Billionaire’s declare comes amid backlash towards “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams over feedback about Black individuals.
Elon Musk has accused the media of being racist towards white and Asian individuals amid a backlash towards a preferred cartoon strip creator who made discriminatory remarks about Black individuals.
Musk, the chief govt of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, made the feedback on Sunday after numerous newspapers in the USA dropped the “Dilbert” sketch following anti-Black feedback by creator Scott Adams.
“For a *very* very long time, US media was racist towards non-white individuals, now they’re racist towards whites & Asians,” Musk mentioned on Twitter.
“Similar factor occurred with elite schools & excessive faculties in America. Possibly they will strive not being racist.”
Musk made the feedback in response to a Twitter person who accused the media of portraying Adams as a racist however not levelling comparable accusations towards Black People who mentioned in a current survey they didn’t agree with an announcement asking whether it is “OK to be white”.
Musk later tweeted his settlement with one other person who mentioned Adams’s feedback “weren’t good” however US society had leaned into id with “predictable outcomes” and may return to colour-blindness round race.
Musk’s views on free speech, race and different contentious points have been within the highlight since the billionaire purchased Twitter in October for $44bn.
Underneath Musk’s management, Twitter has relaxed moderation guidelines relating to hate speech and reinstated the accounts of far-right and different controversial figures, together with neo-Nazis.
Musk, who has described himself as a free-speech absolutist, has pledged to encourage viewpoint range on Twitter and handle the liberal bias he claims held sway beneath the platform’s earlier administration.
In an look on his YouTube present final week, Adams mentioned that white People ought to “get the hell away from Black individuals” and it “is not sensible in anyway as a white citizen of America to attempt to assist Black residents anymore”.
Adams, whose sketch is extensively syndicated in newspapers worldwide, additionally mentioned he had moved to a primarily white neighbourhood to “escape”.
Adams made the remarks in response to a Rasmussen ballot carried out earlier this month that discovered 26 p.c of Black People didn’t agree with the assertion “It’s OK to be white,” whereas 21 p.c have been “undecided”.
Total, 72 p.c of respondents, together with 53 p.c of Black individuals, agreed it was “OK to be white”, with simply 12 p.c of the final inhabitants disagreeing with the assertion, in accordance with Rasmussen.
The Washington Put up, USA In the present day, the Los Angeles Occasions and different US newspapers have dropped “Dilbert” in current days in response to Adams’s feedback.
