Episode 1012 Scott Adams： Black Americans, Your ＂Leaders＂ Are Leading You Off a Cliff. Profanity Guaranteed.
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Summary
In this episode, I give advice to the Black community on how to deal with the current state of Black Lives Matter and the protests that have been going on across the country. I talk about the lack of leadership in the black community, and how to fix it.
Transcript
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Yes, you're surprised to see me at this time of day, but I had a message that has some timeliness element to it, so I thought I'd jump in here and deliver it.
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I'll wait for a few of you to come online before I get going. This may be the last day you ever see me, because the odds of me being cancelled forever in the next ten minutes are pretty high.
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I listened to a little bit of Charlemagne, and that will be part of what I wanted to talk about.
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All right, so the title of my Periscope today, as I said, I was going to give some advice to black Americans.
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Now, it's not really advice, and I don't believe in advice per se.
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And the reason is, you can give people information, and they can make their own decisions, and certainly it would be presumptuous to make advice for some community you are not a part of.
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So, when I say advice, you should just see it as context, maybe some new information, maybe something that you hadn't considered before.
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But don't take it as presumptuous, because it's not really advice.
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I'm just going to tell you some things that maybe you had not considered.
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And by the way, I warned you that there would be some profanity.
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So, if you've got any kids in the room, you probably want to get them out of the room.
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Martin Luther King was really good at this stuff.
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How perfect that is, because it takes your mind to the future.
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You can visualize it, you know, dream where everybody is treated fairly.
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And it was also accurate, because it wasn't true that things were good at the time.
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But it was true that everybody dreamed of a time when it would be better.
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So, not only was his message perfectly appropriate to how people were thinking.
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In other words, it fit what they were already trying to think, were thinking.
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Both white and black, everybody was thinking, well, I'd like to get to a time.
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So, I point that out, because he was an unusually effective leader.
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But also, his persuasion technique, if you're looking at the actual tools of persuasion, very, very good.
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Not only did he match conservatives by being as religious as they were, took the high ground, didn't use violence.
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I mean, basically, persuasion-wise, he was excellent.
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And we don't really have a Martin Luther King who's in the arena.
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And by the way, if you'd like some context, I've been complaining about President Trump's, let's say, leadership in the last few days on this, on the protests and the riots.
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So, this will not be directed strictly at the African-American community, because it's just as true for Trump.
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If you had good leadership, you could identify and work toward fixing problems.
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And here is what your, I guess, it comes off as leadership, whoever is leading Black Lives Matter especially.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, selling past the clothes?
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It's one of the most famous sayings in persuasion.
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And it refers to the fact that, let's say, you're a salesperson, you're trying to sell somebody on a product.
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You get them to say yes, and they take out their wallet.
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Selling past the clothes is when you keep selling after they said yes.
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Because there's nothing good that can happen after that, because you've already made the sale.
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The only thing that can happen if you keep talking is you lose the sale.
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It's one of the most basic and strongest persuasion recommendations in the world.
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What happened when everybody saw the video of George Floyd?
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The sale was, white America, do you understand how bad this is?
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Good way to reinforce the sale that you've already made.
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Maybe a good time to come up with some specific recommendations.
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Do you know what would be the dumbest fucking thing you could do?
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The dumbest fucking thing you could do after you've made the sale?
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Set on fire the shit of the people who agree with you.
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And then your fucking incompetent leaders, who I'd love to help, literally, literally, I'd like to help.
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But your incompetent fucking leaders have once again decided that their best play tonight, Monday night, is to have the protests again, which will bring the looters again, which will bring Antifa again.
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What are you going to be watching on social media all night tonight?
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You're going to be watching young black men and women commit crimes all night.
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So all night, I'm going to be fucking watching black people commit crimes.
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Do you fucking hate black people, you black leaders?
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Because you're leading them right off the fucking cliff.
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If there are riots tonight, and it's planned by Black Lives Matter to have a peaceful protest, I get that part.
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If you do it again tonight, now that you know, I'm out.
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I will never do anything productive for the black community again.
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But black employment is fucking done after tonight.
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Now, if it stops tonight, I think we can recover.
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Like, if tonight goes well, because I think the police are getting smarter, they're maybe joining in with the protesters.
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Honestly, the best thing the police could do is march with the protesters.
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The best thing the police could do is actually just break up and march with the protesters.
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Because then there would be a policeman or a policewoman right where the looters are.
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The looters and the police would be in the same place.
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Or the police could say to the peaceful people, hey, those looters, see what you can do.
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But if we're watching more pictures of black people setting shit on fire, breaking fucking windows, you're losing.
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If you don't have a real leader, you end up following a podcaster.
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But you might know that Rush Limbaugh, again, trying to help.
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Rush Limbaugh goes and seeks out the best qualified voices to speak for the black community.
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So he's got, you know, somebody who can speak with some weight.
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He finds Charlemagne the God and has a polite discussion with him, which could have been great.
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Rush Limbaugh, Charlemagne the Great, same side.
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All they had to do is find out what the two of them could do to move the ball forward.
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Rush Limbaugh asked Charlemagne the God, what can be done?
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What did Charlemagne the God say to the question about what real things can be done?
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He said that you have to, I'm paraphrasing, but this is pretty close.
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You have to dismantle the entire system of white supremacy.
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You have to dismantle the entire system of white supremacy.
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And Charlemagne the Great, the person that the black community, at least some of them,
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have turned to for some kind of a leadership voice,
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the best he can fucking do is dismantle the entire system of white supremacy.
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So, I'm not going to give advice, and I'm not going to say should.
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Because people have to make their own decisions what to do.
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If you want to make the sale, make things better, change some things,
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What happened when somebody took to the President of the United States
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Because it was a specific idea that was well thought out.
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You know, eventually they figured out how to do it.
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What better time would there be to come up with three to five specific suggestions,
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Maybe work through it, do a little more research,
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You got, you got, you know, like a million people marching in the street.
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Does anybody have a keyboard or a fucking pencil to write something down?
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In fact, if you can't find a fucking black leader who isn't completely incompetent,
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because everything that's happened in the last few days is nothing but incompetence.
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And by the way, I'm saying the same thing about our government at the moment.
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Well, so are the Democrats, and so are the Republicans at the moment.
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I mean, I don't want to be the leader, but I'm happy to help.
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If you can find somebody who can bring some specific suggestions to the president,
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I will guarantee that if you can give me three to five, you know, well-thought-down ideas,
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even if they need some work, I guarantee it will get to the White House.
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There's not even the slightest chance that won't happen, all right?
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So if you want to be helpful, you've got a clear path.
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You've got a clear highway where everybody's agreeing.
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Just give them some specifics, something to wrestle with, something to work on, all right?
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But if, instead of that, your leaders have decided to walk you off the fucking cliff
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by having yet another night of nothing but video of black people committing crimes,
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but one imagines that there are other people having similar feelings.
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I've taken a lot of fucking shit from the right
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for even having a conversation with Black Lives Matter, all right?
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How much shit did I get for just sitting down and talking to, you know,
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and seeing if we could figure out something that would be useful?
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It turns out that Hawk Newsom was fucking useless
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He didn't want anything that was useful in the end.
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At least that's my opinion after working with him.
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I took the personal risk of working with Black Lives Matter to try to help
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There was no interest in solutions that I could find.
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And, in fact, that was somewhat confirmed by my interaction.
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You know, I heard from some behind-the-scenes stuff
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that the worst thing that could happen is a solution, right?
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If shit burns up tonight, if windows are broken tonight,
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So let's see how fucking incompetent your leaders are tonight.
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Well, I don't know if I'll ever talk to you again.