Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk stepped in to defend Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams after he received backlash for comments made in response to a Rasmussen poll that found 47% of black Americans either disagreed with or were unsure about the phrase “It’s okay to be White.”
Adams said white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” during a YouTube rant.
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with White people … that’s a hate group,” Adams said on YouTube, according to the Washington Post. “I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people … because there is no fixing this.”
Adams’ strip was pulled by the Washington Post, USA Today, and several other major newspapers.
Musk stepped in to defend Adams in a series of posts on Twitter.
“The media is racist,” the billionaire Twitter owner tweeted.
“For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians,” Musk added in a second tweet. “Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist.”
For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians.
Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America.
Maybe they can try not being racist.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2023
More over at The New York Post:
Elon Musk says US media ‘racist against Whites and Asians’ in defense of ‘Dilbert’ creator https://t.co/Sdr0rLjh01 pic.twitter.com/wQ2574X02x
— New York Post (@nypost) February 27, 2023