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Now Dilbert is racist! Popular comic strip is canned by 77 newspapers after artist Scott Adams began incorporating anti-woke plotlines, including black character who identifies as white
UK Daily Mail ^
| 09/21/2022
| CLAUDIA AORAHA
Posted on 09/21/2022 2:01:46 PM PDT by DFG
A popular comic strip has been canned by 77 newspapers after its creator Scott Adams started incorporating anti-woke plotlines, including a character black that identifies as white.
Adams' much-loved 'Dilbert' comics have been in circulation since 1989 and frequently poke fun at office culture, but he announced he was sensationally dropped by publisher Lee Enterprises.
The media company owns nearly 100 newspapers across the country - including The Buffalo News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Arizona Daily Sun - and has been publishing Adams' jokes about the corporate ladder for years.
One of his most recent controversial comic strips included a black worker, who identifies as white, being asked to also identify as gay to boost his company's environmental, social, and governance ratings.
Dave, his reoccurring character, replies: 'Depends how hard you want me to sell it,' before the boss responds: 'Just wear better shirts.'
Adams, 65, is believed to be worth nearly $70million - a fortune he amassed thanks to the popularity of his characters, as well as his non-Dilbert related works.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dilbert; esg; proabortion; scottadams; woke
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To: Honest Nigerian
(I will admit that a world without Dilbert would be a sadder world
Speaking for yourself.
I'm fine without it.
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posted on
09/21/2022 6:53:30 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
(Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
To: libertylover
Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven
Almost?
Wait! Don't tell me. You're excluding Fox.
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posted on
09/21/2022 6:56:49 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
(Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
To: pepsi_junkie
He’s been politically incorrect before...I think the cancel culture has gotten more brazen.
To: lewislynn
I believe he lives in Berkeley what would you expect?
He’s cartoons are funny
64
posted on
09/21/2022 7:03:41 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: DFG
Newspapers cancelled him? How many 85 year old people read Dilbert?
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posted on
09/21/2022 7:26:50 PM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
To: Nifster
He once commented that he couldn't careless about the homeless living on the streets. He just drives by without looking at them...Or words to that effect.
He's definitely an arrogant douche.
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posted on
09/21/2022 7:49:40 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
(Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
To: Nifster
He once commented that he couldn't careless about the homeless living on the streets. He just drives by without looking at them...Or words to that effect.
He's definitely an arrogant douche.
67
posted on
09/21/2022 7:51:10 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
(Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
To: lewislynn
There are a lot of homeless on the streets in Oakland, Emoryvolle, and Berkeley. I’ve done the same. It’s self defense
68
posted on
09/21/2022 9:16:02 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: 21twelve
It is a gauge of how much you support the left’s agenda.
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posted on
09/22/2022 2:54:23 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Nifster
Scott Adams lives in Pleasanton. He was a network engineer at Pacific Bell in San Ramon when he started the Dilbert comic strip, left Pac Bell when he became successful, and bought a 7,000 sq. ft. house in Pleasanton in the Bernal and Vineyard area.
-PJ
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posted on
09/22/2022 3:19:16 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: William Tell
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posted on
09/22/2022 9:43:10 AM PDT
by
themidnightskulker
(....And then the thread dies.... Peacefully.... In its sleep....)
To: lewislynn
Right. I’m excluding Fox.
Maybe not perfect, but you’re much more likely to get the truth from Fox than you are from the ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCNYTWPLAT clowns. And Tucker Carlson is the best!
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posted on
09/23/2022 5:53:01 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
To: rxh4n1
I remember fifty three or so years ago when Al Capp introduced a black character and boy into his Li’L Abner comic strip. Charles Schulz had a black kid named Franklin in Peanuts in 1968. I remember seeing a set of panels in which Charlie Brown asked him if he preferred to be called black, colored, African American, etc. He answered he'd rather be called Franklin.
Today someone somewhere would be screaming and yelling about this hatred.
73
posted on
09/23/2022 7:48:09 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: JimRed
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posted on
09/23/2022 7:48:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: rxh4n1
As bad as the Dennis the Menace fiasco? I'm not aware of that one. What happened?
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posted on
09/23/2022 7:54:52 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: pepsi_junkie
I have to guess that Adams wants to end the grind of a daily strip like the guys who did “The Far Side” and “Calvin and Hobbes” wanted to but he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory rather than simply fading away. I like that. I really hope that’s the case.
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posted on
09/23/2022 7:57:19 AM PDT
by
Allegra
To: lewislynn
He once commented that he couldn't careless about the homeless living on the streets. He just drives by without looking at them...Or words to that effect. Since they have CHOSEN to live in squalor on the streets and forswear the many social services available to them, what is he to do? Stop the car, drag them out of their hovels and berate them for their choice? Take them home for lunch? He's no more a douche than I am.
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posted on
09/23/2022 8:04:47 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: PROCON
That’s hilarious! I used to read Dilbert daily way back when I had a newspaper delivered. Having worked in large engineering/construction companies for a long time, I had a special appreciation for that comic strip. It been too long.
I love that Adams is poking the wokies. They’re probably apoplectic over that one. 😂
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posted on
09/23/2022 8:40:38 AM PDT
by
Allegra
To: Eagles6
The left has no sense of humor.Zero. And no sense of fun. They’re miserable people and being around them is a miserable experience.
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posted on
09/23/2022 8:44:41 AM PDT
by
Allegra
To: Allegra
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posted on
09/23/2022 8:56:37 AM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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