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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here's a scratch off the top:

He previously questioned the death toll of the Holocaust, said he had lost multiple jobs for being white and falsely claimed that people who didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19 "clearly are the winners" of the pandemic (he acknowledged getting vaccinated in Monday's video). Dozens of newspapers dropped the strip in 2022 after Adams introduced its first Black character and veered into anti-woke plotlines.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago

Me: "Everyone's hating on him. Lemmy is so sensitive, it's probably over nothing"

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ohhh, ohhhhhhhh

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know if I'm more shocked that Adams didn't have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist's strip in 2022.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

wait, i thought the elbonians were black.

[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always saw them as some kind of Eastern European caricature

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

it's been so long i really don't remember. we're both right maybe

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

They're white. Sort of Russian caricatures, I think.