On Sunday, Elon Musk claimed on Twitter that the “media” in the US is “racist towards whites & Asians.”
“For a *very* very long time, US media was racist towards non-white folks, now they’re racist towards whites & Asians,” he wrote on Twitter.
He was replying to a Tweet from the San Francisco Chronicle with a narrative about artist Scott Adams, the creator of the company humor comedian, “Dilbert” who mentioned in a video on-line that referred to as a gaggle of Black individuals are a “hate group.” This led to newspapers across the nation dropping Dilbert, per The New York Occasions.
“Similar factor occurred with elite faculties & excessive colleges in America. Possibly they’ll strive not being racist,” Musk wrote.
Musk additionally wrote “Precisely,” in response to a Twitter person who mentioned that Adam’s feedback “weren’t good” however that “we had been on the proper path with colorblindness and must return to it.”
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Dilbert’s about web page says the comedian started in 1989. It was recognized for skewering workplace tradition in comics that joked about “mind {golfing}” or different workplace jargon, resembling renaming “issues” to “alternatives.” It ran in 2,000 newspapers at one level, the positioning added.
In a video posted on-line on Tuesday Adams mentioned a ballot from Rasmussen Stories, a right-leaning polling and media agency, that mentioned 26% of Black individuals who responded didn’t agree with the phrase “It is OK to be white,” per CNBC.
Adams mentioned the Black individuals who responded to the ballot in that method had been an issue, in keeping with the NYT.
“That is a hate group, and I do not wish to have something to do with them… [it] is not sensible to assist Black People when you’re white,” Adams mentioned within the video.
Afterward, newspapers together with The Plain Vendor, The Washington Submit, and The USA At the moment Community, which owns round 200 newspapers, dropped the comedian, per CNN.
Anti-Defamation League has designated “It is OK to be white” as a “hate slogan,” because it emerged from a trolling state of affairs on the social media web site 4chan in 2017 that tried to make use of an “ostensibly innocuous and inoffensive slogan,” and rapidly was adopted by white supremacists.
As for Musk, his “precisely” Tweet in assist of the concept of “colorblindness” and feedback about faculties and excessive colleges come amid a bigger motion to change how race and gender are mentioned in colleges and universities within the U.S.
Sociologists and different teachers have argued “colorblindness” is just not an efficient viewpoint for dismantling racism.
Musk is the CEO of Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla. In October 2021, Tesla was ordered to pay $137 million to a employee who mentioned he endured racist graffiti and feedback like “return to Africa” whereas being an elevator operator at Tesla starting in 2015. In March, Tesla was going through 46 lawsuits associated to gender and racial discrimination, per Insider.
Adams mentioned in a Tweet Monday he was transferring the comedian to a subscription web site.
