Dilbert Gets Fired

I used to be a big fan of Dilbert. 

Anyone who has ever worked in an office saw their own work lives reflected in the absurdities of Dilbert's work environment. No matter how far out or extreme the indignities Dilbert suffered, we all could say we've encountered problems like those. Or even those exact same problems. 

It was a rare Dilbert strip that did not elicit at least a mild knowing chuckle. 

To be honest, I haven't actually kept up with Dilbert in recent years and what I'm hearing is I haven't missed much.  Office foibles have been replaced with polemics on race and gender equality.  

Unfortunately, reading Dilbert meant dealing with his creator Scott Adams. 

A toxic racist misogynist Trump supporting prick.  

Dilbert was an iconic presence on the comics page, as much as Garfield or Snoopy. And all Scott Adams had to do was rest on his laurels and laugh all the way to the bank.  

Except he couldn't keep his mouth shut. 

Much like J K Rowling ruining her rep with erstwhile Harry Potter fans, those folks who have enjoyed reading of Dilbert's office travails and bought the licensed merch have had to contend with Dilbert's creator being a small minded jack ass.  

Scott Adams wrote in 2020 

“If Biden is elected, there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year. Republicans will be hunted!" 

"The Black Lives Matter movement had turned into a domestic terror organization that is setting back race relations by perhaps twenty years.”

He recently went on a video rant that included the following: 

“The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. There’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. ... You just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low Black population.  Nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people which means Black people constituted a hate group. And I don’t want to have anything to do with them!"  

Well, that did it. 

A whole bunch of papers pulled Dilbert from their comics pages. 

Well, Scott Adams hasn't been totally abandoned. Elon Musk came to his defense.

Of course Elon Musk defended Scott Adams.  

So Dilbert is gone which is a shame. Once upon a time, Dilbert could be really funny. 

Too bad his creator was poisoned with hate and bigotry.