Kevin and Ryan are back in the hot seat with a special guest, and it s cold in the deep, and they re talking about what it s like being a visible minority in the workplace and micro-racism, and how to deal with it.
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00:08:09.000Every time you see a problem like Benghazi, you go look it up and you see Charlene Lamb and Hillary Clinton and all these women wrecking it.
00:08:18.000I think politics is a man's game because it's about conflict and deciding, I guess we're going to have to have a thousand young men die over there.
00:09:16.000I think these guys, they get to this level with platitudes where they just open their mouth and they say things like, we want you to be the most yourself you can be and never get othered.
00:09:28.000And you're like, I understand the sentiment there.
00:09:31.000It doesn't mean anything here on earth.
00:09:33.000You're just saying a bunch of nice words.
00:10:37.000Someone contradicts that by showing me a picture of the Klan, of which there are an infinitesimally small number of people.
00:10:44.000And what they do, by the way, to thwart that is they just expand the definition of Klan and they throw Klan hoods on SCOTUS and say everyone's a white supremacist there.
00:11:44.000I think there's a lot of black people in prison because welfare shattered the black family and you got all these fatherless kids getting up to no good with idle hands.
00:11:52.000It's not a matter of some evil white man going, let's put the Negroes in jail.
00:12:00.000So here is a video of what it's like to be at work when you're a person of color.
00:12:06.000And I firmly believe it's a great example of how totally irrelevant racism is.
00:12:11.000If these are your problems, then you don't have problems.
00:12:14.000All right, what if we treated white coworkers the way we treat minority coworkers?
00:12:18.000So just already right there, you are talking about Asians, Indians, and blacks, basically.
00:12:26.000Two of those groups make way more money than your average white person.
00:12:31.000Already this argument is crap, but go ahead.
00:17:57.000This is someone expressing a genuine curiosity about your culture, which they're slightly uncouth, I guess, but these are all microaggressions.
00:18:08.000And what's the first part of the word microaggression?
00:18:34.000First of all, the odds of a white person doing hot yoga are pretty high, especially in the ambitious workforce, especially white women in New York.
00:18:43.000My wife does hot yoga, so he would have been correct if he said Gavin, Gavin's wife.
00:19:46.000This is this is so she's asking a black guy if he went on a sports scholarship to a fancy school, right?
00:19:52.000The anger here, if this happens, by the way, and big deal if it does.
00:19:57.000And by the way, if it does, you better hope you weren't there on a sports scholarship because she got it right.
00:20:05.000The real problem here is affirmative action.
00:20:08.000You know, I've always said if you affirmative action black people into Harvard and Yale, then the black guy with the straight A's who deserves to be there is walking around knowing people are thinking he's an affirmative action hire.
00:20:20.000So you've trivialized his accomplishments.
00:20:23.000That's what I hate about affirmative action.
00:20:26.000It makes the people who earn it less successful.
00:21:41.000I would never say that to a black person because of the culture we live in, but I think it's an interesting question, and I think it's an interesting topic of discussion.
00:21:48.000But you're not allowed to have topics of discussion at work.
00:21:51.000In fact, I would argue that the modern workplace has made black people into pariahs.
00:21:55.000I guarantee you, if you're in the lunchroom and you're all sitting by the vending machine eating your stupid snacks and your microwave chickpeas and a black woman walks in, the jokes just go, And here's the thing.
00:22:07.000What if that black woman is super funny and likes to riff?
00:22:13.000You just made her into the elephant man with your stupid lawsuits and your culture of fear in the workplace.
00:22:19.000They've done it to women in general, too.
00:22:21.000We have these few Me Too women that say, like the New York Mets story, where she recorded a conversation, a private conversation, where two other guys were riffing, doing imitations of other people.
00:22:34.000She sent it to her boss and two major Mets spokesman guys, broadcasters, sportscasters, dudes, were fired.
00:22:42.000So now everyone who works for the Mets is going to be petrified of women.
00:22:47.000Now, if a woman shows up and she's funny and likes to riff and do imitations that may or may not include the word pussy, no one's going to want to do it with her.
00:22:55.000They're going to want to avoid her like the plague.
00:22:57.000And you know what else I'm seeing happen, by the way?
00:22:58.000This is a little bit of a tangent because it's about women.
00:23:01.000But I'm seeing guys secretly, never on the books, say, yeah, just don't hire women.
00:25:33.000A lot of black people in America, we have a segregation in this country, but it's voluntary segregation.
00:25:40.000And black and white people tend to choose to be separate.
00:25:42.000We're seeing this in college recently where blacks are saying, I want a separate graduation.
00:25:47.000They are telling white people they have to go home on certain days.
00:25:50.000There's even with the black and Hispanic tension in Southern California, on May Day, they're saying black people shouldn't even come to school because there's going to be a riot.
00:25:58.000God forbid you wear A USA t-shirt on May Day.
00:26:26.000Sometimes on the phone, if I'm talking to someone from the Bronx or East New York or the South, black people, I have trouble understanding them.
00:26:35.000The Ebonic dialect is getting more and more distant from normal English.
00:26:41.000So when a black guy talks like this, you notice it.
00:27:33.000It's a stupid book about some dumb bitch who abandoned her family to go find herself in India and go screw a bunch of dudes who she ended up marrying some Indian guy who ended up dumping her as soon as he got citizenship, I believe.
00:29:25.000If someone said that about collared greens or chitlins or some other black soul food that I'm not familiar with, they're obviously not coming at you with aggression.
00:29:37.000They're saying, you can't put collared greens in everything.
00:29:57.000Native Americans won't shut up joking about the other tribe and how I've got nothing to do with that tribe, ribbing each other all the time.
00:30:04.000You go to a powwow and half the t-shirts say FBI, flat butt Indian.
00:30:08.000They're making fun of the fact that they tend not to have an ass like Asian people.
00:30:16.000And what you're doing here with all these rules about how you can't talk about casseroles or black food, what you're doing there really is you're trying to kill jokes.
00:30:51.000And black people and liberals are very happy to talk about the half dozen blacks that are unjustly shot by cops and to try to turn it into hundreds, if not thousands of blacks being hunted down by cops or sport.
00:31:06.000They're happy to talk about that non-existent phenomenon, but the real phenomenon of, I can't remember the data now, but what wasn't it like 20 blacks a day?
00:31:16.000Yeah, I think it's 20 blacks a day are murdered or some sort of homicide.
00:31:20.000And about 18 of those are by other black people.
00:31:32.000It's a little bit heavy, but there is a strange phenomenon with black violence.
00:31:37.000And these fights you see at Walmart, these fights you see at Chuck E. Cheese, you don't really see that with white people.
00:31:43.000You might have a brawl at some Lullapalooza thing by the Porta-Potties, but it's not as common as the hundreds of videos from Chuck E. Cheese, from Walmart, from a Bodega.
00:33:33.000And I think, I'm just making this up right now, but I would imagine you drink probably a bottle of vodka when you're on meth to sort of even it out.
00:33:57.000Now, if you're married and you guys are doing this together in an abandoned house in rural Texas, then you guys are going to get up to some fights.
00:34:10.000But the good news is you're both so weak from the abuse you've done to your body that no one really gets that hurt.
00:35:25.000If you are in a relationship and you're doing meth and you're getting in a fight with your wife and you've both been high for four days and haven't slept and she comes at you and puts you in one of those headlocks, just look at her and say, get off my lawn.