Elon Musk defends racist tirade by Dilbert creator Scott Adams

Elon Musk accused US media of racism connected Sunday, defending racist comments made by Dilbert cartoon creator Scott Adams connected YouTube past week.

Twitter's CEO tweeted media that utilized to beryllium racist against non-whites is present "racist against whites & Asians".

In the video, Mr Adams, who is white, said achromatic Americans were portion of a "hate group" and achromatic radical should "get the hellhole away" from them.

Several US outlets dropped the cartoon implicit the play successful response.

In the aforesaid tweet, Mr Musk continued to allege that "elite colleges & precocious schools successful America" are besides racist.

Dilbert has been a mainstay of the comic pages of America's newspapers since 1989. It features a put-upon bureau idiosyncratic and a talking dog, who unneurotic instrumentality purpose astatine the fads of firm culture.

Dilbert's distributor is besides severing ties with Mr Adams, the institution announced connected Twitter. While Andrews McMeel Universal values escaped speech, the institution said, they ''will ne'er enactment immoderate commentary rooted successful favoritism oregon hate".

A caller Dilbert publication to beryllium published successful September was besides dropped,The Wall Street Journal reported. Portfolio, 1 of Penguin Random House's imprints, says it volition not people Mr Adams' upcoming book, "Reframe Your Brain".

Mr Adams says his vocation is destroyed and astir of his income volition beryllium gone by adjacent week aft The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and different publications dropped the fashionable cartoon.

Among media outlets to driblet the Dilbert cartoon portion are the USA Today network, which operates dozens of of newspapers crossed the US.

Mr Adams writes and illustrates the comic. His comments, wide viewed arsenic encouraging segregation, were made successful effect to a survey conducted by the steadfast Rasmussen Reports. Respondents were asked to hold oregon disagree with the phrase: "It's OK to beryllium white."

The operation is believed to person emerged successful 2017 arsenic a trolling run and has since been utilized by achromatic supremacists.

According to the poll, 53% of achromatic respondents agreed with the statement, but 26% disagreed and others were not sure.

Mr Adams called those who disagreed with the operation portion of a "hate group".

"I would say, based connected the existent mode things are going, the champion proposal I would springiness to achromatic radical is to get the hellhole distant from achromatic people," Mr Adams said, "because determination is nary fixing this."

Darrin Bell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning achromatic cartoonist, described Mr Adams arsenic a disgrace, but not unique. "His racism is not adjacent unsocial among cartoonists," helium said successful The New York Times.

There has been an influx of hatred code connected Twitter since Mr Musk's takeover of the societal level successful October, The Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Defamation League reports.