Dilbert creator Scott Adams claims in a new interview that it was mostly outraged white people who canceled him and that black Americans were “completely fine” with his comments on racial divisions. The beleaguered cartoonist appeared on Chris Cuomo’s show this week, tripling down on his remarks and claiming that he had intentionally courted controversy to draw attention to anti-white bias.
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“The way things are going, the signals are blaring in every way,” Adams said on Cuomo’s NewsNation show. “Social media shows an anti-whiteness bias, businesses too, ESG, CRT, DEI, all these corporate and government things.”
Since releasing the controversial episode of his YouTube show on Feb. 22, Adams has been dropped by virtually all of his publishers. The Dilbert creator had been responding to a poll showing that almost half of black Americans did not agree with the statement, “it’s ok to be white.”
“They all start with this sort of ‘white people’—and it’s true—’ were the source of racism for years,’ still largely the source of continuing system racism… so you’ve got this environment where every commercial, every TV show, it’s just everywhere.”
In his response to the Rasmussen poll, Adams suggested that white people “get the f—k” away from black people, sparking an uproar. He explained to Cuomo that his comments were deliberately taken out of context to make him appear racist.
“That was me saying nothing about black people. It was me saying I don’t want to be around people who have a bad feeling about me,” he said.
“It’s almost entirely white people that canceled me. It might be entirely because they’re the ones that own the publishing companies and the newspapers.”
Adams continued, saying that many black Americans reached out to him after his cancellation to give their support.
“So far every black person I’ve talked to has said, ‘I get what you’re saying’… black America is completely fine if they see the context,” Adams said. “It was meant to get people riled up. I just misjudged how much.”
“What I want your audience to know is that when I complained about black people having a bad attitude about white people, that was me saying nothing about black people. It was saying, ‘I don’t want to be around people who have a bad feeling about me.’”
Adams maintained that he would not apologize for his comments and said that he alone was accountable for his actions.
“If global cancellation was my price for free speech, then it was worth it.”
Adams was widely condemned after the original YouTube video, getting dropped by major publishers and newspapers nationwide. The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, reportedly replaced Dilbert with a blank space on Monday. It said it intended to do so for the remainder of March to serve “as a reminder of the racism that pervades our society.”
The cartoonist’s upcoming book “Reframe Your Brain” was also scrapped by Penguin Publishing House before its release.
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Adams has teased on social media that he intends to continue publishing content on his website in the future.
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