Episode 2066 Scott Adams： Matt Walsh on Reparations, WaPo Fact-Checked On Twitter, DeSantis & DEI
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Summary
Elon Musk fires 75% of his employees, and it makes no difference whatsoever, and they're all just talking and drinking good coffee or whatever else they're doing. And another sign that things have gone way too far: a controversial interview with a dictator.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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Or as Joe Biden would say, there's never been a better time, annoyingly.
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And if you'd like your day to reach galactic interstellar levels,
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all you need is a cupper, a mug, or a glass, a tanker, chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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By the way, this will be my second test of trying to use the Twitter algorithms to my advantage.
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It didn't seem like there was more traffic yesterday.
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It could be because Steven Crowder doesn't do his show on weekends.
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But what I did was I turned some of the text of what would have been a text tweet into a
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In theory, Twitter is going to see that there's an image with my tweet and give me more traffic.
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I also removed the link from the main tweet, and I said it's in the comments, so you can find it pretty easily.
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And I'm hoping that Twitter doesn't know that I commented to my own tweet.
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If it doesn't know, then the link will follow the tweet, and everybody will be happy.
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I'll let you know probably tomorrow because I don't see the total traffic numbers until I quit.
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She said, it really is quite staggering that Elon Musk could fire all those people from Twitter, and it made no difference whatsoever.
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Now, I commented that I think about that every day, and somebody questioned why I would think about that every day.
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I thought it was about 75% of the entire staff.
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I think all he kept was the technical people, for the most part, right?
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So it turns out that the engineers were doing all the work, and everybody else was just talking and drinking good coffee or whatever they were doing.
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They were probably imagining they were doing something.
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I'll tell you a true story from my first, I don't know, 16 years of work life.
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I asked myself how different the world would have been if I had never done any of the work I did, because I worked for two big corporations.
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How would customers be different if I just never existed and nobody else did what I did?
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And the answer was, it wouldn't be any different at all.
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But I spent years and years working hard every day.
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And then one day I woke up and thought, I don't think any of this matters.
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I'd do analyses of, you know, this or that, and people would look at them and do whatever they were going to do anyway.
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I had a job that was completely, completely useless for years.
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None of it you could see in any kind of final result.
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Here's another sign that things have gone way too far.
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Do you remember when 60 Minutes could do an interview with a controversial person, and you'd say to yourself, let's say a dictator, something like that.
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And you'd say to yourself, whoa, this is going to be really interesting.
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And it wasn't like you were voting for the dictator.
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You know, like, I don't know, maybe they did Castro or something.
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I'm not sure if they did, but let's say they did.
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I would say, instead, oh, that's a valuable service.
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They're telling us what this dictator is saying.
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And I don't remember anybody ever boycotting 60 Minutes because they had a provocative person on.
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This probably happened, but, like, it seems kind of a rare thing.
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But, apparently tonight, 60 Minutes will have Marjorie Taylor Greene, and on Twitter, people are just going nuts.
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And they think they have to boycott 60 Minutes and never watch it again.
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You don't think they've ever had anybody who was, like, a murderous dictator?
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And Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to be your bridge too far?
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You know, I was okay when you talked to Pol Pot.
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They never talked to Pol Pot, but let's just go with this.
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I was okay when you talked to Jeffrey Dahmer and Pol Pot,
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but Marjorie Taylor Greene, well, that's just a hill too far.
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Because that feels like somebody they would have talked to.
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And can you imagine that the Democrats would learn nothing by listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene?
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I think they would learn something, not just useful for themselves,
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Poor 60 Minutes is trying to be at least a little bit, you know, fair about who they talk to.
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And they're going to get canceled for it or something, or at least semi-canceled.
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We're going to get to some controversial stuff.
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So here are some of the people who complained about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Why is he complaining about Marjorie Taylor Greene being on 60 Minutes?
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Liberal commentator Eli Mistel, who's the guy who looks like a big Q-tip.
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He actually was one of the people who was brought on to talk about me as if he knew anything about me.
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I'm going to tie back another story to this in a moment.
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Has anybody seen Matt Walsh doing his videos about how reparations should be calculated?
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First of all, I kind of wonder if he might have heard this reframe from me.
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That the proper way to calculate the economic part of reparations would be to compare black Americans who descended from slavery in America today.
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Compared to somebody who had never been part of slavery and stayed in Africa.
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And if you think that the people in Africa are doing much better, that would be clear evidence that slavery was an economic disaster for black people and that, therefore, reparations would be in order.
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Now, I'm not including any psychological elements, which could also be part of reparations.
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But if you're just doing the math of the finance, that's the way you do it.
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Now, how do you think the woke part of the public took to that?
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Do you think they said, you know, Matt Walsh, that's a pretty good point.
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But because what he said is 100% unambiguously true and accurate, the arguments against it were not the best.
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And I'm going to read some of the tweet arguments against him, just so you can see what happens when you say something perfectly rational in public.
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One of them was from, let's see, The Amazing Atheist, he calls himself.
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And he says that Walsh, saying that you would compare Americans today to people who had never been part of slavery who were still in Africa,
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that that comparison is, quote, that analogy, that is like justifying rape because a lot of people were born from it.
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That's like justifying rape because a lot of people were born from it.
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Have I ever described to you why analogies should not be used in this way?
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And if you think that that other topic, which simply might have reminded you in some way of an unrelated topic, it's still an unrelated topic.
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So I wanted to respond to the tweet, this is like justifying rape because a lot of people were born from it.
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I wanted to say that analogy is like saying a football teaches you a lot about being a pig, which doesn't make any sense, really, except, you know, footballs are made from pigs, I guess.
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Just because I said something is like another thing, is that an argument?
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But no, no, it's just an observation that one thing reminds me of another thing.
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I saw a number of people take the same approach.
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The Blue Collar Intellectual Podcast, somebody named Julian, had this to say on Twitter.
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Now our pundits are making pseudo-intellectual arguments.
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So a number of people said he was making pseudo-intellectual arguments.
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What's the difference between a pseudo-intellectual argument and an argument that is logically correct?
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Making these pseudo-intellectual arguments, defending slavery.
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What happens when you see people's best argument requires them to hallucinate something absurd so they have something to attack?
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If somebody simply had a counter-argument, you'd see something like an argument.
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That was the most common response was, he was defending slavery.
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Nothing like that, even remotely like that happened.
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When you describe a thing, you're not defending it.
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And then he finished by saying, you sound like a Dixie-crat.
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So you got your hallucination, your two insults, pseudo-intellectual and Dixie-crat, and no argument.
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It was just basically a bunch of words and an insult, and that was the best argument.
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Now, given that he's making a math argument, or I could say economics would be better,
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don't you think that an economics counterpoint would be the right way to go?
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Yeah, you pseudo-intellectual Dixie-crat with your defending slavery.
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And people pay the Daily Wire to get nonsensical drivel like this, packaged as intellectualism?
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Do you think that Matt Walsh packaged his presentation as intellectualism?
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That's literally the opposite of what he was doing.
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He's literally wearing a plaid, like a lumberjack shirt, just sitting at his desk with no necktie.
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He has no college degree, and he's just simply talking common sense.
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And they're like, oh, get away from us with your plaid shirt, common sense intellectualism.
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I only saw one comment, there might have been something similar to it, that was actually a good point.
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Reparations are sometimes about pain and suffering.
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Now, you could argue, but the people who had the pain and suffering are no longer with us.
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Well, but then you could argue that some of that pain and suffering carried forward in various ways.
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You could agree or disagree with that argument, but that would be an argument.
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Whether or not you like the argument, it's an argument.
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Sometimes reparations are about how people feel.
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So, but anyway, the economic argument is ridiculous.
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Why does the Daily Wire continue to justify slavery?
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Number one, Matt Walsh never justified slavery or anything like it.
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Number two, the Daily Wire, which pays him, certainly didn't justify any slavery.
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I mean, can you imagine if Ben Shapiro was watching the Matt Walsh video?
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You don't think he'd be gone tomorrow, or at least there'd be some correction or apology or something like that.
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No, these are absurd takes on what he was doing.
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Here's another one, make no mistake, this is not ignorance, this is racism.
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Because there was nothing he said that was racism, or even close.
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So you would have to literally be reading his mind to say, make no mistake, this is racism.
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Did he just create an all new informal logic and formal fallacy?
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That's how you say, I don't like your common sense.
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Did he just create a new informal logic and formal fallacy?
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And then the tweet goes on from Matthew Podsas.
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Everything in history is amoral, because it's possible we wouldn't exist if it didn't exist.
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I mean, people are going nuts, because they really don't have a logical argument.
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This is the very reason why one should at least attend college.
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The problem is that the person who made it didn't go to college.
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How about, here's what's wrong with your argument?
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Matt Walsh has never attended college, but provides comments on anything and everything.
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Do you think the person who wrote this would be willing to defend, just sort of in general,
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that people who didn't go to college shouldn't have opinions on Twitter?
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Do you think that that's, would they stick with that opinion if you removed it from Matt Walsh?
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These are people who are literally just in cognitive dissonance, or they're just going crazy.
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I don't know what it is, but they're not arguing his point whatsoever.
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I've got a kill shot coming that you're going to love.
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You want, you want to stay tuned for this, all right?
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Let me explain why Matt Walsh's comparison is correct, and I'm going to compare it to the current way it's done, all right?
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Now, I did go to college, and the classes I took very much taught me how to make the correct kind of economic comparisons, right?
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The thing you did, or the thing that happened, compared to what would have happened if that thing didn't happen.
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You compare what did happen to what could have happened, correct, everybody?
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What you did actually do to what probably would have happened if you hadn't done it.
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Compare them to the people who did not have this, you know, holocaust of slavery.
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And people who have degrees in economics and MBAs would agree with me.
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People who have degrees in art history would say that's totally wrong, and it's because they would not be trained in this technique.
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This will be the first time you've ever heard this.
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The current way reparations are done is comparing a black person in America today to what would have happened if they'd been white.
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They're comparing a black person today as if one of their options had been to turn white.
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It wasn't a path that could have happened under any scenario.
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But the current way they calculate the economic part of reparations, and again, I will acknowledge that reparations can have a psychic, psychological effect.
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Did that just make your brain just spin in its head?
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That's actually what they're doing right in front of you.
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They're comparing a black man in America to, well, the alternative would have been if he'd been white.
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I don't believe there was a single slave who got that option.
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Matt Walsh said, compare the people who went through, you know, were the product of that experience to people who didn't have the experience.
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Correct, according to people who went to college to study this very thing.
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But instead, every politician that I'm aware of, every pundit, every other person who's talked about this, as far as I know, has missed this simple fact.
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You don't compare two things where one happened and one was impossible.
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Now, you could argue, oh, it was almost impossible not to have slavery.
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No, you don't get that, because there were people who were not slaves.
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As long as you have the control group, you're done.
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Now, how many of you are just having a moment about this when you realize that they literally are comparing black people today to black people who could have just turned white and had a better experience?
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Now, I'm adding a little bit of hyperbole to this.
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They're saying black people aren't doing so well, white people are doing better, give us money.
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I'm not saying that's fair, but it's not how you calculate reparations.
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You don't calculate it as if you'd been a different color.
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Vivek Ramaswamy continues to be awesome in his messaging and reframing.
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When I grew up, actually, when I worked at Pacific Bell, employees had to sign a form that said, we agreed that diversity is a strength.
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I think I'm the only one in the company who refused to sign it.
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And I refused to sign it, not because it wasn't true, not because it wasn't true, but because there was no evidence.
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Now, like everything else, you could go too far, and then it's not.
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But I'm 100% convinced that having varied personalities and varied opinions gives the company better vision, better vision on the audience.
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So certainly in a whole bunch of ways that are good for society, you want everybody to feel they have a chance, want everybody to have equal opportunity and all that.
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But generally speaking, it is not a true statement to say diversity is always good or always bad.
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But I didn't think it was just an obvious universal truth to say it's good without some evidence.
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So I refused to sign it at the risk of being fired.
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Well, I don't know if Locals can hear me, so I'm going to quit this and restart.
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Well, probably people will be streaming in, is my guess.
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Oh, by the way, to finish my story, when I refused to sign the document, this was in the 80s,
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to say diversity is a strength, not because it wasn't, but because I didn't have any evidence.
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Why am I certifying this thing that I have no evidence about?
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So I didn't sign it at the risk of being fired.
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So my entire career, because it was a requirement, it wasn't optional, you had to sign it.
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So I'm the only one in the company who didn't sign it.
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So if you think that the first time I ever took a chance of getting canceled was, you know, a few weeks ago, you're wrong.
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It's probably the third or fourth time, maybe the tenth time.
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I also, just a little background, in case you haven't heard this story.
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Back when smoking was still legal inside, in the office, I also risked my career to make that stop.
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And they ended up changing the policy instead of firing me.
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So it's, I do have a history of putting my entire career on the line.
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When there's a point, I think I'm just not willing to let go of.
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Anyway, so Vivek says, diversity is not our strength.
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Our strength is what unifies us across our diversity.
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Have I told you how good he is at communicating?
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So he's allowing that, you know, diversity is more like,
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I think we should stop saying diversity is a strength or a weakness or anything else.
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Like, we're well beyond the point where we should be arguing about whether it's good or bad.
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It's like arguing whether oxygen is good or bad.
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It's like arguing whether that one cloud in the sky, just the one, that one cloud in the sky is good or bad.
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Arguing about whether it's a strength or a weakness is a waste of time.
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But talking about what unifies us is definitely worth doing.
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So I love the fact that without, you know, throwing away diversity as, you know, like it doesn't exist,
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he's just saying we need to look at what unifies us instead of what divides us.
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And that's exactly what I want to hear from my presidential candidates.
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I think this next story is real, but it doesn't sound real.
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That trans activist Dylan Mulvaney is, her face is on the new Bud Light beer.
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That Bud Budweiser made a beer with a trans activist on it, Dylan Mulvaney, apparently celebrating girlhood.
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Don't you wonder how the internal conversations went?
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Do you wonder if there's a DEI unit in Budweiser?
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I wonder if Budweiser has one of those diversity, equity, and inclusion groups.
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Now, I don't know if you've noticed, but the normal way a corporation works
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And then a lot of people have different opinions about stuff, but the CEO makes the decision.
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Here's what almost perfectly certainly happened.
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Hey, the DEI people say we need to show more inclusion,
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My impression of the CEO in the meeting where that was presented to him.
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I just did a hilarious face of somebody stunned into silence.
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I cannot believe there's no part of my brain that says that the CEO was thinking,
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and until you suggested putting trans activist Dylan Mulvaney on our beer cans,
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which are almost the most male-oriented product in the entire world
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that's not literally a tool that you'd put in a toolbox,
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But those would be the three most male-oriented brands in all of the world.
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The CEO is not the decision-maker on this stuff.
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Now, the CEO might be a decision-maker on other stuff,
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but in terms of how the company was going to present itself,
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And that put the least trained people in the company,
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inclusivity, that doesn't take a lot of skill set.
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is no longer in charge of the company's big decisions.
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Do you think the CEO would have made this decision
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that competes with the other important factors.
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As soon as you make it your core operating system,
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It was laying there on the table for every state.
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Well, only the Republican states could have done it.
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that is going to ban DEI in Florida universities.
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Could you imagine anything more popular with his base?
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Yeah, I've never had any direct or indirect contact
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So he's looking to abolish the DEI bureaucracy.
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because the government has some control over them,
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would it be impossible or illegal or unconstitutional
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if he did the same thing for companies operating in Florida?
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Or maybe it's impractical because companies tend to operate across states.
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I'm assuming it's illegal or else he would have done it, right?
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But states can pass laws about how companies operate in their state.
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It feels legal to me, but I don't know why he's not doing it.
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The state can make private companies do all kinds of things, can't they?
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Well, a governor should ban everything they don't like.
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Oh, I should say that DeSantis also renamed DEI.
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So, you know, the last few days I've been saying that it's not persuasive to just come up with alternate words that the acronym refers to.
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So instead of saying, oh, DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion, if you're a critic of it, you might say that those letters mean three different things.
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And I've been saying that's not persuasive, you know, you know, you know, it's clever, but it's not persuasive.
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He said, DEI stands for division, exclusion, and indoctrinization.
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Now, let me clarify, or you could say I'm admitting I was wrong.
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When a candidate for president does it, it works.
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If you and I did it, but no candidate for president was doing it, it wouldn't have any power.
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It's because he said it, and because who he is, that infuses the power, right?
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The reason I saw it is because he said it, right?
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So anyway, yeah, if Trump had said this, it would have been super persuasive.
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DeSantis saying it, and I should have picked up on this, so this is on me.
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I should have told you that if somebody famous says it, it's different.
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If Trump had said something along those lines, I think people would have picked it up.
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But on Twitter, Marty Blordfast had this update for CRT, calling it creating racial tension.
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And I wondered if there's a persuasion play in which you try to convince people that's
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You know, if this were not 2023, I'd say, well, that's a stupid idea.
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You're not going to convince people that your public school system, for example, is teaching
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You're never going to convince anybody that's real.
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You could actually convince probably 40% of the public just by repetition.
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I'll bet you could get 40% of the public to believe that's what it stands for in the real
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Because 40% of the public can be convinced of anything if you try hard enough.
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If you repeated it enough, 80% of the public would think that's what it meant.
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Now, I doubt that could be repeated enough to get to the level I'm talking about.
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But if it were repeated enough, it would convince 40% of the public, or more, that that's what
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The Washington Post has been fact-checked a couple times on Twitter, and I love that.
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You know, Twitter's now adding the context or community notes.
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So, if you tweet something that's factually wrong, Twitter will automatically append the
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Now, I live life in fear that that's going to happen to one of my tweets.
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If it does, I'm getting rid of that tweet right away.
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I'm deleting that tweet right away, because that's pretty embarrassing, if they're attaching
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So, Glenn Kessler, who works for the Washington Post, he tweets this, new fact-checker, he
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says, and it's based on an article in the Washington Post, he says, the incendiary claim that George
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Soros funds Alvin Bragg, so he's basically saying that, you know, that's not true, that George
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Not true, he says, and this is the Washington Post.
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Oh, by the way, the Washington Post is who canceled me.
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Everybody else canceled me, mostly because they did first.
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Yeah, the Washington Post canceled me because they couldn't tell the difference between a
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And, in other words, I got canceled for fake news.
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Not that I didn't say the thing I said, but the context was wrong.
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If the Washington Post had not been a disreputable lying rag, here's what they would have said.
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There's plenty of evidence that it was offensive.
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Racist assumes they know what I'm thinking, what the context is, and why I did it.
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If they knew all those things and they conformed to that view that it's a racist rant, well,
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Do you think it's a coincidence that I'm the most famous person on the internet for outing RUPAR videos,
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such as the Covington Kids, Fine People Hoax, the Drinking Bleach Hoax?
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It's stuff people really said, but as soon as you take it out of context, it changes form.
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So the Washington Post is a fake news entity that I've been slamming for fake news for years.
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Did the Washington Post tell you that I'm one of its biggest public critics when they canceled me?
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Oh, we decided to take the comic out of our newspaper for what he said,
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Leave out the fact I'm one of the most prominent critics of their newspaper and have been for years.
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Washington Post is an entity that is largely in the political stuff is fake news.
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Now, that doesn't mean some of the stuff isn't true.
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It just means the way they package it is intentional fake news, and it's pretty obvious.
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Now, I say intentional even though I can't read minds, but I don't think there's much question.
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So here's the context note that Twitter automatically added to Glenn Kessler's tweet.
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How much do you love that Elon Musk spent $44 billion
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and he did it so successfully that it just fact-checked the Washington Post's ass?
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This is for Elon Musk for giving us the semblance of free speech and less fake news.
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but the fact that he's added these context notes
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So, you know the story about the New York Times said they won't pay to be verified.
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I guess companies would have to pay $1,000 a month or something.
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Do you understand why the New York Times doesn't want to be verified on Twitter?
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Because Twitter will be calling them out for fake news.
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Because the New York Times is also a purveyor of fake news, quite routinely.
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And now the community knows it's going to be calling their tweets out as bullshit.
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So they would have to pay $1,000 a month to be pilloried and shamed on Twitter.
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And they're thinking, well, if we're going to get pilloried and shamed,
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And maybe people are going to, you know, read the New York Times no matter what, right?
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So I think the New York Times is going to get almost as much attention,
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But I can kind of understand why they wouldn't want to pay.
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And I imagine that entities that don't worry about being called down for fake news,
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Because they'll be like, oh, we like more visibility.
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And the ones who don't want more visibility where they get fact-checked,
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they're like, oh, I don't think that's worth paying for.
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No, I don't think the New York Times and Washington Post
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are going to benefit from more visibility on Twitter
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because that visibility is going to be connected to fact-checks under fake news.
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I was testing my reframe that the opposite of woke is authentic.
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different way of looking at something is I tweet it.
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And if I get a lot of reviews, that means other people liked it.
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So when I tweeted the opposite of woke is authentic,
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which is a weird name for a white guy, Whitelum,
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is an adjective derived from African-American vernacular,
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And then he says, y'all projecting, meaning me,
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Instead of saying that woke is the opposite of authentic,
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and imagine you heard this in the wild for the first time.