Scott Adams, the creator of the irreverent “Dilbert” comic, made the racism controversy worse when he defended himself in a recent interview.
“Almost all the white people who canceled on me, maybe all of them, because they own the publishing companies and the newspapers,” Chris Cuomo said on NewsNation in an interview Monday.
“Black America is very good, conservative and liberal, if you look at it in context,” he said, citing people who contacted him about the fiasco.
He also claimed the comments were “hyperbolic” and that he was “deliberately creating controversy” to attract attention.
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Hundreds of publications in the USA Today network, as well as papers under the umbrella of Advance Local, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, said they were dropping “Dilbert” last month after Adams said on a YouTube livestream: “The best advice I’ve ever given to people whiteness is getting rid of black people.”
“Quite far away. Wherever you have to go, just go,” he said.
Adams, who is white, previously referred to black people as members of a “hate group” in controversial social media comments. He has been outspoken about his support for Donald Trump and once compared the former president to Jesus. In 2020, when protests erupted over police brutality after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Adams said the Black Lives Matter movement was “a domestic terror organization that has created race relations for maybe two decades.”