Twitter CEO Elon Musk is slamming the fallout over Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams’ comments bashing Blacks as “racist” against whites.
Newspapers across the nation have dropped the Dilbert comic strip since Adams unleashed a tirade Wednesday on his YouTube program saying that white people should “get the hell away from Black people.” Adams also called Black people a “hate group,” adding: “I don’t want to have anything to do with them.” Adams has continued to defend his comments.
In a series of tweets responding to the uproar on Sunday, Musk insisted that “the media is racist,” and the backlash against Adams is “racist against whites.”
“For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians,” Musk tweeted. “Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist.”
Musk did agree with another tweet that said “Adams’ comments weren’t good,” but which also added that ” there’s an element of truth” to them. Musk indicated in another reply that media organizations promote a “false narrative” by giving more coverage to unarmed Black victims of police violence than they do to unarmed White victims of police violence.
