Letter: Cartoonist went too far

In response to those who are upset to see the removal of Dilbert from the Comics: I too, am sorry to see Dilbert leave the comics. I've kept a Dilbert calendar on my desk for years and looked forward to the laugh-out-loud funny and startlingly amazing awareness of the often ridiculous machinations of corporate culture.

I don't see the removal of this strip as "cancel culture" at work. I see this as good sense at work. What Scott Adams said is not just an errant opinion on some isolated Letters to the Editor page. His comments are demonstrably wrong and loaded with lethality.

Any person who delineates any collection of humans by their color, their place of birth, their means, form or choice of worship as a collective hate group should be instantly recognizable as dangerously wrong. When the speaker has an audience numbered in the millions, the responsible reaction is to remove access to that audience.

He wishes to characterize his remarks as hyperbole saying that people who know him understand what he is saying. I have to wonder, how large is the group of people who know Scott Adams - and do they truly know him?

Anyone who wishes to maintain a connection to Scott Adams' work can do so - he still has his voice and a medium to deliver his baseless and painfully ignorant message. I could not disagree with him more and applaud the Herald for this action.

Paul Carter

Roselle