Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2032 Scott Adams： Dilbert Is Fully Canceled, Wuhan Virus Leak, Katie Hobbs, Lab Leak & More

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00:00:45.620 All right, well, I know some of you here are here to hear about the fireworks of Dilbert being

00:00:53.260 canceled. I'll give you the headline, but then I'll talk about it in detail after I do some other

00:00:58.080 stories. So the headline is that the way comics are distributed, there's a syndication company,

00:01:05.540 and then they distribute to the newspapers that buy it. So a number of newspapers individually

00:01:10.980 canceled Dilbert, but there was a lot of pressure on the syndication company. So the syndication

00:01:17.740 company decided to part ways with me completely, immediately. And that means that there is no

00:01:24.860 syndication vehicle to get Dilbert to any customers. So I don't personally have any contracts

00:01:31.680 with newspapers. That goes through the syndication company. Now, just to be clear, the syndication

00:01:38.740 company didn't really have any choice because their clients were hopping mad. And I think the artists,

00:01:45.240 the other cartoonists, the other cartoonists were mad, and their staff was mad, and basically

00:01:49.920 everybody was mad. So they made a business decision, which I don't consider anything like censorship

00:01:57.560 or anything like that. So I like my syndication company. No, no, no, they are not cowards.

00:02:06.440 You could blame the newspapers for being a little skittish, but the syndication company didn't have

00:02:14.820 any choice. They were just forced into it. So don't give them a hard time, okay? It's actually a great

00:02:20.460 company. I've been very happy with them for a very long time. Mark Dice just did something? Well, that's

00:02:29.880 nice. All right, we'll get to more of that and the whiteboard and all, but let's talk about the

00:02:35.200 headlines. So apparently, there's now a general government agreement that the COVID came from a

00:02:43.960 lab leak in Wuhan. Do I have that story right? That the government is now saying it's like the

00:02:52.120 Department of, was it Defense or something? Or Energy? I don't know why I said it. But anyway,

00:02:58.880 the government's saying, yeah, probably. Are they saying probably or definitely? It was a little

00:03:05.300 ambiguous. Is it probably or definitely from the Wuhan lab? Probably, right? Yeah, we're only a probably.

00:03:15.860 Here's the strangest thing about that story. I thought we already knew that.

00:03:22.120 We keep getting news about things that I thought had already happened. Am I the only one who thinks

00:03:27.940 the news keeps telling me things that's already happened? Like, sooner or later, there'll be a

00:03:32.620 celebrity who dies, and you're going to say, I thought that celebrity died a long time ago.

00:03:38.180 It's like news of things you're pretty sure already happened, but it really didn't.

00:03:42.900 All right, does it make any difference that it escaped from the Wuhan lab?

00:03:46.320 Well, it does say that Anthony Fauci has some explaining, doesn't it? Now, as Elon Musk pointed

00:03:54.840 out in the tweet, when Fauci said that he did not fund or was not involved in funding, gain

00:04:02.620 of, what is it, gain of function in Wuhan? Apparently, it went through EcoHealth and then

00:04:10.420 went there. So, basically, it was like, no, I didn't fund the lab. I funded this third

00:04:15.920 party. Who funded the lab? So, I don't know if that's going to be his escape plan for not

00:04:24.480 lying to Congress, because it certainly looked like he lied to Congress, didn't it? But maybe

00:04:30.140 he's got some technical out where he can say, well, technically, I only funded this other

00:04:36.040 thing. Yeah, I don't know that he lied. He may have been technically correct because he

00:04:43.980 chose his words carefully, which is nothing to celebrate, but maybe. I hear choosing your

00:04:51.100 words poorly can get you in trouble. I hear that's a thing. All right. So, I don't know

00:05:00.380 what to say about that, because it doesn't change anything, because what is not in evidence

00:05:06.560 is that anybody was doing something intentional, meaning they were doing gain of function, which

00:05:13.840 is dangerous enough, but it doesn't mean they were necessarily trying to create a weapon.

00:05:18.780 Don't know about that. Maybe they were trying to defend against a weapon. I don't know. Maybe.

00:05:23.760 But as Michael Schellenberger points out, that the theory that is now essentially backed by the

00:05:33.540 government, the mass media condemned the lab leak theory as a, quote, debunked conspiracy theory,

00:05:40.720 and Facebook censored people who dared suggest it. You know, it's so easy to forget what happened,

00:05:47.840 you know, just two years ago. But, oh my God, did the government abuse us. In every possible way

00:05:55.460 they could abuse us, they abused us, you know, in hindsight. Also, Michael Schellenberger in a tweet

00:06:02.700 points out, it's clear that the scientists who claimed in Landsat, you know, that's a respected

00:06:10.420 publication, on February 19th, 2020, quote, we stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy

00:06:17.560 theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. So, as Michael Schellenberger

00:06:27.680 says, they were misrepresenting their unfounded opinion as a scientific fact. Does that sound

00:06:35.740 familiar? Doesn't it sound just like the 50 intel officials who signed a document about Hunter's

00:06:42.880 laptop? And they were all lying, but not technically? They weren't lying because they said, well, it has

00:06:49.300 all the hallmarks of, all right. So, do you think these scientists were lying, and they knew it, when

00:06:58.460 they said, oh, it's a conspiracy theory? Yeah, I don't know. I think it depends on the wording.

00:07:07.700 So, they said it was a conspiracy theory suggesting that it came from, oh, suggesting it didn't have

00:07:15.040 natural origins, but that was just because there wasn't enough evidence yet.

00:07:22.360 So, I'm not sure it's, you know, evidence of a lie.

00:07:25.460 All right. Well, it looks like the locals' audience is pretty big today.

00:07:36.320 All right. Is China collapsing? I just, you know, I read a long thread, and who knows? I think it's

00:07:44.200 impossible to know what's happening in China. But there was a long thread talking about the

00:07:48.500 demographic collapse, and some are saying that the, you know, the population of China is going to start

00:07:57.220 decreasing really, really fast. Like, by 2050, there could be, you know, half as many people living

00:08:05.360 there. Like, I don't think that's, that doesn't sound right. But they're in real trouble. They don't

00:08:11.540 have enough young people. And I didn't realize how many, maybe you could do a fact check on this.

00:08:16.140 You know those ghost cities that are, that are in China? There are a whole bunch of, like,

00:08:22.300 skyscrapers that are just empty. And one of the things I learned, and I don't know if it's true,

00:08:29.520 but it might be true. Did you know that they were all purchased? And why? So, I am private.

00:08:37.500 Oh, okay. Now I'm private. So, the reason that real estate is all purchased, even if people don't

00:08:51.320 want to live in it, is it's one of the few stores of value that the Chinese citizens trust. So, 0.98

00:08:58.000 they're not trusting their regular investments, maybe not even trusting their banks. But if you buy

00:09:04.540 real estate, and apparently, you don't even furnish it, or even finish the construction,

00:09:11.300 because it's worth more, if you can sell it, and somebody can customize it themselves.

00:09:16.820 So, apparently, the Chinese built all these cities, sold all the apartments, but nobody wanted to move 1.00

00:09:23.820 in, because they were just investments. And they didn't want people living in their apartment,

00:09:27.700 because it would make their investment worth less. Talk about a problem. So, I've seen the videos of

00:09:36.300 the skyscrapers being destroyed, but then I saw a reference to hundreds of these cities across China.

00:09:46.500 Can anybody fact check that? I always assumed it was, you know, one or two. I just thought,

00:09:53.080 oh, there's this one or two cities that are ghost cities, but there are hundreds of them. People are

00:09:59.360 saying that's true. Hundreds of them. Hundreds of, like, instant cities that are empty, and they're

00:10:06.120 just owned, I guess. Wow. Oh, you're in China? All right. Buildings are made of chalk, and so the 1.00

00:10:17.960 building... Oh, are they also building them so they're unsafe, because they know they can sell

00:10:22.860 them anyway? Oh, interesting. Yeah, they overbuilt, but did they overbuild? Because people bought them.

00:10:34.900 Yeah, overbuilt in some sense, yes. All right, well, I'm suspicious about whether China's population 0.99

00:10:42.180 will collapse, but all the signs are pointing to it. Wouldn't that become one of the biggest problems

00:10:47.240 in the world? I don't know. Or maybe it would solve a problem for China. I don't know.

00:10:55.260 There was a Rasmussen poll. This one probably won't get me in trouble.

00:11:04.380 In which the EPA is saying that the tests in that Ohio, East Palestine town where the train

00:11:10.980 derailed, they're saying that the drinking water quality, there's no quality concerns.

00:11:16.180 But Rasmussen asked people if they'd be willing to drink the water. Only 23% of voters say that they

00:11:25.760 would feel safe drinking the water if they lived near the site where the train derailed. 23%.

00:11:32.360 That's roughly a quarter. Roughly a quarter. Yeah. So a quarter of the people would feel comfortable

00:11:42.120 drinking the water around a toxic cesspool. Well, good for them. You know, I applaud their confidence.

00:11:52.280 I don't know. How about you? How many of you would feel comfortable because the science says the water's

00:11:57.960 good? Science says it's good. Trust it. Would you feel comfortable? I might drink it, but I would never

00:12:06.540 feel comfortable. The water doesn't come from there. Oh, is that true? Is it true that the water doesn't

00:12:14.680 come from anywhere near there? It's like pumped in from somewhere else? I'm seeing some no's, but I think

00:12:21.840 that's no's to the other question. Still better than Flint. Yeah, maybe. All right. Well, let's talk about

00:12:32.360 Katie Hobbs. So apparently there's some kind of hearing or investigation by some private lawyer.

00:12:41.660 I assume they were working for somebody. I don't know. But there are all these allegations of the

00:12:48.100 Sinaloa cartel funneling money to politicians in Arizona, including Governor Katie Hobbs. Now,

00:12:58.000 I googled again to see this story. Correct me if I'm wrong. There's no major media covering it.

00:13:07.140 Am I right? No major media is covering this. But the hearing is happening, right? There's an actual

00:13:13.700 hearing? Yeah. So it's not a rumor. There's an actual hearing with these specific allegations.

00:13:22.480 And correct me if I'm wrong. Some of the allegations were about the company that handles

00:13:28.860 their elections. Is that true? Now, does that sound like it's likely to be true? Do you think

00:13:40.620 these allegations are likely to play out as true? Here's my problem with it. It's a little too

00:13:50.480 on the nose. Yeah, it's too on the nose. It's a little too much like what you expected it would

00:13:56.520 be. And that, I'd never trust that. It's like, yeah, that's exactly what you would make up if you

00:14:03.940 were going to make it up. It would sound just like that. So the real world is messier. So whenever

00:14:10.760 you see something... Have you listened to the information presented? I have not. But I also

00:14:23.960 don't trust it. So if I listen to it, I don't know if that would be helping me. So here's what I'm

00:14:29.320 going to do. I'm going to kind of wait to see if the major media picks it up. Because even Fox News

00:14:33.900 is not reporting on it, as far as I know. Is that right? So if you can't get even the

00:14:40.320 right-leaning media to bite on it, I would hold off on my confidence. So I'm going to do,

00:14:46.400 for Katie Hobbs, the innocent until proven guilty. I mean, it's a disturbing allegation.

00:14:53.660 How does it... Somebody asked me, how does it feel to lose all of my money? Do you think

00:15:03.660 I lost all of my money? There's almost nothing about this story about me that's true. It's

00:15:12.200 like, it's almost entirely... It's now devolved into, like, a fantasy story. All right. Mississippi

00:15:22.080 Mississippi is the state is looking to appoint justices in an area where normally they would

00:15:30.400 be elected. And the reason they're doing that is that they think the elected ones must be

00:15:35.960 corrupt. So there's nothing good happening. Where is it? It's one area of one community.

00:15:47.240 Where is it? Why in the world is that not the first thing that I say? No, it's a district

00:15:55.620 within Jackson, which CNN reports is a majority black city. So here's my question. If the state

00:16:06.500 has decided that Jackson, Mississippi, is so lost that they need to appoint judges... And by the

00:16:17.060 way, it's being resisted by the locals who think it's white supremacy. But would you recommend

00:16:24.120 a young black man move to Jackson? Would you recommend that? If you were giving advice, hey, 0.98

00:16:31.340 young black man, would you move to Jackson? Now, right, one says yes. One says yes. Now, is this

00:16:43.880 a racial comment or an income or a class comment? How do you interpret it? Well, here's how it would

00:16:55.780 be racist. It would be racist if you said, don't go there because there are black people. That would 0.99

00:17:02.560 be clearly racist. I don't know how it could be anything else. But if you said, don't go there

00:17:09.340 because there are poor people and that breeds crime and you don't want to be around that. Would 1.00

00:17:15.180 that be fair? Could you say, don't go to a place with a lot of poor people and high crime?

00:17:22.640 You wouldn't be canceled for that, would you? So what if you said what I said?

00:17:29.480 That because of systemic racism, things are so bad in the black community that they're

00:17:36.000 disproportionately likely to be in poor neighborhoods. And it's such, it's so correlated,

00:17:42.700 unfortunately, nobody wants this to be true, that you could use it as a proxy of where there's

00:17:48.940 problems. In the inner cities, we're not talking about, you know, some rural suburban place. Now,

00:17:55.460 using it as a proxy, is that racist? I need an opinion here. If you use it as a proxy, it's just one way to

00:18:06.760 know where there's going to be a lot of crime for systemic racism reasons. So if you make that

00:18:14.880 correlation, but you're very carefully saying, I'm not saying anything about black people.

00:18:21.720 I'm just saying that there's a proxy situation where, so in terms of information, it would be one

00:18:29.880 rule of thumb. Now, could that prevent you from going and living in a place that's majority black 1.00

00:18:38.580 and also high income and no crime? Well, it would. It would. Does it sound like I'm apologizing?

00:18:47.560 There are so many hallucinations that people are having about me. You should look into, well, never

00:18:55.700 mind. So let's talk about Dilbert. Dilbert's now fully canceled. You probably heard the news that

00:19:03.760 hundreds of newspapers or some big ones were canceling. But as of yesterday, $100. Wow. Thanks,

00:19:11.760 Greg. That's nice of you. Just a compliment there. And an overly large tip. Appreciate it.

00:19:22.960 So Dilbert is now fully canceled in all newspapers, calendars, books, because my syndication company,

00:19:29.720 who does the newspaper syndication, they sell it to the newspapers. And they also provide it to,

00:19:35.760 they also provide it to all the, they also do the calendars in the books. So they decided they

00:19:43.860 couldn't take the heat. By the way, I don't blame them. It's not a terrible decision, by the way. I don't

00:19:51.760 blame them at all. And I expect them to be professional about it, and I will be professional too. So it's a very

00:19:58.460 long relationship that's ending. But don't give them a hard time. It's the newspapers who pressure

00:20:08.160 them, and they have a business model. They have a responsibility to their, you know, to the people

00:20:14.720 who work there. So there were a lot of complaints from other artists. Have you ever heard that artists

00:20:20.680 say bad things about me? Have you ever heard that? It's the most consistent thing. Artists say bad

00:20:28.340 things about me. Anyway, so Dilbert, whenever that winds down, I don't know how instant it is,

00:20:35.060 it will not be available at Dilbert.com, I don't think, because I'm not going to manage it.

00:20:41.440 And it won't be available in any form, except whatever's already in stores, I guess,

00:20:46.020 or already in the pipeline. So the media has untethered me. I'm untethered. I'm not sure

00:20:57.860 if they want that, but that's what happened. Anyway, Dilbert will be available still every

00:21:03.140 day on the Locals platform for subscribers, along with lots of other content, including

00:21:10.500 these live streams. So if you'd like to support, let's say, I don't know if it's supporting me,

00:21:18.660 or it's putting a thumb in the eye of the newspapers who canceled me, one or the other. If you'd like

00:21:24.740 to be part of that, the Locals community, five bucks a month if you buy an annual membership.

00:21:32.000 All right. Well, let's talk about this issue. So the canceling, if you look at all the newspapers

00:21:43.060 and also my syndicate, I would characterize them this way. It was a bunch of rich white people,

00:21:50.660 you know, the leaders of newspapers and head of the syndicate. So it's a bunch of well-off

00:21:55.680 white people who do not live around black people. And they decided to cancel me because I thought 0.94

00:22:07.180 that what they're doing is a good strategy. So I agreed with their strategy and then they canceled

00:22:13.940 me because nobody wants to ask them where they live or why. Now, again, I'm not saying that any of

00:22:23.380 these people are racist. I'm saying that they probably used a proxy and said, well, you know,

00:22:31.000 that's one of the ways you know where to live. And you want to avoid crime, not avoiding black people. 0.98

00:22:36.860 That would be racist, but just avoiding, you know, low-income crime areas. So they've all done that 1.00

00:22:44.180 as I've recommended, but they canceled me for recommending it.

00:22:47.620 And now there are a bunch of made-up reasons because the actual thing that people are mad at

00:22:56.060 me about, they all agree with. So nobody disagrees with my two main claims that you should treat all

00:23:03.420 individuals as individuals, no discrimination. Everybody agrees with that, except racists, I guess,

00:23:09.960 which I disavow. And then the second point that you should avoid anything that statistically looks

00:23:16.840 like a bad idea for you personally. Nobody's disagreed with that. Have you noticed? The actual

00:23:25.200 claim, nobody's disagreed with. Not black people. In fact, the main supporters I've seen lately were 0.97

00:23:32.960 black. And they were saying, yeah, if you listen to it in context, it makes perfect sense. And a number

00:23:40.160 of black people are telling me they did the same thing. You know, they looked at their neighborhood

00:23:45.480 and said, you know, I think I'll live over here. It looks safer. So I'm getting agreement from black 1.00

00:23:51.920 pundits, from white pundits. And then when I asked the people who were mad at me, and mostly it's name

00:23:58.900 calling, I asked them, what is it you're actually mad at? I'll give you an example. When the, my

00:24:04.840 syndicate canceled me, they did a press release, I guess, on social media. And they said that they

00:24:11.460 oppose hate and discrimination. Do they know that was my point? My point was to try to avoid hate and

00:24:20.760 discrimination. That was my entire point. Is if somebody, if you believe that there's a group of

00:24:27.700 people who have a statistical likelihood to discriminate against you, not any individual,

00:24:35.300 but just collectively, there's a, there's an impulse there, then you should get away from that.

00:24:40.640 And I would call that, I specifically called the people I wanted to get away from,

00:24:45.560 but this was hyperbole. This is overstating it. Everybody who understands hyperbole knows this was

00:24:50.980 hyperbole, meaning an exaggeration. When I said that black people were like a hate group. 0.99

00:24:59.540 And that was based on, oh, I'll talk about that in a moment. But it wasn't because I hated anybody. 0.99

00:25:05.300 In fact, hate wasn't even part of the conversation, was it? Has hate been any part of the conversation?

00:25:11.520 I don't think so. Because I don't hate anybody. But I was concerned that somebody hated me.

00:25:19.380 Nobody specific. So I'm not even sure that hate was right, right thing. How about, yeah,

00:25:26.360 and discrimination is the other thing I was trying to avoid. So if you avoid discrimination,

00:25:31.460 you are discriminating. Is that true? If you avoid discrimination, you're discriminating. It is

00:25:42.280 true. It's definitely true. All right. Here's some other things people said. They know what's in my

00:25:51.040 racist heart because of all of my years of racist tweeting, which is zero. There is zero any other

00:26:00.500 thing that you will find anywhere in my Twitter that would suggest any racist anything, right?

00:26:07.060 There's nothing there. And believe me, believe me, if there were anything there, you don't think

00:26:14.120 you'd be seeing it on social media by now. It's the first thing they do. They go through your old

00:26:18.860 tweets, and then they show that your new tweet is part of the pattern. Have you noticed that that

00:26:24.200 doesn't exist? Have you noticed that where they go and they find part of my pattern is not there?

00:26:32.480 So there are people who think that I went my entire career and just like snapped or something.

00:26:38.580 So no, there are not years of racist tweets. There are zero of them. Other people say my big problem

00:26:44.400 is that I conflated class and race. They said that after I tweeted, everybody knows that class and race

00:26:52.320 are not the same thing and I treat them differently. Who doesn't know that? In fact, that's one of my

00:27:00.340 biggest, yeah, one of my biggest public statements is agreeing with Dave Chappelle, basically, that

00:27:08.940 we're treating race as the primary variable, but it's always been economics. Every time we treat race

00:27:17.140 as the way to understand anything, it doesn't work. I've said that forever. But class does. If you look

00:27:27.160 at class, it explains everything. So there's a PhD fellow who I'm going to talk to, a black gentleman,

00:27:38.020 who wants to talk to me. And his complaint was, what? That's not true.

00:27:50.040 Somebody is sending me that my Twitter account was suspended. That can't be true.

00:27:56.880 Let's see. You're joking, right?

00:27:59.040 No, it's still there. All right. That was a good prank, though, but it's still there. Still

00:28:07.500 there. All right. Now, so I have never conflated race and class. And people imagining that I

00:28:15.520 did, nobody does that, do they? Or if they do, that's pretty dumb. 0.99

00:28:23.420 Um, I'm also accused of, uh, they know that I'm a racist, they say, because of my right-wing 0.97

00:28:31.360 politics. Would any of you who have watched me consider me right-wing? What's your opinion?

00:28:39.840 Do I, do I present as right-wing to you? Yeah. Everybody, everybody who knows me knows the

00:28:46.520 answer is no. I'm not right-wing. Left to Bernie. All right. The other thing they say is,

00:28:53.100 uh, uh, uh, I called black Americans a hate group, as I said, but that was hyperbole and 0.68

00:28:58.000 within, within context, everybody knows what that means, but it's hyperbole. Um, 0.85

00:29:04.400 and that I espoused racism. Did I espouse racism or did I say you should try to get away from

00:29:13.240 it? I said, you should try to get away from it, which apparently is racism itself.

00:29:19.880 But what do you do if you, if you can't discriminate, how do you get away from it?

00:29:29.320 Or do you just accept it? Is that a requirement?

00:29:31.980 All right. Here's my big question to you. Um, are there, let, let me see if there, uh, any

00:29:41.360 black Americans watching right now. I have a question for you. I did, could you identify

00:29:46.380 yourself? Any black Americans who are watching the live stream right now, just if you're willing,

00:29:52.840 identify yourself, because I have a question for you.

00:29:54.580 Uh, all right, we got a few. Here's the question. If you were looking for a home, let's say you

00:30:05.860 were shopping for a new home or an apartment, and the place that you were looking at had, uh,

00:30:12.740 uh, Republican political signs around it. And let's say you saw the neighbors wearing,

00:30:19.820 you know, MAGA hats or something. Would you feel comfortable living there? Go. Would you feel

00:30:27.160 comfortable in a neighborhood of red hat wearing, uh, Republicans? I'm saying no. Okay. So

00:30:40.000 there's some yeses and there's some no's, some yeses and there's some no's. Now, suppose,

00:30:48.980 and you know, I know, I know why there's a difference. Let me tell you why there's a difference.

00:30:54.300 The difference is that conservative blacks already understand, um, conservatives. So if you're actually 0.96

00:31:03.600 a conservative yourself, you understand that they're not judging you by your color.

00:31:07.060 If you're not a conservative, you think they are. Am I right? But, but black conservatives know that's 1.00

00:31:15.720 not happening. In fact, it's the opposite. They know that in the Republican side, Republicans are

00:31:22.040 really, really strict about, it's not about anything but your, you know, your contribution. You know,

00:31:29.540 what are you doing? It's about your activities. Now, that's not to say that there aren't a bunch of

00:31:34.100 racist, uh, Republicans. You know, they're racist in all groups. But you saw that in the comments, 0.97

00:31:43.160 there were a number of people who said, uh, I wouldn't feel comfortable. I'm going to make, uh,

00:31:49.520 Teddy, the, the, uh, let me talk about the victim narrative in a minute because that's,

00:31:55.060 that's the NPC comment. There are two NPC comments. I'll just say this now. Uh, one,

00:32:00.880 tried to explain the difference between the first amendment and private companies deciding to cancel

00:32:07.040 me. And a lot of people tried to explain that to me this week because they think I don't understand

00:32:13.340 that. Now, only an NPC, like a non-person, uh, you know, non-player character would believe that I don't

00:32:23.280 understand that. And that when I say that free speech is expensive, that somehow I've lost the

00:32:29.660 distinction between private companies acting and a government rule that says what you can say and

00:32:34.920 what you can't say. I do understand that. I do. Secondly, the other NPC comment, like the, the lowest

00:32:43.520 level of analysis is, uh, that I'm playing the victim, playing the victim. How could I describe

00:32:53.400 this situation without you saying that? How in the world could I simply objectively describe what

00:33:02.120 happened without it sounding like you think I'm, you know, I'm a victim? Have you heard me say,

00:33:09.960 oh, now I won't be able to eat? No, no. I'm kind of the opposite of playing the victim, but I am

00:33:19.740 describing what happened. For example, I incorrectly tweeted today that I lost three careers by being

00:33:28.960 white. And somebody corrected me. I was like, shoot, I was pretty sure I had that right. The first one was 0.97

00:33:38.080 Crocker National Bank, where my boss told me, uh, that white men could not be promoted directly.

00:33:47.140 Now, some people questioned whether that ever happened. And you just have to ask anybody who

00:33:52.360 lived in San Francisco in the eighties or nineties. It happened to everybody. Like it was more like a

00:33:58.300 universal thing than some weird thing that happened to one guy. So Crocker Bank said I couldn't be

00:34:04.960 promoted. And then I went to Pacific Belt. And after a few years, they called me in and my boss

00:34:11.680 told me directly, you can't be promoted because you're white and you're male. So I left to become 1.00

00:34:20.420 a cartoonist where it wouldn't matter what color I was. How'd that work out? Do you think I would be

00:34:28.520 canceled if I were not white? I know the answer, but just answer. Do you think if I were not white 0.58

00:34:36.640 that I would be canceled for saying exactly what I said, saying exactly the same words?

00:34:43.040 No, there's not even, there's not even a small chance. There isn't the slightest chance.

00:34:48.080 No, this is purely racial. This is purely racial. You all know it. There's not a single yes going by. 0.62

00:34:55.560 There's not a single person who believes I would have been canceled for, if I had not been white. 0.97

00:35:02.000 Nobody. Yeah. Somebody says yes if Asian, I suppose. Yeah. Turn on MSNBC. Are they talking about me?

00:35:13.080 All right. So I think we got agreement that it makes sense to not live with near, don't live near a

00:35:24.180 population of people who have been primed to have a bad opinion of you.

00:35:32.540 Does anybody disagree with the statement that it's good personal, let's say strategy,

00:35:40.020 to go where you don't think people are going to have a bad attitude about you?

00:35:44.860 Kurt says no agreement. Let me explain one dissenter. I had one dissenter who said, yes, I would go to an area

00:35:58.700 where I was skeptical of the people there. Did anything I said sounded like skepticism or a little bit of

00:36:10.460 questioning about him? Is that really what we were talking about? Because it's a matter of degree.

00:36:16.820 And the people who can't understand it's a matter of degree are really missing the whole story.

00:36:24.380 Now, there are plenty of neighborhoods where I might be skeptical or suspicious, but they don't rise to the

00:36:31.020 level where it would matter. But then there are other neighborhoods where you're not just skeptical,

00:36:36.300 you're scared to death. So if you replace skeptical with scared for your life, then you might get a

00:36:43.220 closer answer. But the trolls on YouTube are pretty active and pretty funny today.

00:36:58.380 You all go to Chicago and tell them you're colorblind, somebody says.

00:37:01.980 Yeah. Anyway, so I'll go to the whiteboard in a second. I asked on social media if people are

00:37:16.500 considering canceling their newspaper subscription because Dilbert got canceled. You want to know a

00:37:22.820 fun economic fact? It would only take about three people to cancel their newspaper subscriptions

00:37:29.440 for the newspaper to lose money. Because the amount that they paid for Dilbert is so small per newspaper

00:37:40.240 that it would only take a handful of people canceling that they would, you know, lose more money than

00:37:47.460 they gained by canceling it. I also wonder if newspapers are so close to being completely done that it

00:37:57.060 wouldn't take much to push them over the edge. If, for example, by the way, this is a possibility.

00:38:03.000 This is an actual possibility. If, for example, newspaper income went down 10%, because let's say

00:38:10.660 there was a big cancellation. I don't recommend that, by the way. I'm not in favor of boycotts.

00:38:14.840 I don't like boycotts. I don't like it when it happens to me. So I don't like it when it happens to

00:38:19.060 anybody. But if, hypothetically, newspapers lost 10% of their audience because of this, that would push

00:38:28.760 most of them into the negative, because their margins have shrunk and shrunk and shrunk. The

00:38:33.560 only reason they're still in business, I don't know if you know this, the reason that newspapers

00:38:37.520 are still in business is they used to have gigantic margins, and they've shrunk to almost nothing, but

00:38:44.000 there's still a little bit there for some newspapers. Other newspapers, especially the chains, are

00:38:50.040 running at a loss. And it's because some hedge fund owns them, they don't mind the loss, or whatever

00:38:56.460 it is. But a 10% drop in newspaper subscriptions might put half of the industry out of business.

00:39:06.300 It's a possibility. So it's possible that Dilbert canceled the entire newspaper industry, but not

00:39:13.420 a high chance. Not a high chance. Maybe a 20% risk. All right. So I gave an NPC assignment, as I

00:39:25.860 mentioned. On Twitter, I said, write a tweet explaining how the First Amendment doesn't apply

00:39:32.140 to private companies. And I actually labeled it NPC assignment. And then in the comments, you

00:39:39.860 have to see how many people sincerely tried to explain to me that the First Amendment doesn't

00:39:45.900 apply to private companies. After I'd give them an NPC assignment to do it, they did it.

00:39:52.020 And not ironically. They thought I needed to know. All right. And then this is my favorite

00:40:04.680 critic. Some individual who thinks he's going to... Kyle Parrish, who's running for Congress,

00:40:10.760 I guess North Carolina 5th District. And I don't like his chances. Based on his tweet, I don't

00:40:17.680 like his chances of getting elected. So he said, how long before Scott Adams posts a rant

00:40:24.720 about men needing to separate from women because they all hate him? And I thought to myself,

00:40:33.520 well, I've sort of already done that. You know, not the hate part, but I've already endorsed

00:40:41.140 the Mike Pence. Don't have, you know, a meal with somebody who's not your wife unless your wife is 1.00

00:40:46.660 there. And it's for the same reason. It's exactly the same thinking. The thinking is, while any

00:40:54.140 individual woman is fine, but the class of the category of people called women have been very much,

00:41:04.060 let's say, programmed by the Me Too narrative, which is, you know, a healthy, a healthy thing for

00:41:11.620 society to have that. But if you're trying to avoid a class of people who have been programmed by

00:41:17.320 society, women would be one of the groups. So I do recommend that you stay away from women, 1.00

00:41:24.800 certainly in a work environment where you're alone. So I wouldn't spend a time alone with women 1.00

00:41:34.820 because women have been radicalized by the narrative to look for Me Too-ing, and they're 0.96

00:41:42.000 going to find it where a man won't. If you spent the same amount of time with men, your odds of being

00:41:47.880 Me Too-ed would be practically zero. If you spend a lot of time with women in the workplace, what are 1.00

00:41:54.020 your odds? Actually, I'll ask you this. If you have a job where you personally spend a lot of time

00:41:58.620 with women, what are the odds you'd be accused of misogyny or sexism? I think it's close to 100%, 0.93

00:42:08.140 isn't it? Yeah. If you're surrounded by women in a work environment for an extended period of time, 1.00

00:42:15.540 I would say the odds go to 100%. So would it be good advice to ignore that? Or would it be good advice

00:42:23.420 to do what Mike Pence does and make sure everybody has equal opportunity? Don't treat any woman as 0.82

00:42:30.460 there's something wrong with her. That's not fair. But just treat it like a statistical fact.

00:42:36.380 How about that? So that's bad critiquing if I agree with you. All right, let's go to the whiteboard.

00:42:49.100 I was reading CNN's takedown of me today, and I think so far the press has done the same trick.

00:42:57.760 And the trick is to use just my quote and to ignore the context, which I helpfully added afterwards.

00:43:06.400 So if you only concentrate on the quote, you can make it mean anything you want. But if you look at

00:43:11.760 the context, it's harder. So I don't believe... Let me tell you what the Washington Post did.

00:43:17.960 All right. I don't encourage you to do gigantic super chats, but Ryan, I appreciate it.

00:43:34.200 All right. Here's what the Washington Post did. If you heard my comments in context,

00:43:41.880 they're much easier to go down, right? That's why a number of black 1.00

00:43:45.960 pundits have looked at my comments in context and then concluded, oh, that's fine.

00:43:52.520 I don't know if you know that, but black people who are looking at it in context are fine with it.

00:43:59.400 And they're telling me every day, privately and also on Twitter, right? Now, the ones who haven't

00:44:04.360 looked into the context, they're pretty worked up. They're pretty worked up. So here's what the

00:44:12.440 Washington Post does. They start with the story of what I said, which is the thing that gets

00:44:16.840 everybody riled up. They do add a little context, but it's at the end. If you add it at the end,

00:44:24.280 that's a hit piece, right? Because they could have added it at the front. All you'd have to do is cut

00:44:30.040 and paste. Just cut the end, put it up at the top. Here's how the story could have read.

00:44:36.440 Adams made the following comments, then just show the comments. People interpreted it to be racist.

00:44:47.080 Adams addressed those comments the following way. And then people who saw the comments addressed

00:44:54.840 decided it was actually helpful. Did I lie? Is any of that a lie? It's not. If you just said,

00:45:06.760 here's the context. Here's his additional explanations. People have looked at it are happy

00:45:13.400 that it wasn't racist, or not what they thought it was anyway. And that's the end of it. But there's

00:45:20.200 still an outrage. Would any of that be untrue? It wouldn't be. Now, the way they wrote it was also

00:45:27.720 completely true. But it was written to mislead intentionally. So look at the stories today.

00:45:35.720 Story number one, the media, and social media especially, lied to you about the source of the

00:45:42.760 Wuhan virus. Right? That's the media. And now they're lying to you about me, but they're doing it in this

00:45:52.200 clever way where they just arrange the information so it's presented as a lie. But there are no lies in it.

00:45:59.880 There are no lies in it anywhere. But it's organized to present a lie.

00:46:04.040 All right. So here's the thing. And you can check this yourself. Check any of the major media coverage

00:46:14.280 of me and see if you can find them describing my explanation of why the Rasmussen poll wasn't the

00:46:22.600 important part of the thing. So, by the way, a number of people have said, hey, that's just one poll.

00:46:27.720 He can't rely on one poll. And they're right. And I should have been more clear that I was using the

00:46:35.080 poll as a, let's say, an introduction to the topic. But the bigger reason is not the poll.

00:46:42.040 You could take the poll out of the story and my point would be the same, but my messaging would

00:46:49.560 probably be better. So here's the real messaging, which I didn't do a good job of, you know, in my

00:46:55.640 off-the-cuff stuff. We know we have a situation in this country in which there are indications of

00:47:04.760 racial discontent. So there's the Rasmussen poll, which we all agree cannot be relied on just by

00:47:11.160 itself. But suppose the Rasmussen poll was off by 100%. That'd be pretty big, wouldn't it? A poll that's

00:47:20.520 off by 100%. So let's say that instead of, you know, nearly half of black respondents not being

00:47:27.240 willing to say that being white is okay. That was the poll. Suppose it was only half of that.

00:47:34.680 Or the part, or let's say I take out the part of people who are just unwilling to answer it

00:47:40.600 and just say, well, that's something different.

00:47:42.280 So suppose it's half that size. Suppose it's a quarter of black Americans thought about it and

00:47:51.560 said, yeah, I'm not willing to say being white's okay. Would that change my point? You know,

00:47:57.240 would the larger point be different if the Rasmussen poll was off a lot, like just way off? It wouldn't

00:48:04.920 be any different at all. But it also is very much in agreement with the Gallup poll from a few years ago

00:48:10.920 that shows that race relations took a dive, I think around the time of Trayvon Martin,

00:48:17.800 when the media found that they could get a lot of money by ginning up racial hatred.

00:48:23.720 So if you look at the Gallup poll of race relations, it sort of is flat for years, just years, flat,

00:48:32.120 flat, flat. Trayvon Martin, and then it stays low after that. Why did it stay low? Was it just because

00:48:39.800 of one story? No. It's because the media decided that that kind of story was the kind that really

00:48:47.080 gets people going. So the media decides that to feed us, you know, nonstop white people are racist 0.95

00:48:55.480 stories because it's really good content. Then you add to that the EIS and the DEI and the training that

00:49:05.000 is now the major narrative. The thing that schools are teaching the kids and the things that

00:49:09.880 corporations are talking about. And they're creating a narrative collectively. And then

00:49:17.400 social media is a big part of this, of course. So if you add the media, I should have said media,

00:49:21.480 not social media. But if you add all of these forces, they create a narrative. And I won't say what the

00:49:27.320 percentage is. But there is some amount of the black population that's poisoned. They're just 1.00

00:49:34.440 poisoned by the narrative. They are victims. They are literally victims. Now, the white population is

00:49:43.080 just as much victims, you know, in a different way. Because the media is not telling us anything like

00:49:48.360 the truth. They didn't tell us about the Wuhan virus, right? Pretty much. Wasn't there another

00:49:54.760 story? Oh, the Katie Hobbs story. I'm not sure that that's even true. We'll find out. Don't know if the

00:50:03.160 collapsing China is true. We don't know if the Ukraine war stuff is true. Basically, the media is

00:50:07.800 unreliable. I guess you know that. So no matter what this populate, what percentage of the black 1.00

00:50:12.920 population has been poisoned by this narrative, would you agree with the following statement?

00:50:19.720 That all of these forces are pushing it into more. Like whatever it is now, there's going to be more

00:50:26.760 of it. Because the forces that caused it are all in play. Agreed? All right. So if you imagine that

00:50:36.280 the black population is victim, which I believe they are victims, of programming that is not in their 1.00

00:50:46.600 best interest. It looks like it's in their best interest, because, you know, the equity and the

00:50:51.480 fairness and stuff. And there's a lot of good. There's probably a lot of good in there. I'm not going to

00:50:55.560 say it's all bad, right? I'm just saying if you haven't accounted for the cost of it, then you're not done with

00:51:02.680 the analysis. The benefits are obvious. Hey, we'll treat everybody better. I like that.

00:51:09.480 The cost is that there's a cost on the white population, because they're demonized by the,

00:51:16.840 you know, the collective forces here, and that there is a predictable response.

00:51:24.120 The predictable response, at least one of them should be, to put some distance between people who have been

00:51:30.680 victimized and are therefore weaponized. Here's another word for it. I would say that the media

00:51:38.040 and our education system are weaponizing part of the black population. And not necessarily 0.61

00:51:47.000 physical weapons. I'm talking about intellectually weaponized. To have an immediate

00:51:54.040 racial frame on things that maybe you don't need a racial frame on. Okay. So that's the story.

00:52:03.400 So everybody who says, Scott, you relied on Rasmussen, they're correct in their criticism that the way

00:52:10.840 I presented it looked like I was relying on that. That's a good criticism. But it's not,

00:52:16.040 I wouldn't have brought it up, except for this, right? This is the reason I'm talking about it.

00:52:21.320 But the Rasmussen was, you know, just a sideshow. It was just an introduction to the topic.

00:52:32.600 So here's what happened. See if this sounds familiar

00:52:39.160 to anything else you've ever seen happen in public. Here was the initial crime. I advised,

00:52:47.000 I gave some advice that everybody agrees with. I gave some advice that everyone agrees with. Black 0.95

00:52:56.280 people, white people, poor people, rich people. Everyone. Literally everyone. And was it useful?

00:53:05.640 Was it useful? Is it useful to know the costs and the benefits of your policies? Or do you only

00:53:13.160 want to know the benefits? It's useful, right? Well, actually, let me say it, maybe it didn't turn

00:53:22.840 useful. But the intention, the intention of everything I do on live stream is to allow people to think more

00:53:30.920 productively so that their lives are better. Does anybody doubt that? Is there anybody here who thinks

00:53:38.760 that I'm doing any of this for money? Like this stuff? It would be the worst way to make money. Do you know

00:53:48.440 how I make money? Or I used to. Keep my mouth shut and make Dilbert comics. That's how you make money.

00:53:56.520 That was a really good way to make money. I mean, it ended, it ended yesterday. But,

00:54:01.560 so I'm unemployed at the moment. I guess this is monetized, so sort of a little bit. Ego.

00:54:10.280 So he says ego. Am I doing it for ego?

00:54:17.960 It's a trick question. Do I do this for ego?

00:54:23.800 No, you're too kind. The answer is yes. But as I've told you many times, I never do anything for one

00:54:30.760 reason. I never do anything for one reason. I mean, there might be some exceptions. But I wouldn't do

00:54:36.440 this for one reason. So people are saying, hey, ego. To which I say, yes, if I do good work that

00:54:43.640 people appreciate, my ego will be satisfied. See, that's looking at all the variables. So I'm trying

00:54:51.960 to be consistent and look at all the variables. All right. So I gave some advice that everyone agrees

00:54:59.960 with that if there's a population of people that has a, has been programmed, this is the important

00:55:06.040 part, has been programmed to have a feeling about you. This would include women in the Me Too era. 0.99

00:55:14.760 So in the Mike Pence sense, you should avoid them. It would include people who have Trump signs and

00:55:21.800 MAGA hats if you're black. I would say maybe avoid that neighborhood. 1.00

00:55:26.600 Is that bad advice? Now, I know most of you who are, if you're Trump supporters, you say, but wait,

00:55:34.280 we're not racist. Don't do that. And I agree. Virtually, I don't know. You don't meet many racist

00:55:41.480 conservatives. You just don't. At least not in the sort of public sphere. But is there anybody who would say

00:55:51.240 that there are no racists in the Republican world? Would anybody say that? There are no racist Republicans?

00:56:02.760 Now, remember, one, now they're racist in every group. They're clearly racist in every group. 0.97

00:56:10.600 So if you're black, should you take into consideration that your neighbors have Republican signs in the yard? 0.97

00:56:22.040 Should you take that into consideration? Well, if you're a black conservative, it's a plus, 0.99

00:56:28.040 is you actually probably would be treated better than most people. If you're black and left-leaning, 0.98

00:56:34.120 you might have some, some hesitance, wouldn't you? Now, in all of these questions, it's got to be a matter of degree, doesn't it?

00:56:46.040 If your problem with another group was just, was somebody said skepticism, I wouldn't, I wouldn't change where I live

00:56:52.920 because of some vague skepticism. And likewise, I would say that Republicans are actually a pretty good group to live around.

00:57:01.880 So if you used your, you know, for most people, it would be a good place to live. But you might have feelings

00:57:10.760 that that group had been, let's say, weaponized by the media. There's a little bit of that is happening.

00:57:18.680 There's so many videos going around of black people beating up non-black people. If you were black, does that worry you? 0.98

00:57:26.760 Oh, let me ask that question. This is a good question. The videos that get viral, they seem to be, 0.83

00:57:34.440 there's one going around of a black student beating a teacher nearly to death. It's all over the place.

00:57:40.840 Wouldn't you agree, those of you who are black who are watching this, wouldn't you agree that's bad for you?

00:57:47.160 That it's like programming white people to have a view that's not representative? 0.77

00:57:51.720 Right. So wouldn't you say that the problem is people being programmed with bad thoughts?

00:58:02.200 Now, if you saw more and more, just hypothetically, let's say you're black and you saw more and more of 0.98

00:58:08.200 these videos and every one of them, it seems like, oh my God, it's like they're really going after us now.

00:58:15.160 Wouldn't you think twice before you moved into a neighborhood that you thought

00:58:18.520 had been programmed with that frame of mind?

00:58:24.520 I mean, it seems like a reasonable thing to do. And yet that would say nothing about all Republicans, would it?

00:58:30.680 It would say nothing about all Republicans. It would just say that this is a group of people who have been programmed,

00:58:36.200 and especially lately, and they've been programmed to have a, let's say, a reflexive bad feeling about me.

00:58:46.840 So wherever there are groups of people who have been programmed by the media to have a reflexive bad feeling about you,

00:58:54.840 I would avoid them. Does anybody think that's a bad idea? Anybody?

00:59:01.720 No matter what color you are, and no matter what is the, you know, characteristic of the group you're talking about,

00:59:12.040 if they have been programmed to not like you by the media, is that a factor you should consider?

00:59:20.920 Right. So here's what happened. So now you can see how the media works. So I said something that

00:59:27.640 literally everyone agrees with, once they see it in context. I will accept the criticism that I was not as

00:59:34.920 clear as I could have been. Does everybody agree with that? I'm accepting that criticism, that I gave too

00:59:42.520 much attention to one poll. Didn't change the message, but I gave too much attention to it. And I wasn't clear.

00:59:50.680 Yeah. Those things I can just be guilty of. That's fine. But once you saw the context,

00:59:57.800 and especially people who know me personally, they were, they were pretty sure that it was just

01:00:02.360 good advice. All right. So I got canceled everywhere. Uh, there will be no more Dilbert except on the

01:00:07.640 locals, uh, subscription platform. And then what happened? Then the coverup starts because little by

01:00:15.720 little more voices are saying, wait a minute, what did you cancel him for? Okay. I feel like I'm not

01:00:23.480 getting the whole context here. So I'll just tell you that a prominent member of the media, somebody

01:00:30.680 whose name you would know, who is black, uh, contacted me today and said, okay, there's something going on

01:00:39.240 here because my interactions with you suggest that what you said in public doesn't make sense.

01:00:45.480 Like I, like it was somebody who thought that the person that they had interacted with me was

01:00:51.640 inconsistent with the story that's in the media. That's a media expert. Somebody who literally lives

01:00:58.680 and breathes the media every day and looked at it and said, this doesn't look right. Right. Now,

01:01:05.320 as I told him, his instinct was good. There's something wrong here. Here's what's happening.

01:01:11.160 So the, the papers and everybody who's canceled me, they canceled me from their first impression,

01:01:17.160 which I admit was awkward and it could have been done better.

01:01:21.000 Once they realized that within context, I was simply giving advice that anybody would agree with,

01:01:26.600 black or white, the cover, the coverup begins because they're not going to change the minds.

01:01:32.520 So you know, they're not going to change the minds. That would be too dangerous.

01:01:36.600 So now they're saying that he said, all black people are haters. Did anybody hear me say that? 0.96

01:01:43.960 Because that's what the news is saying now. Or, or the people who believe they've seen the news

01:01:48.440 and are true. So now they've turned it into all. Is there any scenario where I've ever said that all

01:01:54.360 members of a group have some one thing in common? Ever? Who would say that besides stupid people?

01:02:01.240 Like this isn't, this isn't even racist. That would be just stupid. Wouldn't it? Like, wouldn't that be 1.00

01:02:09.160 literally just dumb? If you believed all of the members of a group are thinking the same. In fact, how 0.98

01:02:16.680 many times have I said out loud or tweeted that all black people are not the same? All, uh, we've talked

01:02:23.880 about all Hispanic voters completely varied, white voters all over the place. But do you believe that

01:02:31.480 I would imagine the Hispanic voters are diverse and white voters are diverse, but black people are not? 0.91

01:02:38.120 I mean, who would have that opinion? Nobody, right? So if you believe that I had said this, something about

01:02:44.280 all black people about all black people, you really need to check your reading comprehension 0.99

01:02:49.880 and your news source, right? Uh, because nobody would say this. You know, the, the imagine, if you can 0.76

01:02:59.880 imagine there's somebody in 2023 would have this point of view that there's something about all black

01:03:06.440 people that's negative, like all of them. Nobody, literally nobody has that point of view. Nobody,

01:03:12.840 right? But yet people have imagined that I could have and said it out loud.

01:03:19.800 Um, the one poll is unreliable, but it doesn't really relate to my point. So they have to make this

01:03:25.720 poll, uh, they have to artificially make it seem as if the poll is the only thing I was keying off of,

01:03:32.200 which it wasn't, but I didn't clarify. So that's, that's a good point. Uh, and then here's their best

01:03:38.360 trick. They introduced the topic by calling it a racist rant or a racist tirade. If the title of

01:03:46.440 the article says racist rant or racist tirade, is the media telling you the news? Nope. That's not the

01:03:55.880 news. That's a narrative. That's, that's, that's an interpretation is what that is. And so the

01:04:04.520 Washington Post went, you know, full, not fake news, but intentionally misleading news. I don't

01:04:11.720 know what you would call that. Is it fake if the facts are true, but they leave out context to reverse

01:04:17.640 the meaning. It's kind of a fake, fake news situation, but not exactly. All right. So this

01:04:24.520 is a, this is what's my week will look like. So all week, nobody will disagree with me. I predict

01:04:31.400 is nobody's going to disagree with this in private. Nobody disagrees, black or white, nobody. It's 0.55

01:04:40.520 completely agreed, but they're going to turn it into something I didn't say or something I didn't rely

01:04:46.360 on entirely, or they're going to label it. So nobody does any thinking. That's how it works.

01:04:52.840 So if you're wondering how the media cancellation machine works, that's how

01:05:05.960 Anthony, you're not wrong. Explain how that's a hate group isn't referring to all. Do you know

01:05:12.360 what hyperbole is, sir? So I was asked the question, explain how it's a hate group does not refer to

01:05:22.600 all of them. It would be the same way that I believe that whites have been called a hate group.

01:05:30.840 Am I wrong? Have, have, have whites been called a hate group because there are allegedly so many

01:05:37.000 white supremacists. Can anybody find, uh, do you think if you looked on social media,

01:05:43.480 do you see anybody referring to white people as a hate group?

01:05:47.880 Now, if they did, how would I interpret that? Let's say, theoretically, somebody said white people

01:05:53.320 are a hate group. What is the reasonable way to interpret that? Is the reasonable way that

01:05:59.880 it means everybody? Is that reasonable? Is that good reading comprehension? I think it means every

01:06:05.800 person. Or would you recognize hyperbole and say, oh, he's making a point that there are too many people

01:06:15.480 in that group who have negative views. I don't know what the percentage is, but it's too many.

01:06:20.120 Right? So does anybody else have a question on that? Is that unclear? That hyperbole is an exaggeration

01:06:31.800 that people are supposed to recognize. In other words, when you use hyperbole, you're saying something

01:06:37.080 that's technically not true, but you assume that everybody's a good enough reader that they know what

01:06:43.000 you mean. Right? So let's say I say, uh, uh, Republicans like God. Does that sound like all

01:06:51.560 Republicans to you? That Republicans, oh, let's say Republicans are religious. 0.78

01:06:59.960 If I said that in public, would you take that as all of them? That's an actual question. Would you

01:07:05.240 take that as all of them? It's the way people talk. It's just a shorthand, hyperbolic way to talk

01:07:12.040 about a group to make a point. Now, um, it sounds like you do.

01:07:21.720 Yeah. Exaggeration is nearly 100% of political discourse. That's true.

01:07:29.720 Yep. It's the way people think. I don't think anybody thinks in 100% anything. So generally,

01:07:36.440 the thing I get in trouble for is, um, 47% context, yeah.

01:07:46.520 Jet Magazine. I would ask, do you mean most Republicans? Yeah. But would you even need to ask?

01:07:54.440 Would you need to ask me if I meant most Republicans? So that's my point.

01:07:59.240 It's completely clear, hyperbole, or exaggeration in this case. It's very clear what it is. So you

01:08:06.520 shouldn't have to explain something that is ordinary conversation hyperbole. But I do, I do understand

01:08:13.800 that people, um, can be fooled by it. No, my, uh, my art director is still employed.

01:08:22.920 Uh, so Dilber will still be created. I'll just be putting it on the, um, locals platform. So you can

01:08:30.600 find that at scottadams.scottadams, one word, .locals.com. It's a subscription platform.

01:08:38.520 Uh, Ba says, admit you felt like that your whole life. Uh, felt like what my whole life? I never felt

01:08:55.320 like the narrative was poisoning black Americans. And that's, that's really the catalyst for the

01:09:02.600 entire opinion. So it's more like what things have become and where they're heading.

01:09:12.760 All right. 47 is too high. Do you know that there is no, apparently there's no research on that.

01:09:19.720 Did you know that? Apparently there's no research on the actual black attitudes of white people,

01:09:26.360 except the Rasmussen poll, which I agree. You know, one poll doesn't tell you everything you need to

01:09:32.520 know. Uh, five minutes to post it on Twitter. Yeah. So here's why there's going to be a little, uh,

01:09:44.360 time lag in what's happening. Uh, has anybody noticed that the, the punditry is starting to turn my way?

01:09:51.640 Has anybody noticed that yet? Day one, it's all negative. But if you notice that people are

01:09:59.480 starting to deal with the, the actual question. Yeah. Yeah. The, the punditry, at least on the right,

01:10:05.880 is turning my way. Uh, but also both black and white. So, and honestly, uh, if, uh, this is going to sound

01:10:16.120 super racist, but I'm going to say it anyway, cause you know, why not? Uh, the, the black men 1.00

01:10:22.920 who have looked at this situation have been the closest to understanding it. The black men, for 1.00

01:10:29.960 some reason, the black women who are weighing in a very different opinions from the black men,

01:10:35.400 you know, maybe sort of generally in the same direction, but the way they express is totally

01:10:39.320 different. And the black men are mostly saying, I want to hear more, but they're actually interested 1.00

01:10:47.080 in the content. They'd actually like to know. And then when they hear it, they're like, oh,

01:10:52.120 that's a good point. That's the way it's going. So I guess that's racist because the, the black men 1.00

01:10:59.720 have been generally the, the quickest to figure out what's going on here. 0.90

01:11:03.160 And I have a theory for that, which is that black women fear, fear have more risk than black men in 1.00

01:11:14.440 terms of just physical social risk. And so if it sounds like, you know, you're in a group that's 0.92

01:11:21.320 getting some bad press, if you're a woman, I think you'd be more concerned just because you have 1.00

01:11:27.560 physical safety as well as everything else. And I think if you're a man, you just worry a little

01:11:32.840 less about physical safety. So you're, you can engage with the content a little bit better.

01:11:38.360 Just a theory. Yeah. It might be a misogynistic theory. Remember, it's just a hypothesis. So

01:11:44.440 if it were, if it were a statement of fact, I would have no grounding for it.

01:11:54.920 All right.

01:11:55.240 Putting his own interests first and that, what? I said out loud that I'd be putting my own interests

01:12:05.240 first. Oh, no, I said everybody should. I said everybody should put, is that wrong?

01:12:13.880 That everybody should take care of their own business and their family?

01:12:17.960 Disney just removed the TV series. Disney didn't have the TV series, did they?

01:12:28.040 Are you saying that Disney had the TV series? Hulu? Might have been on Hulu.

01:12:35.400 You mean on Hulu, right? Not on Disney.

01:12:40.600 But here's a little fun fact. The Dilbert TV show didn't make me money. I mean, after the initial,

01:12:46.920 some initial money. But all of the, uh, the reruns, uh, that, that money gets Hollywood stolen.

01:12:54.600 And when I mean Hollywood stolen, they calculate that their expenses were greater than their revenue

01:12:59.720 and they give you nothing. But everybody knows that's going to happen.

01:13:05.160 Yeah, it's not on Disney+. Maybe you meant Hulu. Might have been there.

01:13:09.880 Yeah. And he backed under Dilberito. Yeah, Disney owns Hulu.

01:13:18.840 Uh, what was it? All right. Um, on YouTube.

01:13:26.120 Did you see some commenters slam you for quoting Don Lemon? Uh, what way, what way were they slamming

01:13:35.080 me? Because they don't like Don Lemon? Uh, yeah, we'll get past all this business pretty soon.

01:13:47.960 Let's see. Jackson says, you're basing this off of liberal polls and viral videos. Uh, we mostly get

01:13:54.600 along. Someone who's believing woke stuff can get to know them and challenge them instead of running.

01:13:59.320 You're basing, so, so you're missing everything I just said. Jackson, you spent $20, but you missed

01:14:06.920 everything I just said. You're saying this, you're basing it off a liberal poll. No. That was like the

01:14:12.440 last 10 minutes saying I wasn't doing that. Uh, and viral videos. And I'm saying that the viral videos

01:14:20.680 are misleading, which is what you're saying. So, so here's, here's the pattern. The pattern of the

01:14:27.880 people who think they're disagreeing are imagining something to disagree with. And they're generally

01:14:33.880 just agreeing with me. Did I watch Greg and Bill? No. Uh, oh my God. Oh yeah, we got a lot of viewers

01:14:53.400 today. Good for that. All right. Is there anything else going on that I haven't talked about? Oh,

01:14:58.600 you're tired of talking about me? Uh, you are free. Now bring down the entire establishment. 1.00

01:15:10.520 How many hours of sleep do I get? Usually four-ish, four hours or so. Uh,

01:15:20.520 yeah. Well, you know, the media picked up Elon Musk's comment and, you know, associated that with my

01:15:27.560 story. But I saw his comment as more opportunity to comment about the media and, you know, less about

01:15:35.480 my specific comments or my situation. But I, you know, I appreciate that he made a comment that,

01:15:42.360 you know, enhances the conversation, so to speak.

01:15:48.840 Yeah. So my Twitter users are, uh, going crazy.

01:15:54.360 So I might reach a million users maybe in a few months. We'll see.

01:16:01.000 All right. Um, I think that's all for you on YouTube. I'm going to go talk to the, uh,

01:16:05.800 locals people for a little bit. And that's all for now. Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 27, 2023

Episode 2032 Scott Adams： Dilbert Is Fully Canceled, Wuhan Virus Leak, Katie Hobbs, Lab Leak & More

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