Episode 1023 Scott Adams: I Fix the Racism Problem in America With a Whiteboard, Ironically.

Date: 2020-06-10 | Duration: 46:05

Topics

Find my “extra” content on Locals: https://ScottAdams.Locals.com

Rough Transcript

This is an auto-generated transcript and may contain errors.

Transcript

---

• Mark Cuban’s 50% honest tweet

• Vernon Jones legislation protects GOP from hate crimes

• Fired for being a supporter of President Trump…hate crime?

• Election day, the day Republicans have free speech

• AG Bill Barr is aware of social media censorship

• Whiteboard: Fixing Racism

If you would like to enjoy this same content plus bonus content from Scott Adams, including micro-lessons on lots of useful topics to build your talent stack, please see scottadams.locals.com for full access to that secret treasure.
---
[0:13]

hey everybody come on in it's time yeah it's time for coffee with Scott Adams best part of the day best part of the week sometimes the best part of the year and today will be an extra special one because I'm going to solve for racism yeah I know what could be so long you'll be mad at me for not doing a sooner once you see it but before we solve racism can they wait another minute we can we can wait on that right all right so we'll wait on solving racism for a few minutes first we're gonna have to do something called the simultaneous it but what do you need for that not much a cup or a mug door glass attacker challengers Divac empty injector flask a vessel of any tiny fill it with your favorite liquid I liked coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that don't mean the end of the day the thing that makes everything better including pandemics including racism including the economy it's all getting better now folks take a sip it's the simultaneous if go mmm

[1:18]

simultaneous if go mmm more improvement well I haven't checked the stock market today I can't believe it would be up again but let's see should be if I had to guess it will pull back in a little bit today yep so far a little bit I don't know what's up with Apple when Apple's just going nuts and Amazon all right let's talk about all the things Mark Cuban was at some kind of a some kind of an event where they're talking about racism and he tweeted we need to stop being defensive about white privilege we need to be to stop being defensive about white privilege I would say that that is true true statement it is however only 50% of what we need to be honest about what so I would call this a call to be half as honest as you need to be to make any difference at all so I completely agree

[2:21]

difference at all so I completely agree we should nobody should be defensive about any of this right so white privilege is either a thing where it's not a thing it applies here it doesn't apply here does or it doesn't but you don't need to be defensive about it you should just be able to discuss it along with everything else but since you can't discuss everything else there's really no point there's no point at all as long as you don't have freedom of speech and I don't some of you might but I don't personally have freedom of speech except in a legal technical way in a practical sense as a person who lives in the country and wants to survive and thrive I don't have freedom of speech question what is the right amount of time to wait for an example of systemic racism before discarding it as an illusion now here's

[3:22]

discarding it as an illusion now here's the here's the reason I asked us when I first started hearing the idea that there was systemic and institutional racism I thought to myself what's that what's that mean and then I heard a definition of it it has to do with that you know the entire structure of how things are put together could favor or not favor one group or another and I thought all right that makes sense I could totally see how systems would be formed and would not favor one group over another that makes complete sense and then I kept waiting for some some examples and I thought to myself I don't want to be rude I don't want to you know I don't want to question whether this is real or imagined because that would be kind of kind of obnoxious isn't it if somebody says I have this gigantic problem it's like you know one of the biggest problems in my life and in the country and it's called this you don't say no it

[4:26]

and it's called this you don't say no it isn't you kind of wait right I mean good good social behavior good manners says that you wait you listen and you say alright alright you know let me let me know what you're thinking and I waited and I thought well pretty soon we're gonna be talking about some examples because because until you get into the actual examples of like alright here's one here's some institutional or systemic systemic racism here's an example and once you see a few examples you could maybe spy your own you know once I've seen what you're talking about okay now I get the concept and then I could pick out some examples without any help because I the the theme and I waited and I waited and I waited I'm still waiting it has been now years since I first heard this term systemic

[5:27]

since I first heard this term systemic racism and I've never heard an example now I don't again I don't want to be rude just you know normal good social behavior says that you don't say it doesn't exist but isn't it fair to ask for an example at this point you know now that you know the country is on fire figuratively speaking on fire a little bit now figuratively recently but shouldn't this be the time when we start seeing some examples I've seen exactly one example and it applied to poor people equally the only example I've ever seen that remembered what it was because it it applied to poor people equally so it wasn't a good example so let me let me say this so the reason I put it in this form of a question how long should you wait for an example before you discard it as an illusion I would say a week a week more what do you

[6:31]

would say a week a week more what do you think is fair given that we're all having this conversation given that you know hundreds of thousands of people will see this periscope eventually given all of that attention how long should I wait before I get an example and I'm not telling you I'm arguing with the examples I'm just saying that I need to see one because I think I could help right but you know what are the I've said this before the greatest untapped resource in the United States is the helpfulness of white people we like to help if I can make that gross generalization about people who coincidentally look like me in one particular way if there's somehow if there's some way I can help make this institutional racism go away of all in I like fixing stuff and and if there's so many inequality why wouldn't I want to fix it well what would be my incentive

[7:31]

fix it well what would be my incentive not to fix an inequality I don't have any so examples please but if it but if at the end of the week let's say a week from today what's a Wednesday let's say a week from today if I've not heard any examples given the amount of attention I'll get just by asking for them if I haven't heard any examples would it be wrong for me to conclude it doesn't exist then it's more of an illusion is that fair because I think that's fair to wait a full week for just an example of something that's pervasive and everywhere so I'll give it a week and then I would have to conclude that it's more of a more of a hallucination than a real thing but with all the people who say it's real I assume it's real and I assume I'll get some examples but it's weird that I haven't seen it yet all right were there any protests yesterday I saw a zero

[8:32]

any protests yesterday I saw a zero coverage of protests yesterday didn't anybody confirm were there because I guess it was the funeral yesterday so maybe the funeral was a stand-in for what would have been protests
because I think I think the protest might be starting to fizzle out now one of the predictions that I made is that you're not seeing you're not seeing a genuine phenomenon you're seeing a phenomenon which is a coincidence of a perfect storm of something happening that is rare and the perfect storm is that people were locked up for months and that warm weather came if you lock people up for months and they don't have you know their energy is kind of building up and not not being released it needs to be released now the trigger of course was the video and everybody had the same feeling about the video we were all appalled by it we all

[9:33]

video we were all appalled by it we all think everybody thinks it looks like you crime but that was the trigger now when I said this before of course because I don't have freedom of speech somebody committed a hate crime against me by saying that must be a racist because I'm white basically and and I say good things about Trump now and that so anyway
police were everywhere last night in San Diego anyway my point is I think it may be that although the trigger was the video and then somebody said you racist don't you realize that you know there were huge underlying problems and of course I do I'm just saying that those huge underlying problems would not have turned into this specific form of expression then they ended up attracting looters and everything else that that wouldn't have happened without the trigger if you took that trigger away we

[10:34]

trigger if you took that trigger away we just would have the limit into the summer with all the same problems we always had but without the riots now you can you could argue that the protests of the looting etc were productive but I don't think you could argue that they would have happened on their own not with that with some trigger so you had a trigger but I think that if you take the energy out of the situation which is what happens whenever it just gets tired if you've if you've gone out let's say you protested three or four nights how many more nights do you want to do it alright your energy to protest the first night sky high second night still high third nights pretty good fourth night do you do you protest a fourth night you know an individual you start to run that energy so I think the natural the natural direction of this is to reduce an energy it has however I would I would say that

[11:36]

it has however I would I would say that the protesters have accomplished at least one thing that never happened before one thing that they've accomplished for sure is a lot more people are talking about specific solutions so we'd never saw before I don't think maybe I could be wrong but we've never seen before Congress putting together an actual set of you know laws and legislation to try to deal with you know police brutality well let's say just police conduct police misconduct so something happened you know you can't argue that it didn't create some kind of activity now none of those laws have been passed who knows if anything if it will turn into anything but I would I would say that it did turn into something it leaves something positive even if the net was not as positive I course have told you that I'm not interested in talking about these specifics of fixing

[12:37]

talking about these specifics of fixing the problem because unlike some people in America I don't have free speech now I don't have freedom of speech in the sense that you know the entire topic of racism I can only sort of talk about in surface sea ways you know approve to surfacey ways so I don't have actual freedom of speech to really get into the details and talk about what is true and what's not true and the data and stuff like that if I did have freedom of speech in this country and again I don't mean legally of course legally a freedom of speech but in a practical sense I don't like most of you don't so you can't really work on the suggestions without the ability to talk about them so I'd say it's a waste of time to actually talk about the solutions as a citizen if Congress passes something and it works that'd be great but in terms of my contribution I couldn't possibly be useful without being able to talk about it so there's

[13:38]

being able to talk about it so there's that so here's something really interesting a Democrat keyword Democrat now when I tell you the rest of the story just keep in your mind this is a Democrat okay that's the key part of the story Democrat Vernon Jones representative from Georgia he's he says he's let's call this what it is a hate crime basically he said I've watched this as a tweet from him Vernon Jones I've watched countless videos of Trump supporters getting attacked in the streets simply due to their support of Donald Trump let's call this what this is a hate crime he's a Democrat a hate crime and as we return to the legislature next week I'll be introducing legislation that'll make it such so it's a Democrat Vernon Jones I believe he's

[14:39]

Vernon Jones I believe he's african-american which also you know gives a little context of the story he is recommending legislation to make it illegal to attack a trump supporter for just being a trump supporter such as you're wearing a mega hat or something now how much do you love this guy how much do you love vernon jones a democrat a democrat he's he's the guy introducing legislation to protect republicans so I asked myself Republicans where were the Republicans there's not one Republican who wanted to introduce some legislation to protect Republicans it had to come from Vernon Jones an african-american Democrat now what if I taught you about reciprocity all right I've been teaching you that reciprocity is the single most

[15:41]

you that reciprocity is the single most probably the most important tool for success if you could get one thing right of all the things you should do right for success you know you want to stay out of jail and stuff like that but reciprocity is just it's just the king of the hill for getting what you want out of life do something for somebody else that's it you do something for somebody else and it's gonna far increase your odds that something good will come back to you directly or indirectly so did I just spend ten minutes praising a Democrat I've never met named Vernon Jones and thank you so Vernon Jones thank you sincerely thank you this is what actual leadership looks like because he's you know bucking me bucking the majority I would imagine now I would like to take this excellent idea and extend it I will extend it thusly

[16:43]

extend it I will extend it thusly suppose you social media group attacks somebody for being a trump supporter so much so that they lose their job let's say that somebody's tweets are rounded up and they're not that bad they just show that it's somebody is a in hafidh trump supporter let's say they take those tweets and they send them to an employer and it causes somebody to get fired should it be illegal to get somebody fired for being a trump supporter well I would say it should not only be illegal it should be a hate crime because if somebody is attacked because of their support of a political party that is a completely legal functioning political party Republican if you get fired for that and the reason you get fired is you know somebody organized an attack to talk to your employer to get you fired

[17:44]

talk to your employer to get you fired under those conditions with should that not be a hate crime because it is you know if you if you steal somebody's job just because you hate them basically getting them fired does stealing their job you know you're not stealing it to keep it but you're taking it from them all right if you take money from somebody or let's say you burned down somebody let me give you a cleaner example if I burned down your house because you were a certain political party would it be called a hate crime yeah would be if I burned your house even if you weren't in it let's say there was no danger to anybody physically if I burned down your house because of your race your beliefs your religion is that a hate crime and the answer is yes now a house is just an economic good right it's something that has a dollar amount it's not a person it's just a dollar amount economic

[18:46]

it's just a dollar amount economic entity now you live in and you got your private pictures in there so it's worse but my point is if you take somebody's job it's not that different from burning down their house and if you would agree that it would be certainly a hate crime to burn down somebody's house for being a certain political party it's a crime if you get them fired if you get them fired for their political beliefs and this is happening in this country I'll be telling you a story about one that I know if later but not today it this needs to be a hate crime not just a crime it needs to be a hate crime and there should be jail time so I think you should actually go to jail if you're getting somebody fired or even trying to I would say even if you tried to give somebody fired for their political beliefs and have failed you should still go to jail jail actual jail

[19:48]

should still go to jail jail actual jail I'm not talking about a fine I'm not talking about being sued I'm talking about Jail I'm talking about putting you in a cell and you spend some time there because if you burn down somebody's house for their political views would you go to jail you would go to jail every time assuming you got convicted and everything every time so what is the real difference between burning down somebody's house for their political views versus organizing a mob organizing a mob to take the person's job there's no difference it's the same crime jail there should be jail for that
all right let's talk about some other things there's a Rasmussen poll that I'm gonna break some news for you you want

[20:48]

gonna break some news for you you want to hear some Rasmussen poll results that you have not heard anywhere else because I actually got permission to I got permission to tell you before it gets posted which will be very soon I hear was the survey Rasmussen Reports thousand us likely voters and they conducted this June third and fourth so use your imagination to win back your brain to June third or fourth we're sort of right in the middle of a lot of a lot of the protests when things were pretty hot and here was the first question do you have a very favorable some more favorable somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of black lives matter so this is this is the existing thing all right so a very favorable 32% somewhat favorable to 30% so the the favorables are 62% when you put them all together 62% of the people surveyed and

[21:49]

together 62% of the people surveyed and the survey I believe I saw the details was a very close to the population in the United States so they asked about 13% African Americans and yeah they got a mix that was sim to the United States demographic and 62% have a favorable view of black lives matter right in the middle of the protest and then the somewhat unfavorable and unfavorables added up to 31% so twice as many people have a positive view as a negative view but here's the more interesting question after several days of protests and following the death of George Floyd do you have a more favorable or less favorable opinion a black lives matter so here's the interesting thing did all of the recent news cause people to like black lives matter more or less what is your guess give me your guests before I give you the answer did the protests

[22:50]

give you the answer did the protests make the public at large like black lives matter more or less the answer is both the people who said they had a more favorable opinion at 30% the people who said they had a less favorable opinion exactly 30% in other words it broke even now it didn't really break even because those aren't necessarily the same people and maybe they were already favorable but they're a little more favorable now and 38% said their opinion was about the same I don't know how your opinion could be about the same what kind of person could watch all that and say ah opinions about the same I guess that's possible yeah I suppose if you if you already had a very high opinion or a very low opinion that probably wouldn't change you just feel stronger about it yeah so I'm watching the comments go by and I

[23:50]

I'm watching the comments go by and I think I think what we would find is that the conservatives liked black lives matter less and I'm just speculating this is not based on the data that I'm looking at but probably you know probably people on the left like black lives matter more because it was doing more you know more active raising the issue all right
so that's from Rasmussen and so I read it a little test to tweet so I've been testing this concept that Republicans feel as if they don't have freedom of speech so I tweeted and pinned this just to see how many lifes I got and here was the sentence I said republic Republicans only had free speech on election day now the point of that was to find out if the Republicans were watching this would sort of agree that they don't have free

[24:51]

sort of agree that they don't have free speech but that it but that the price will be paid in other words if you're a Republican and you are aware that there's a big national topic and you are also aware that you don't have freedom of speech where are you gonna go to compensate for that like your your incentive to vote is just sort of through the roof because it'll be the first time you can be honest the one time you can be honest is when you walk in that voting booth and you pull the lever or fill out your form or whatever because you can honestly vote you can totally honestly vote but you can't honestly talk you don't have freedom of speech in a practical sense you do in a legal sense of course and it got 4,400 retweets which on the size of my account is is a lot so I love that I love that I could use Twitter to quickly test a

[25:54]

could use Twitter to quickly test a notion so I was quickly testing if other people were feeling the same and then this morning I wake up to at least three major accounts tweeting the same concept that that we don't have freedom of speech so we can't really talk about the topic honestly I think four different accounts had the same the same theme that we we can't make progress because we can't talk about it so you can see more of that you know I would also say it should be a hate crime for social media somebody on social media to label the Trump supporter a white supremacist what do you think of that if somebody on social media were to call a trump supporter who's just a trump supporter you know hasn't done anything specific to be you know objectionable and they're labeled a white supremacist just for being a trump supporter is that a hate crime if they do it publicly if somebody calls

[26:55]

if they do it publicly if somebody calls you out and labels you a white supremacist on Twitter would you call that a hate crime I would I would because you know you couldn't use the n-word you couldn't call somebody and the other kind of offensive hateful thing now calling somebody a white supremacist really is an invitation to violence I would say because I think that most people would feel justified in violence against a white supremacist so I would say that if somebody labels you a white supremacist for having you know just an opinion about things and it's not a white supremacist opinion you're just a Republican I would say that's I hate crime because it is an invitation to violence directly and indirectly so I'd like to see those changes and without those changes I think social media just has to be regulated like like any other utility or publisher let's see there's a

[27:58]

utility or publisher let's see there's a additional scientific evidence for the fact that you were genetics make a big difference in how susceptible you are to covent and coronavirus so there's a now a second study there was one in China that had the same result that found that blood type O is more resistant now it's not completely resistant it's you know it's certainly the teens of resistance you know might be 10 to 19 percent or something in that range but there is a there is a pretty measurable difference if you got type oh you're you're more resistant my guess is that their other factor in your genetics that would also be predictive so you remember I told you early on if you're keeping score if you're keeping score of which pom that's predicted correctly as we lived one of my earliest predictions is that there would be a strong genetic component and

[28:59]

would be a strong genetic component and if we knew that genetic component it might help us determine who to keep safe and who's at risk remember that was one of the first things I said months ago and now science has confirmed so I was right about masks right about closing the airports even before the president said it you know I don't know how many times to say it because it blows my mind that my medical advice was consistently superior to the World Health Organization most of you - I think if you could monkey with the dart board would have been better than the World Health Organization but man I I freaking nailed it if let me say this as starkly as I can if you had ignored the World Health Organization and just and just took your medical advice from me so far you would have been way ahead now in the future I don't recommend you take

[30:00]

future I don't recommend you take medical advice from me that'd be probably a bad idea as a general principle but it is nonetheless true that if you'd only listened to my medical advice and I haven't you know no medical training obviously you would have been way ahead that's just a fact there's no way you can argue that that statement so guessing is better than expertise sometimes bill Barr says so he's talking about the social media companies he says quote I think there are clearly these these entities are now engaged in censorship and they originally held themselves as open forums so I think that's a direct statement from from the Attorney General that he is aware I mean it's kind of wouldn't you say that it's a it's a pretty strong statement from

[31:01]

a it's a pretty strong statement from the Attorney General to say that they are engaged in censorship so the Attorney General did not say he did not say we're looking into censorship he did not say we're concerned that they might he's not saying people have complained that they do he said he's the Attorney General of the United States and he said clearly these entities are now engaged in censorship he said clearly like it's a done deal what all right let me cure racism I'm going to take some things which I have said before but I've not said them as well as I'm going to package them now so I'm going to take you to my white board and I'm going to solve racism for you sure maybe not all at once but the cumulative effect will be a complete solution to racism and it comes from understanding it like this all right so

[32:02]

understanding it like this all right so some of this you've seen before if I'm gonna package it better you have a brain it's a big old lump of stuff inside your skull your brain is a pattern recognition machine but it's not a very good one and that's where all our problems come from so your brain doesn't have a choice of being biased it's designed to be biased because you can't do a scientific controlled experiment for all of the thousands of decisions you make every day from whether to across the street how to start your car while closed you put on thousands of decisions every day and you don't have any data or scientific studies so you use your BIOS you say to yourself all the last five times I did whatever it worked out well so I'll do that again or the last three times I try this it didn't work so I won't do that again so your brain is really just a pattern

[33:03]

your brain is really just a pattern recognition machine that's running all the time and you can't turn that off
even though it doesn't do a good job of it so if you see a pattern that's not a real pattern you're still going to think it's pattern because you don't have time to do you know a deep dive and everything so you could be misled by your pattern generating machine and you're being mislead will make you biased bigoted racist sexist Aegeus and all the other isms because your brain is very biased it just looks for patterns it's dumb you sees the pattern even if it's not a real pattern it could be an imagined pattern and just as well it's the best i god i'll go with it now the problem with black lives matter and their approach to things and systemic racism etc is that they're trying to fix this they're trying to fix the fact that people are biased bigoted racist sexist etc well they don't care about the

[34:04]

etc well they don't care about the bottom one so much but they're working on the races for this the problem they're trying to solve can't be solved so if you're wondering why racism hasn't been solved it's because it can't it's not a thing it doesn't it's not a thing that as a solution I'm not saying it's hard I'm not saying we don't know how I mean it is logically unsolvable by its nature because to solve this you'd have to remove our brains because you can't rewire a brain to make it not a pattern recognition machine that's his basic nature if you made your brain not capable or at least not automatically operating on patterns it would also no longer be a brain it just wouldn't do anything you would just sit in the chair and starve to death so this is only is not solvable in any sense there's nothing you can do cannot

[35:04]

sense there's nothing you can do cannot solve the basic nature of the human brain and if you try you're doomed to fail and here we are here's what you can do so instead of doing what you can't do how about doing what you can do your bias is permanent you can't get rid of bias it might change over time as you have new experiences and they cause you know new or revised biases but you're always gonna have bias but what you can do is make sure that your filters are strong your moral filter says no I don't want to treat people with bias so I will use my higher-level thinking to to try to tamp down that instinct you could put your social filter on it and say no I want to be a good person have all my friends are good people I want to be a good person I don't want to be that kind of person so I will use my social filter to tamp down my bias and then there's a practical filter which is how would

[36:06]

practical filter which is how would society work if we're just go around discriminating against each other for race or anything else does it work very well so from a practical perspective if you want to have a better world of course you want to tamp down your bias because it just works better if somebody comes in and asks for a job do you want to lose the possibility that you could have hired the best employee you'd ever had because you were being biased no it's just not practical you would rather look at their resume and say oh okay I was a little biased when you walked in the door because you weigh a hundred and ten pounds and the job requires lifting heavy objects but now that I've looked at your resume I see here that you're a bodybuilder couldn't tell the way you're dressed but you're looks like you can actually handle this job okay you're hired all right so on a practical basis you don't want to lose the chance to hire the best person you ever had for the job so you want to overcome your bias so here's what I'm saying if you spend your

[37:06]

here's what I'm saying if you spend your trying time trying to fix this it's just a waste of time you can't fix it you shouldn't fix it it's the basic nature of your operating system for your brain you can't change that but you can certainly strengthen your filters you can strengthen your filters so imagine starting early and saying to kids look you're gonna be biased there's nothing you can do about that but you can strengthen your filters here's why being biased doesn't work for anybody here's why it's immoral here's why you're not going to have a good time with your social life it's just not going to be as good if you're if you're operating out of your biases so to some extent I'm stealing these ideas from Morgan Freeman for example Morgan Freeman and this isn't his version of it but I'm I borrowed I borrowed from his version as inspiration so I'd say I used Morgan Freeman as inspiration which is they just sort of

[38:09]

inspiration which is they just sort of ignore the ignore the racism part and laugh about it now imagine imagine the world you know I'm not going to say I have a dream but you can see where I'm going here imagine a world where somebody walks in for a job interview or just walks in the room and the social setting and your first thought is whatever your bias is and you can make a joke about it and the other person could make a joke about it too let me give you an example if somebody mocks me for being a white guy who has no rhythm and can't dance what is my what is my first impression to that let's say let's say a black guy mocks me for being a like a bad dresser which I am or being a bad dancer if he mocks me in a funny way I just think it's kind of funny because it's true hey yeah I don't dress well

[39:09]

it's true hey yeah I don't dress well let I have style I don't have rhythm now I don't care if these stereotypes do or do not have some kind of statistical meaning I don't really care because they don't apply to me I just think it's funny and anytime somebody teases me for you know playing air guitar I don't play her guitar but you know what I mean or dancing with an overbite do I say to myself I hate crime hate crime or do I say to myself that's kind of funny kind of funny so I think you know well I think Morgan Freeman is my inspiration here that you should just accept well let me say it more directly what we're trying to do is to minimize our feelings of bias so that in our interactions they don't come out it's probably exactly the wrong instinct it's probably backwards don't know but here's but but imagine it

[40:10]

don't know but here's but but imagine it going exactly the other way what if we can speak freely about our our biases what if you could just speak freely about it but at the same time you would strengthen your filters to the point where you could overcome it so somebody walks into your office for an interview and you say oh man you do not look like the right person for the job for whatever reason you're too short you're too old you're the wrong gender maybe you're even a racist but imagine a world where you can just say that let's say man you do I don't even think you're the right person for the job you just laugh about it and then the person pulls out their resume says well my my Harvard degree and my ten years you know writing published papers and this says otherwise and then the person who was laughing said am pretty darn good you're hired and nobody thinks anything about it they just say okay I had a bias because I'm I'm a human how about just saying

[41:13]

I'm I'm a human how about just saying humans have bias but we also have tools so just accept your bias and then use your tools make sure you've strengthened your filters so you can build a system that works best so that's what I would suggest all of the stuff about how you feel about it and trying to cleanse your soul and you know because you speak a certain way in your dark heart you've got these bad feelings every bit of that is counterproductive because it it imagines a person the way we are not which is free from bias or we can be free from bias or that there are some people who don't have bias and some people who do that's a big illusion everybody's got bias somebody says you are such a tool that's a good productive comment there thanks for jumping in with such useful advice somebody says unrealistic but good yes it is is it unrealistic in the sense

[42:15]

it is is it unrealistic in the sense that I do not expect that people will automatically say wow okay good idea you got me now let me tell you how this works if this is a good frame it will live on its own meaning that there there are enough people here who will see it that if I said anything useful on this topic there anything else it forms sort of a almost creature you know a good idea is almost an entity that can travel and it can it can be spread like a virus from one person to another so one of two things just happened either I had an idea that doesn't have much attraction and that's the end of it last time you'll ever hear it or there are some few people who heard this who said damn that really gives me a better way to think about it and maybe I can do something about that and if it's a good idea it will grow on its own over time so you can you can just release an idea

[43:16]

so you can you can just release an idea like that and find out if a zippe any power all right
somebody says it's not a good frame well you would need to define that a little bit better I'm not gonna block you I have a if you knew it's my policy to block people who have a criticism that doesn't have a reason attached you don't have to go deep with your reason but when you said it's I think that it's not practical or something not a good frame give me give me just a hint of a reason if you can summarize it and usually you can all right swaddle me captain that's always funny every time I hear it yeah and I've said this before but we should be concentrating on strategy here's something that's provocative that I would love to tell a 12 year-old a class of twelve-year-old

[44:17]

year-old a class of twelve-year-old black Americans so if I could talk to a classroom at that age I would tell them this yeah racism will always be a problem it's not going away can't they can't go away really but while you might be disadvantaged let's let's say socially or even systemically I haven't heard examples of that but I'm sure I will so you might be disadvantaged in this life because of racism etc but you also have a tactical advantage and they would say what yes that's right you have a disadvantage because of racism but you also have a tactical advantage if you had the right strategy and the tactical advantage and I'll just give you the one obvious example which is you could walk into any fortune 500 company and if you have the same qualifications as a white candidate you'll get the job every time because the company needs diversity as well as employees so if you can get a

[45:18]

well as employees so if you can get a good employee who has the same capability as everybody else who's applying but you can also get some diversity far preferred and that is just that's as close to a universally true statement as you can make about corporate America so I would teach the class yes you you were born into a world that's gonna have some racism so he's going to be there so here's your strategy be tactical you can slice through that like it didn't even exist because your tactical advantage is so strong if you use it if you have the right strategy so that's the way I would go let's find out if we have any freedom of speech and we'll get back to social media and we'll find out and I will talk to you later