Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1071 Scott Adams： Protests, Riots, Biden the HOAX Parrot, Coronavirus, Teacher Unions, Calculating How Much BLM

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00:01:20.540 Speaking of UFOs, my prediction is that we do not have in our possession any UFO material.

00:01:28.420 So I hope I'm wrong, because wouldn't it be cool if we did?

00:01:34.080 But I'm going to say that all of our looking for UFOs will produce nothing but mysteries about what we saw in the air.

00:01:41.420 There will not be any discovery now or later that we have in our possession, alien technology.

00:01:49.280 As much as I would like that.

00:01:51.540 Are you watching the limited coverage of the Seattle-slash-Portland protests-slash-riots?

00:01:59.280 There's something I noticed in the last bunch of videos.

00:02:06.260 Now, you'll only see these videos for the most part.

00:02:09.260 I think you'll only see them on the Internet.

00:02:11.620 So if you're on Twitter, you've probably seen some coverage of the police trying to roll up the protesters, etc.

00:02:18.360 Fire is being set.

00:02:19.900 It doesn't look super bad.

00:02:22.520 You know, a few fires yesterday.

00:02:24.740 Of course, it would be bad if it's your place that's on fire.

00:02:27.580 But relatively small numbers.

00:02:30.020 But here's what I noticed.

00:02:31.820 In all of the footage I saw from Portland and Seattle from last night's action,

00:02:37.860 I didn't see any black people.

00:02:39.480 What happened to the black people? 0.98

00:02:44.700 It's a Black Lives Matter protest, allegedly. 0.95

00:02:48.880 And at least all the video I saw was just the police beating up Antifa white people. 0.82

00:02:55.280 Did the black people say, all right, we're done now? 1.00

00:02:58.280 Or are they at a different protest? 0.96

00:03:00.460 Or are they not going to the ones that turn into riots

00:03:03.380 because it's the Antifa people who start the riots?

00:03:07.060 Is that why?

00:03:07.660 I mean, what's going on here exactly?

00:03:10.520 But I don't know what these protest slash riots are in Seattle and Portland 0.74

00:03:17.720 if they don't include black people.

00:03:20.780 Because I thought Black Lives Matter was sort of the point. 1.00

00:03:24.700 Anyway, it could be just the selective videos that I saw, so I won't make too much of that.

00:03:29.120 What about Kanye?

00:03:30.440 Kanye said one of the reasons he wants to run for president is so Biden will lose.

00:03:36.760 That's kind of frank.

00:03:40.500 Here's what I think Kanye could do.

00:03:43.720 I don't think he will do, but what he could do.

00:03:47.680 Imagine if you will, Kanye just runs for president in the normal way,

00:03:52.300 even if it's as a write-in.

00:03:55.820 What happens?

00:03:56.740 Well, he just splits the vote, and predictably it would allow Trump to be elected.

00:04:03.280 But is that what he wants?

00:04:06.020 Because all that would do is change who wins without any leverage on who won.

00:04:12.900 In other words, it wouldn't really give any power to black people who wanted to get anything done. 0.99

00:04:18.340 But here's what Kanye could do if he wanted to run the whole country without the bother of being president.

00:04:27.120 Because being president is kind of a pain, and I think Kanye would be wasted in a job that's mostly meetings.

00:04:33.360 Do you want Kanye to be in a job that's meetings?

00:04:38.040 Hey, Kanye, you've got to go cut a ribbon.

00:04:41.600 You've got to meet a head of state for no real reason except we do it once in a while.

00:04:46.000 It would be a complete waste of Kanye's talents, I think.

00:04:50.640 But what he could do is start an endorsement party.

00:04:55.240 A party of people who simply say that they will look to Kanye to sort out who would vote,

00:05:05.340 like Kanye basically, endorse one of the candidates for president.

00:05:09.620 Not just this year, but in future races.

00:05:13.180 So you'd have a, let's say a group of, maybe you could give 5% of the public.

00:05:17.320 I don't know if he could, but let's say Kanye could give 5%, let's say 10% of the public

00:05:23.540 to say, I will look to Kanye for his endorsement.

00:05:29.500 And you could imagine that his endorsement would be based on who he thought could do the best job

00:05:34.100 for not just the black community, but for people in need in general, which would end up being the same.

00:05:41.420 Because if you took care of people in general, the neediest,

00:05:44.320 you end up being a far bigger impact on those in most need.

00:05:49.440 So Kanye could be a kingmaker.

00:05:52.360 He just has to not run for president.

00:05:54.920 Maybe you could do that too.

00:05:56.700 But the real win would be for Kanye to say, look, Democrats, what do you got?

00:06:04.600 Republicans, what do you got?

00:06:06.220 Just tell me what you got.

00:06:07.960 Tell me what you're going to do.

00:06:09.380 And I will just look at them and I'll say, okay, this package looks better than this package.

00:06:14.240 I think you should vote for this guy.

00:06:15.960 You're not, you're not, obviously not bound to it.

00:06:19.140 It would just be an endorsement.

00:06:20.460 But given the closeness of our national elections, and given that a 5 or 10 percent swing,

00:06:30.040 especially in the closed states, is all the difference between winning and losing,

00:06:34.980 a third party endorsement party would actually run the country.

00:06:40.920 And this is completely practical.

00:06:43.480 Completely.

00:06:43.840 All Kanye would have to do is say that's what he's doing.

00:06:47.480 And he'd say, look, I'm going to be the birthday party, and the birthday party is an endorsement party.

00:06:54.820 But, you know, a week before the election, I'll tell you who I think you should vote for.

00:07:00.940 So he said, Kanye is a Russian stooge, somebody says.

00:07:05.000 Because, you know, one of the great things about Kanye, and there are a lot of great things about him,

00:07:10.900 is that you don't have to wonder what his motivation is.

00:07:16.940 You don't really wonder what Kanye's motivation is, do you?

00:07:21.340 I mean, it seems like he's right out there.

00:07:22.900 He's not doing it for money, obviously.

00:07:25.540 I don't think he's doing it for his reputation.

00:07:28.500 Because look at the trouble it's causing.

00:07:30.620 Nobody would do this just for their reputation.

00:07:32.940 I don't think he does it because he's bipolar. 0.98

00:07:36.640 Somebody's saying because he's insane.

00:07:38.800 No, I don't think he's doing it because he's bipolar.

00:07:41.720 And I would, I think I would take Kim Kardashian's view of it, which I do,

00:07:50.940 which is the thing that makes Kanye Kanye is inseparable from whatever, you know, the bipolar thing is.

00:07:59.180 And I'm not sure that that's, you know, diagnosed correctly.

00:08:02.080 Because there's just a lot of gray area in that world.

00:08:05.620 But that's who he is.

00:08:07.440 And he's being completely transparent about it.

00:08:09.760 I do think that it may give him periods of, you know, thinking he can do things that other people can't do.

00:08:17.840 But here's the thing.

00:08:20.080 What exactly is it that Kanye can't do?

00:08:23.640 If you had, let's say you had a mental condition that made you think you could fly,

00:08:30.520 but then you flapped your arms and you flew. 0.98

00:08:33.480 Are you still crazy? 0.90

00:08:35.840 Right?

00:08:36.140 Because that's Kanye's life.

00:08:37.940 Here at Kanye, you know, little kid Kanye, what are you going to be when you grow up?

00:08:42.480 Oh, I think I'll be a famous, famous hip-hop musical artist and a fashion designer.

00:08:50.240 And what would you say to 12-year-old Kanye?

00:08:53.000 You would have said, maybe we should have somebody look at that because that sounds a little bipolar to me.

00:08:59.080 Because, you know, you don't grow up to be, you know, a superstar in two different fields.

00:09:05.380 And then Kanye became a superstar in two different fields, at least.

00:09:09.760 You know, probably more if you added it up.

00:09:12.980 So, is it bipolar if you can do it?

00:09:19.040 Right?

00:09:19.980 Because part of the bipolar thing is that you get kind of full of yourself and, you know,

00:09:24.760 you think that everything's easier and possible.

00:09:27.840 And then you go through phases where it may be less so.

00:09:31.360 But if somebody goes through a phase where they think the impossible is possible, 0.54

00:09:35.320 and then they go do it, are they crazy?

00:09:39.980 I don't know.

00:09:41.080 It feels like maybe that's just somebody who can see the future.

00:09:44.400 It's sort of weird.

00:09:46.960 All right.

00:09:50.160 The Coalition of Ten Teachers Unions and the Democratic Socialists of America

00:09:56.800 just put on a list of demands, according to a tweet I saw.

00:10:00.420 So here are some of the things that the teachers unions are demanding.

00:10:04.500 They want to ban new charter schools and ban private school choice.

00:10:11.480 Now, what kind of union gets a say over its competition? 0.95

00:10:16.260 In what world do we want a union to get to decide what their competition does?

00:10:25.980 These are just different businesses.

00:10:28.960 What does the public school union have to do with a new charter school or a new private school?

00:10:35.520 Why do they get any say about that?

00:10:38.480 How is that any of their business?

00:10:40.780 That's just their competition.

00:10:42.060 The fact that they even have the balls to put out a statement about what the American public can do with its own money,

00:10:51.560 meaning that if we wanted to be funding some of these private options,

00:10:56.040 I don't think that's the business of a union,

00:11:00.740 what people do when they're not doing something with your business.

00:11:03.940 So that's way over the line.

00:11:07.840 And, of course, they want more money.

00:11:09.720 Everybody wants more money.

00:11:10.860 And police-free schools.

00:11:12.940 Do you know how you can have a police-free school?

00:11:16.100 I would recommend a charter school or a private school,

00:11:19.420 because public schools, probably you're not going to get there.

00:11:22.760 So I would say, again, that until we get to the point where we understand that the teachers' unions

00:11:32.260 are the source of all systemic racism.

00:11:36.440 Now, when I say the source, I don't mean the cause,

00:11:40.820 because I would agree that the cause is this legacy of slavery and all the ripple effect.

00:11:46.880 But, as I've said before, the school system is the equalizer.

00:11:51.940 If you get the school system right, meaning that everybody's got a fair shot at a good education,

00:11:58.080 then you've at least said,

00:12:00.860 here's a path with the very least amount of racism that you could experience.

00:12:05.720 You just have to succeed.

00:12:07.840 And then racism will still exist.

00:12:10.060 You can't get rid of the way people think.

00:12:11.900 We're just tuned that way.

00:12:13.520 But you can make it a non-issue in your life.

00:12:15.960 And I like to use Oprah as my example.

00:12:18.600 I doubt Oprah has a lot of racism problems in her daily life. 0.96

00:12:22.720 And if she does, she probably cries herself to sleep in a big bag of money, 1.00

00:12:26.640 and it doesn't hurt so much.

00:12:28.200 So you can't make all your problems go away, but you can make them hurt less.

00:12:34.580 So I was wondering if we should select our presidents not based on votes,

00:12:39.840 but by some kind of scientific study of how many hoaxes they believed.

00:12:45.960 Do you realize how many hoaxes our politicians act like they believe or do believe?

00:12:52.960 It's hard to know because they could be lying.

00:12:55.180 But at the moment, Biden is tweeting that President Trump ordered a slowdown on testing for the coronavirus.

00:13:03.340 Now, the president did joke about that in the context of, well, if we weren't testing so much,

00:13:10.860 you know, you wouldn't find so much of it, and then I wouldn't look so bad,

00:13:13.680 so maybe I'll tell them to slow down.

00:13:16.100 Now, that was obviously a joke.

00:13:18.100 And when all the people who do the testing or are involved with it were asked,

00:13:22.680 they said, no, nobody asked us to slow down testing. 0.87

00:13:25.480 That's ridiculous.

00:13:26.760 But Biden puts it out there like it's real. 0.72

00:13:29.020 He still puts out the fine people hoax like he's the last person in the world who still thinks that's true,

00:13:35.100 although a lot of Democrats still do.

00:13:36.780 He's saying that President Trump on the coronavirus, quote, ignored the experts from day one.

00:13:43.840 That's literally the opposite of even what his critics say, right?

00:13:48.760 Because Trump basically was right down the middle with the experts all the way.

00:13:54.640 The only time that I've claimed that he didn't follow the experts, my critics claim I'm wrong

00:14:00.600 and that he followed the experts that time, too, which was closing China.

00:14:04.420 So I'd said because the president said the experts had advised against it.

00:14:10.420 Other people who seem to have better information than I do claimed the opposite.

00:14:15.280 The experts were not against it.

00:14:17.720 So that would mean that the president was actually compatible with the experts from day one and still is, right?

00:14:25.960 Because you do get to a point where it's not a question of the experts all being on one side.

00:14:33.120 It's more like nobody can tell.

00:14:35.180 Is it better to open up the businesses?

00:14:38.140 Should we test it?

00:14:39.320 Should you try it in some states or not?

00:14:41.660 These are not science questions as much as art and guessing and having a system where you can adjust if you guessed wrong, which we have.

00:14:50.280 We have a system of quickly monitoring and adjusting.

00:14:54.020 And it's working.

00:14:54.620 It's working.

00:14:58.580 So between the Russia collusion hoax, the fine people hoax, the slowdown on testing hoax, the ignored the experts from day one hoax,

00:15:07.920 Biden basically doesn't believe a single thing that actually happened.

00:15:11.880 He's living in a completely artificially constructed world.

00:15:15.220 Speaking of that, there was a provocative article in Human Events, I think, by Jane Coleman called The Specter of Systemic Racism.

00:15:29.620 And 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.

00:15:46.400 Now, her argument is that systemic racism can't be observed or measured.

00:15:53.520 You just can't find any.

00:15:54.660 So that it would be a hoax, just like finding a witch.

00:15:58.640 You think you see it all the time, but when you actually dig down, there's no witch there, and there's no systemic racism.

00:16:05.300 I would disagree with this point of view.

00:16:08.240 And 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.

00:16:20.480 So you can define it in a way it exists, or you could define it in a way it doesn't.

00:16:25.860 And 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.

00:16:40.480 So 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. 0.55

00:16:54.900 And it wouldn't matter who they were.

00:16:56.740 It just happens to be mostly white people in the United States.

00:16:59.820 But whoever's in power is going to have a system that keeps them in power, right?

00:17:04.600 What's the point of having power if you don't create a system that keeps you there?

00:17:08.460 So I think in that sense, it does exist.

00:17:11.600 Now, if you define it that way, you also have to ask yourself if it should be fixed.

00:17:17.200 Because the way I defined it doesn't necessarily scream out that it needs to be fixed.

00:17:23.060 Because those limitations on black people rising up in this system that's a little bit rigid is just as hard as a white person.

00:17:37.580 So 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. 0.78

00:17:46.140 Let's just call them different problems.

00:17:47.740 But they got problems, too.

00:17:48.760 So to imagine that it's a white versus a black problem, of course, is just looking at it in the least effective way.

00:17:58.280 But so I would say that you can't say systemic racism exists or doesn't exist.

00:18:03.860 You just can define it any way you want, basically.

00:18:06.680 But let's ask this question.

00:18:09.520 You know, the entire stuff we're up to right now is or what we're into is the Black Lives Matter protests.

00:18:17.260 And so the question is, do black lives matter? 1.00

00:18:20.740 That's the question everybody's being asked.

00:18:22.580 Now, of course, the answer is yes, black lives matter.

00:18:26.000 But let's dig down a little bit.

00:18:30.820 Let's say, let's look at it with just a little bit more depth, this question of black lives matter,

00:18:37.960 which we start with the position, yes.

00:18:42.500 Yes.

00:18:42.840 But how should you answer the question?

00:18:46.720 And 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.

00:18:56.460 It hasn't happened yet, I don't think.

00:18:58.360 I 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.

00:19:04.040 But here's the answer I'm noodling with.

00:19:06.020 Do black lives matter? 1.00

00:19:07.820 Yes, absolutely.

00:19:10.260 Followed by far more than white lives. 0.92

00:19:14.800 Because, well, let's dig down.

00:19:17.500 So my claim is that black lives matter and that at the moment they matter more than white lives. 0.99

00:19:24.340 Now, that's not a complaint.

00:19:26.460 That's not a political position.

00:19:28.740 I'm just going to be an economist.

00:19:30.340 I'm just going to look at it, all right?

00:19:32.980 So we're going to break it down and say on various levels, you know, what is the economic value of various people?

00:19:42.140 Do you think this will get me canceled yet?

00:19:45.140 If I don't get canceled for this, I'm uncancellable.

00:19:48.340 So we're going deep this time.

00:19:50.100 We're going all the way to the bottom of the well.

00:19:52.000 Are you ready?

00:19:53.420 Are you brave enough to go with me?

00:19:55.840 Come with me.

00:19:56.980 Here it comes.

00:19:57.560 How about an economic calculation?

00:20:01.460 Are black lives more valuable? 1.00

00:20:03.720 And again, we'll get to a number of dimensions.

00:20:05.940 So if you're only seeing a part of this, make sure you see the rest of it.

00:20:08.980 Otherwise, you'll see something in a context.

00:20:11.260 And you could get angered if you see it in a context.

00:20:14.220 If you see it in context, it won't bother you that much.

00:20:18.180 From an economic perspective, is a black life worth more than a white life? 1.00

00:20:22.960 I would say yes, unambiguously.

00:20:25.840 So because economically, and here are all the reasons that a black life is worth more than a white life on average. 1.00

00:20:34.000 This is just on average.

00:20:35.060 We're not talking about every person compared to every other person.

00:20:38.660 Just on average.

00:20:40.260 Here's why.

00:20:41.480 Let's say you're a Fortune 500 company.

00:20:43.500 You have two candidates.

00:20:44.680 One is a qualified black candidate.

00:20:47.080 One is a qualified white candidate.

00:20:49.380 Both equally qualified.

00:20:52.420 Who gets hired?

00:20:54.420 Well, the black candidate will get hired almost every time. 1.00

00:20:58.300 Because they have two benefits. 0.71

00:21:01.220 They can do the job.

00:21:02.500 Remember, my situation is that it's two candidates equal qualifications.

00:21:07.020 So they get a good candidate, can do the job.

00:21:09.280 Plus, they have more diversity.

00:21:11.980 And diversity does have an economic value to the big corporations who are trying to get more of it.

00:21:19.080 So 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. 0.71

00:21:28.520 Would everybody agree with that?

00:21:30.260 Now, this does not apply, I don't think, to small business.

00:21:33.220 I think when you get down to small business, people aren't watching them as carefully.

00:21:38.260 You 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.

00:21:44.960 So small companies, I would say, probably are more likely to discriminate.

00:21:49.760 Probably.

00:21:50.400 I've never seen any data on that.

00:21:52.300 But doesn't that feel, feels likely?

00:21:55.060 So I would say that in the small business world, it might be reversed a little bit.

00:21:58.540 Meaning 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.

00:22:11.720 But I'd say big companies, black lives are valued unambiguously, are valued higher than other lives because they like diversity.

00:22:21.800 How about in the media?

00:22:24.420 Let's say there's a big media platform, could be a news platform, could be an entertainment platform, and they have two options.

00:22:32.560 One, they could have a hit show with a white host or white cast, or they could have a hit show with a black host and a black cast.

00:22:44.220 Which would they select, given that both of them give them the same income?

00:22:48.460 So they're both hits, and they both make the same amount of money.

00:22:53.900 Which is worth more to the platform?

00:22:57.220 I would say the black content, because they get, again, a double benefit. 0.99

00:23:01.820 They want more diversity.

00:23:03.240 That may bring more black viewers to their network, which is good.

00:23:07.100 So I would argue that in the arts, at the moment, content by black artists is worth more. 0.96

00:23:15.820 Because society sort of valued it that way.

00:23:17.860 Now, 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.

00:23:25.880 I'm just doing the math.

00:23:27.420 All I'm doing is telling you values, and it's subject to opinion, of course.

00:23:33.600 How about tax-wise?

00:23:37.140 One way to know how much something is worth is by looking at how the public organizes its tax system.

00:23:43.620 For example, would you say that the tax system, and therefore the government, puts a high value on education?

00:23:52.580 You would, because there's a lot of money that gets taxed and put into education.

00:23:57.000 So you'd say that society values education.

00:24:01.720 We put a lot of money into the defense.

00:24:04.280 So society values defense.

00:24:07.120 That's embarrassing.

00:24:07.940 I've had chocolate all over my arm.

00:24:10.940 And 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.

00:24:23.320 And I would say that in that world, that black lives matter more than white lives in the tax situation. 0.99

00:24:31.580 And 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.

00:24:45.360 And also from the Asian community to other communities as well.

00:24:49.520 So the ones that are doing the best economically are paying the most taxes in dollar amount.

00:24:54.800 You know, you can have your argument about percentages, but in dollar amount, the ones who have the money are paying the most.

00:25:00.580 And that money is flowing away from them to another group.

00:25:05.820 So this one's not as clear as that means that one group is economically more valuable.

00:25:11.200 But 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. 0.71

00:25:23.220 Now, there are lots of reasons why that makes sense.

00:25:27.840 I'm not saying it doesn't make sense.

00:25:29.900 I'm not arguing against it.

00:25:32.420 I'm not arguing against it.

00:25:35.840 Somebody says you're not embarrassed.

00:25:37.980 I don't know what that means in all caps.

00:25:40.320 You can't yell at me you're not embarrassed in all caps, because you should be embarrassed if you're yelling at me in all caps.

00:25:49.120 I'm not even sure if that was for me.

00:25:51.240 All right, how about socially?

00:25:52.960 Are black people, are black lives more valuable or less valuable than white people socially? 1.00

00:26:01.960 Somebody says you're just spewing bullshit. 1.00

00:26:04.400 Well, you do have an option to disagree with me with reasons. 0.98

00:26:11.740 There's enough room in your little comment there, your little text blocks to make a comment.

00:26:19.720 I see I'm making everybody mad, so I'm going to keep going.

00:26:23.040 How about socially?

00:26:23.780 I would argue that this is just an observation, so I wouldn't put any weight behind this, but I'd be interested in your opinion.

00:26:31.960 In my observation, black people have very much social ability to get into white social groups, at least where I live.

00:26:43.980 There would be no barrier to that whatsoever, no friction.

00:26:49.560 But does it work the same way, the other way?

00:26:51.300 If you were white, could you easily break into an all-black social situation and feel comfortable with that? 1.00

00:26:59.700 I don't know, it'd be hard.

00:27:00.880 But I think it's quite easy.

00:27:02.760 It's just my experience.

00:27:04.740 My experience is that any black person who wanted to break into any white social group could do it effortlessly. 0.99

00:27:12.660 On top of that, black people are one of the rare groups that have their own fetish category in porn. 0.98

00:27:21.300 Now, again, I'm not going to put a value judgment on any of this. 0.97

00:27:25.080 I'm just describing.

00:27:26.760 Just describing.

00:27:28.620 If 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.

00:27:40.300 There's no fetish category for generic white people.

00:27:44.700 We don't have that little extra thing to be a little extra exotic.

00:27:49.660 Now, 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.

00:28:04.100 Because they can kind of go everywhere, and I've never seen any friction to it in my whole life.

00:28:12.780 I've never seen anybody say, I don't want to be friends with somebody because they're black, or anything like that.

00:28:19.580 I've just never even seen it once.

00:28:20.840 So, I would say that socially, pretty good, or at least even.

00:28:28.600 Are black lives valued more than immigrant lives? 0.94

00:28:32.840 I would say the system of the United States would say yes.

00:28:39.340 So, 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. 0.65

00:28:58.960 That's what our system does.

00:28:59.980 Now, it puts everybody who's an American citizen at a higher status and greater value than anybody who doesn't have that status yet.

00:29:07.980 Again, you could argue that that's good or bad.

00:29:10.000 That's not my point today.

00:29:11.560 I'm just explaining it.

00:29:13.920 So, black lives matter certainly more than immigrants in terms of our system, not the way we necessarily think about it, but the system.

00:29:21.260 How about if the police kill a black man at a police stop versus a white man, which one has the most value? 0.99

00:29:31.520 Now, here value is a weird construct, but there are no protests about white people being killed by police. 0.95

00:29:40.020 Now, you could say, well, there's a good reason for that, Scott.

00:29:42.940 Is there? 0.99

00:29:43.560 There are more white people killed by police than black people. 0.98

00:29:47.300 It's not even close.

00:29:48.960 So, you could say it's a question of percentages, and I would hear that.

00:29:53.780 But 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.

00:30:03.020 Right?

00:30:03.180 So, 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.

00:30:14.300 I'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.

00:30:25.220 So, 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.

00:30:36.480 Now, again, all of these are complicated.

00:30:39.380 If I made it look as if these are clean decisions, that would be incorrect.

00:30:44.620 These are really gray, overlapping sort of decisions.

00:30:47.580 But when you ask, do black lives matter, I would say that from the perspective of white people, the answer is unambiguously yes. 0.94

00:30:57.120 It's not just yes, it's hell yes.

00:30:59.440 It's hell yes economically, socially, police-wise. 0.98

00:31:04.920 It's hell yes in every possible sense from white people perspective. 0.65

00:31:09.480 So, that's why the question, I think, especially strikes us as provocative in a bad way, meaning, who are you trying to convince?

00:31:19.900 Were you trying to talk me into thinking that black people have value? 1.00

00:31:23.400 I didn't need to be talked into it.

00:31:25.820 I was there.

00:31:27.760 There was no conversion necessary.

00:31:30.440 And 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. 0.76

00:31:44.000 Have you ever thought of it that way?

00:31:46.440 Because it is actually kind of perplexing why I would need to be convinced of something that I started out believing.

00:31:52.860 And then his theory that it's black people convincing themselves that they matter, I think, well, you know, I can't say that. 1.00

00:32:02.000 Because, you know, I don't think that would be for me to say.

00:32:06.540 But I'll put it out there so you can decide if you want to, what you want to do with it.

00:32:11.780 All right.

00:32:14.300 I had this weird situation this morning where I read something where I agreed with CNN.

00:32:20.220 And I thought I read it wrong.

00:32:21.540 I had to read the sentence three times to convince myself I had read it correctly just because I had accidentally agreed with CNN.

00:32:29.580 Here was the situation.

00:32:31.620 So I guess some some school books are going to use the standard of capitalizing the B in black.

00:32:38.900 And the Associated Press and New York Times have already said that they'll do it.

00:32:43.180 But here's the CNN statement.

00:32:45.960 So CNN made the same decision, except they will also capitalize white.

00:32:52.420 And I read that.

00:32:53.400 I thought, well, that can't be right.

00:32:54.940 Because 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?

00:33:06.480 Wouldn't you expect them to go the same way?

00:33:09.320 And I did.

00:33:10.380 And then it says CNN made the same decision, but will also capitalize white.

00:33:14.540 And I was going to say, hey, but you should also.

00:33:17.360 Well, wait a minute.

00:33:19.000 That's exactly what they should do.

00:33:21.120 That's exactly what they should do.

00:33:22.480 And here was the standard I was going to suggest for myself.

00:33:26.880 So I'm going to adopt.

00:33:29.540 I don't think I'll be consistent with it because it's going to take me a while to make this a reflex.

00:33:34.200 But I plan to adopt capitalizing the B in black whenever there's no reference to anybody else.

00:33:41.140 So if nobody else is referenced in the sentence, capitalize B in black.

00:33:45.900 But if you're also talking about white people in the same sentence, I would also capitalize the W in white. 0.54

00:33:53.280 Now, 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? 0.57

00:34:02.620 I would say that's more optional.

00:34:04.660 But I would never do a situation where I'd capitalize the B and not the W in the same document.

00:34:11.660 I wouldn't do that.

00:34:13.120 So I would agree with CNN on capitalizing both.

00:34:16.140 It just keeps it clean.

00:34:17.760 Just keep it clean.

00:34:18.680 But then, you know, don't we already, correct me if I'm wrong.

00:34:22.780 Don't we already capitalize Hispanic?

00:34:25.740 Why don't I know the answer to that?

00:34:28.100 Can somebody tell me the answer?

00:34:29.300 Do we already capitalize Hispanic?

00:34:32.560 And really, why don't I know that?

00:34:35.300 Why don't I know that?

00:34:37.100 I can't even picture it in my mind as to whether it's always capitalized.

00:34:41.420 Well, you'll tell me.

00:34:44.480 I told you the other day about the story about the Sinclair local networks.

00:34:48.920 There's a whole bunch of local TV news networks.

00:34:52.060 They're a right-leaning company.

00:34:56.240 And they were going to run this program, claiming, among other things, that Dr. Fauci was behind the coronavirus.

00:35:02.980 He gave it to China.

00:35:04.400 They gave it to us.

00:35:05.800 And, of course, this is a highly debunked thing.

00:35:10.140 And I guess the public outcry was sufficient that they decided to delay it.

00:35:16.420 Now, when they delayed it, that doesn't mean they're not going to run it.

00:35:22.120 Maybe they'll run it with some extra context or something that's not known.

00:35:26.260 But it's interesting that a conservative-leaning entity was going to run a bunch of content that would have been terrible for Trump.

00:35:36.360 It would have been terrible for Trump.

00:35:38.820 I'm seeing in the comments people are saying that you would capitalize Caucasian and Latino.

00:35:44.280 Or is it Latinx now?

00:35:48.060 Is that preferred?

00:35:50.240 Indian and Asian?

00:35:51.400 Well, Indian would be capitalized, of course.

00:35:54.860 Asian would be capitalized because Asia is...

00:35:58.420 I don't know.

00:35:59.220 It's kind of...

00:36:02.420 You know, one of the commenters says,

00:36:05.540 Scott the Cuck Adams. 0.99

00:36:07.620 Anybody who uses that dumbass word, Cuck, is blocked forever. 1.00

00:36:14.020 So goodbye to you. 1.00

00:36:17.920 That's only being blocked for being uncreative.

00:36:22.040 All right.

00:36:24.200 So there you have it.

00:36:25.580 There's not much going on today.

00:36:28.420 In summary, I would say this.

00:36:33.080 Systemic racism is the teachers' unions.

00:36:39.180 The teachers' unions are overwhelmingly white.

00:36:42.820 And they want less choice in schooling. 0.95

00:36:46.200 And it is that less choice in schooling that makes really every bad thing that happens to black people.

00:36:52.580 Now, you can't fix bad education in a year.

00:36:56.640 You know, it's sort of a generational problem.

00:36:59.340 But you can make a big difference in a year.

00:37:02.080 Or in a generation, not a year.

00:37:04.320 So I would say if we're going to pretend that systemic racism is something we care about

00:37:10.400 and pretend that black lives are something we care about, 1.00

00:37:14.600 you shouldn't have to pretend about that, 0.75

00:37:16.440 and you think that poor white lives are something that you care about,

00:37:20.740 it's all the same problem.

00:37:22.080 It's just the teachers' unions.

00:37:24.700 Get rid of the teachers' unions.

00:37:26.720 You can save the next generation.

00:37:28.860 You don't?

00:37:29.600 You don't.

00:37:30.800 And complaining about how many people got killed by police,

00:37:34.460 well, we don't want to forget that problem.

00:37:36.900 It's your smallest...

00:37:38.360 It is really hard not to swear.

00:37:40.740 Do you know how hard it is to not swear?

00:37:43.720 I mean, I'm trying to do my best.

00:37:45.160 I realize I'm...

00:37:46.420 I realize I'm more...

00:37:49.740 You know, I don't get there all the time.

00:37:53.640 But worrying about your smallest problem,

00:37:57.300 which is the number of people killed by the police,

00:37:59.320 it's the smallest problem. 0.98

00:38:00.820 There is no problem smaller than that in the black community, I'll bet. 1.00

00:38:04.160 Now, if you happen to be the direct victim of it or your family, 0.99

00:38:07.740 it's your biggest problem.

00:38:08.780 Duh.

00:38:09.660 But in terms of the larger systemic racism,

00:38:12.820 it's just the teachers' union.

00:38:15.620 You fix that one thing,

00:38:17.660 and you're fine.

00:38:20.360 How hard would it be for Kanye to fix...

00:38:25.160 This will sound crazy,

00:38:29.540 but look how easy it would be.

00:38:31.200 How hard would it be for Kanye to fix systemic racism in one generation?

00:38:37.960 It wouldn't be hard.

00:38:39.600 He could actually do it.

00:38:41.720 Right?

00:38:42.100 It might be the only person who could.

00:38:43.720 I mean, think of another person who could.

00:38:45.400 It's hard to come up with anybody.

00:38:47.220 Kanye could fix it just by concentrating on working against the school unions.

00:38:53.520 Now, I don't think Kanye usually is a guy who likes to oppose something.

00:38:57.860 I think he's more about a positive image of things,

00:39:00.440 which is why we love him.

00:39:02.100 He's more about make things better and look at the good side.

00:39:06.080 He's not so much about looking backwards and blaming other people.

00:39:09.700 That's just not his deal.

00:39:11.420 We don't want it to be.

00:39:12.860 But he does have the power,

00:39:14.560 and if he could simply define systemic racism

00:39:19.560 as whatever is wrong with the education system,

00:39:22.540 I think we could do the rest.

00:39:23.940 And if Kanye simply said,

00:39:26.800 I'm going to endorse whoever has the best plan for schools,

00:39:30.460 there we go.

00:39:32.220 All right, there we go.

00:39:33.580 Aren't you glad you waited for the end?

00:39:35.520 Here's what Kanye could do

00:39:37.140 to fix more than anybody's ever fixed.

00:39:42.320 He could just say,

00:39:43.620 I'm going to endorse the party

00:39:45.000 that has the best plan for school.

00:39:48.080 That's it.

00:39:49.640 Just the one thing.

00:39:51.520 Whichever party has the best plan

00:39:53.800 for educating the kids

00:39:55.720 who are not otherwise well served,

00:39:57.880 that's it.

00:39:59.200 I'm going to give my full endorsement,

00:40:01.360 full-throated,

00:40:02.280 to that one thing.

00:40:03.960 Because the other stuff,

00:40:05.440 it's trivial.

00:40:07.760 The one thing will just change

00:40:09.340 the entire nature of the United States,

00:40:11.760 make us more competitive.

00:40:12.720 I mean,

00:40:15.080 your education system

00:40:16.420 drives your economic system.

00:40:18.600 That drives your defense.

00:40:20.380 And we're talking about national defense

00:40:22.240 is completely degraded

00:40:24.200 by having a poor school system

00:40:26.060 that's educating people

00:40:27.800 who don't have that many options.

00:40:29.800 So,

00:40:30.700 why isn't this idea going viral?

00:40:34.020 It's a really good question.

00:40:35.800 And I think it has to do with this.

00:40:38.040 There are so many teachers in the world.

00:40:40.020 This is just a guest, by the way.

00:40:41.280 And I'm going to...

00:40:42.460 This will be an example of how

00:40:44.300 if your skill stack

00:40:45.860 includes more than one

00:40:47.800 kind of field that you've studied,

00:40:49.900 it's easier to have idea sex,

00:40:52.340 as James Altusher

00:40:53.560 has popularized that idea.

00:40:57.820 But here's the idea.

00:40:59.220 In the field of coronavirus

00:41:01.920 and virology,

00:41:03.720 you have this herd immunity issue.

00:41:06.660 And you can get to herd immunity

00:41:09.160 by maybe 60% of the people

00:41:11.680 in the population

00:41:12.420 having some immunity.

00:41:15.020 So you don't have to have everybody immune.

00:41:17.000 You just have to have a lot of them.

00:41:18.440 And that's enough to stop a virus.

00:41:20.540 Likewise,

00:41:21.160 somebody asked,

00:41:21.880 why isn't the idea going viral

00:41:23.640 of going after the teachers' unions?

00:41:26.100 Because I didn't make that up, right?

00:41:28.280 In fact,

00:41:28.780 I'm one of the latest people

00:41:30.580 to come to it, probably.

00:41:31.560 Because the entire conservative movement

00:41:33.740 has been complaining

00:41:34.780 about the teachers' unions forever.

00:41:37.600 So here is my guess,

00:41:41.100 my speculation

00:41:42.020 about why it's so obvious

00:41:44.120 what the problem is,

00:41:45.500 the teachers' unions

00:41:46.480 reducing competition in school.

00:41:49.000 It's so obvious,

00:41:50.520 and yet it's not a thing.

00:41:53.000 It's not the number one thing

00:41:54.360 we're talking about every day.

00:41:55.880 Here's why.

00:41:57.100 I believe that there are enough people

00:41:58.900 who are teachers

00:42:00.020 or have a teacher in their family

00:42:02.260 that they don't want

00:42:03.560 to rag on teachers.

00:42:05.620 That's it.

00:42:06.380 There are so many people

00:42:07.540 connected to,

00:42:08.620 in some meaningful way,

00:42:10.420 a working teacher,

00:42:12.320 that they don't want to

00:42:13.540 be pushing something

00:42:15.020 that's bad for teachers. 0.87

00:42:16.620 Because the teachers' union

00:42:17.920 is trying to protect the teachers

00:42:19.360 more than they're trying

00:42:21.120 to do other things.

00:42:23.700 Case in point,

00:42:24.620 my own sister,

00:42:26.100 who is probably watching this right now.

00:42:28.460 Hi, Cindy.

00:42:28.940 She's probably watching it right now,

00:42:32.440 and she had asked me

00:42:34.220 what I thought about

00:42:35.400 ragging on the teachers' unions

00:42:37.560 when my own sister

00:42:39.000 is a recently retired teacher.

00:42:42.000 Did you hear the key words?

00:42:43.500 Recently retired?

00:42:45.300 And I told her

00:42:46.060 that until she retired, 0.99

00:42:48.500 I wasn't going to say this stuff.

00:42:50.760 That I wasn't going to complain

00:42:52.540 about teachers' and teachers' unions

00:42:54.500 until she was retired.

00:42:56.440 And she just retired.

00:42:57.360 So now,

00:42:59.140 I have a

00:42:59.800 full

00:43:01.300 freedom, I guess,

00:43:04.380 to go after

00:43:05.140 what I think

00:43:05.660 is the real problem.

00:43:06.840 Now, think about

00:43:07.500 my situation.

00:43:08.840 As vocal as I am

00:43:10.280 about as many things

00:43:11.400 as I'm vocal about,

00:43:12.540 I don't hold back

00:43:13.500 too much

00:43:13.960 on any topic.

00:43:15.440 I held back on that

00:43:16.760 because it was

00:43:17.940 a personal situation

00:43:19.100 in which I didn't want to

00:43:20.420 degrade

00:43:21.140 my own sister's

00:43:22.300 lifestyle.

00:43:23.040 but now she's retired. 0.97

00:43:26.040 I'm free.

00:43:27.560 Her pension's locked in.

00:43:29.680 So,

00:43:30.420 I think that that's it.

00:43:33.040 I think there's a

00:43:33.920 herd immunity

00:43:35.080 toward going after

00:43:36.520 the teachers' unions

00:43:37.480 just because so many of us

00:43:39.040 have some strong

00:43:40.440 relationship with the teacher.

00:43:42.340 I think that's what it is,

00:43:43.580 exactly.

00:43:44.480 So, we have to

00:43:45.500 somehow break that.

00:43:46.500 Now,

00:43:47.020 can you and I break that?

00:43:48.940 No, no.

00:43:49.940 I do not have the power

00:43:51.280 or the influence

00:43:53.020 to get through

00:43:53.760 that herd immunity.

00:43:55.260 Do you know who does?

00:43:57.700 Kanye.

00:43:59.720 Right.

00:44:00.660 Like, for me,

00:44:01.600 this is like,

00:44:02.760 you've probably watched me

00:44:04.800 push over a lot

00:44:05.760 of bamboo walls,

00:44:07.040 you know.

00:44:07.500 If you give me

00:44:08.300 a soft structure,

00:44:09.920 give me a little,

00:44:10.580 you know,

00:44:11.480 drywall,

00:44:12.520 I can punch through

00:44:13.540 some drywall.

00:44:14.760 But if I had a

00:44:15.760 concrete wall,

00:44:17.540 you know,

00:44:18.580 that's the end

00:44:19.280 of my power.

00:44:19.960 I could bang on

00:44:20.560 the concrete wall

00:44:21.280 all day long

00:44:21.880 with my powers

00:44:23.080 of persuasion,

00:44:23.840 but I don't have

00:44:24.280 that much horsepower.

00:44:25.980 But Kanye does.

00:44:27.480 Kanye could blow

00:44:28.140 right through

00:44:28.480 a concrete wall.

00:44:30.480 Kanye could,

00:44:31.140 like,

00:44:31.740 bulldoze a concrete wall

00:44:33.020 like it wasn't in there

00:44:33.940 because he has

00:44:34.920 that level of

00:44:35.780 persuasion power,

00:44:37.280 you know,

00:44:37.800 above my own.

00:44:39.000 So,

00:44:39.600 if he were to

00:44:40.580 identify the one

00:44:41.560 single biggest problem

00:44:42.760 with structural

00:44:44.720 systemic racism,

00:44:46.640 which is the

00:44:47.180 teachers' unions,

00:44:47.920 or simply just,

00:44:49.860 you know,

00:44:50.300 rather than go

00:44:51.180 against somebody,

00:44:52.180 it's better to say,

00:44:53.120 I'm in favor

00:44:53.980 of school choice.

00:44:55.440 You know,

00:44:55.560 I'm going to help

00:44:56.380 some people develop

00:44:57.400 some models of

00:44:58.320 better schooling

00:44:58.920 or something like that.

00:45:00.300 You know,

00:45:00.560 go the positive direction.

00:45:02.340 But if he were to

00:45:03.300 just make a single,

00:45:05.440 a single issue

00:45:06.960 endorsement criteria,

00:45:09.660 he would determine

00:45:10.720 the next president

00:45:11.600 and he would end

00:45:13.540 systemic racism

00:45:14.780 in one generation.

00:45:15.660 So,

00:45:16.600 there you go.

00:45:18.020 All right.

00:45:18.840 Somebody says,

00:45:19.720 Black Lives Matter

00:45:20.620 equals no charter schools.

00:45:22.540 Incorrect.

00:45:23.180 Black Lives Matter

00:45:24.120 do not mind

00:45:25.220 charter schools.

00:45:27.600 You hear this clearly.

00:45:30.020 Black Lives Matter

00:45:31.000 are not opposed

00:45:32.600 to charter schools.

00:45:34.460 Kind of like them.

00:45:36.320 Now,

00:45:37.580 everybody's different,

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 26, 2020

Episode 1071 Scott Adams： Protests, Riots, Biden the HOAX Parrot, Coronavirus, Teacher Unions, Calculating How Much BLM

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