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Dilbert cartoons have been dropped by newspapers after their creator's embarked on an hour-long "racist" rant about black people.
Scott Adams, creator of the comic-strip, has seen his cartoon axed after he told white people to “get the f*** away” from black people on his online show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has now cut any ties with the creator after editor Chris Quinn confirmed it was "not a difficult decision" as a number of other papers jumped ship too.
Mr Quinn wrote on Friday: "This is 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.”
He made the disgusting comments on his YouTube show (San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)His disgusting tirade was uploaded to his YouTube channel on Wednesday and has been viewed more than 119,000 times.
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During his show the Pro-Trump cartoonist said: “I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.
“Just get the f*** away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
He claimed it doesn't “make any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” before adding it is “no longer a rational impulse."
At the end of the disgusting comments he revealed: “So I’m going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off."
His comic-strip will not appear in dozens of newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)Throughout the vile rant, he reiterated his belief that white Americans needed to "escape" and said he had already done so by moving to an area with a "very low Black population".
The editor said the decision to cancel their ties with the "Dilbert" creator was “a decision based on the principles of this news organisation and the community we serve.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which is owned by Advance Local, have newspapers in Staten Island, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Oregon and Alabama.
They confirmed the comic-strip would not appear in their publications.
The editor took to Twitter to defend his newspaper's decision to axe the cartoon, writing: "A lot of people are angry at me today but I haven’t yet heard anyone disagree.
“I make two main points: 1. Treat everyone as an individual (no discrimination). 2. Avoid any group that doesn’t respect you,” the tweet continued. “Does anyone think that is bad advice?”
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Since comparing former American President Donald Trump, to Jesus back in 2015, Adams has adopted more and more radical positions.
He has engaged with the far-right and peddled debunked Covid-19 cures and claimed that if Joe Biden won the election, which he did, that Republicans would be "dead within a year".
Last year Adams introduced a black character for the first time in his strip's 33-year existence but the character was largely used to poke fun at 'woke' culture.
As he wrote more and more anti-'woke' plot lines, Dilbert was dropped from 77 newspapers last September in a move Adams claimed was a part of a "larger overhaul" but he admitted it was "possible" the strip was pulled for other reasons.
But it's not the first time Adams has drew criticism, after the 2019 shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival he was accused of trying to profit by encouraging witnesses to sign up for an app he created.
Following the backlash to his latest rant, Adams took to his Twitter to defend his position saying "has anyone checked the price of free speech lately? It's worse than eggs."
He claimed: "I'm not returning hate. I'm advising people to avoid hate" and announced another episode of his show.
He also tweeted: "Is it racist to avoid racists who are the same race as each other? Or is it only racist if the racists you are avoiding are white?"
To which the site's owner Elon Musk claimed it was an "interesting question and a tongue twister"