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Editor’s note: Virginia Media to drop Dilbert after creator’s racist remarks

The Virginian-Pilot
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Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, California, in 2006. Virginia Media and several other prominent media publishers across the U.S. are dropping the Dilbert comic strip after Adams, its creator, described people who are Black as members of “a racist hate group” during an online video show.

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, California, in 2006. Virginia Media and several other prominent media publishers across the U.S. are dropping the Dilbert comic strip after Adams, its creator, described people who are Black as members of “a racist hate group” during an online video show. (MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press will stop publishing the Dilbert comic strip due to racist remarks by creator Scott Adams.

We do not tolerate such remarks. Like other news organizations across the country, we denounce Adams’ comments as racist, hateful and discriminatory, and we no longer will provide a platform for his work.

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Dilbert is a long-running comic strip that pokes fun at office culture.

Last week, Adams described people who are Black as members of “a hate group” from which white people should “get away.”

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Adams made his statements during an episode of his YouTube show, “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.” Among other topics, Adams referenced a Rasmussen Reports survey that asked whether people agreed with the statement, “It’s OK to be white.”

Editors have chosen Grand Avenue, a strip about a grandmother raising a couple of boys, as a replacement.

The change will take effect starting with Tuesday’s print editions. Dilbert will, however, still appear in this upcoming Sunday’s editions because those comics were prepared for publication and printed in advance. Grand Avenue will replace it in the Sunday comics package the following week.

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