Billionaire’s declare comes amid backlash in opposition to “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams over feedback about Black folks.

Elon Musk has accused the media of being racist in opposition to white and Asian folks amid a backlash in opposition to a preferred cartoon strip writer who made discriminatory remarks about Black folks.

Musk, the chief government of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, made the feedback on Sunday after a lot of newspapers in america dropped the “Dilbert” sketch following anti-Black feedback by creator Scott Adams.

“For a *very* very long time, US media was racist in opposition to non-white folks, now they’re racist in opposition to whites & Asians,” Musk mentioned on Twitter.

“Similar factor occurred with elite schools & excessive faculties in America. Possibly they will attempt not being racist.”

Musk made the feedback in response to a Twitter consumer who accused the media of portraying Adams as a racist however not levelling comparable accusations in opposition to Black Individuals who mentioned in a current survey they didn’t agree with a press release asking whether it is “OK to be white”.

Musk later tweeted his settlement with one other consumer who mentioned Adams’s feedback “weren’t good” however US society had leaned into identification with “predictable outcomes” and will 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 concerning 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 variety 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 Individuals ought to “get the hell away from Black folks” and it “is mindless in any way as a white citizen of America to attempt to assist Black residents anymore”.

Adams, whose sketch is broadly 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 early this month that discovered 26 % of Black Individuals didn’t agree with the assertion “It’s OK to be white,” whereas 21 % had been “unsure”.

Total, 72 % of respondents, together with 53 % of Black folks, agreed it’s “OK to be white”, with simply 12 % of the final inhabitants disagreeing with the assertion, in line with Rasmussen.

The Washington Put up, USA Right now, the Los Angeles Occasions and different US newspapers have dropped “Dilbert” in current days in response to Adams’s remarks.