What exact words did Scott Adams say on his February 2023 livestream and where can the full transcript or video be found?

1. Exactly what he said — the key quoted lines

Reporting across NPR, The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian and others reproduces the same core lines attributed to Adams: he referred to Black Americans as a “hate group” and said the “best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people” ^{[1] [5] [6] [7]}. Multiple outlets also paraphrase that he said he would no longer “help Black Americans” after discussing a Rasmussen poll, a formulation repeated in several reports ^{[8] [9] [10]}.

2. Where those words appeared and the immediate context

The statements occurred during a February 2023 livestream of his program Real Coffee with Scott Adams on YouTube while Adams was reacting to a Rasmussen Reports poll about whether respondents agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white,” a line media coverage noted is associated with white supremacist messaging and whose poll results he cited as the provocation for his remarks ^{[5] [1] [4]}.

3. The documented aftermath in reporting

Within days of the livestream, numerous newspapers and Andrews McMeel (the distributor) severed ties or stopped running Dilbert, a consequence widely reported by NPR, The New York Times, Politico and others, who tied that collective action directly to the February livestream remarks ^{[1] [5] [10] [8]}. Coverage uniformly treats the remarks as the proximate cause of the syndication and publication fallout ^{[1] [10]}.

4. Adams’s later characterization and competing accounts

Adams and some of his supporters later described his language as deliberate hyperbole intended to make a rhetorical point and said he disavowed real-world racists; outlets report that Adams defended himself as using exaggeration and framed the backlash as cancellation by media institutions ^{[9] [8]}. News reports therefore present two competing framings: straightforward reportage of the language he used (as quoted above) and Adams’s own framing that the comments were rhetorical hyperbole ^{[9] [8]}.

5. Where the full video or transcript can be obtained — what reporting documents and what it does not

Contemporary reporting identifies the forum for the remarks as Adams’s YouTube livestream Real Coffee with Scott Adams, indicating the video was originally posted and broadcast on his YouTube channel ^{[1] [4]}. The articles in the provided corpus quote the contentious lines but do not attach a complete official transcript or a direct permanent URL to a full archived video; therefore the public record in these sources consists of journalistic quotations and summaries rather than a posted verbatim transcript in the cited material ^{[1] [2] [5]}. To verify the full original words beyond the reported excerpts, primary-source retrieval would require consulting the original YouTube livestream recording or any archived transcript hosted by Adams or independent archives—sources here confirm the platform (YouTube) but do not supply a hosted full transcript ^{[1] [4]}.

6. Assessment and caveats

The convergence of independent outlets on the same quoted phrases — “hate group” and “get the hell away from Black people” — establishes what mainstream reporting attributes to Adams during the February 2023 livestream ^{[1] [2] [5]}. At the same time, Adams’s later defense that he used hyperbole and the existence of paraphrases across outlets mean readers should weigh both the direct quoted language reported and Adams’s claim about rhetorical intent; the available sources document both the quotes and his later characterization but do not, in this set, provide a complete, single-source verbatim transcript to resolve every nuance ^{[9] [8] [1]}.