated television series, and thousands of coffee cups and related merchandise. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, its highest honor.



Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer published a Letter from the Editor Friday, stating that it was “not a difficult decision” to ax the Adams cartooon. “We are not a home for those who espouse racism,” the editor wrote. He added that Advance Media, its publisher, was instituting similar moves at its other properties.



John Hiner of MLive Media in Michigan echoed the Plain Dealer. He wrote in an editorial, “we will work quickly to find a replacement that will entertain you and not violate basic standards of decency and respect for others.”

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[The Dark Order Inferno]

He's been off the rails since the 2000s and his strips have been filled with attacks against straw man versions of his personal boogiemen/women/minority or hyping whatever nonsense tech Scott liked at the time.

Guess nobody under 60 reading papers anymore helped him slide under the radar.

[ayumidah]

Took long enough, tbh.

[Mozenrath]

I am surprised it took him this long to screw up this much.

He seems genuinely unwell. He keeps being more and more unhinged on social media, along with years back getting busted doing stuff like using a sockpuppet account to fight people/defend himself on I think Reddit. I just remember him humiliating himself again and again and again online.

I also remember him going on a weird rant that people should kill their sons if they are becoming criminals and that he's been mugged dozens of times or some other weird hyperbole.

[Starshine]

It's a shame because old Dilbert is pretty great. But the dude lost his god damn mind a while ago.

[Scoops]

Any excuse to post one of my favorite tweets ever/

[Lizuka #BLM]

Should've happened a long time ago. What a piece of shit.

[Mozenrath]

Feb 25, 2023 5:03:50 GMT -5 Scoops said:

Any excuse to post one of my favorite tweets ever/

This is some Dril shit, only Scott Adams is dead serious.

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Feb 25, 2023 5:03:50 GMT -5 Scoops said:

Any excuse to post one of my favorite tweets ever/

..... Does Scott Adams want to fingerbang his dad?

[BlackoutCreature]

Sadly Adams seems like the kind of guy who'll revel in this if only because it'll give him a chance to start screaming about cancel culture and crap like that.

[HMARK Center]

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

yeah I'd heard he'd become a bit of a far right crank but if this is what he's like now, good riddance.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Feb 25, 2023 8:36:50 GMT -5 BlackoutCreature said:

Sadly Adams seems like the kind of guy who'll revel in this if only because it'll give him a chance to start screaming about cancel culture and crap like that.

Start? He'd need to have stopped for that, he's been 'cancelled' since the 90s.

[TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out]

Feb 25, 2023 5:46:07 GMT -5 67 more said:

Feb 25, 2023 5:03:50 GMT -5 Scoops said:

Any excuse to post one of my favorite tweets ever/

..... Does Scott Adams want to fingerbang his dad?

Every male interaction is implied fingerbanging.

[James Fabiano]

Okay, how many people who never liked Dilbert come out of the woodwork to say how unfair this is, as if they cared all along?

[Burst]

I'd argue Dilbert stopped being funny or original about the same time Garfield did, which is to say, 2005-2010ish, and in the great tradition of newspaper comics, he's been coasting along on momentum and day-by-day calendars since.

In hindsight you can kind of see the beginnings of this in Adams' diatribes from the point of where Dilbert got popular enough and he got enough clout for people to care about his opinions or hire him as a guest speaker, but this may be the biggest complete lack of surprise at a creator turning out like that for quite some time.

[wildojinx]

I enjoyed the strip in the 90s (It actually didnt really become exclusively about office stuff until 1992 or so), but after the animated series (which I also enjoyed and found superior to the strip), I lost interest in it. I just hope this means our paper drops it for Lio, Brewster Rockit, or Get Fuzzy.

[Red Mage Riot]

I guess I'll just stick to my fond memories of the animated series. I had an inkling I didn't like Adams much, but I had no idea how far around the bend he'd gone. Shame.

[Burst]

Also just realized, in hindsight, I can't remember a single instance of a POC being depicted in Dilbert even as background characters other than Asok, and he's essentially an Indian tech stereotype, so yeah.

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Feb 25, 2023 11:35:51 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

I enjoyed the strip in the 90s (It actually didnt really become exclusively about office stuff until 1992 or so), but after the animated series (which I also enjoyed and found superior to the strip), I lost interest in it. I just hope this means our paper drops it for Lio, Brewster Rockit, or Get Fuzzy.

Get Fuzzy hasn't made anything new since 2013 on the dailies.