Crash Course: "Was it something I said?": “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams reacts to cancelation post racist outburst

After a series of racist remarks made on his podcast, Adams' long-running comic is being pulled from papers [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl3c7OP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYjl3c2kybnk5MC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXA5cWMybWg5dHBXA3NwY0IKY_bPSftjWP4vx1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl3c7OP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvOXhwNDRrbnkxYi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXA5cWMybWg5dHAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKY_bPSftjWP4vx1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). "Was it something I said?": “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams reacts to cancelation post racist outburst [Scott Adams](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl3c7OP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvOGF6dXUyeWo0Zy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXA5cWMybWg5dHAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKY_bPSftjWP4vx1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), creator of the long-running comic strip "Dilbert," made a series of racist comments during a recent episode of his podcast, "[Real Coffee with Scott Adams](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl3c7OP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYmw2ZjIzaWl3ZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXA5cWMybWg5dHBXA3NwY0IKY_bPSftjWP4vx1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)," resulting in his overnight cancelation. The comments in question, which he has made no earnest apology for, centered on Black people and his referring to them as a "hate group." In the latest episode of his podcast, posted on Friday, Adams sounds off on the decision being made by newspapers across the country to pull his strip from their papers asking, "Was it something I said?" [Read the rest from Kelly McClure.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl3c7OP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvY3ZnYzM1aWdlZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXA5cWMybWg5dHAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKY_bPSftjWP4vx1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) "National Day of Hate": How did we get here? Cities across the country are on alert today following police warnings of an uptick in "domestic violent extremist messaging" from emboldened [neo-Nazi](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl3c7OP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcmx0dmpzdDBlNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXA5cWMybWg5dHAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKY_bPSftjWP4vx1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and [white supremacist groups](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl3c7OP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMXNnYW85cG50dS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXA5cWMybWg5dHAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKY_bPSftjWP4vx1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) who are organizing a "National Day of Hate." Hate groups have been instructed to drop banners, place stickers and flyers, and spread racist and antisemitic graffiti in cities across North America during the last Saturday of Black History Month. 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