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Billionaire Elon Musk believes the media in the U.S. is racist.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Musk said that the media used to be racist against minority groups, but now it is racist against white people and Asian people.
Musk was responding to a news story about Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, who made controversial comments about Black people during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” in response to a recent Rasmussen poll in which 26% of Black respondents said they disagreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.”
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The Dilbert comic strip was later pulled by Gannett Co., the owner of USA Today.
Adams later addressed the situation in a tweet.
Dilbert, which Adams created in 1989, generally focuses on satirical office humor.
Neither Musk nor Adams responded to MarketWatch’s request for comment on this story.
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Musk, who is CEO of Tesla
TSLA,
SpaceX and Twitter, carried out another round of head-count reductions at Twitter over the weekend. According to the New York Times, another 200 employees were laid off at the social-media company, accounting for about 10% of the total staff.
About 7,500 people worked at Twitter when Musk acquired the company for $44 billion in October. Fewer than 2,000 work there now.
