Editor’s Note: The Denver Post announced on Saturday that the paper will no longer run cartoons by Scott Adams. However, because Sunday comic pages are printed two weeks in advance, the Dilbert cartoon will still appear in the March 5 edition.
The dropping of “Dilbert” following cartoonist Scott Adams’ race remarks
Re: “Media drop Dilbert after Black “hate group” remark,” Feb. 26 news story and ” ‘Dilbert’ loses distributor as The Denver Post, other newspapers drop comic,” Feb. 28 news story
I have followed “Dilbert” ever since the day I started working in a cubicle farm. So sad to find out that someone whose humor and talent I admired is a racist. My only decision now is whether to recycle it or toss it in the garbage. I suppose I will recycle and hope his hateful attitude does not live on when his comics are reduced to pulp.
Kevin Donahue, Idaho Springs
I disagree with Scott Adams’ views, but that is not a good reason to cancel the “Dilbert” strip. I don’t have to listen to Adams’ views or condone them, but it is my choice to pay attention or not to negative comments no more than reading scribbles on walls. He didn’t express racist’ views on the comic strip. It’s a dangerous and slippery slope to start judging works from the creator’s point of view. What’s next? Follow on the steps of Florida and start canceling artists because of their sexual orientation or other reason found offensive by one segment of society or another? Enough of dividing the country – we love America because of the freedom we enjoy without conditions.
Luis Mella, Brighton
In light of Scott Adams’ recent behavior, including his openly racist video, it is time, and well past time, for The Denver Post to drop this comic.
Glenn Hendricks, Salida
Why are you still running the Dilbert cartoon in your newspaper? Have you seen the comments that he made this week?
The Plain Dealer wrote that dropping Dilbert was “not a difficult decision.” “Adams said Black people are a hate group, citing a recent Rasmussen survey which, he said, shows nearly half of all Black people do not agree with the phrase ‘It’s okay to be white.’”
The “it’s okay to be white” slogan is an extensively documented meme crafted by 4chan and disseminated on flyers by white supremacist groups in an effort to cast white people as a besieged victim class.
Michael Villalaz, Longmont
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