Episode 2039 Scott Adams： Media Manipulation Education Using Me As Your Example, Bail Reform & More
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Summary
Dilbert, the world s most well-known comic, is no longer a household name in the media. Why did this happen? And what does it mean for the future of the world as a whole? Scott Adams explains why.
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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In answer to your question on YouTube, no, this is not an AA meeting.
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But for the rest of you, if you've come to the Highlight of Civilization,
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Coffee with Scott Adams, you want to take your experience up a notch,
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and all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stye,
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and a canteen, a jaguar flask, a vessel of any kind.
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At the end of the day, the thing makes everything better.
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Well, if you are in the media and you'd like to say something about me that maybe I wouldn't like,
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one of the factors that you have to consider is that I'm a professional cartoonist, still, still.
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And probably at least some of you are going to get some pushback.
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Now, if you don't know it, I do a second comic besides Dilber.
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Dilber will continue, but it will be on the local's subscription site after March 13th.
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But I also do a comic that appears there, and sometimes I tweet it, called Robots Read News.
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And after watching Howard Kurtz on his Media Matters and his panelists talk about me,
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and noticing that their main path into the story was through mind reading, I believe he regrets it.
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So, after watching the mind reading, I did this Robots Read News comic, which is always just the same robot just sitting at a desk.
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Media journalist Howard Kurtz wowed the audience of Fox News by reading the mind of Scott Adams from 2,000 miles away,
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Those who can't do journalism do media journalism.
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Those who can't do media journalism start carnival acts.
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But in other comic news, you may have heard that I do a comic called Dilbert.
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And by the way, keep in mind that this is the comic that's been canceled globally,
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except for in my own subscription site after March 13th.
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And Dogbert says, I don't know if I mentioned, I built a user interface to control the world.
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I had to hide my ownership of it, so no large military power would know what I was up to.
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And Dilbert says, what do you call this user interface?
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Now, one of the things that the Dilbert comic has done for 34 years
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is surface things that the general public wasn't aware of, that they needed to be aware of.
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Because it's one of those few bubble-penetrating things.
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Because Dilbert is read by, you know, conservatives and liberals.
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So, it used to be that anybody in an office read Dilbert.
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So, there were things that I knew, if they were like a bubble, I knew I could penetrate the bubble.
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For example, years ago when the year 2000 bug was a big concern, you know, when the year turned 2000,
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people were concerned that the old computer programs wouldn't recognize the date and everything would break.
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And I was writing Dilbert comics about that long before you needed to start getting programming.
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So, there were probably a lot of businesses who learned that they need to do something about the year 2000 problem
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In fact, that very fact was in a court case where somebody was sued for not doing enough about Y2K.
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And part of the evidence that they should have known better and they should have done something about the Y2K bug
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was that it was in a Dilbert comic a year before.
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And therefore, it's common knowledge because it's in a Dilbert comic.
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So, that vehicle for benefiting the world has been shut off.
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Is the world a little bit happier today because they don't have that benefit?
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Well, if they stopped a monster like me from continuing, totally worth it.
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Fox News is dunking on CNN, mostly Jeff Zucker when he was in charge, not so much the current leadership.
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But they're reporting that in the early months of the pandemic, Jeff Zucker, who's the head of CNN,
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would not allow his network to work on the lab leak theory because he thought it was, or even report on it or chase it down.
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Because he thought it was a Trump talking point.
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He wouldn't report the news because it might be something that Trump agreed with.
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There are some stories that are so mind-boggling that you just sort of stare at them,
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and you don't even know what your reaction should be.
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Like you're just stunned into inaction and silence.
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But we're going to talk about the media manipulations in general,
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give you a little media education, and make it relevant to the headlines.
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Number one, has anybody noticed that both CNN and Fox News, and probably most of the media,
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is trying to ignore Trump, and he's making it harder and harder?
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So Trump gets an overwhelming majority of the straw poll as CPAC.
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Now that wasn't surprising, because CPAC is a lot of people who are Trump supporters.
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But he's far and away the most likely person to be the contender for the President of the United States.
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And somehow they're treating him like it's not a story.
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And watching the desperation, I mean, it's probably just my imagination, but I imagine desperation behind the headlines.
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It's like, how much longer are we going to be able to not talk about him?
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And when they do, they try to put it into the smallest box.
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So today, CNN was reporting about all the many facts he got wrong in his speech.
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So that's all they did. They just fact-checked him.
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Now, the trouble is that that's still a tension.
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He knows how to make it impossible to ignore him.
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Just put in some hyperbole, some facts they're going to disagree with.
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They just can't let it go. They can't let it go.
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Now, do you know how Trump does a lot of his provocations?
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He says things which he knows are kind of true.
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True enough that people would say, oh yeah, that hits with me.
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But even with the stuff that's kind of true, he'll leave at least a little bit of suggestion, maybe a hint, maybe directly, of something that's totally not true.
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And nobody can resist coming in and talking about the not true part.
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So if they come in and they say, it's not true that if the windmills stop, your TV will go off.
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That's my favorite one. He says it all the time.
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My favorite one is that you can't watch TV if the wind isn't blowing.
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Now, the beauty of it is the press has made such a caricature of him that they treat it like maybe he thinks it's true.
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And you know he doesn't think it's true. He knows what a battery is.
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He knows that the network doesn't go down when the wind stops blowing.
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But the fact that it's so untrue and so obviously untrue, you can't stop talking about it.
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And when you're done, the only thing you remember is windmills are not ideal.
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So anyway, another way to do that, I'll just put this out there, another way to draw attention to your point would be to say something about black Americans.
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And then let people imagine that you really meant every single one.
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I say something that everybody agrees with, wow, seems like there's a trend toward anti-whiteness that's going to cause people to be less want to interact.
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But then I say, instead of, there are some number of black people who are being poisoned by the narrative, which would be a more accurate, fair statement.
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Do you think I knew that because I would get fact checked on that, because it's obviously not true.
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It's obviously not true that all any group acts the same.
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But if I allow you to imagine that's what I thought, which of course I don't, because nobody does.
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But I imagine you to imagine, I allow you to imagine that maybe I do think that.
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Maybe I do think that it's every single person in the group, which literally nobody believes.
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Now, I brought a little bit too much energy, and that's on me.
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I'll give you a little media education, and I'll use myself as an example.
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I talk about this one a lot when it's not involving me.
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It's where the headline doesn't match the story.
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Before I give you my explanation, would you say true or false?
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That the headlines about me were accurate or misleading compared to the details of the
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Now, how can it be misleading if they showed the video?
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Well, one way to be misleading is to show the video.
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Almost everything that's not true had a video or a graph or an expert or a photograph.
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Everything that's not true has some kind of visual evidence.
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And everything that you believe, you believe because you saw something.
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So let me give you an idea of how much context was left out of cartoonist goes on racist rant.
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So the first media lesson is the headline is propaganda.
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Because all news networks are leaning left or right.
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Except maybe News Nation I'm talking to tonight with Chris Cuomo.
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I think they're trying to actually be a non-aligned, which is hurting their ratings.
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If they're trying to be fair, it's going to hurt their ratings.
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Tonight at 8pm Eastern Time, live on Chris Cuomo's show on News Nation.
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If you don't know how to watch News Nation, just Google it.
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You can watch it on their app as well, but only if you also have a password to your cable network.
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This will be probably the best context that you'll see about the situation.
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But not many people will see it, because it's a smaller outlet.
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It's one of the reasons I'm picking it, because I didn't want to use the major news for this,
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I'm only trying to talk to people I trust, who might give me a good pushback, so that I have something to work with.
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Anyway, about the titles not matching the story.
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The story may or may not have the proper context, but the headlines are always just going to be propaganda.
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How many of you who do not study the media know that that's the case?
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That the headline is propaganda, but because they don't want to just completely make up news in an obvious way.
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But there could be something somewhat factual, but then the headline is just propaganda, left or right.
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So my headline, roughly speaking, was, I think you'd agree,
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What would you assume is the story if you didn't know better?
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This morning, for example, I read 40 headlines, and I looked into five stories.
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So the five stories I read, I might have had enough information to invalidate the headline.
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But the others, I just sort of looked at the headline and said, okay.
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But they sort of become part of your, you know, your framework.
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Just sort of automatically, they just sort of sneak in.
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So let's take the statement, let's take the headline, Dilbert cartoonist goes on racist rant.
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Now, if you take out the goes on part, which is not the important part, how many of those words are propaganda?
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Is Dilbert cartoonist the right context for this story?
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If you believe that a Dilbert, just a cartoonist, if you believe that a cartoonist went on a racist rant, the logical conclusion, especially if you see the video.
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If you see the video, you're going to say, oh, this person is talking outside his area cartooning, and he doesn't like black people.
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But what else could you conclude from that headline?
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Somebody left his area, left his domain, and doesn't like black people.
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I can't imagine any other interpretation than that.
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Now, let me tell you what happens if you don't use propaganda to tell the story.
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The first thing you should know is that Dilbert cartoonist was the wrong frame.
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How many of you know that, that Dilbert is not in the top five of things I do?
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Now, it's the thing that makes the most money, or used to.
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But, yeah, so I'm, in recent years, I'm better known, or at least let's say I've had more impact, in the domains of persuasion, mostly group persuasion, but also individual, and the domain of personal success.
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How many of you know I'm maybe the most influential author in the domain of personal success?
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And did you know that when I was speaking about this topic, the topic of, it started with the Rasmussen poll, but that's not the important part.
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How many of you thought I was talking as a cartoonist?
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I was talking as a hypnotist, I was talking as a persuader, and I was talking as a self-help, personal improvement author.
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So if you put it in that context, it starts sounding a little different.
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So the first context that's wrong is my job description.
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If you understood it as a Dilbert guy, it doesn't make sense.
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If you understand it as a hypnotist persuader who routinely uses hyperbole to attract attention, then you're starting to understand a little bit that the way you were told the story might have some missing context.
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So, how many other things are missing in the context?
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Most of you have seen the news by now about me.
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Now, even if you believe, if you see something here, you say, I don't believe that's true.
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But if you didn't believe it, even if you didn't believe it, would you agree that it's an important part of the story?
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What I say were my intentions, even if you don't believe them.
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Have you ever seen a story about, let's say, a mass killer?
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What's the first thing we ask when you hear there's a mass shooting?
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The party affiliation is part of the question why.
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How many people saw journalism about why I said what I did?
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Did you see anybody talk about my motivation as I described it?
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Isn't the biggest part of the story why I did it?
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How many of you noticed that the biggest part of the story wasn't even mentioned?
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How many of you noticed that the weakest take was to question me on the validity of the Rasmussen poll?
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The Rasmussen poll was just my jumping off point.
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Was there anybody who hasn't noticed that there's a trend toward anti-whiteness in the United States?
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How many of the stories cowardly said, let's talk about the quality of this one poll?
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Those are people who wanted to talk about it because it's a big story.
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They wanted to get their clicks, but they definitely didn't want to tell you about the story.
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Which, by the way, if they talked about accurately, they would have found out that the margin of error,
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Now, the bigger question is that the question itself was hinky, which I've always agreed with.
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How many of you believed, when you saw the story, that I was fooled by a bad poll and based my opinion on the poll?
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So this is where you should apply the really filter?
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Imagine that the only thing I saw was one poll and nothing else had been in my thinking.
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Do you think I would have done anything I did if I saw one poll and it didn't agree with every observed reality?
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If I didn't see every screaming signal pointing in the same direction, do you think the poll would have had any relevance?
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The poll is completely irrelevant to the point and completely irrelevant to my intention and completely irrelevant should be to you.
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When the news decides, oh, let's focus on this little thing, it's not because that thing's important.
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But often it's because they're ignoring and trying to get away from the real question.
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If you didn't know that you're seeing a huge diversion, you're learning it now.
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Sometimes intentional, probably sometimes subconscious.
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How many of you have seen this trick where the first part of the story will tell you the outrage
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and then you get all worked up and you're like, ah, rah, because you saw the first part of the story?
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And they don't give you the context until you've had to read all the way to the end.
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Because I've called it down with my story here.
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There were a number of outlets who reported some part of the story accurately.
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And then they also showed some part of the context.
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Imagine if this story had been told in the reverse order.
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Most influential self-help author says we should stay away from people who don't like us.
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If people don't like you, you should probably stay away.
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Now, then it would go into the outrageous way that I said it.
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But you would be primed to say, well, I agree with this point.
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Those who say I should not have said it the way I said it.
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Well, if my intention had been to cause no problems,
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If you look at it in the context of self-improvement,
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There's nothing good about the way we talk about race right now.
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I'm trying to change the frame to personal growth and success.
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Because if you learn the tools of personal success,
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You would just be immune to it if you had enough.
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If you had the right talent stack and you had the right, let's say,
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If I said to you, and I've showed you this one before,
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if I said to you, black people like hip-hop music,
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Or would you say, oh, I know you don't mean every single black person?
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you wouldn't say, hold on, Scott, that's so wrong.
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Because there are white people who are lactose intolerant
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And there are some people who just don't like the smell of cheese.
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So you're so racist because you say white people like cheese.
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To which I say, only the media and trolls would have that interpretation.
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Anything you say about a group never means all of them.
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If the first assumption you made was he means all of them,
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like all black Americans or all white Americans or all of anybody,
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Now, individuals in the audience will fall for that.
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And do you believe that anybody would disagree with the notion
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that it's obvious it didn't mean all black people?
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Yeah, I think a few people did on the conservative side.
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It's being presented by the news as a racial story.
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Except that the audience that's offended is only Democrats.
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Have you seen any news coverage that said conservatives,
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both black and white, generally agree with Scott
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Has anybody reported anywhere that conservatives,
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I think even conservatives don't want to say conservatives agree with me.
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Like the worst criticism I got from the right was that I depended on a poll that I didn't actually depend on.
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Like the worst criticism on the right is just a wrong fact.
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They think I depended on something I didn't depend on.
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So, of course, you know the media likes to do mind reading.
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They start with this headline, Cartoonist Goes on Racist Rant.
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And here's just a sample of the super important context that was left out.
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And I think it's not in the top five most impactful things I've done for society.
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Now, you don't know all of them because some of them are behind the curtain.
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But cartooning is not really the biggest thing I do.
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It's not the biggest impact I have on the world.
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So, you should also know that the story needs to say that I have spoken many times,
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and you can confirm this, about attracting energy with hyperbole.
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How many of you heard me say that that's a good way to attract attention?
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So it's actually in writing and in live streams, right?
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So if you don't mention that I'm a person who has often said,
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and then once I've attracted, I reframe the situation so that everybody wins.
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Now, imagine that context being left out of this story.
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Who has reported that I identify as left of Bernie?
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At the same time, other entities were saying I was a MAGA Republican.
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I'm not a Democrat, although I don't know if I've ever, I may have registered sometime a million years ago.
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And I don't identify as conservative or Republican.
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Which journalist reported that I'm not MAGA, I'm not conservative, I'm not Republican, I'm not Democrat,
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Who reported that I worked with Black Lives Matter and tried to help?
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Who reported that I posed Confederate statues, even though my audience overwhelmingly supported keeping them?
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Who reported that I supported Kaepernick's protest, which was not that different than mine in some ways?
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The reason I liked Kaepernick is that he caused trouble and he brought attention to the topic he wanted attention on.
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Made everybody uncomfortable and made everybody think about his topic.
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How many reported that I support affirmative action, even though this is the third time I've lost a career because I'm a white male?
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Now, I've supported affirmative action historically, but I think it's about time we take a smarter look at it and maybe move from a sledgehammer to a scalpel.
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If you fix education for black people, as well as everybody poor, and you fix...
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I think education is just broken for everybody at the moment, so it's not even a poor person's stuff.
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But if you fix all that, and you make sure that any individual has the tools of success, they can slice through systemic racism.
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At the same time, you might be trying to dismantle it in the long run.
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What would be a better way to dismantle systemic racism than to have a disproportionate number of black young people get the tools to become rich and successful?
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I mean, you could try all the institutional stuff, and maybe that's important, too.
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But if you don't make an individual invulnerable, it's going to be hard to get a long-term gain.
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Who reported that I've been trying for a long time to reframe our racial conversation?
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At the same time that I say I use hyperbole to bring attention to the thing I'm trying to reframe.
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Who reports on all the other racist stuff I approve of?
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So one of the racist things I approve of, and some of this is a repeat for you, but it's good to see it in context.
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We're way beyond the point where anything is now racist.
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Anything that has any racial component is racist, according to the new rules.
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So there are a whole bunch of racist things I like.
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I think that's important enough to call it out.
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Who is paying their own money and spending their own time to create a success curriculum, which I've told you in public a number of times, I think one of its greatest benefits is for black Americans.
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Because systemic racism in one way, it limits the, let's say, accidental contact that anybody who has a low income has with people who are successful.
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So if you don't have a casual contact with people who know, let's say, the techniques for success, it's hard to just figure it out on your own.
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So if you can make people more successful individually, then everything starts working better, like in a hundred different ways.
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How many people, how many of them reported that, even though my audience is solidly conservative most of the time, that I often tell them systemic racism is real?
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And I point to the teachers union, as in my opinion, the biggest part of systemic racism.
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Because they're the ones who prevent school choice.
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And without school choice, you can't really improve anything.
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So, and here's one, I've never said this before, but this is totally racist.
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A lot of people ask me for individual advice, which I can't do on a scale, because, you know, I can't really do that on a scale.
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But I'm far more likely to give individual advice to black people who ask for it.
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And I do it, I think, in part because I think that there's this inequality in access to people who have advice.
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And so I think, oh, well, I can do this one little thing that, you know, balances it down a little bit.
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So there are a lot of things I've done which, in my opinion, are pretty damn racist.
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Mostly the stuff that people on the left would agree with.
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And what I'm doing now, with my current drama, is it racist?
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Now, there's a larger conversation here about the anti-white trend in America.
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Let me poll the audience, so that I'm not depending on Erasmus and Poll.
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Do you observe, just your own opinion, based on the signals and anything you see in life,
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do you observe a growing anti-white sentiment in the country?
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Ask yourself, how misleading is it that anybody's focusing on the Erasmus and Poll,
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when so far 100% of you that I see answering are agreeing?
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I don't think I've ever asked a question that got 100% before.
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And then you watch the media crucify me because I used the Erasmus and Poll
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And I know there are some media people and some dislikers.
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Now, I'm aware of the fact that people's window into this topic, that's certainly my drama,
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You know, there's a group of people who just want to talk about the anti-whiteness trend
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and to them, I'm a hero this week because I said it out loud.
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It's so obvious at this point that anti-Asian too?
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I don't see people on social media who could directly say something bad
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But you can say anything you want about black Americans.
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If a black American had said exactly what I said, would they be canceled?
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You could either say they said literally exactly what I said.
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Suppose they said the black version of that, which was,
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I wouldn't want to live near a lot of white people if I thought a high percentage of them were racist.
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So here would be the way to look at it, let's say, if you're black.
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Let's say if you're black and you have two choices of where to go live.
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Let's say you have, you know, some mobility in terms of where you live.
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And one of those choices is they're both mostly white.
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One of them you know because of the, you know, you just know because of the zip code.
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You don't know the percentage, but there's a lot of racists there.
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There's another one that has also a lot of white people, but they're left leaning and they're,
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they're going to be, you know, definitely pro you in a big, much bigger way.
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If you said I'd rather live with the white people who are in the zip code with less racism,
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It wouldn't even occur to you that it was anything to object to.
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Like it wouldn't even cross your mind to object to it.
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Now, of course I'm aware that because of the history of the country,
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there are some things that, you know, white people can't say that black people can.
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I've never complained, well, maybe when I was a teenager or something, but as an adult,
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I don't think I've ever complained that white people get in trouble for using the N-word.
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Like historically, if you want to carve out an exception, all right, there's your exception to free speech.
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So which news outlet, which journalist said if a black person had said it or any version of it,
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How many journalists reported that my cancellation itself, given that a black person could have said exactly the same thing without consequence,
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how many people reported that my cancellation is the biggest signal of anti-whiteness?
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Nobody would be cancelled for this if they were white.
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I'm not even sure an Asian American would be cancelled, but I think it would be risky.
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But, you know, if you're a white man, you're pretty much cancelled.
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Now, and let me say this again as clearly as possible.
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Through this whole drama, the black, at least just the people I have access to and see on social media,
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they're generally, let's talk about this, or, you know, we should look into this, or there must be some missing context,
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or they just flat out agree, which is the most common response.
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The people who don't know the context are in a different situation.
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But white Americans have cancelled me now three times for being a white American.
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You know, two corporate jobs, where my bosses told me directly,
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we're no longer going to promote white men directly, like those words.
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And, well, the Hodge twins were an example of people who didn't have the full context.
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I would imagine if they had the context, like everybody else.
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Because keep in mind, I've literally met nobody who understood the context who had a problem with it.
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So when people are asking me, like, how I'm suffering, you know, like, how am I getting through this?
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Like, you probably don't know that everybody agrees with me.
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This one is, I don't think this one is too much hyperbole.
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So as soon as you hear everybody, you should automatically say, okay, not 100%.
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But 100% of the people who know the context, 100% of the people who know the context agree with me.
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I got 3.7 million views on a tweet on a different topic, where I said that there's a difference in how the right and the left get fooled.
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The right tends to organically bubble up their own conspiracy theories.
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And as we've seen, many of them end up being true.
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But they at least come up organically from people who actually believe it within the conservative side.
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The untruths on the left are far more often, and alarmingly more often, deliberate misinformation and propaganda made up by political operators.
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But 3.7 million views on that point kind of tells me that people have noticed.
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I thought maybe people would push back on that and say, no, that's too much of a generalization.
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But it appears that people see the same pattern I do.
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A majority of every political category, including 72% of Democrats, think it's a danger to the community.
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That if somebody is a danger to the community, that should be considered in whether they get bail.
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That means you got 28% of Democrats who think that the danger to the community should not be considered with bail.
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28% of Democrats are thinking, I don't see how that's relevant.
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Well, yeah, he killed people before he was in jail.
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And he said, yeah, he says he'll kill more if you let him out.
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So yeah, that 25% or-ish number that everybody gets wrong in every poll, there it is.
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But weirdly, 19% of Republicans agreed with that.
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19% of Republicans agreed that you should ignore somebody's actual crimes when deciding whether they get out on bail.
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Now, this is triggered by, I guess, Governor DeSantis.
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He made headlines last month because he was mocking New York as the only state that doesn't allow judges to consider the crime and the risk to society when they're making bail decisions.
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Did you know that, by the way, this is a Rasmussen poll.
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I did not know that New York is the only state that doesn't consider the danger to the community.
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They don't consider the danger to the community.
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Here's another story I saw in a tweet from Bronwyn Williams on Twitter.
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And she's quoting somebody, help her and et cetera.
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Quote, adolescents with an IQ of 130, so that would be a high-ish IQ, were three to five times less likely to have had intercourse than those with average IQ.
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And boys with an IQ that would qualify for intellectual disability, 60, an IQ of 60, were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high IQ, 130.
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Are we intentionally breeding an entire generation of idiots?
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Has idiocracy, you know, begun for sure, like the movies just starting, first scene?
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Somebody says, it's time to start considering people with high IQs as having a disability.
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It's time to start considering people with high IQs as having a disability.
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That's like actually like a real-world problem based on their physicality.
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It's based on their physicality, mostly, probably.
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And they can't, they don't have access to reproduction like everybody else does as much.
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But it would certainly, certainly tell us what's going on.
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The only people who ever matter are the smart ones.
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They invent everything, they figure everything out.
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If you could snap your fingers and make everybody in the United States have an IQ of 130 or more, would you do it?
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You could let everybody, everybody would just immediately go up to 130.
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The worst thing you want is a bunch of smart people making a decision.
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You know, even as incompetent as Congress is, part of the problem is that they're all smart.
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You put a, there was once a study, and I think it's true, and I'm going to say I think it's true because it matches my experience.
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And I think it was a military study from a million years ago.
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And they were trying to find out the most effective small groups.
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And they tested a group that had all, you know, high functioning smart people in it.
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And they compared that to groups that had maybe one smart person, but the rest were not so smart.
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The one with all smart people in the small group, or the group that had one smart person and some lesser smart person?
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Well, they found consistently the one smart person was the better deal.
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Because the people less smart would recognize the smart one as the smart one.
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And they would look at each other and say, you got a better idea?
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Now, if you put four smart people in a small group, what happens?
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All four of them believe the only smart path is their path.
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You need a mix of smart people and people who say, okay, you're smarter than I am.
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So it might not make any difference at all how much the people with IQs under a certain level are mating.
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I mean, mating with somebody with an IQ of 60 feels like a bad play.
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Do you think that the early settlers were looking around for the high IQ people?
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I think they were just hooking up with anybody who was available who was willing to say yes.
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Is it more important to be a sociopath than smart?
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Well, I don't know which one gives you more success, but they both have their benefits.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to be on Chris Cuomo tonight on NewsNation.
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Google NewsNation to figure out how to follow it to where you are.
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Probably has to be on your cable network before you can.
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But I think it has to be on your cable network.
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But the app works too if you use the credentials for your network.
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I'm going to say goodbye to the YouTube people.