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Craig Trudell

Musk deflects criticism of Dilbert cartoonist’s racist comments

Elon Musk called the media racist after a cartoonist he regularly engages with on Twitter faced blowback for encouraging white Americans to avoid Black people.

While discussing a Rasmussen Reports poll in which almost half of Black respondents disagreed with or were unsure about the statement that it’s OK to be white, Scott Adams, creator of the long-running Dilbert comic strip, said during his YouTube show last week that his best advice for white Americans “is to get the hell away from Black people.”

Newspaper publishers, including Gannett Co.’s USA Today Network, denounced the comments and said they’ll no longer publish Adams’ cartoons, which satirize office culture.

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