Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1016 Scott Adams： News Blackout on the Protests, Let's See How the Country is Doing Today

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00:00:10.200 Hey everybody! Come on in. It's time for the best part of the day. Yeah, you made it.

00:00:21.440 You survived another evening. Despite all the coronavirus, did it kill you? No. How about those

00:00:29.380 riots? Did any of you die in the riots? Not you. No. You're the smart, plucky, resourceful people

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00:01:26.760 Ah. I feel the racial tension subsiding. That's how good the coffee is.

00:01:35.080 Well, something's happening.

00:01:43.480 Somebody says, I'm jealous of the beautiful Christina. Well, let me talk about that for

00:01:47.980 a moment. A lot of people say to me, Scott, you're with the most beautiful woman in the

00:01:53.280 world. Is she really that wonderful in person? The answer is no. No. She's not that wonderful

00:02:00.160 in person. She's much more wonderful than that. Way more wonderful. So you should be twice as

00:02:06.260 jealous as you actually are. So start there. All right. There's something happening. I don't

00:02:13.820 know what it is yet. But it's very interesting. Did you wake up this morning and check the news

00:02:19.740 news and say, what's happening? There's something happening. So there might be something happening

00:02:26.840 that we don't know about. In other words, I feel like there's something brewing, maybe

00:02:32.040 internationally. I don't know what it is. It's just a, you ever get, ever just get this, this

00:02:37.260 hunch intuition thing that just can't turn off. It's like, there's something happening

00:02:42.720 internationally. But that's not what I'm talking about. I think that might also be brewing.

00:02:49.740 But I checked the news today to see about all the, you know, altercations and violence

00:02:55.880 and see if anybody got hurt last night in the riots and protests and looting and what I expected

00:03:03.000 was going to be a rough night. But there wasn't much reporting on it. Why? Why?

00:03:12.720 Does anybody know? So I have some guesses. So here are some guesses. One possibility is

00:03:22.260 that nothing made news last night. It could be that there just weren't enough newsworthy

00:03:29.080 visual events, so there wasn't much to write about. But that doesn't seem right. Even last

00:03:36.820 night we were seeing live coverage that the crowds were immense. Immense crowds closing down

00:03:42.700 cities. Where are the stories? Where's the news? There's no news. It's like it's a blackout.

00:03:50.280 No pun intended, because there was that blackout social movement, social media movement yesterday.

00:03:56.800 But it seems that the news has a blackout on the events of the protest. Am I wrong about that?

00:04:03.500 Because it's my impression that they have somewhat agreed. There seems to be some kind of agreement not to show

00:04:12.180 the news. Now, is that intentional? Is it intentional that neither Fox News nor CNN seem to have covered the

00:04:23.020 biggest news last night? What are the odds that neither of them would cover the biggest news? And when I say

00:04:28.260 it didn't cover it, I mean, not with the details and the pictures and the violence and here's a bloody person

00:04:34.900 and here's a cop and here's a video that'll make you mad. It feels like, and this is my, I guess this would

00:04:42.540 be like a conspiracy theory speculation. So the next thing I say, don't put too much credibility in it.

00:04:49.380 I'm just speculating. It looks like the government and the news business have colluded.

00:04:58.660 That's what it looks like. It looks to me like probably somebody in the government, this is just

00:05:04.640 speculation, had the thought that the news business is making things worse because it's whipping up,

00:05:11.720 it's whipping up feelings beyond where they might have naturally been. That's obviously true, because that's what

00:05:19.660 visuals do. Visuals encourage you to do more of it. If you see a car on fire, if the news shows one picture of a

00:05:30.360 car that was set on fire by a protester, is that going to make fewer cars set on fire in the future or more cars set on

00:05:37.680 fire? Of course more. So every time they show any kind of particular violence, and you know, if a lot of

00:05:44.440 people see it, it's going to make somebody have a new idea. So I don't think there's any question that

00:05:50.800 the coverage of the news made the news worse in terms of the protesting. I don't think that's

00:05:56.960 questionable, is it? But at the same time, we accept that as the price of a free world and free speech

00:06:05.000 and having a news business at all. You know that sometimes it makes things worse, but we accept

00:06:10.720 that. But after, say, seven days of whatever, of coverage of the same news, that it's still

00:06:18.800 protests, still some bad people get in the mix, still some scuffles, at some point, it's not really

00:06:27.380 the same kind of news news. It's still news, but now maybe covering it just makes things worse,

00:06:33.580 and it doesn't have the offsetting benefit that you have the first few days. The first few days,

00:06:38.680 people need to know. So the benefit of telling us might be greater than the benefit of whipping up

00:06:44.160 any extra energy. But at this point, so correct me if I'm wrong, it looks like collusion.

00:06:52.760 It looks like the government and the news organizations on both sides of the political divide

00:06:59.100 seem to have agreed to cover it less, or at least less visually. Maybe fewer pictures, but still talk

00:07:07.780 about it, maybe? I don't know. Am I imagining this? Because it looks like a complete blackout of the news.

00:07:16.500 And I don't know what to think about that exactly. Because on one hand, if that's what's happening,

00:07:22.620 and it certainly looks like it's happening, that would be a responsible thing to do. But it would

00:07:29.420 also be a scary thing that your government is somehow involved in suppressing the news,

00:07:38.360 even if it's for everybody's best interest. That's a dangerous place to go. Anyway,

00:07:44.960 here are a few tidbits in no particular order. Finally, you know, this is what I've been waiting

00:07:54.380 for. Pope Francis condemned the death of George Floyd. And I've been thinking to myself, I don't

00:08:01.860 know what to think about this situation. I need to hear from the Pope. Because sometimes, you know,

00:08:08.920 you just can't tell what's good and what's evil until the Pope is weighed in. But now the Pope says he

00:08:13.840 condemns it. So now I guess all doubt is removed. So I guess, I guess everybody else is free to

00:08:21.200 condemn it too. So thank you, Pope Francis, for clarifying that if you put your knee on the neck

00:08:28.700 of a man and grind him into the dirt until he's dead, that that's condemnable. Turns out that's

00:08:35.900 condemnable. So we got some clarity there. That's good. Steve King lost his primary in Iowa. I think he'd

00:08:43.560 been reelected like 10 times. But he lost. Of course, some idiot on social media comes after me and says

00:08:52.020 that the person I've been praising lost. What do I say about that? To which I say, 1.00

00:08:58.420 what are you hallucinating? When did I praise Steve King? I don't even know. I didn't even know if he was

00:09:05.480 a senator or a house guy at one point. I can't think of one thing he's ever done except for being

00:09:13.340 taken out of context and being accused of a racist. I don't know what he's voted for. I don't know

00:09:19.200 anything about anything. The only thing I've ever said about him is that he seemed unusually dumb. 0.99

00:09:25.720 He seemed like the dumbest guy in Congress because he let himself be accused of racism. And again, 1.00

00:09:32.540 I don't know what's in his head. So I'm not going to say he is or is not anything, because that would

00:09:38.420 be reading inside his head. We can only see what he's done or what he said. And he basically, he got

00:09:44.900 run out of office by a New York Times misquote. He actually lost his job because the New York Times

00:09:53.540 misquoted him. That actually happened. Now, did he deserve to lose his job? I have no idea

00:09:59.880 in terms of, in terms of, did he do a good job? In terms of, is he a secret racist inside his head?

00:10:07.760 I don't know. I don't have any opinion on that because I don't have any information about him.

00:10:11.660 To me, he's just an empty box. But I am sure he lost his job because of a quote taken out of context.

00:10:25.020 I'm sure of that. So anyway, do you want to talk about some tough things? Well, let me give you some

00:10:37.260 happy things first. I heard from somebody today, who shall remain nameless, that said person was

00:10:46.040 feeling hopeless today. Feeling hopeless because the riots, the looting, the protests just keep going

00:10:52.800 on and on. And we've got every other kind of problem with coronavirus, etc. I think it's the

00:11:00.180 opposite. I think today, we're over the protests. I'm not saying the protests will be done. But it

00:11:10.360 looks like most of the energy of the protests has dissipated in terms of being too dangerous.

00:11:16.780 So the dangerous level of energy may have dissipated. You'll still see lots of energy, but I think we're

00:11:22.820 below the dangerous level. The coronavirus, did it just go away? I don't know. Let me give you the

00:11:33.320 most optimistic thing you're going to hear today. Are you ready? Here's the most optimistic thought you

00:11:40.940 will hear today. Probably nobody else is going to say this all day long. We beat the coronavirus

00:11:48.080 and the protests are largely over. Today is the beginning. Today's the beginning.

00:12:00.020 You're not going to feel it yet because you're still like, you know, you're still got the PTSD from

00:12:08.240 the last three months of hell. We just went through three months of hell. I think today it's over.

00:12:19.840 I think it's over. Now that doesn't mean there won't be some more flare-ups. It doesn't mean there

00:12:24.720 won't be people dying of COVID. There will be tragedies. You know, it's not, we didn't reach

00:12:31.240 heaven or something. But the two biggest problems that we've seen in a long time, I think they're

00:12:41.940 over today. Today. Now I think that the news coverage made a difference. I think that moving

00:12:49.260 in the National Guard made a difference. Let me be the only person in the fucking country who gives 0.99

00:12:55.480 the president some credit for this. I think he scared, scared the looters. Am I wrong? Do you think 0.99

00:13:03.400 the looters didn't believe that the president was going to send in the army to shoot them in the 1.00

00:13:08.500 fucking head? Of course they believed it. Did that make a difference? I think it might have. 1.00

00:13:15.640 Because the whole point was to get, was to get the police to hurt somebody. If you send in the

00:13:23.360 National Guard, the military, let's just call it the military. If you send in the military, you've

00:13:30.600 sent in the most respected entity in the United States. There's nobody in the United States as a

00:13:38.140 group with more credibility and more respect than the U.S. military. Am I right? So the president's

00:13:48.820 instinct to send in the military, I don't think he's going to get any credit for that. In fact,

00:13:53.820 he'll probably be criticized for it. But there's a reason the energy came out of the protest last

00:13:59.600 night. And I'm talking about the looter energy, the Antifa energy. I'm not talking about the,

00:14:04.820 the protest energy. It looks to me like the president successfully scared the looters into

00:14:13.740 thinking that the U.S. military was going to be sniping their heads off if they looted. Now,

00:14:22.140 I don't think that they had those orders. My guess is they had no orders of anything like that.

00:14:27.600 But do you think the looters believe that? All the looters know is that the people who kill for a

00:14:32.920 living just, just got on the, on the job. Do you know what's the difference between the police

00:14:38.380 and the military? Well, lots of differences. But one is the police are really, really about safety.

00:14:46.580 The police are trying to keep the bad guys safe. Let me say it again. The police are a safety force.

00:14:53.760 They're all about health, safety, keeping you alive. And they're also trying to keep the criminals alive.

00:14:59.120 They're trying to keep everybody alive. That's the job. If they have to shoot somebody, it's to keep

00:15:04.360 somebody else alive. So, but that's not the military's job. The military is to kill. So the

00:15:13.100 president sent in the killing force that also, by good luck, the best fortune we could possibly have

00:15:20.200 as a country is that we have more respect for our military than any other institution, period.

00:15:26.460 I don't think there's anything close. Justice system? No. Police? Sorry. Government? Not even

00:15:33.800 close. Organization? Democrats? Nope. GOP? Sorry. Congress? Ha ha ha. News industry? Fuck you.

00:15:46.800 We have one credible institution in the whole fucking country, and it's the military. Am I wrong about 1.00

00:15:53.800 that? We have one credible institution? That's it. That's all we have left. One credible institution.

00:16:01.560 And I don't know, you know, I think that if the energy did go down last night in the protest,

00:16:07.680 it probably has something to do with several different forces. One is the protesters themselves,

00:16:13.760 the well-meaning, good-intentioned protesters, who probably created enough numbers that they,

00:16:20.360 I think they would have taken direct physical action against any looters or bad actors. And you saw

00:16:27.120 lots of individual anecdotes of that happening. It looked like that energy was also higher. In other

00:16:33.780 words, the protective energy of the well-meaning protesters was probably sky high. And I think that

00:16:41.480 there were able-bodied people among the good people. Let's call them the fine people. Literally,

00:16:47.640 there were fine people who were protesting. And I think that was part of it, that they would have

00:16:54.560 taken direct action to take a brick out of somebody's hand. The other part is that the credibility of the

00:17:01.620 military is so different. If you had heard a story that a policeman killed a protester or a looter,

00:17:09.540 what's your first thought? Ah, I don't know if it's a good, I don't know if he did it right.

00:17:16.260 I don't know if that was justified. I don't know if that was the right amount of force.

00:17:20.700 I don't know if that guy was trained right. Right? Because that's where we're at. So your first

00:17:26.860 thought is about the capability of the policeman, because that's the topic. It's only because it's

00:17:33.120 the topic that that's your first thought. So that would have been a terrible thing. But just imagine

00:17:39.620 that there'd been one tragic incident and it involved a military person. And a military person

00:17:45.760 acted as a military person does. There was some threat. They responded and somebody died.

00:17:52.580 How would you feel about that? I don't know that that would have sparked a riot.

00:17:56.960 I don't know that it would have. Because it would just look different. It would feel different.

00:18:04.060 Because the entities involved are not the ones that people are hating at the moment.

00:18:08.400 They're not hating the military. If you're a minority, I feel like the military is a job opportunity.

00:18:14.660 It's a career stepping stone. I don't know that there's any bad feeling about the military

00:18:19.160 in the minority community, but I don't know either. I try to be careful

00:18:25.020 in pointing out that none of us know how anybody else feels or thinks. And the moment we think we

00:18:32.520 do, that's where you get in all the trouble. I did a little very informal, meaning non-scientific poll

00:18:44.380 on Twitter, in which I asked people if their empathy for the Black Lives movement, and keep in mind that

00:18:51.420 the key word here is movement. We're not talking about black people, and we're not talking about 1.00

00:18:57.200 Black Lives Matter members. So it's about the idea of it, the movement. And I said, did people feel

00:19:07.080 that their empathy for the Black Lives movement was higher or lower because of the protests? And over

00:19:15.300 70% of the respondents said it was lower. In other words, over 70% said the protests moved

00:19:24.020 things backwards, that they were counterproductive, that people have a worse feeling about the

00:19:31.440 movement. Now, you say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, you told us it was an unscientific poll,

00:19:37.540 but seriously, your followers are all, you know, certain kind of people, if you know what I mean,

00:19:45.120 certain kind of people, meaning mostly Trump supporters. Probably 75% of my Twitter followers

00:19:52.300 are Trump supporters, I would guess. And so you would not be surprised if they would have some

00:19:59.020 negative feelings about the, you know, the protests and the lawlessness, etc. And that that would be

00:20:04.860 conflated with the, you know, the good intentions of the fine people. So here's the thing, though.

00:20:13.860 What's the point of persuasion? The point of persuasion is not to talk to yourself.

00:20:20.720 I think it's true that the Black Lives Matter people persuaded Black Lives Matter people,

00:20:26.900 in other words, the people marching with them, etc. I think they persuaded each other, right?

00:20:32.520 Probably persuaded each other of something, I don't know. But did they need to persuade each other?

00:20:39.840 I don't think so. You know, in politics, it actually makes sense to talk to your own team,

00:20:45.520 because it's so hard to get somebody on the other side of politics to agree with you. It's just so

00:20:51.660 hard that your best play is to talk to your own side only, just persuade your own side, and see if you

00:20:58.480 can get more of your people to show up at the polls than the other side can make show up. But nobody in

00:21:04.660 politics is really persuading the other team. They're not even trying. That's partly why you see

00:21:10.180 the division. Nobody's even trying, because it doesn't work. But that's politics. If you're, you know,

00:21:17.920 that's in terms of the political parties who are actually running for office. But the larger politics,

00:21:23.320 which is the issues, if you want to move an issue, you have to persuade the other side.

00:21:31.200 And in this case, the other side is anybody you think doesn't agree with you already.

00:21:35.580 Is there anybody who needs to think, you know, that the police need some extra

00:21:39.660 training or regulations or restrictions or whatever it is? Who's on the other side?

00:21:47.080 Who are you trying to persuade?

00:21:48.360 According to this unscientific poll, 72% have a worse opinion of the people involved when the point

00:21:59.140 of it was to give you a better opinion. The entire point of it, of Black Lives Matter,

00:22:04.400 is to raise the opinion of other people about black lives. Or am I wrong about that? The whole

00:22:13.440 black lives matter is about how you feel about it. They're not saying change the law. I haven't heard

00:22:23.240 any suggestions. They're not saying change this or that. They're saying change your mind.

00:22:30.340 Black Lives Matter is literally about changing your mind. It's about persuasion. 0.88

00:22:34.100 And they persuaded opposite as hard as you could possibly persuade. It's the worst strategic blunder

00:22:43.820 maybe you've ever seen of any movement of all time. Now, I'm going to treat the black community 1.00

00:22:51.620 with respect. I always do. But the next thing I say is with respect. I'm going to frame it that way,

00:23:01.280 because what's in the middle of this little frame of respect is going to be a really bad

00:23:08.520 criticism. It's going to be really bad. But the reason I'm framing it with respect is that I

00:23:17.780 wouldn't say this unless I respected the people I'm talking to. There's some things you just wouldn't

00:23:24.720 say it unless you respected them. Okay? So let's get that right first. Your strategy sucks. It's terrible.

00:23:35.840 Your strategy is terrible. Because it got you aggressively the opposite of what you wanted.

00:23:44.340 Let me be as honest as I can. Do you think black people are more likely to get jobs after this

00:23:51.300 than they were before? Because before this, black unemployment was at a record low. Do you think

00:23:59.380 that's going to repeat? I don't think so. Not because of anything I'm going to do. But you've

00:24:06.500 made things much, much worse. And I think a lot of people are going to say, I just don't need the

00:24:11.380 trouble. I'll just pretend the other person has a better resume. Nobody will know. I think racial

00:24:20.800 discrimination got a lot worse. Probably a 10-year setback. And it's not because people don't

00:24:29.220 care. People started agreeing. On day one, people were all on the same side. That's my cat going

00:24:35.940 crazy over there. People were all on the same side. And the protests, which caused the looting

00:24:42.680 and the other things that came with it, have made things so much worse. And the truth has to be told

00:24:50.600 with respect. With respect, all your leaders are incompetent. The leaders of Black Lives Matter, 0.98

00:24:56.840 they're all incompetent. Because they got you exactly the opposite of what you wanted. And we have now 0.98

00:25:03.240 heard one constructive suggestion. We're all ready. The whole country is ready for a constructive

00:25:10.320 suggestion. Even a constructive suggestion along the lines of, we don't know what to do,

00:25:16.440 but if we could pull together the right people, we could figure it out. Anything. The lack of a

00:25:22.760 constructive suggestion has discredited the movement in a way I don't think you could possibly

00:25:29.380 appreciate. Because the point of persuasion was to persuade people like the people listening

00:25:36.420 right now. It wasn't to persuade yourself. If you persuaded yourself, that's terrific, but it bought

00:25:42.700 you nothing except more division. If you were trying to persuade the other side, you failed as hard

00:25:48.320 as anybody could ever fail. It's the worst failure I've ever seen of any political strategy of all time.

00:25:54.820 And I'm talking about all political strategies of all time. The Democrats are running a brain-dead 0.99

00:26:01.060 sack of dust for president. And even that's not as bad a strategy as this was. The worst strategy ever. 0.92

00:26:14.300 Now, the first few nights of protest, even with any bad that came with it, that was totally acceptable,

00:26:21.620 honestly. You know, you could understand some emotionally outburst because the situation that

00:26:31.100 triggered it was so awful. You can imagine it, and you can also sort of get past it pretty easily.

00:26:36.600 Because you could say, man, that was pretty bad. I can see why people reacted. But after a week,

00:26:42.680 where you know there's going to be trouble, and you do it anyway, well, that's just discrediting your

00:26:48.300 entire point. So, you know, I'd hate to put it in the darkest terms, but, well, I'm not even going to

00:26:58.140 do that. So, here's what I don't think we should do anymore. We should not infantilize. We, meaning

00:27:04.900 people who are not black, should not treat them like infants. And that's the most racist thing you 0.91

00:27:10.760 could do, is to not speak honestly, if you're trying to be helpful, and you're trying to be

00:27:18.240 you're trying to show respect, which you always should. If you're trying to be honest, and you're

00:27:24.640 trying to show respect, and you're trying to be helpful, you have to say that the strategy of

00:27:28.900 Black Lives Matter is a complete, absolute failure of the highest level, because it makes the people 1.00

00:27:37.200 they want to persuade think less of them, not more. And in fact, I said the other day, the Black Lives 0.99

00:27:42.540 Matter logo, you know, the brand, the, what would you call it, the slogan, the slogan itself, the words

00:27:49.880 Black Lives Matter, are divisive. And although they've been very successful as an attention-getting 1.00

00:27:58.120 brand, they're divisive by their nature. And so, of course, they made things worse. Shouldn't be a

00:28:04.040 surprise, actually. And it's a tragedy. And watching this tragedy unfold, I got to say, is sort of

00:28:11.980 heartbreaking, because things, we're right on the edge of making things better. And I think it was the

00:28:20.180 political leaders who decided that, wait a minute, instead of coming together over this massive

00:28:27.500 agreement over how people felt about the George Floyd video, instead of bringing this together,

00:28:34.440 which so easily could have happened, it was the leaders who pulled us apart. Imagine if the leaders

00:28:42.700 of Black Lives Matter had said on day one, we just noticed that everybody feels the same about this.

00:28:49.160 Let's work with this. Let's use this. We just made the biggest gains we've ever made through no

00:28:57.240 effort of our own. It was this tragic incident that brought everybody to the same page. Let's work

00:29:03.240 with it. And what'd they do instead? I think they said, if we try to work with this and try to be

00:29:09.520 productive, it will be bad for us. Us being the leaders. I believe the leaders of Black Lives Matter

00:29:16.700 have thrown the black community under the bus. Because the black community had the biggest opening

00:29:23.140 of maybe all time to just really make a gain. Just work with us. Just take yes for an answer.

00:29:32.860 Yes, we'd like to fix whatever's wrong with the police. Yes. Yes. Do you know what Black Lives Matter

00:29:41.040 could do to fix the police problem? Here's a persuasion, here's persuasion advice that I know

00:29:49.360 they won't take. And it's because the leadership is completely incompetent. And they're completely 0.97

00:29:55.380 incompetent on the persuasion level specifically. Because they're not thinking of what it takes to

00:30:01.480 persuade other people. They're thinking, as most people do, by the way, this is the most common

00:30:06.820 persuasion problem. It's the biggest problem in persuasion. And that's where it is. Let me tell

00:30:23.000 you how you could get white people to fix the police problem for you. You ready for this? 0.84

00:30:28.900 I'm going to, I'm going to again, treat the black community with the respect that I don't think

00:30:36.060 anybody gives them. I'm going to give you the truth. I will respect you enough to give you the

00:30:43.180 truth that I don't think other people are telling you. Here's what you could do to fix the police

00:30:47.580 problem if you care. Because I don't think, I'm not seeing that anybody cares, honestly. I'm seeing that

00:30:53.080 they care about the issue. I'm not seeing any evidence, seriously. I'm not being provocative

00:30:59.160 here. I don't see any evidence that any black person cares about fixing it. Because what that 1.00

00:31:04.380 would look like is, here are some suggestions. Can we get together? Can we have a meeting? Can we meet

00:31:10.160 you, Mr. President at the White House? Anything. We're forming a committee. Can we get some white 1.00

00:31:15.700 people to help us out, you know, to make sure we have the diversity of opinion? Anything like that.

00:31:21.320 But there's nothing we see that looks like any interest in fixing the problem. Now again,

00:31:28.920 I can't read your minds, and I want to not do that. I want to have the humility that I don't

00:31:35.100 know what you're thinking. I can only tell what you're doing. I can't tell what you're thinking.

00:31:39.640 I can't get in your heads. And as soon as you think you can, that's where you go wrong.

00:31:44.540 So let me tell you, I've been holding on on this. It's the secret weapon. It's the strategy that

00:31:50.840 will work 100%. And let me tell you this. This strategy could get you all the way back

00:31:58.140 to the agreement we first felt when all of us saw the George Floyd video. That's how strong it is.

00:32:07.600 The thing I'm going to tell you next is so strong persuasion-wise, it would take you from a huge

00:32:14.020 loss. I mean, I think the black community lost 10 years of gains in the last week. I really do. 1.00

00:32:20.060 It's tragic. But this one trick I'm going to give you would bring you all the way back to the day we

00:32:26.120 saw the video and we're all on the same side. And here would be the persuasion trick. Black Lives Matter

00:32:32.240 should release the statistics on white people who have been killed by police. And they should say, 0.93

00:32:39.680 hey, white people, look at how many people have been killed by the police who are white. Turns out 0.99

00:32:47.520 there are more of them than there are black people killed by the police. Turns out if you were to look 0.98

00:32:52.480 at the statistics, you would be surprised that there's actually not a black problem per se. But 0.99

00:32:59.000 there's definitely, in terms of the statistics, you wouldn't find it. But in terms of the lived truth,

00:33:06.680 it's got to be true that black people get pulled over and hassled more. That's probably, that's 1.00

00:33:12.860 probably true, right? I don't know what the statistics are, but it feels like that's true. So if the black 1.00

00:33:21.040 community wants to persuade the white community to do something practical about the police, they just have 0.60

00:33:26.960 to say, we just noticed it affects everybody. That's it. It's the same strategy that cured AIDS. So the gay 1.00

00:33:36.620 community used a brilliant strategy. I've said, use this example before, because it's the best

00:33:41.960 example you'll ever see. AIDS was thought to be a gay problem. The trouble is, if only gays care about 1.00

00:33:49.220 it, there are not enough people to fund it, to change laws, whatever you need to do. I don't know if

00:33:55.120 there's any laws that need to be changed, but to fund it and research and all that. So the gay activists, 0.91

00:34:01.000 and by the way, there's a little bit of speculation on my part, it's just observing what happened.

00:34:06.640 At some point it became, hey, this is everybody's problem. You could get it all these different ways,

00:34:11.140 heterosexuals can get it, etc. Once it became everybody's problem, then enough resources got 0.99

00:34:17.400 directed toward it, and we got in much better shape in terms of therapies. So the best thing you can do

00:34:24.480 is to tell the people you don't think are helping you that it's their problem too. Now, how did Black 0.99

00:34:32.380 Lives try to tell the white public that it was their problem too? By destroying all the property. 0.85

00:34:39.780 That was their persuasion. I think we can convince you that this is something you need to pay attention

00:34:44.880 to by destroying the retail stores and shutting down your economy. How well did that persuade

00:34:53.580 the people that they wanted to persuade? Not at all. It worked in the opposite direction hard.

00:35:01.120 Hard. If they wanted to persuade white people to say, holy hell, this needs to be fixed. 1.00

00:35:07.300 What are we doing about police? Are they being trained right? Are we measuring the statistics right?

00:35:13.560 Let's make sure we've got good statistics. Let's make sure that whatever this problem is,

00:35:17.520 we've really researched it as thoroughly as we can. If you want to get white people involved in fixing 0.98

00:35:23.140 the problem, acknowledge that it's our problem. Just acknowledge it. Simply acknowledge it.

00:35:31.280 Here are the statistics. It's a big problem. Can you work with us? Because we feel it more in the

00:35:37.560 black community. I think that's true. Don't you think that the black community feels that more

00:35:43.860 than the white community? I mean, it's obvious. There's protests about it all the time. How many white 0.99

00:35:50.000 people were protesting police brutality? None. Right? I mean, about police brutality about white 0.96

00:35:57.440 people. So it's a very simple strategy. All Black Lives Matter has to do is acknowledge that they're

00:36:05.740 not the only ones with problems. That's it. That's it. The day that the leader of Black Lives Matter

00:36:12.240 goes on TV, and this will never happen, by the way, goes on TV and says, look, this isn't just a black 0.90

00:36:17.520 problem. Look at how many white people got killed by police. Can you work with us? Do you know how 0.88

00:36:22.860 many people would say yes so hard that it would be deafening? Look how many white people got killed 0.59

00:36:30.800 by police. Can you work with us? Yes. Yes. How about yes as hard as you can yell yes? Take yes for an

00:36:41.040 answer. That's what a strategy would look like. All right. Somebody on Twitter. So I tweeted yesterday

00:36:52.400 that the protests, with all the badness that came along with the protests from the people who are not 0.97

00:37:00.220 the fine people, that it set things back and probably will end up in more deaths of black people 0.99

00:37:08.460 than if there had been no protests because of extra poverty. And so somebody looked at that

00:37:15.760 statement, that poverty would kill more black people than the police will, and decided that that was a 0.98

00:37:22.940 case of my white privilege. So somebody tweeted at me that it was a sign of white privilege that I 0.98

00:37:32.080 believe that more black people will be killed by poverty than the police. Now, the first thing I thought was, 0.97

00:37:37.700 what? I don't even know how that makes sense. I can't connect those dots. But I tweeted back that

00:37:45.360 I lost three separate jobs for being white and male. True story, dumb fuck. I just add that curse word 1.00

00:37:53.720 at the end because it gets their attention. But a lot of people don't believe that's true. Some of you

00:38:00.680 have heard the story. You've heard of two of them, but there's one of them I've never mentioned

00:38:04.520 in this context. So here are the three times I lost jobs for being white and male. First time was 0.58

00:38:13.080 my job at a bank. My boss called me in. She was a woman. And she said, we can't promote you because 0.96

00:38:20.100 you're white and you're male directly. She said that the company got in trouble for not having enough

00:38:26.520 diversity. And so they couldn't hire, they couldn't promote you if you're white or you're male. And she 0.91

00:38:34.500 was calling me in to tell me directly. And again, directly. This is not something that I read between

00:38:41.720 the lines. It's not something that I thought about afterwards and thought, maybe they were trying to

00:38:47.480 discriminate against me. Nothing like that. In direct words, she said, I'm afraid you won't get promoted

00:38:54.300 here because you're white and you're male and the orders have come down. We've got to slow down on 1.00

00:38:59.480 that. So I quit. So that was the first job career, you could say, because I thought my career was

00:39:05.420 going to be in banking. So this was early 80s, I think. And so I went to Pacific Bell. It was the

00:39:15.240 local phone company at the time. And I got on the management fast track. So they had a little

00:39:21.480 program where they identified people who were, you know, maybe going to be senior management

00:39:25.600 someday. I was finishing my MBA. You know, I look like corporate guy on the way. And

00:39:32.300 when it was about time, you know, I'd been seasoned enough and it was about ready for that big promotion

00:39:38.580 because at the phone company, you didn't make a ton of money back in those days. The jobs were really

00:39:43.940 good at the management levels. They paid a lot with bonuses and stuff. And I was ready for that big

00:39:51.020 one to, it was called a director level. And I was thinking, ah, next year or so, I'm going to get

00:39:58.260 the big bump. My boss called me in his office and he said that he couldn't promote me. He just wanted

00:40:05.220 to warn me. He couldn't promote me because I'm white and I'm male. He said it directly. Those very

00:40:12.040 words, you're white, you're male, can't promote you. And he said that management had just sent the word 0.79

00:40:17.180 down that they couldn't promote any white males because they too had gotten in trouble, didn't

00:40:21.920 have any diversity in senior management. So that's two entire careers that went down the toilet because

00:40:29.480 I'm white and male. And black people tell me I don't understand the effects of discrimination.

00:40:36.400 Now, of course, I don't understand them in exactly the way any black man or any minority or even any 0.99

00:40:43.060 woman would experience them. Of course not. But the only point I'm making is that you also don't know my

00:40:49.660 life. You don't know my life. You don't know my life, just like I don't know yours. The third time it

00:40:57.820 happened was after Dilbert was successful. Now, I'd quit. You know, I'd given up on my corporate careers

00:41:03.560 because of those experiences. And I started working on my side, you know, my side hustle, if you will. And my side

00:41:09.680 hustle was trying to get some comics published. And that went pretty well. Now, Dilbert took off.

00:41:16.160 And of course, I had to find a place I was working for myself. So I needed a job or I didn't have a

00:41:22.280 boss who would tell me that I couldn't be promoted because of my race or my gender. So I thought I

00:41:28.360 got to work for myself, I guess. So I became an entrepreneur, if you will. And cartooning was one

00:41:33.760 of the things I tried. So that worked out. And then the Dilbert TV show was created. You know,

00:41:40.400 fast forward in time. I created the Dilbert TV series on UPN. UPN is a network that doesn't exist.

00:41:48.000 I think the WB bought them or something. But at the time, they were the small network. And I

00:41:54.340 intentionally took a deal with a small network because I thought I could be a big fish in a

00:41:58.640 small network. And if you're the one they give attention to, you have a much better chance of

00:42:04.580 success. So I thought, ah, Dilbert would be kind of a big deal on UPN. Could be like the Simpsons made

00:42:10.340 Fox a big network. You know, that was their, the Simpsons was a big deal for Fox's history.

00:42:16.820 And I thought, well, I could do that for UPN. So we go over there and we have a successful first

00:42:22.160 season and we get renewed. Yay. Got renewed. In the second season, UPN decided to make a strategic

00:42:30.920 change. And they decided that they would become a network focused on African-American content.

00:42:37.200 So UPN decided to become the African-American content channel. And that was the end of my show.

00:42:45.980 Now, the reasons given were other reasons, right? They moved it to a bad time slot.

00:42:51.540 The, you know, the ratings went down because it was in a bad time slot. And then they say, well,

00:42:57.900 the ratings went down, so you're canceled. But of course, the ratings went down because they moved

00:43:02.940 the time slot. That's the only reason it went down. So I lost my TV career because the product I make

00:43:11.880 was not, you know, oriented for the African-American community. So those are three enormous,

00:43:19.360 inflection points in my life based on racism. Am I interpreting that incorrectly? Would you

00:43:30.680 not say that racism is exactly what I experienced and that on three separate occasions it knocked

00:43:36.500 me off a pedestal? Now, here's what, here's the most provocative thing I might ever say.

00:43:44.640 Okay. And so I'll try to say it as carefully as possible. Again, with great respect. I always

00:43:52.780 respect people. Just automatically. It doesn't matter who you are. I always respect people. What

00:43:58.640 I don't respect is strategies. People have bad strategies. I don't respect the strategy. I always

00:44:08.380 respect the person though. Now I think bad strategies come from bad, I don't know, maybe you've never

00:44:16.700 seen a good strategy, so you just don't know what it looks like. It's not something that necessarily

00:44:21.420 common sense will get you to. I don't know if you can come up with a good strategy just by thinking

00:44:27.980 it through. Sometimes you have to see examples. That's the best thing. Oh, I'll do it like they did

00:44:34.100 it. That's the whole point of case studies in business school. You want to see examples of a

00:44:38.740 lot of stuff, then you know what to pick from. I'm going to make a provocative claim that no matter

00:44:45.060 your color, no matter your gender, and no matter a lot of different things, anybody who used the

00:44:51.140 strategies that I've used has succeeded. That's it. It's very provocative. Anybody who's used the

00:45:01.420 strategies for life that I've used has succeeded eventually? I told you my story that racial and

00:45:10.780 sexual discrimination was a huge problem in my life, a gigantic problem. In fact, arguably the

00:45:18.780 biggest problem, my biggest career impediment was race and gender discrimination. I just told you the

00:45:27.340 story. I didn't make that up. But here's the second part. And of course, I wrote the book

00:45:36.380 behind me. I had to fail almost everything and still win big. And I talk about developing systems,

00:45:41.740 and I talk about building your skill stack, which is what I did. And I would argue that anybody who did

00:45:47.020 what I did has a good life. Meaning that, you know, of course you could have health tragedies,

00:45:53.580 so there could be, you know, exceptions. But generally speaking, here's what I did to succeed.

00:46:01.180 All right, I'm going to tell you what formula I used. I want you to tell me if this would not work

00:46:06.940 for black people. Okay, so here's the formula. I was in a small town with not my parents didn't go to

00:46:17.820 college, didn't even know much about what that was all about. We didn't have money.

00:46:25.420 I won't go into the details, but we were, I'd say lower, lower middle income. You know, we had enough

00:46:33.980 to eat all the time, etc. So we never were hungry. But we're, you know, we had used, used cars,

00:46:40.700 let's put it that way. You know, a lot of used stuff in my life.

00:46:48.940 And here was the strategy I used. My mother said, just do really good in school, and basically

00:46:57.100 everything will work out. That's it. You know, basically stay in a jail. Don't do anything that

00:47:03.740 would, you know, derail you permanently. Don't get anybody pregnant. You know, don't be a drug addict 0.98

00:47:10.060 when you're a teenager. Don't get in jail. And just really pay attention to your schoolwork.

00:47:18.380 Now, what did that get me? Well, so I graduated and had to get a scholarship to the college that I

00:47:25.020 wanted. So I got a scholarship. How hard would it be to get a financial scholarship if you were a black

00:47:33.100 student who did good work and stayed out of trouble? Not hard, right? If you just do well in school and

00:47:41.180 stay out of trouble, you could get a college scholarship if you're black, I think. Correct me 1.00

00:47:46.140 if I'm wrong, but I think you could go to college. If you go to college, and again, you stay out of

00:47:51.660 trouble, you don't get somebody pregnant when you're too young to support them. Just basic stuff.

00:47:57.900 If you do those things, and you're a black man, let's say a black man, just to have a specific 0.96

00:48:03.860 example. You're a black man with a college education in the United States. How do you do in life? 0.96

00:48:11.320 Good. Every time. Because do you know how many corporations want to hire a qualified minority? 0.99

00:48:18.960 All of them. All of them. All of them. All of them. Yeah. Every one of them. Do you know how many

00:48:26.820 corporations are looking to hire more white people? Not a fucking one of them. None. None. Do you know 1.00

00:48:35.660 do you know your white hiring people, just to pick an example? Let's say the hiring manager at the big

00:48:43.000 corporation sees you walk in, and you're a black man, and he's looking at your resume, and you're a

00:48:49.940 black man with the right qualifications for the job. What is the hiring manager, the white hiring 0.93

00:48:57.880 manager, what do they feel like when a black man walks in, and he's got exactly the qualifications 0.99

00:49:03.340 you're looking for? They fucking salivate. They salivate. Because it fixes their problem. Do you know 1.00

00:49:11.900 what that white hiring manager's biggest problem is? Can't hire enough qualified minorities? 1.00

00:49:17.560 He wants to. It's in his job description. The freaking hiring manager won't even get a good

00:49:23.180 bonus if he can't figure out how to get some diversity, because it's so important in big 0.97

00:49:28.000 corporations. So you tell me that there's not a strategy for everybody to succeed in this

00:49:37.080 country if they're smart enough to go to college. Now, not everybody's smart enough to go to college,

00:49:44.740 right? It doesn't matter your gender or race, right? It's just lots of different people. But if you just

00:49:50.340 change that to, instead of go to college, learn to trade. Learn to trade. That's it. Somebody stayed out of

00:49:59.600 trouble, didn't get anybody pregnant, didn't become a drug addict, didn't join a gang, learned a trade,

00:50:05.820 became a plumber. How's that black plumber going to do? Great. Because plumber is a good job. Great. 1.00

00:50:14.000 So let me give some tough love on the question of structural racism. This is going to get me

00:50:28.160 canceled so hard. I don't know. I think I like danger or something, because I'm only doing this to be

00:50:39.480 productive. That's the first thing you need to know. I wouldn't do this if I didn't think it would

00:50:44.240 help somebody. All right? Everything I say is with respect and with the intention of making the world

00:50:51.360 a better place. So with that said, loving all the people, but being rough on the strategy, I'm going

00:51:00.680 to give you some tough love, strategy-wise. The strategy of saying that the problem with the world

00:51:06.880 is structural racism and that you need to dismantle the mechanisms of white supremacy is, and I don't 1.00

00:51:17.420 want to pull any punches, the dumbest fucking strategy of all time. It's going to make these riots look 1.00

00:51:23.980 like they're brilliant. It would make them look brilliant. The dumbest fucking strategy for making

00:51:30.820 things better for black people is to complain that the problem is structural racism and that you have 1.00

00:51:37.500 to dismantle the white supremacy. Because, again, who are you persuading? Are you persuading your own

00:51:45.420 side to feel bitter? Because persuading your own side to be bitter and hate white people doesn't get 0.99

00:51:52.320 you a job. It really doesn't. Strategy-wise, it doesn't get you a job. It might lose you a job. 0.92

00:51:58.020 Well, it's never going to get you a job. So, and here's why, a little bit of detail on that.

00:52:06.500 When you said, let me prove this by asking a question in the comments. I want you in the comments

00:52:13.360 to back me up on this or to refute me. So if this is not true, tell me. Most of you, I'm guessing,

00:52:22.180 are white. I think 90% of my typical viewers are white. I wish I had more African-American viewers

00:52:29.960 would make it more fun. But I think that's the ratio. So just working with that ratio,

00:52:35.340 look at the comments, and I'll ask you this question. Do you know what the fuck ratio? 0.99

00:52:40.500 Let me say it again. For the white people watching this, do you have any idea what the fuck institutional 1.00

00:52:52.200 racism is? Do you have any fucking idea what that is? Because you're supposed to fix it. 1.00

00:52:58.820 You've been asked to fix it. Wouldn't it be nice if the thing that you've been asked to fix,

00:53:05.720 the only really ask, there's only one ask coming out of the Black Lives Movement, which is to fix 0.99

00:53:12.200 this institutional racism. What the fuck is that? Do you think I don't want to fix it? I would totally 0.99

00:53:21.040 fix it. Do you know what? Here's a little tip about white people. We love to fix shit. It's like baked 1.00

00:53:28.780 into the most basic thing about white people. If you want to understand white people, here's a tip 0.81

00:53:34.840 number one for white people. We fucking love to fix stuff. Help us. Just tell us what to fix. 0.99

00:53:43.340 Don't tell us we got some structural racism. No fucking use whatsoever. If you're trying to make it 0.99

00:53:51.660 worse for black people, that would be the way to do it. Every time I hear structural racism with no 0.57

00:53:58.260 definition, no detail, no specific thing to do, every time I get pissed off. Is that what you were? Is

00:54:06.240 that what you're shooting for? Was the point of your persuasion and the way you want to make things

00:54:11.080 better for the black community is, was it your strategy to simply piss me off and give me nothing 0.99

00:54:17.920 I can help with? Because that's all you're doing. That's all you're doing. You're just fucking pissing 0.96

00:54:24.140 off white people because we don't know what that is. Love to know, love to help. If you don't understand 1.00

00:54:32.580 that white people like to help, you don't know anything about white people, right? You're just,

00:54:38.900 it's like you're blind and stupid. If you don't understand how much white people, just automatically, 1.00

00:54:45.100 it's, we're just like the most helpful people in the whole fucking world. 0.99

00:54:50.940 Here's another strategy. Let me give you an example of this. This is a very concrete and fresh 0.97

00:54:55.780 example. I saw Jack Murphy, who you should follow on Twitter. He had great video. I've told you this

00:55:04.220 before. Last night too, he was in the middle of the protest live streaming. It was the best. It was

00:55:09.280 the best video you could have seen last night from any source, professional news crew or other.

00:55:15.260 was Jack Murphy. It was just him with his camera because he went into the middle of the action.

00:55:20.540 And unlike almost everybody else who owns a phone, he knows how to hold the phone steady.

00:55:25.740 Have you noticed that? You watch anybody else's live stream and they'll be walking through the

00:55:30.420 crowd like this. All right, I'm in the crowd. Do you see what I'm seeing? And you're like, no,

00:55:36.360 I don't fucking see anything because you're moving the camera too much. Can you hold that still? 0.96

00:55:40.300 Well, love to see what you're seeing. So anyway, that's a pet peeve. But so Jack Murphy knows how

00:55:47.820 to hold the camera still. Yeah, it's like part of his skill stack. This is tiny little skill. It's

00:55:54.360 like, I bet I'll be better than everybody who does this if I just hold the camera still. Sure enough.

00:55:59.780 So beyond that, he has lots of other talents. But he was, somebody tweeted at him and he had

00:56:06.040 responded that I and Jack Posobiec had signal boosted him. In other words, we've promoted him

00:56:14.340 online just as I did just now. Now, why do I promote him online? Why do I do that? What's in it for me?

00:56:23.180 I've done Jack's podcast. But of course, that also was helping him to boost his signal. Why do I help

00:56:33.320 him? It's a strategy. It's a white person's strategy. And it works every time. And it goes 0.67

00:56:42.540 like this. I just do things for people. That's it. I do things for people. I do things for lots of

00:56:50.880 people. Ed Latimer would tell you the same story. Ed Latimer, African American. He's built

00:56:58.040 his following on Twitter up substantially. He's got, you know, lots of really fun and really

00:57:05.960 useful advice and, you know, framing of things, etc. And he's one of the most productive, useful,

00:57:14.220 strategically sound people you'll ever see in your life. I also boost his signal. Why do I do it?

00:57:20.880 Because that's who I am. Why? How did I get here? Like, how is it that you're listening

00:57:28.200 to me? And I've got a famous cartoon strip? How did I get here? Other people. Other people

00:57:35.780 boosted my signal. Why did they do it? I don't know. They just did it. And it's good. When

00:57:44.780 you boost other people's signal, that's a strategy. Does this come back to me? Maybe. Probably.

00:57:51.420 Karma. Some way. I don't know. Does it help me directly? Not at all. Does it help me indirectly?

00:57:59.720 Probably. It's a strategy. It's also the most common Silicon Valley strategy. When I was going

00:58:07.520 around talking to people with my startup and I'd be asking them for advice and or funding or whatever.

00:58:14.200 And the most unusual thing that would happen is they would offer me something for nothing.

00:58:20.500 And I would think, what? Everywhere you went in Silicon Valley, you'd have the meeting.

00:58:26.540 And then when I was done, they'd say, you know, anything you need, if I can help you,

00:58:31.600 I'll help you connect to people. You know, if I help you meet somebody, if you need some advice,

00:58:37.260 you want to talk through something, give me a call. But unlike sort of normal, you know,

00:58:43.640 social chit chat, they all meant it. They all actually meant it. It's one of the most basic

00:58:50.360 strategies of Silicon Valley that if you help other people, it gets back to you. You know,

00:58:56.540 it's this virtuous system of people helping each other where they can. You know, they're not like

00:59:03.820 taking the shirt off their back. They're giving advice and connecting people and sending an email

00:59:08.460 and stuff, you know, pretty easy stuff. But so is signal boosting. So this is just an example

00:59:15.500 of where if there's institutional racism, I would look for strategy to root it out. In other words,

00:59:26.400 I think if the black community focused on improving its strategy, that it actually wouldn't even matter 1.00

00:59:35.960 that structural racism existed. And let me say that a little bit more clearly with Samit.

00:59:45.400 If your strategy is good enough, you can slice through obstacles.

00:59:50.340 The so-called structural racism, I believe is a real thing. But it's sort of amorphous and hard

00:59:59.900 to figure out where the buttons are. You know, where's the user interface so I can get past this

01:00:04.860 structural racism? Like, what do I do? Get a strategy. If your strategy is good, you'll slice

01:00:13.380 right through it. It'll be like it wasn't even there. It will still be there. But one of the things that

01:00:18.840 that I think is a framing problem is that you have to remove the structural racism to succeed.

01:00:26.400 And you don't. And you can't. You don't need it to remove it to succeed. You need a good strategy.

01:00:35.880 And it doesn't need to be removed. You need a good strategy. And worse, if you try to remove it,

01:00:42.000 you can't. You can't. It's just sort of too big and amorphous. It's sort of like,

01:00:49.540 you know, I'd like to get the air out of this room. You know, I suppose you could do that if

01:00:53.980 you tried hard enough. But point is, strategy is where they should be focusing. No, I don't want

01:01:00.740 to use the word should. I'm trying to train myself never to use the word should, because it's sort of

01:01:06.200 a fighting word. You think it isn't, but it is. You tell somebody they should do something,

01:01:13.480 and that, you know, they'll just stiffen up. Don't tell me what I should do. So let me

01:01:20.220 take the should out of it and say this. To the black community, with ultimate respect and affection,

01:01:28.940 I say this. Your strategies suck. You've been duped by your leaders who are incompetent. 1.00

01:01:37.020 If you had better leaders, they would be focusing you on strategy. Let me put it in the starkest

01:01:42.780 possible terms. If you were to replace whoever the hell is your leader, I don't know, I don't even

01:01:48.040 know who it is, with Ed Latimer, African American man, who's good at strategy, you would fix all of 0.95

01:01:57.700 your problems. I'll say it again. If Ed Latimer were even advising Black Lives Matter, even as 1.00

01:02:05.200 an advisor, he doesn't have to be the new leader or anything, just advising, he would advise you on

01:02:10.700 strategy, and you would slice right through any racial discrimination. Still be a problem, still be,

01:02:19.540 you know, still be emotionally disturbing, still don't want it, still evil. It's still all those

01:02:25.400 things, but it would be like it wasn't there. You would just slice right through it.

01:02:31.880 Likewise, some of you may know, I was born not very tall, not good looking. Not tall, not good

01:02:39.540 looking. Got glasses, lost my hair early. Short, ugly, glasses, not good looking, balding. Did any of

01:02:49.440 those things slow me down? Well, some are going to say, no, because you're white. Ah, it's easy, 1.00

01:02:54.560 you're white. No, I just told you, I lost three jobs by being white. How much of a problem is it 0.99

01:03:02.020 statistically to be short and ugly? It's a pretty big problem. How do I solve the fact that there is

01:03:09.960 institutional discrimination against short, ugly people? I can't. I can't. It's too big and amorphous, 0.78

01:03:20.660 and there are no buttons. How do I change the fact that people discriminate against shorter people

01:03:25.940 and ugly people? I can't change that. But I can have a strategy that is so powerful,

01:03:35.020 powerful. I can slice through it like it didn't exist. And I did. I sliced through it like it didn't

01:03:45.000 exist. And anybody with a good strategy, ask Ed Latimer, who you should be following on Twitter

01:03:53.620 anyway, because he's great. Ask him. Ask him to back me up. Strategy overcomes just about everything.

01:04:03.600 Okay. So CNN continues to make things worse. I don't know how they sleep at night. Honestly,

01:04:14.160 it makes me wonder if they're self-aware of how much worse they're making things in this country.

01:04:19.920 I really don't know, because they act like they believe they're making things better, but they're

01:04:24.740 they're so not. Here's an example. They ran an article on U.S. black and white inequality in six

01:04:36.820 stark charts. And they showed, you know, income inequality and health care. And they were quite

01:04:43.600 shocking, because the differences are, they should, you know, if you're a good person,

01:04:51.120 they should bother you to see the giganticness of the differences. But here's what was not on the

01:04:58.320 charts. A normal, or let's say a comparison by strategy. What I'd like to see, you know,

01:05:07.880 it would help me. Do you know what would help the black community more than anything?

01:05:11.220 Not this. This makes things much worse, because they framed it in terms of inequality. So if that's

01:05:21.300 how it's framed, that's sort of how you accept it. And then you go forward, ah, there's inequality.

01:05:26.360 Here's what would have been useful to do a comparison of black and white citizens who followed

01:05:33.220 the same strategies. Have you ever seen that? Compared to me, the people who early in life

01:05:41.460 said, here's my strategy. This is how I will succeed. Stay in a jail, study in school, don't

01:05:49.740 become a drug addict, don't get anybody pregnant before I'm ready. That's my strategy. So how

01:05:56.280 about showing me the chart? Everything with just those four things, everybody who had that

01:06:02.940 strategy, how'd they do? How do the incomes compare? Now, if you show me that chart, and

01:06:09.440 there's a big difference, I'm going to say, well, I think you found the discrimination,

01:06:15.780 because how do you explain that? Same strategy, different results. Discrimination would have

01:06:21.900 to be assumed to be the primary thing. But the thing is, it would look a lot different.

01:06:26.960 And it would also change the frame. It would change the frame to, whoa, are you telling me

01:06:32.040 that all the people with this strategy did well? Well, maybe that's something.

01:06:38.440 All right.

01:06:42.500 So Attorney General Barr has threatened to release the Antifa communications

01:06:48.060 that would show which elites, and I guess that means elite Democrats and politicians,

01:06:54.440 played a role in coordinating the riots. Now, of course, you could call them riots or protests

01:07:00.600 or looting or anarchism or whatever. The words matter, but I'm not sure they matter in this case,

01:07:07.320 because everybody knows what you're talking about.

01:07:08.700 Virginia. So how much do you want to see the Antifa communications? I think Antifa will be shown

01:07:22.060 to be not very popular. And now Black Lives Matter. Oh, my God. You know, I said Black Lives Matter,

01:07:29.900 their strategy is the worst I've ever seen to try to get what they want. But they've also allowed

01:07:35.120 themselves to be paired with a domestic terrorist organization. They've allowed themselves to be,

01:07:41.080 like, paired with them. It was easy to stop, because after the first few nights, they could

01:07:46.840 have just said, we don't want to march with Antifa. That's all they had to do, do a few nights of

01:07:52.640 protest and say, look, Antifa, we're not with you. Go do your own thing, because we don't support

01:07:59.360 what you support. Could have done that, but didn't. You know, they were being inclusive, I guess.

01:08:05.120 But it worked against their interests in an enormous way. So A.G. Barr is going to take

01:08:10.620 down Antifa, and every time the Antifa gets down, you're going to think of Black Lives Matter,

01:08:15.700 because now they're paired in your mind. So any bad thing that comes out of Antifa is going to,

01:08:20.600 like, slop over in your mind, even though it's not fair. Totally not fair. But that's not how minds

01:08:26.740 work. Minds don't work on fairness. They just pair things irrationally. So it could not be a worse

01:08:33.820 week for the black community, in my opinion, in terms of their strategy. 0.96

01:08:41.880 Virginia protesters lit a house on fire with a child inside. The police chief called it,

01:08:49.540 and I quote, unacceptable. Fair statement. You know, when somebody lights a house on fire that

01:08:58.240 has a child inside, the first word that comes to my mind is unacceptable. You really should think

01:09:06.200 this through. Before you set a house on fire that has a child inside, I would like to recommend that

01:09:14.280 you consider all your options. Maybe consider that there are some acceptable things to do,

01:09:19.900 but that this one, you know, I don't want to make you feel bad, but I feel as though you've picked a

01:09:26.800 suboptimal, dare I say, unacceptable, a little bit unacceptable to burn down a house with a child

01:09:36.320 inside. And I would, I would agree with this police chief. It's unacceptable. It really is.

01:09:43.280 All right. I've probably done enough to get canceled. What do you think?

01:09:54.620 So I'm going to leave you with the positive thought. I think the energy has come out of the

01:09:59.800 protests. I think everybody got the message. I think the coronavirus, for whatever reason,

01:10:07.060 is becoming less of a problem. I think the economy is going to come back. I think retail was going to

01:10:12.340 die on its own and probably wasn't. If you know about retail rental space, the landlord makes

01:10:20.020 money whether the, whether the retail shop makes money or not, because they still have to pay the

01:10:24.660 rent. So I don't know that the retail stores made any money. I don't. So I'm not sure that the economic

01:10:33.620 segment that just got wiped out, I just don't know if it's a big deal. Now it's a big deal to jobs,

01:10:40.360 but if the economy comes back in general, I think there'll be enough jobs. We'll get there. So

01:10:47.140 I would say that today is a day you should feel very optimistic. Summer's here, coronavirus on the

01:10:55.820 run. And I think that the protests made their point. Everybody heard it. It's time to get back

01:11:06.160 to business. And of course, as I make this offer all the time, if there's any way I can help, I am

01:11:14.100 always available to do it. Why? Why would I be available to help? Why would I help when there's

01:11:21.740 nothing in it for me? It's a strategy. It's a strategy. If you can help people, it's eventually

01:11:30.660 going to get back to you. So you can call me selfish if you want. But I'd like to help.

01:11:37.120 That's all for today. I will talk to you. I don't know if I'll be on tonight. If it looks like the

01:11:43.060 protests are going to turn into riots tonight, I might do another live stream tonight. But if it's

01:11:49.200 settled down, I think I need to take a little time off. Just from the evening broadcast, not the

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 03, 2020

Episode 1016 Scott Adams： News Blackout on the Protests, Let's See How the Country is Doing Today

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