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Please drop Dilbert. I watched the author's YouTube presentation. It was bad. However, his two follow up postings are even worse. Unfortunately, Mr. Adams has crossed a line into the culture wars and I certainly don't want that in my newspaper.

— Douglas Borer, Pacific Grove

My family and I have a subscription to the Monterey Herald. We live locally and believe it is important to have access to local news. I am concerned when I read letters to the paper that promote false information, but I believe people should be allowed to voice opinions.

When that voice is syndicated, as Scott Adams is, there is a higher level of responsibility that must exist to maintain that privilege of having a public voice. The comic strip Dilbert has stretched the line between humor and meanness for some years now. Scott Adam's recent public commentary, in context with other public statements he has made in the recent past, have betrayed a lack ethics and moral compass in his character. Further publishing his strip in syndication simply provides him with a public sphere for promoting hate, during a desperate time in which we need respect for all American citizens.

I like his comic strip, personally, and have read it daily, though I do not always agree or find funny the viewpoint he promotes. Now, though, I am moved to write to ask you to remove his strip from our paper.

He no longer deserves to have a voice in the public sphere, enabling indoctrination of hate as acceptable.

Whether you remove it or not, I will no longer read his strip. If you persist in publishing him, I will rethink my longtime commitment to my subscription to your paper.

“A good conscience is a soft pillow,” they say. You have a lot to answer for. Maybe dropping Scott Adams will help just a bit with your insomnia.

— Paul Fleischman