Billionaire Elon Musk believes the media within the U.S. is racist.
In a sequence of tweets on Sunday, Musk mentioned that the media was racist towards minority teams, however now it’s racist towards white folks and Asian folks.
Musk was responding to a information story about Scott Adams, the creator of the caricature Dilbert, who made controversial feedback about Black folks throughout an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
Adams referred to as Black Individuals a “hate group” in response to a current Rasmussen ballot wherein 26% of Black respondents mentioned they disagreed with the assertion “It’s OK to be white.”
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The Dilbert caricature was later pulled by Gannett Co., the proprietor of USA Right this moment.
Adams later addressed the state of affairs in a tweet.
Dilbert, which Adams created in 1989, typically focuses on satirical workplace humor.
Neither Musk nor Adams responded to MarketWatch’s request for touch upon this story.
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Musk, who’s CEO of Tesla
TSLA,
SpaceX and Twitter, carried out one other spherical of head-count reductions at Twitter over the weekend. In response to the New York Occasions, one other 200 staff had been laid off on the social-media firm, accounting for about 10% of the entire workers.
About 7,500 folks labored at Twitter when Musk acquired the corporate for $44 billion in October. Fewer than 2,000 work there now.