Scott Adams talks about the Seattle and Portland protests, UFOs, and why Kanye West should run for president. Also, he explains why he thinks Kanye is a better president than Joe Biden, and what he could do if he decided to run for President.
00:14:58.580So between the Russia collusion hoax, the fine people hoax, the slowdown on testing hoax, the ignored the experts from day one hoax,
00:15:07.920Biden basically doesn't believe a single thing that actually happened.
00:15:11.880He's living in a completely artificially constructed world.
00:15:15.220Speaking of that, there was a provocative article in Human Events, I think, by Jane Coleman called The Specter of Systemic Racism.
00:15:29.620And she compared it to the Salem Witch Trials, meaning that, in her opinion, the Salem Witch Trials were a mass hysteria, very much like, in her opinion, the systemic racism.
00:15:46.400Now, her argument is that systemic racism can't be observed or measured.
00:15:54.660So that it would be a hoax, just like finding a witch.
00:15:58.640You think you see it all the time, but when you actually dig down, there's no witch there, and there's no systemic racism.
00:16:05.300I would disagree with this point of view.
00:16:08.240And I would say this is, I've evolved to this current position, which is that whether systemic racism exists or doesn't isn't entirely a function of how you define it.
00:16:20.480So you can define it in a way it exists, or you could define it in a way it doesn't.
00:16:25.860And the way it does exist, for sure, is that the people who have money are kind of locked in, and they have a system which makes it a little bit harder for people at the bottom to get up to the top.
00:16:40.480So if most of the people at the top happen to be a certain race, let's call them white, yeah, there would be some systemic things that keep the people with the money, keeping the money, and the power.
00:16:56.740It just happens to be mostly white people in the United States.
00:16:59.820But whoever's in power is going to have a system that keeps them in power, right?
00:17:04.600What's the point of having power if you don't create a system that keeps you there?
00:17:08.460So I think in that sense, it does exist.
00:17:11.600Now, if you define it that way, you also have to ask yourself if it should be fixed.
00:17:17.200Because the way I defined it doesn't necessarily scream out that it needs to be fixed.
00:17:23.060Because those limitations on black people rising up in this system that's a little bit rigid is just as hard as a white person.
00:17:37.580So for a white person who has no special advantages, they're born into a poor world, they have as many or more problems, different problems.
00:17:46.140Let's just call them different problems.
00:18:42.840But how should you answer the question?
00:18:46.720And I've been noodling on answering it this way because I, you know, I role play in my mind what would happen if I were asked this on camera.
00:18:56.460It hasn't happened yet, I don't think.
00:18:58.360I don't think anybody's asked me while I'm being recorded, which is weird because you'd expect it would have happened by now.
00:19:04.040But here's the answer I'm noodling with.
00:21:11.980And diversity does have an economic value to the big corporations who are trying to get more of it.
00:21:19.080So in an economic sense, from, let's say, a business which is putting a dollar value on a candidate, the black candidate has a higher dollar value.
00:21:30.260Now, this does not apply, I don't think, to small business.
00:21:33.220I think when you get down to small business, people aren't watching them as carefully.
00:21:38.260You know, there's not as much pressure on some company you've never heard of than there is, you know, on Apple computer or something like that.
00:21:44.960So small companies, I would say, probably are more likely to discriminate.
00:21:55.060So I would say that in the small business world, it might be reversed a little bit.
00:21:58.540Meaning that there may be enough racism that the black lives would matter a little bit less in that marketplace to various people who have their racist and non-racist reasons.
00:22:11.720But I'd say big companies, black lives are valued unambiguously, are valued higher than other lives because they like diversity.
00:23:03.240That may bring more black viewers to their network, which is good.
00:23:07.100So I would argue that in the arts, at the moment, content by black artists is worth more.
00:23:15.820Because society sort of valued it that way.
00:23:17.860Now, again, if you think that I'm putting any value judgments on any of this, like it's my opinion, it shouldn't be, you're not seeing anything like that.
00:24:10.940And you would say, for example, that wherever money flows, that's where society has decided that the money is better suited here, so there's more bang for the buck.
00:24:23.320And I would say that in that world, that black lives matter more than white lives in the tax situation.
00:24:31.580And again, you'd have to fact-check this, but I'll bet you would find that because of the economic disparity, that money flows largely from, on average, white people to, on average, people of color.
00:24:45.360And also from the Asian community to other communities as well.
00:24:49.520So the ones that are doing the best economically are paying the most taxes in dollar amount.
00:24:54.800You know, you can have your argument about percentages, but in dollar amount, the ones who have the money are paying the most.
00:25:00.580And that money is flowing away from them to another group.
00:25:05.820So this one's not as clear as that means that one group is economically more valuable.
00:25:11.200But you can see that society has a very distinct preference for transfer of wealth from white people to black people, and that that's our system as it exists.
00:25:23.220Now, there are lots of reasons why that makes sense.
00:27:28.620If you had an option of being your own fetish category, meaning that you would know that some portion of the public really, really wants to get with you, it's not the worst place to be.
00:27:40.300There's no fetish category for generic white people.
00:27:44.700We don't have that little extra thing to be a little extra exotic.
00:27:49.660Now, I get that people have their own preferences for who they want to be with, but I would argue that you could make a case, and again, this would be a little subjective, that black people do have some social advantages.
00:28:04.100Because they can kind of go everywhere, and I've never seen any friction to it in my whole life.
00:28:12.780I've never seen anybody say, I don't want to be friends with somebody because they're black, or anything like that.
00:28:20.840So, I would say that socially, pretty good, or at least even.
00:28:28.600Are black lives valued more than immigrant lives?
00:28:32.840I would say the system of the United States would say yes.
00:28:39.340So, the system of immigration, let's say that immigration continues, that explicitly values black lives in the United States, the ones that are already here, the citizens, it explicitly values them higher than undocumented immigrants.
00:29:48.960So, you could say it's a question of percentages, and I would hear that.
00:29:53.780But I'd also say it is a truth that there's probably no amount of white people that could ever be killed by police that would cause a protest.
00:30:03.180So, I believe that there is actually some special value that's put on black lives, and I'm not saying that's right or wrong.
00:30:14.300I'm just saying that the amount of energy that even the white public, if you look at Antifa, you look at the character of the protesters, at least in the Northwest, it looks like it's more white than black.
00:30:25.220So, I would say that that's a lot of white people who have put more value on black lives, at least more value in terms of what they're willing to fight for, for whatever reason.
00:30:36.480Now, again, all of these are complicated.
00:30:39.380If I made it look as if these are clean decisions, that would be incorrect.
00:30:44.620These are really gray, overlapping sort of decisions.
00:30:47.580But when you ask, do black lives matter, I would say that from the perspective of white people, the answer is unambiguously yes.
00:31:30.440And I think it was it Hotep Jesus who said, when I was talking to him on his podcast, I think it was he who said that the black lives matter is black people talking to themselves.
00:32:54.940Because New York Times and Associated Press, if they're going to get away with just capitalizing the B in black, you would expect CNN to go the same way, wouldn't you?
00:33:06.480Wouldn't you expect them to go the same way?
00:33:29.540I don't think I'll be consistent with it because it's going to take me a while to make this a reflex.
00:33:34.200But I plan to adopt capitalizing the B in black whenever there's no reference to anybody else.
00:33:41.140So if nobody else is referenced in the sentence, capitalize B in black.
00:33:45.900But if you're also talking about white people in the same sentence, I would also capitalize the W in white.
00:33:53.280Now, would I need to capitalize the W in white if I only talked about white people and there was nothing in whatever I was talking about, about black?