It is impossible to ignore this story as much as I would like to:
Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams’s long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” and said White people should “get the hell away from” them.
And think about that the next time you hear an erstwhile 2024 Goat Rodeo nominee declare that racism is dead in America and the implication being that racism is dead in their party. (“And You’ve been great! Try the veal! Tip your waiter!”)
The Washington Post, the USA Today network of hundreds of newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Times and other publications announced they would stop publishing “Dilbert” after Adams’s racist rant on YouTube on Wednesday. Asked on Saturday how many newspapers still carried the strip — a workplace satire he created in 1989 — Adams told The Post: “By Monday, around zero.”
It was quite the racist rant, and you can find it on your own, just fine.
“Most of my income will be gone by next week,” he told about 3,000 live-stream viewers. “My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can’t come back from this, am I right? There’s no way you can come back from this.”
We will now entertain wagers on when Scott Adams enters politics.
UPDATE 1: the squirming begins –
Mock Paper Scissors 
He fucked around. He’s finding out. But he’ll bray to the moon about being “canceled” every chance he’ll get (and in this case, he’s right, but not for the reasons he thinks, because bigots and racists never believe that they are the ones at fault). Actions have consequences, licknob.
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My often-annoying Grammarly software bot constantly tells me to avoid the passive voice in sentence structure. Sometimes I accept the suggestion, but more often, I do not.
In this case, the suggestion is perfect:
For “My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed” substitute, “I destroyed my reputation for the rest of my life.”
The dumbass should have taken a hint form another cartoon:
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An editor I worked with argued with me to use passive voice when the action is more important than the actor. I’ve never bought that argument, and stopped working with that editor.
Rgds,
TG
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I’ve heard that the newspapers that are dropping “Dilbert” number in the hundreds. I’m fairly certain that newspapers don’t want his racism delivered to their customers doorstep…
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The level of humor in Dilbert comes close to matching the low levels of humor in Mallard Fillmore. Adams and Tinsley¹ are two pees in a pud².
¹ Although Tinsley handed over his strip to Loren Fishman in 2020.
² Not a typo.
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Was thinking about writing to the local paper, encouraging it to drop Dickb… I mean Dilbert. No need, cancelled today.
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You are free to spout all the mental diarrhea you want. Aren’t you the same guy who assumes alternate names to agree with yourself in comments sections?
And you didn’t think there’d be consequences? What are you, two years old?
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Ha ha haa haa haaa … now THIS is Sunday morning funnies -unfunny racist cancels himself and is befuddled by how things work.
Who is not picturing a blackened Wile E.Coyote holding a stick of spent dynamite?
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“You can’t come back from this, am I right?”
Future Adams career trajectory: 1. Tucker Carlson Show. 2. CPAC speaker. 3. Candidate for Congress.
Who says there are no second acts in American life?
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“It was the fucking around of times, it was the finding out of times”
A Tale of One Shitty (cartoonist)
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Has Scott checked the price of a civics education lately? It’s a lot cheaper than total ignorance of civics, starting with who is not allowed to stifle that free speech of his.
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this is what happens when the creator of ‘dilbert’ exposes himself (ewww!) as a racist dildo.
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His income will be gone? If he hasn’t prudently invested a sufficient amount of the piles of cash he’s raked in over three decades of syndication, animation, and merch he has no one to whine about but himself. Kind of ironic for someone whose art has been a running criticism of business management. Time for him to retire and STFU.
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I used to subscribe to a site that discussed Excel and how to make it fly a kite.
The guy who ran it had to change the name because it referenced Dilbert. It struck me as weird. Although I can understand someone protecting their brand, this was a mf’n opportunity to leverage the licensing of the name for something related to coding, but noooo. Just shut it down.
The website and the guy were based in India, so maybe old Scotty was offended rather than protecting his trademark.
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I saw someone last night mention that Dilbert had a net worth north of $50M Ameros.
the wolf will not be knocking on his door.
Rgds,
TG
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