What many of the letter writers and pundits seem to overlook about the recent Scott Adams/”Dilbert” controversy is that the “Dilbert” comic strip was an excellent satire on office environments and politics.

Although I’m sorry to see that disappear, I understand that it had to go. But even the “offensive” series of strips depicting the Black employee identifying as white (to the chagrin of his employer seeking quotas) was comical.

Nobody canceled Jonathan Swift after he published “A Modest Proposal,” suggesting that the solution to overpopulation and hunger was to eat babies, although many readers who didn’t get the satire were offended.

The difference is that Adams wasn’t joking when he put his repulsive ideas into print.

John Wythe White

Haleiwa

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