Twitter and renowned Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk branded the US media “racist,” following the release of the comic strip “Dilbert.”
The comic strip also sparked outrage among Americans, calling the media “racist” after hundreds of newspapers across the United States published it last week.
In a statement released by the creator of the popular comic, Scott Adams in one of his Youtube show episodes, he responded to a survey that was conducted by a conservative pollster who asked whether “it’s OK to be white,” in which most Black Americans reportedly agreed while 26 percent disagreed.
According to Adams, Black people were also part of a “hate group” which sparked controversy and had netizens divided.
However, one of Twitter posts defending Adams’ caught billionaire Musk’s attention to which he responded last weekend, saying “The media is racist.”
In a Twitter post, Musk claimed that “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,” the Twitter CEO lamented.
In an exclusive report published by The Hill, it was revealed that “Adams’ string of racially-motivated rants included him saying that white people helping Black people has “completely failed,” urging other white people to stop doing it.”
In one of Adams’ episodes, he claimed that “White people trying to help Black America for decades and decades have completely failed. We should just stop doing it cause all we get is called racists, basically. There’s no payoff.”
Musk’s recent controversial statement, brading the US media outlets as racist was not the first time. According to The Hill, “he has leaned into conservative theories on the site that he purchased for $44 billion last year.”
Last year, after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband, Paul was attacked in their home, Musk reportedly “spread a story from the Santa Monica Observer, an obscure outlet known for publishing false information about the Clintons,” The Hill revealed.
“The outlet had baselessly suggested that Paul Pelosi and his attacker knew each other — a theory that had become popular in right-wing circles,” the report added.
