Episode 1701 Scott Adams: My Conversation With A Woke Person Did Not Go Well. And Fake News
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Summary
A conversation I had with a young, woke person about why Black women are doing so much better than white people in college and why it's so hard to be a black woman in America. And then, the conversation quickly turns to racism.
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Because you're better looking and smarter than you were yesterday.
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Well, I had a conversation yesterday with a young, woke person.
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Do you think that if you put a young, woke person and me in the same conversation,
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It started out with a conversation about sexism and all the sexism and misogyny and discrimination against girls and boys.
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And I said, were you aware that girls do better than boys in a lot of different ways?
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And today, by coincidence, I saw a list of some of the things that are going better for girls than boys.
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Now, here we're talking about mostly younger folks.
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And so somebody did a little chart I saw online.
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For every hundred girls or women, how many boys or men are doing the same thing?
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So, for example, how many women, for every hundred women who take AP or honors courses in high school, in art or music,
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how many men do the same thing, honors courses in art and music?
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So there are almost twice as many women who attain this high level in school.
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And then you go right down the line, who earns an associate's degree, who takes these AP courses,
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who graduates, who's got a master's degree, who's in the top 10%.
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So on educational attainment, it's not even close.
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How many woke young people are aware that women are just destroying men
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at least the entry level which predicts the future?
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How about health-related stuff and mental health?
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Again, an entire list of things that women are way better off than men.
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Basically, it's about dying from suicide and everything from autism to learning disorders.
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If you take most of the measures of well-being, women and girls are all at the top.
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Now, what do you think happened when I mentioned that to a young, woke person?
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Did the young, woke person say, you know, that's not exactly what I've been hearing,
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but I'm going to take it under advisement, maybe do a little research myself,
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The conversation very quickly turned to my racism.
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And so I said, well, if you think you live in a world in which it's hard to be a woman
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and it's hard to be black, can you explain to me why black women are getting into college
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and achieving more scholastically at the moment than white men?
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Can you explain to me how black women who have two strikes against them, according to you,
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you, the woke person, they have two strikes against them, and they're big ones, according to you,
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Why is it that they're getting into college at higher rates than white men?
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Which also suggests that they'll have higher incomes.
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Now, of course, we're not talking about 50 years ago.
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But how many woke young people were aware that if you're both black and a woman,
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Do you know what's the only thing that's better than being black and female
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in terms of educational, you know, let's say the educational first step
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or even the ultimate step of getting your degree?
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The only thing better than being a black woman is being a white woman.
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But being a woman is a pretty good deal in 2022 educationally,
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which should also translate into career, which should translate into income, etc.
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Now, when the question of racism came up, I did the Chappelle reframe.
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Let me ask you, who do you think is suffering more,
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Tiger Woods or a poor white person in Appalachia?
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And, of course, Tiger Woods is doing a little bit better.
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He's got his issues, too, but he's doing better than the poorest of white people.
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You know, how many do you think that Michael Jordan
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gets discriminated against more than, say, an average white person?
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He probably gets more things than the average person.
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And so I was explaining to her that it always has been about rich versus poor.
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And that she has been hypnotized into believing it's a racial problem
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so that the rich people can cover up the fact that they're in power
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and that they're suppressing other people to keep their power.
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Now, what happens when you hear that for the first time?
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Never heard that if you're rich and black, you're in pretty good shape.
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And if you're poor and white, you're in pretty bad shape.
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And it reminded me how little information gets from one bubble to the next.
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how many times am I discriminated against for race or gender every day?
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without overt, very direct discrimination against me
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that you can tell is based on my gender and my race.
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People making direct assumptions about my beliefs
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of being denied promotions in two different corporate worlds
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you're white, you're male, we can't promote you.
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Now, how many black people have ever had that happen to them?
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We're not going to hire you because you're black.
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did you or did you not get discriminated in employment?
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So yeah, I could produce presumably thousands of...
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I don't know exactly what they're replacing it with