This is what the Cleveland Plain Dealer today ran in the spot where Dilbert usually runs.

[kpete]

This is what the Cleveland Plain Dealer today ran in the spot where Dilbert usually runs. They are replacing the strip (but will run the gray box until they find a new strip) after Adams' racist rant. Good for us, Cleveland!

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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

[MyOwnPeace]

1. INDEED!

Great to know that not all brains are 'frozen' by the 'Lake Effect!'

[dalton99a]

2. Other newspapers should follow and do the right thing: Stop supporting the racist asshole.

[tulipsandroses]

3. Good. Go back to hiding under the rock you crawled from

We will never be rid of racists. But they should not be tolerated. They should know there will be a price to pay for their despicable behavior

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. Just run old Boondocks strips for the time being. ny

[rubbersole]

9. Or Pogo.

[grantcart]

20. I have met the enemy and he is Dilbert

[burrowowl]

23. Pogo or non sequiter

[japple]

11. I LOVED Boondocks!!

n/t

[sarge43]

16. Or Farside n/t

[BlueSky3]

35. Yes,

please, the Far Side. Larson has some newish cartoons on his website, thefarside.com, but they're few and far between.

[sarge43]

36. The old ones would be just fine.

Like Cat Fud, "Oh please..." or my personal favorite "The Dawn of Man".

[BlueSky3]

38. Loved the "Oh, please" cartoon and

my personal favorite about the horse, Big Red, with 10" spikes all over him: "There he is, son, Big Red. He's yours if you can ride 'im."

[llmart]

56. Or Funky Winkerbean

K&R for the main newspaper of my childhood!

[uponit7771]

61. +1,

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Now THAT's a newspaper.

Thank you to the team at The Plain Dealer!

[True Dough]

6. It is happening elsewhere too

Newspapers in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Alabama, Massachusetts and Oregon have also axed Dilbert. Scott Adams can eat, well, you know.

[LakeArenal]

7. He's not going to "help" black people anymore?

When exactly would that have been?

Buh-bye….

[Gary 50]

44. I was thinking he was threatening to cut his yearly donations

to the BLM movement in half. No?

[soldierant]

49. Half of zero is still zero.

[JohnSJ]

8. What will be interesting is which papers follow The Plain Dealer, and which don't. Will the

NY Times and Washington Post?

[Sneederbunk]

12. The Portland Oregonian dropped it.

[calimary]

25. You mean - actual consequences?

Glad to hear it.

[JohnSJ]

34. Every MSM newspaper should drop this creep

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. What took them so long?

[TNNurse]

13. I just went to the gocomics.com site.

I had never searched for Dilbert or Scott Adams before. When I do, it says there are multiple posts...but they are not there. I do not know if they were erased recently since I am not a paying viewer and cannot ask or comment.

Anyone else know???

[DavidDvorkin]

18. I did the same

And got a few other comic strips in which Dilbert is mentioned but not Dilbert itself.

[soldierant]

50. These days I'm seldom there

but I used to be fairly regular maybe ten years ago, and they did carry him then.

[TNNurse]

57. I go for Mike Luckovich from the Atlanta paper,

Clay Bennett from Chattanooga. Both great. And Doonesbury is new on Sundays.

[soldierant]

59. I would be doing the same

if JHB and Yo_Momma didn't usuaallypick them up first. I'm very grateful to both.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Cool! May this be the first of many ...

Après moi, le déluge

[PatrickforB]

15. I found out what Scott Adams said.

I used to love Dilbert and read the strip every day. I got a book one time of Dilbert comics and I was laughing so hard, my kids had to tell me to quiet down. I don't read many comics now. I just take the NYT. I did take the Denver Post for a time but operationally they don't know up from down, you cannot call someone, and they froze my comments. Too lib-er-al, I guess...so I haven't even seen a Dilbert comic for years.

Not being able to comment on 'news' stories and editorials is not acceptible to me now. I don't go to Huffington Post or the Hill any more because they cut out reader comments.

Anyway, what Adams said in his podcast rant does not help us at all. There is a solution to our race problems:

Face the FACT that the United States is built on slavery, conquest and genocide and come to terms with that. Be honest about it. Oh, but wait! To do that we will have to overturn Citizens United and impose a 21st Century Fairness Doctrine. Because the billionaire parasites PAY MILLIONS to fund think tanks and dark money pacs that put out racist tropes and propaganda.

Oh, we will also have to reinstate AND ENFORCE the Voting Rights Act. And we'll have to outlaw gerrymandering. And we also need to take back school boards so we don't get racist assholes taking books off bookshelves and CENSORING what our kids read. Our PUBLIC schools need to teach the TRUTH.

Heavy lift, isn't it? Because it involves lifting that giant golden idol Wall Street bull and getting rid of it. It involves telling the truth and working to change minds after decades of right-wing hate propaganda resulting from Reagan killing the Fairness Doctrine. There's a documentary about that called 'The Brainwashing of my Father.' Do we forgive our fathers for succumbing to it? How can we deal with that? De-nazification was what we did in post-WWII Germany. It worked. Would we have the political will to do that here?

Seems that Wall Street makes MORE PROFITS when we all hate and mistrust one another, because then we don't notice the billionaire parasites picking our pockets. Scott should KNOW this, and his rant SHOULD have been about that.

[KPN]

30. That's the whole enchilada right there PatrickforB.

The billionaires have been distracting us to divide and weaken us average people as a whole for decades. It has worked. They’ve succeeded at riling 10s of millions of voters up over stuff that doesn’t really affect them personally in their own life to the point they don’t even see the stuff that does. And many of these riled up people are now going ballistic while some are even running and getting elected to high office by other riled up people! We are becoming a powder keg. And it strikes me — frighteningly — that de-nazification w”might not occur until after the powder keg goes off and only if we prevail in the upheaval created by that explosion.

One other comment PforB: nice rant!

[Evolve Dammit]

55. great post

[Wild blueberry]

17. Good

[Martin68]

19. I hope the Post follows suit.

[dalton99a]

21. San Antonio Express-News drops 'Dilbert' because of creator's comments about Black Americans

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-comments-17805449.php

E-N drops ‘Dilbert’ because of creator’s comments about Black Americans
Feb. 25, 2023
Updated: Feb. 25, 2023 9:25 a.m.

The San Antonio Express-News is dropping the comic strip “Dilbert” because of hateful and discriminatory public comments by its creator, Scott Adams.

In his online video show, Adams recently made numerous disparaging remarks about Black Americans. These statements are offensive to our core values. Dropping a comic strip from our pages is not censorship. Adams is entitled to his opinions. The Express-News is not obliged to give him a platform and financial support.

Because the comics section is published in advance, we cannot withdraw it from our pages immediately. Readers will find it in their Saturday and Sunday papers. But as of Monday, “Dilbert” will no longer appear in the Express-News.

— Mark H. Medici, publisher

[dalton99a]

22. USA Today network of newspapers drops Dilbert

[live love laugh]

24. He's worth $50-70 m. He'll be comfortably cancelled.

[orangecrush]

26. I used to love Dilbert

What happened to this guy?

Racist asshole, or possible mental illness?

What a damn waste of a mind.

[MurrayDelph]

28. Me, too. Now I want

my money back in the reprint books I bought.

Speaking of reprints, the daily comics strip website, http://www.gocomics.com, which reprints virtually every comic strip, no longer carries Dilbert.

[orangecrush]

32. I wish there were a cure

For racism.

[JanMichael]

39. Like a pill they could take. New Racitor from Eli Lilly!

May cause empathy and other nice qualities. And occasional ocular leakage.

[orangecrush]

40. ...

[Warpy]

48. He was always a RWNJ but he mostly kept it out of the strip

He struck a lot of nerves with the pointy haired boss and a host of other coprorate characters we all love to hate. That's why the strip has been long running.

I guess his social filters are failing as he gets older and more toads are hopping out of his mouth in public.

[orangecrush]

54. Seems to be the case.

Thanks, Warpy

[StarryNite]

27. "This is not a difficult decision"

Love that!

[treestar]

29. good another sign what white privilege has limits

institutional racism doesn't reach this far.

[Joinfortmill]

31. Good for them. Guy has lost his way & livelihood.

[dalton99a]

33. His net worth is estimated at $75 million

[SouthBayDem]

37. Of course Rasmussen reports would create a gotcha right wing poll

“It’s okay to be white” can’t be taken literally; it’s an alt right dog whistle gateway statement based on the “anti racist is anti white” bathroom graffiti.

[thatcrowwoman]

41. Thanks for this good news, kpete!

Here’s hoping many more cancellations happen. That’s some cancel culture I can be proud to support.
🕊thatcrowwoman

[Cha]

42. What did ol Fuckhead Dilbert think

would happen?

TY & TCPD!

[NowISeetheLight]

43. Contributor

Maybe he can create some cartoons of Dilbert being a Faux News contributor?

[mopinko]

45. if you've ever listened to his podcast, it's the creepiest thing ever.

his voice and intonations come off like the mastermind brainwashing the poor idiot in some noir spy movie.
have 1 trumpkin in my life, and this goon and insanity are his lode stars. rly, it made my skin crawl the 1 time i watched it over his shoulder. i wonder what a shrink would say.

[Mysterian]

46. The gray space is funnier than Dilbert

I just never found it funny at all.

[heckles65]

47. The Cleveland Plain Dealer

ran the best headline of my lifetime in March 1969, about the newly-revealed My Lai massacre. It consisted of a nearly-half-page picture of the dead, and the headline, "1st Photos Of Viet Mass Slaying." I'd run a picture of it here if I could. No ambiguity, no both-sides-ism. No escape for the reader. Back when the press could act with decisiveness against a horror. This is not as serious a situation, but the Plain Dealer is again acting with admirable decisiveness.

[C Moon]

51. Now he can quit pretending and publish that nazi comic strip he's been dying to do.

[Johonny]

52. he's been a jerk a long time

Not sure why this was the moment too far . . .

[Evolve Dammit]

53. I was hoping Funky Winkerbean would make a comeback

[SomedayKindaLove]

58. Cartoons

Are right in Tucker Carlson's wheelhouse. I'm sure he'll be all over this next week with another stunning expose. "And now, even everyone's favorite harmless, lame, white guy, Dilbert, cancelled by the woke agenda..."

[El Mimbreno]

60. Sent a link...

to the editor of local RW online "news".

Her reply was:
"I believe he is a realist, not a racist. He was interpreting the poll the way he wanted to. Plus he's allowed his freedom of speech. If woke people get their noses out of joint, oh, well."