{"id":259143,"date":"2022-09-27T06:34:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T06:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259143"},"modified":"2022-09-28T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:40:59","slug":"now-dilbert-is-racist-popular-comic-strip-is-canned-by-77-newspapers-after-artist-scott-adams-began-incorporating-anti-woke-plotlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259143","title":{"rendered":"Now Dilbert is racist! Popular comic strip is canned by 77 newspapers after artist Scott Adams began incorporating anti-woke plotlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The popular comic strip was booted from a number of publications owned by Lee Enterprises\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cartoonist Scott Adams said that some newspapers voiced concerns after receiving complaints about his comic content<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dilbert strips feature in newspapers across 57 countries, and in 19 languages &#8211; and there are over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars in print<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Claudia Aoraha \u2013 Daily Mail Sept 21, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A popular comic strip has been canned by 77 newspapers after its creator Scott Adams started incorporating anti-woke plotlines, including a black character who identifies as white.<\/p>\n<p>Adams&#8217; much-loved &#8216;Dilbert&#8217; comics have been in circulation since 1989 and frequently pokes fun at office culture, but he announced he was sensationally dropped by publisher\u00a0Lee Enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>The media company owns nearly 100 newspapers across the country &#8211; including The Buffalo News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Arizona Daily Sun &#8211; and has been publishing Adams&#8217; jokes about the corporate ladder for years.<\/p>\n<p>One of his most recent controversial comic strips included a black worker, who identifies as white, being asked to also identify as gay to boost his company&#8217;s environmental, social, and governance ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Dave, his reoccurring character, replies: &#8216;Depends how hard you want me to sell it,&#8217; before the boss responds: &#8216;Just wear better shirts.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Adams, 65, is believed to be worth nearly $70million &#8211; a fortune he amassed thanks to the popularity of his characters, as well as his non-Dilbert related works.<\/p>\n<p>Another satire, posted on Monday, showed the same character in charge of the fictional firm wondering how he can open a new factory without contributing negatively to the environment.<\/p>\n<p>As a solution to stop him being bashed by &#8216;woke&#8217; commentators, the boss concludes that he&#8217;ll add a non-binary worker to his board to increase diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Adams&#8217; satirical strips feature in newspapers across 57 countries, and in 19 languages &#8211; and there are over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars in print.<\/p>\n<p>The character Dave, named after the creator&#8217;s brother, is a prankster who messes with his boss, Adams said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11235995\/Dilbert-comic-strip-canned-77-newspapers-artist-Scott-Adams-included-anti-woke-plotlines.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This speaks volumes about the prevailing political orthodoxy. Anything that mocks things &#8220;woke&#8221; is now unacceptable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":259144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259169,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259143\/revisions\/259169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}