“Dilbert” was dropped by its distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, which shared that Adams’s comments weren’t compatible with the company’s values: “We will never support any commentary rooted in discrimination or hate.”
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with white people—according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll—that’s a hate group,”He added that he moved to a neighborhood with a “very low Black population,” in order to escape. “It makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore. It doesn’t make sense; it’s no longer a rational impulse,” Adams said.
”On Monday, Adams continued to respond to the fallout on Twitter, saying that he had previously lost two corporate jobs to “direct racism,” adding that “white people in the media are also the main source of worsening race relations.” According toOf course, no Twitter-mediated downfall would be complete without, “The media is racist.” He continued, “For a very long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians.
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