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The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and USA Today were among
newspapers that canceled the cartoon "Dilbert" after its creator
Scott Adams said Black Americans were a hate group and posted racist
comments on his YouTube channel on Wednesday.
In replies to tweets about the controversy, the Tesla and Twitter
chief executive said the media had long been racist against
non-white people but are now "racist against whites & Asians."
"Maybe they can try not being racist," Musk tweeted.
In response to an account that said white victims of police violence
get a fraction of media coverage compared to Black victims, Musk
said the coverage is "Very disproportionate to promote a false
narrative."
Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk's views on social issues have been increasingly under the
microscope since he took over Twitter in October.
He has sparred with civil rights groups over Twitter's level of
protection against hateful content and the reinstatement of some
accounts that previously had been suspended. Some advertisers have
left the platform over concerns about brand safety, and Twitter has
rolled out some new controls for ad placement.
Musk's latest tweets come after the Dilbert creator suggested white
Americans "get the hell away from Black people". Adams, the
cartoonist, was responding to a poll by the conservative Rasmussen
Reports that said 26% of Black respondents said they disagreed with
the statement "It's OK to be white."
The move to drop the cartoon was "not a difficult decision", the
Plain Dealer newspaper in Ohio told its readers on Friday.
(Reporting by Sheila Dang in Dallas; Editing by Peter Henderson and
Lisa Shumaker)
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