In this episode, I talk about how our brainwashing of our children has shaped the way we think about the country, and what it means for the future of the country. I also talk about the lack of fathers in our culture, and why it's a good thing.
00:13:29.640Is this the first time we've seen national protests?
00:13:33.240Because we've had national protests lots of times in the past.
00:13:37.260But is this the first time we've seen national protests because people believed authority figures?
00:13:43.420Because it seems in the past that people were not trusting authority and that that was sort of the reason, the spark and stuff.
00:13:52.520Not the spark, but a big reason behind protests.
00:13:54.960I think what's weird about this is that the authority figures now have convinced the protesters of a reality that might not be quite the thing they think it is.
00:14:07.780So I have a feeling like if I were to call these protests anything, I would call them CNN protests because they are sparked by the news.
00:14:17.480It's not just CNN, of course, but I use them as a proxy.
00:14:23.060Here's a completely unrelated bit from Mike Cernovich's Twitter feed.
00:14:27.560In the news, 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the NIH into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments.
00:14:45.660Gosh, 54 scientists were being paid by foreign governments to do research in the United States, and they didn't disclose that.
00:14:57.560I wonder what countries were involved.
00:15:00.400Reading further down in the tweet, Mike Cernovich notes from the article that 93% of those cases, the hidden funding came from a Chinese institution.
00:16:51.840You can overcome it with your higher reasoning and your sense of moral rightness and your love of the Constitution, your preference for the Bible, whatever.
00:17:02.260I mean, you can overcome it, but you can't not have it because that's just how your brain is organized.
00:17:07.680It looks for patterns, but it finds false patterns just as easily as real ones.
00:17:19.940But what we're talking about is systems in the country.
00:17:22.900Let's say the United States and current ones.
00:17:26.300Now, I'll give you the two examples that I think are worth mentioning.
00:17:32.240One comes from Tim Poole, and he called me a liar this morning for refusing his example because he can't see any reason that I would refuse his example as being an example of systemic racism unless I was lying.
00:19:51.820But since I was asking for current examples, apparently that's not one of them because that would be more of an example of a police officer being racist, not it being part of the system.
00:20:05.520So you could end up with racist results because the people who are in a system happen to be racist.
00:20:12.700But that's not the system or systemic unless you have a different definition of it.
00:20:19.560Now, part of the problem is that systemic and systematic and any words in that realm, institutional, etc.
00:20:27.520Apparently, everybody has a different definition.
00:20:31.280One of the definitions would allow this example to be the one example that I've seen so far.
00:20:38.840So this is from, where did this come from?
00:21:51.720You know, it's easy to imagine that racism would be part of the justice system.
00:21:58.080But, you know, if you look at the police, it would be easy to imagine that the police are also shooting more black people.
00:22:07.500But when you look at the data, and you normalize it by, or at least you analyze it by number of stops, that actually disappears.
00:22:16.180So what you think would be obviously true, people are racist, put them into any system, they'll still be racist, they'll still be doing racist opinions and racist things.
00:22:30.280So in my opinion, if you could fix the outcome by changing the people, it's not the system.
00:22:40.640Unless you say the system is that you can't change the people, I suppose.
00:22:45.020So if you have a system where minorities were treated more harshly, and you couldn't fix that by replacing the people, then I would say the system is broken.
00:22:59.860Otherwise, I'd say it's a system that has too many racists in it.
00:23:03.340Now, the tricky part with the justice system is that, number one, everybody's a racist.
00:25:43.580I would not deny somebody that option.
00:25:49.820Because I think that, you know, if these statistics are correct, that Alex Behrens points out, that the outcomes look, if you look at just the data, it looks like there's something going on.
00:27:09.500I can't think of an example why you'd want that.
00:27:11.860But you could imagine that there would be some specific situation where you could say, okay, I'm going to pick a judge who's got a little familiarity with this area.
00:27:21.820Somebody, I think, has no gripe with me because of my skin color.
00:27:26.060Or, I don't know, if you had enough judges, and that's really the problem, right?
00:28:23.680Well, let me say, I'd definitely be okay with looking into that more.
00:28:28.480Because these are the kind of things where somebody smarter might say, Scott, Scott, Scott, you're forgetting this other problem, and maybe I am.
00:28:36.560What about, suppose you had this option, let's say an independent group that would look at every judge's decision, or jury decision, I suppose.
00:29:28.040Perpetrator's, let's say, the other considerations for reasons why it would either extend the, either lengthen the sentence or reduce it, are as follows.
00:29:41.600Person's never had a, you know, maybe the person's never had a prior.
00:29:45.060Maybe the person has, I don't know, they've really helped poor people all their life.
00:30:01.860But let's say that every single sentence is stripped of all of its identifying characteristics and sent to a group of independent people,
00:30:12.520whose only job is to say, all right, this one looks like this one.
00:30:16.280Yeah, I mean, I don't know anything about the ethnicities, and I can't tell because even the city that they came from is concealed, so I can't even guess.
00:30:25.800All right, yeah, this one looks like too extreme.
00:30:28.420So you mark that one, and it just gets marked down to the average.
00:30:33.820Should a convicted person be able to request that their sentence be stripped of its identifiers and given to an independent body,
00:30:47.760who don't know anything except just these details, and they say, yeah, it looks like this is the same as this one or not?
00:31:20.840I think I will accept Alex's definition of systemic racism in this example if you allow the definition of systemic is similar to widespread and hard to get rid of.
00:31:38.160So if something is widespread and hard to get rid of, and it's sort of, what would be the right word?
00:31:48.280If it flows through an existing system, then maybe you could call that systemic racism.
00:31:56.860And again, no matter what name you put on it, that doesn't make it, that doesn't tell you you should work on it or not work on it.
00:32:03.820Because if it's not systemic, it could be just regular racism, and why wouldn't you want to have a better system?
00:32:11.340So where is the conversation on tweaking the justice system to get rid of those real and or perceived biases?
00:36:30.140Number one, I'm sort of a unique voice in that I have enough of a track record that anybody who looks into it, you know, anybody who looks at my writing or my tweets or my periscopes, they would come to the conclusion that I'm actually trying to help.
00:36:47.140Literally, actively, aggressively, energetically, trying to help.
00:36:55.480And I don't think there's any doubt about that, because what would be in it for me not to try to help?
00:37:02.060Do I have some advantage of just like being a public asshole?
00:37:08.360You know, because otherwise that's all it is, right?
00:37:10.580You know, that if the only reason I were doing any of this is to troll or to build my audience or something, I would just be a gigantic public asshole.
00:37:18.560But I don't think that people necessarily get that feeling about me if they're looking at my history.
00:37:26.280And of course, with these situations, people do.
00:37:35.840So I think if you have unambiguously positive intentions, you can get a little bit more freedom.
00:37:43.780The second thing is, that might make me at least a little bit unique, I hope not, but at least it helps, is that I'm always respectful about, you know, at least individual citizens who have earned respect.
00:38:00.960Now, there are individuals who do terrible things, and I may be disrespectful to individuals, but in terms of any group of people, I would never be disrespectful to any ethnic group.
00:38:16.140It's just, there's nothing in me that would ever want to do that.
00:38:19.800If I did it, it would be a complete accident, you know, and anybody can make a mistake.
00:38:24.720But if you are respectful, and unambiguously trying to be helpful, it does give you a little bit of body armor that you wouldn't get.
00:38:36.940But even those things would not be enough, I think you would agree.
00:38:40.440Three months ago, that wouldn't have protected me.
00:38:47.900That the people who would normally cancel me suspect that I'm right about all three things.
00:38:55.720Now, I'm just speculating, and of course, you know, nobody thinks in exactly the same fashion, so a million people have a million different opinions.
00:39:05.420I don't want to lump anybody to have one opinion.
00:39:08.480But I have a suspicion that I have survived this so far.
00:39:14.140I mean, I could be canceled by the end of today.
00:39:16.380But if I don't get canceled by the end of today, maybe tomorrow at the latest, because that's how long it takes to write articles.
00:39:22.900If I don't get canceled right away, it might be because people who look at these three things don't want any attention on them.
00:39:31.280Because if you put attention on them, it just might not go the way you want it.
00:39:36.040Now, somebody says they disrespect all groups.