Episode 1317 Scott Adams: Introducing the Anti-Violent-Idiot Party. If you Don't Support it, Well, Look at You
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 3 minutes
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144.02156
Summary
On today's show, we have a special guest on the show to talk about a variety of topics, from Rush Limbaugh's departure from the conservative radio show Rush Vs, to the new guidelines for social distance, to why it's OK to wear a nice shirt, and much more.
Transcript
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Hey everybody, I forgot to tweet this morning about this live stream, so we may not have as many people on here for a while.
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If you'd like to make this a special time, and I'm talking about more special than it already is, and it's pretty darn special, I think you'd agree.
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All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid, I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, even when you've got a collar on your shirt.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it's about to happen now all over the world at the same time.
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All right, don't make fun of me about my collared shirt.
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So, now our experts are telling us that six feet of social distance may be overkill, and that maybe, just maybe, three feet is good enough.
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And a lot of people are quite reasonably saying, uh, no, I'm not wearing shoes, and I'm still wearing pajamas.
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But it turns out that there was no data for the six-foot guidance we originally had.
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Do you think, therefore, that the experts did a bad job because they said six feet of distance when three feet was good enough?
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Probably. Or at least there's no data to say six is better.
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Remember, in the beginning of the pandemic, everybody was guessing.
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So, I don't hold the experts responsible for guessing that six feet was safer than three.
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Doesn't your common sense say, how far does your spittle go?
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I don't know if my spittle goes six feet, but it definitely goes three.
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So, I think that was a reasonable, six feet, I think, was totally reasonably good sense
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that the entire six feet didn't make much difference.
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Dan Bongino got picked to fill in for the spot that Rush Limbaugh left with his passing.
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And a person who, if you looked at any one of his individuals, how much discrimination?
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I mean, I don't know how you measure such things, but I don't think anybody thinks they not only overcome it,
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That the Asian American communities have been unusually successful,
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So, they kind of ruined the whole hard work doesn't work theory.
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So, let's talk more about this, because there's a larger picture that's coming together.
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So, I'm going to give you a bunch of individual stories, but then we're going to tie them together into this beautiful quilt.
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I'm looking at the comments, and people are obsessed by me finally wearing a nice shirt.
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I feel as if wearing the actual shirt I woke up in, you know, my pajamas, is more casual.
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We're going to go back to maximum comfort, because that's how the simultaneous sip was meant to be.
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So, I'll go through a number of anecdotes, and then we'll tie them together into a tapestry.
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So, WikiLeaks is reporting that the reason Trump won, or at least one of them, is that Clinton used media contacts.
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In other words, she used the news, to which she had close ties, to elevate Trump during the primary.
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And now there's actually documents where you can read the Democrats' actual strategy.
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And it says directly that their strategy was to, in the primaries anyway, in 2016, to promote these three candidates, Cruz, Trump, and Carson.
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They would drive all the other candidates to the left, which would ruin the Republican Party.
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And that ultimately, they would end up electing somebody for the general, who could not get elected.
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But what they didn't count on, what they didn't count on, is the last thing you want to do is give Trump extra energy.
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Because Trump, as I've often said, is an energy monster.
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But if you give Ben Carson lots of attention, does he become a better candidate?
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Or does it start to highlight maybe some suboptimal things about his policies or whatever?
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I don't know that Carson was an energy monster.
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One of my favorite politicians, just in terms of pure talent, Ted Cruz is among the top.
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Meaning that if you give Ted Cruz more attention, does he become more popular?
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You know, to some extent, everybody does, but it's got to be a matter of degree, right?
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What happens when you send more energy toward Trump?
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Trump actually, it's like he's an energy monster.
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Meaning that he takes the energy that you're sending him.
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And then he sends it out in another direction that benefits him.
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The more energy you send to Mike Cernovich, the more he will reform it, send it out the way he wants to, and get stronger.
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I don't know if it's something you're born with or if it's technique.
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But the more energy people send my way, you've watched it right in front of you, right?
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I reform the energy into the form I want, and then I send it out the way I want it.
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Every time somebody says, watch this great criticism we have about AOC, this will take her down.
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She reforms it, sends it out the way she wants it.
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Never use the Pied Piper strategy on an energy monster.
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They send all this energy toward Bill Burr, and Bill Burr says, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, reform.
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So you start to recognize the energy monsters, right?
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Pierce Morgan not only walked off his show, and it dropped by 30%,
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but as of today, the news says it went down another 100,000 viewers.
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He took 40% off of the profits and, well, 40% off of the traffic for his network just by walking off.
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All that energy and hate went toward Pierce Morgan, and he said, boom, there you go.
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How many job offers did Pierce Morgan get in the last week?
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Well, I don't know, but I'll bet they're pretty profitable looking.
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Because if you can make 40% of your audience disappear just by walking off,
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you can get a very big offer for your next job, because it means you have, obviously, a following.
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The first story is that WikiLeaks says that the Clinton strategy was definitely to promote these characters
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and also then to promote their extremism, making them look like racists.
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We know, it's documented, that the Clinton strategy was to use their media,
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their friendly media, to paint the Republicans as extremists, which really means racists, right?
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These will seem like separate stories until I tie them together.
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There's, anecdotally, we're seeing lots of stories of specific anti, what looks like anti-Asian racism.
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And there's a video today of some gym fitness guy who was yelling at a woman in traffic.
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You know, they were in their cars, and at one point he gets out of his car,
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and he's yelling stuff and blaming her for the Wuhan virus, etc.
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And then you see the fitness guy who's threatening her and saying racist stuff.
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You see him say, you know, recording doesn't do anything.
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And I said to myself, I don't think racism is the problem here.
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What happens when you record somebody saying racist things in 2021?
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Not in the death kind, but in his, let's say, his social and economic life.
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Do you say to yourself, well, there's an example of a racist?
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There's no doubt that you could label him a racist based on what we saw in the video.
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But isn't there a sort of a larger story that's sort of peeking out?
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That maybe he was, I'm going to do a little cursing.
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Because there's an F word that needs to flavor this story.
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When this guy said, you know, recording doesn't do anything.
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He revealed that in addition to being a racist, and I don't think anybody can doubt this,
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Because recording him saying racist stuff ended his life, basically.
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So, here's a guy who somehow in 2021 didn't realize that being recorded saying racist stuff in public
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It's kind of a fucking idiot problem, isn't it?
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Are, this might be provocative, but, and I'm not sure if you know the answer to this,
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I mean, I read the news, and it sounds like they are, but I don't think it's true.
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I would like to think that the population of fucking idiots is somewhat distributed.
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I would like to think it's not concentrated in one ethnicity.
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So, you've got the Pied Piper strategy, where the Democrats work with the press
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And it's documented as a strategy as opposed to a truth.
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It's documented as manipulation and propaganda by definition.
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Then remember the fine people hoax, where you had these people who, again,
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appeared on camera carrying torches and saying racist stuff.
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But when the president talked about it, I mean, the racists were real,
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but when the president talked about it, if there's anybody new to my live stream,
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I hope all of you know by now that the fine people thing was a hoax, right?
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The president never said there were fine people on the racist side.
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He clarified, I'm not talking about the racists.
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But the hoax is created by cutting out that part where he says,
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They just cut that part out, and then it looks like he is talking about the racists.
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So, that fits into the Pied Piper strategy, doesn't it?
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So, once you see that the Democrats working with the press had an actual strategy,
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the fine people hoax fits right into it, doesn't it?
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Now you can start seeing, now that you've seen the strategy,
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I'll start filling in the parts, and you can see how well it worked.
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Now you see the CNN is trying to cancel Abraham Lincoln.
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And they're running stories and writing articles about how his racial opinions were,
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And they're trying to make him out that maybe he was a little bit racist.
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Now, I would think that by modern standards, that's true.
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He probably was, I think that would just be an obvious thing to say,
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that you could pick really anybody from that era, just anybody.
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Even somebody who was famous for being an abolitionist,
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probably they were racist compared to modern standards.
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So, canceling Lincoln, what do you think is the point of that?
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Do you think that they're running this because it's interesting?
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CNN said, what's the most interesting thing we can do that's not current?
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So, it's a historical thing that our audience would be interested in,
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of all the things that we could talk about in all of history.
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And by the way, CNN does really good historical shows.
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But why was it they picked Lincoln, do you think?
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Now, part of it is because the statues were coming down,
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and then some places were being renamed that had Lincoln in the name.
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But it seems to me that there's a bigger play here,
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which is that Lincoln is the escape valve for accusations of white racism.
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So, if you say, hey, you white people are all racists.
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You did, you know, however many decades of racial discrimination.
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And Lincoln was a white person who was revered,
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So, he's kind of like a problem white guy, right?
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Do you know who else doesn't fit the narrative?
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Now, watch the patterns start to come together.
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Asian Americans being successful is a counter-argument
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to the narrative that everything is about race.
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and you take out the Asian American counter-example,
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especially the New York Times leading the call,
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who did do real damage and violence to Asian Americans
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to make it sort of a white supremacist narrative.
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because the sheriff who was talking about this case,
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they found that he once made a China virus joke
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because he once made a China virus joke online.
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Like other viruses that were named after places,
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It looks Republican, but it doesn't look racist.
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the perpetrator having essentially mental illness.
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this was somebody who was on the edge mentally.
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But I'll just word it the way this guy worded it.
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I don't know if they were Asian or Asian-American.
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I would guess that any large group of Americans
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There are a lot of violent idiots in the world.
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So every time somebody takes one of these anecdotes,
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because you guys are trying to start a race war.
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don't know that their opinions have been assigned to them.
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And they're a little bit violent, in my opinion.
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Because even if they're not doing the violence,
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I think we all agree that speech can be violence
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if the speech sort of promotes violence, right?
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You know, if the speech is what directly causes the violence,
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well, then the speech is part of that violence, right?