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Episode 1027 Scott Adams: I Solve Police Racism in Terms of Killing, Talk About Deadly Force.

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Episode 1027 Scott Adams: I Solve Police Racism in Terms of Killing, Talk About Deadly Force.

Date: 2020-06-14 | Duration: 1:08:47

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  • President Trump, slippery shoes and a slippery ramp

  • Christian preacher choked out in Antifastan

  • CNN’s despicable fanning the flames of racism

  • Conservative view on criminals…regardless of race

  • Whiteboard1: Plan to Eliminate Police Racism (Killings)

  • Whiteboard2: Low Information Voter Test

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off all of your screens and walk outside is it different well let me show you the difference between looking at any of my screens I'll use my phone as an example versus turning my phone off and going outside first I'd like to give you my impression of just walking outside without my screens pom pom pom pom pom oh what a nice day summers coming - buh buh buh buh buh buh okay that's me just walk you outside without any of my screens and now a one-act play on me looking at any of my screens this month let's see what's in the news

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and seem and so I suggest if any of you are feeling a little bit of tension a little bit of stress are you worried about the future maybe turn off these things that are jacked into the part of your brain that causes you to be excited and stressed out maybe put that aside a little bit just a little bit you'll feel a lot better let's talk about the news Wendy's the hamburger team last week announced they were going to give half a million dollars to I think some cause that would help with black lives matter to end racial discrimination and calm down the racial problems in this country half a million dollars from Wendy's so it's pretty good in unrelated news protesters burned down a Wendy's last night so I guess that didn't work out another news Trump is 74 today he's 74

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another news Trump is 74 today he's 74 years old which is way too old to be President let's let's be honest the fact that we even consider candidates who will be over 70 when they're serving as president it's just not good that's just not good managing of your country it really isn't but I gotta say Trump won fair and square against against who we ran against so there's that you saw the video the Trump critics are trying to turn this into something so Trump gave it gave his speech yesterday and then a military person helped him down a ramp after his speech now as he was going down the ramp he was moving very carefully as if there's something wrong and so of course his critics figured that the something wrong what's Trump there must be something wrong with him he can't walk however let

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wrong with him he can't walk however let me give you some context just to throw in there I don't know why he was walking the way he was walking as it appeared on camera but I will give you this context if you're wearing the suit and you're the president and you have all the money in the world the odds of your shoes being newish is pretty high right I don't think the president wears old worn-out shoes probably got quite a few pairs and there are almost certainly on the newer side of things new shoes are slippery new shoes are slippery and so are ramps ramps are slippery if you are a certain age and you've got slippery shoes and you're walking down a slippery ramp you walk exactly when the way the President did and if you're smart you've got somebody next to you holding your arm because the odds of you going down are pretty good you're pretty good it doesn't matter who you are if you got slippery shoes on a slippery ramp now do

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slippery shoes on a slippery ramp now do I know that the ramp was slippery nope do not but I can tell you that I've given lots of speeches on stages sometimes there were ramps sometimes I had to navigate a ramp with slippery shoes off do you know how I walked just like Trump you take steps they're like one inch you're like uh-uh so you don't take big steps you take the smallest step you can and just try to stay over yourself because you think you're going down especially if people are watching right so I would say that's a lot of nothing but I would extend at that point to this video lies now you're saying to yourself oh yeah I know that a video can be manipulated no no I'm not talking about manipulated video I'm talking about ordinary video

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he was ordinary video of lies basically every time now why do I say that I don't mean that it lies intentionally I mean the all video leaves out stuff and the stuff it leaves out could easily be as important as what do you see for example the video of the president walking down the ramp what was shown was the president having some concern walking down a ramp the video showed that very clearly what did it not show you well it didn't show you issues it didn't show you the bottom of issues to see if there are new ish in Slippery it didn't show you the ramp so you can get an idea if they had modified it to have any gripping stuff on it because if there was some kind of a rug on the ramp or a mat in which it was not slippery at all you'd say to yourself oh okay that's that's good context so now I really do have to wonder why he was walking that way the video doesn't show you what the president was wearing under

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you what the president was wearing under his suit probably a lot of armor right body armor he's in public so he's got unusual body waiting he's 74 years old he's on a ramp it's probably slippery how much of that did you see on the video basically none the important variables weren't even on the video likewise I would say that every video that you see about every topic is a lie it is a lie and I should be your first assumption our first assumption at the moment is if you see something on video video for god sakes you see it on video it's just like you're there so your first instinct is wow if I'm looking at it and it's right on video the odds of it being misleading are wrong or what what's your what's your first instinct if you see it with your own eyes on video your instinct is well it could be misleading I mean it could be but I'm

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misleading I mean it could be but I'm looking right at it I'm gonna say I know top of my head 95% chance that what I'm seeing is the correct and accurate story about 95% chance do you know what the real number is I don't either but I'm gonna put a guess on it the real number of the times that you would see a video and let's limit it to videos that are national topics so I'm not talking about a video of your kid's birthday party that might be perfectly accurate I'm talking about any video that has caused a national conversation I'm talking about the important ones the ones that really move the news what percentage of them do you think are accurate now accurate would mean that it gives you enough of the story that you don't need anything else there's nothing left out there's no context that's important there's nothing after the video ended that mattered and there's nothing before it happened that mattered so how often under that under

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mattered so how often under that under that scenario how often is the video that you see on big national events how often is it accurate I would say closer to 20 percent of the time that would be my guess because there's a rule and play that's very counterintuitive and the rule is that the reason it's in the news is because it's shocking what makes something shocking what makes something shocking is that it shouldn't happen it's a violation of expectations in a very major way or a violation of what's right or proper or or or should happen that sort of thing now in any case whether there's a video or no video and I just would suppose you just heard this you don't know if there's a video you don't know what evidence is involved but there's a claim and it's a shocking claim that's all you know something that doesn't often happen or shouldn't happen

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doesn't often happen or shouldn't happen or should never happen in a world that's operating right is reported to have happened how often does it that it's true and the answer is almost never yeah you don't realize that because you get caught up in the details of things and there are so many things that do turn out just the way you thought so you don't notice this special category and one the first time I read about this you just blew my head off because once you've heard about it you see it everywhere and the special category is that you hear a story that a man bit a dog so that's wrong right dog bites a man that's not so unusual but a man bites a dog well that's in the news how often when you find out all the details about that story about the man who bit a dog how many times out of all the times that has happened does the story turned out to be exactly what you thought there was a man there was a dog

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thought there was a man there was a dog that man been a dog and the answer is close to zero close to zero so the moment you hear a story like that man bit a dog your instinct should be close to zero that is true but in fact your instinct is the exact opposite because you still even people who know that fake news is massively you know pervasive even people like that you still think the news is probably true 95 percent of the time it's just a it's just a reflex you can't really turn it off because it comes from sources that you know by their design are meant to look credible so I'm going to extend that point about anything that's is an unusual story of the type of Man Bites Dog then if the video shows a man biting a dog it's also a lie not every time not a hundred percent of the

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every time not a hundred percent of the time but really close really close to a hundred percent of the time so your first assumption should be on every video you see from today on because now you've learned this so from from this day forward no matter how obvious that video is and let's say again we're limiting it to things that were so shocking they made it on the news your first reaction should be probably not true and in fact it probably should be in the 90 percent range plus right but in fact we we have a society that operates on the opposite assumption and this is what we got so what you get is exactly what you see and it should be getting much worse because now that it's clear that you can use a misleading video to make any point you want what are the odds that there will be more misleading videos in the atmosphere 100% 100% so you should be

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atmosphere 100% 100% so you should be seeing in the next few months just a a blizzard of misleading video most of them will be lies now the weird thing about these lies if I can call them that is that they can even lie in the right direction and what I mean by that is the video could be completely misleading and give you the opposite conclusion from what you should have concluded but it could also be completely misleading and lead you to a conclusion that's correct just by coincidence so it could be that everything you saw the other video is just total BS but by coincidence the bad impression you got was also coincidentally true so that could happen so it's a very confusing situation speaking of news that gets corrected Bret Baier apologized for Fox News showing an offensive graphic I talked

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showing an offensive graphic I talked about this before but the apology is worth noting and the graphic showed how the stock market reacts based on different tragedies including you know famous in the news shootings of black people including MLK now of course most of you have probably exactly the same reaction that had when I saw it which was is this even real did somebody think that was okay to put on TV turns out it was real it was real they really put that on TV now I would not call that a a man biting a dog weird situation because weird an offensive graphics on the news are pretty common pretty common so that doesn't fit into so unusual that you shouldn't believe it but here's what's I liked about this story if I could add some positivity so Brett Baier I guess it was on his show that was shown I gave an apology and it was unequivocal

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an apology and it was unequivocal unequivocal meaning it was just a complete apology complete mistake sorry fixed it I give Bret Baier a plus and Fox News as well now again I remind you that my standard for judging people is the following and I recommend it to you all I do not judge people by their mistakes because if you did you're gonna hate everybody right if you judge people by their mistakes who's left really I mean I get to be Jesus for a moment but you know you know like he who is without sin cast the first stone kind of rings true in my world all right you know show me the perfect people you can't so judging people by their mistakes well of course and in the sense of the legal system you still have to judge them because you have to have a system that works but in terms of non legal issues of just you know offense if somebody apologizes this cleanly and I think it

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apologizes this cleanly and I think it was within 48 hours I use that as my standard for quick enough I say a plus so Fox News based on the standard which I apply which I'd apply to anybody yeah everybody's the same on the standard a perfectly clean and clear apology no ambiguity no excuses a plus I would like to see a lot more of that in the world now I'm not big on apologies in general I'm not big on just because you offended somebody but in this case the apology is very clear this was a mistake we see it too didn't see it at first but now we see it and apologizing for an actual mistake always acceptable in my world apologizing for somebody is opinion of what you did well that's a little different you don't always have to apologize just because someone else was offended but if you can see it - once they pointed it out you go ah man I see it - yeah apologize that's

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ah man I see it - yeah apologize that's my advice all right Facebook fired I love this story I can all these feel-good stories for tea for you today I'm also going to solve racism in policing so I'm gonna do that today a little bit later that's worth waiting for
for we'll go to the whiteboard for that so Facebook fired an employee because the employee criticized another employee on Twitter for not adding a statement of support for black lives matter to documentation on an open source project so let me say this to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook you know I like many people yeah I've been critical of Facebook I've said lots of bad things about Facebook right you know we all have we all have our criticisms as a company it's one of the great companies of all time dr. Berg himself say what you will about you know

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himself say what you will about you know I know you've got your opinions but as a CEO and as an entrepreneur he's pretty damn good I mean really really really good and I think there's general agreement that Zuckerberg is just really really good at this stuff yeah it's not an accident that Facebook is big and so they fired the employee who complained as opposed to firing of course that wouldn't make sense because the other employer was on what'd he wait fired an employer publicly criticized oh yeah now it was a Facebook employee so facebook employee criticized the Facebook employee and got fired for it and I say good job Facebook well I wasn't expecting Facebook to be the one that drew the line you know like what's too far and you figured that it would be the Conservatives we're pushing

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would be the Conservatives we're pushing back at whatever this you know creeping change in society is and that if it gets too far it'll be the let's say the conservative wall of resistance that stops it if it can be stopped at all but it looks like Facebook just said and that's far enough yeah you could if you're complaining about another employee who isn't complaining enough you're just a dick all right that's no longer about the issue that's about you being a dick to another employee and if you're gonna be a dick to another employee your ass is fired at a Facebook Facebook yeah I gotta be fair I criticize them all the time but they got this right they got that as right as you can get something right all right another fun story in a weird way is an anti fast and

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story in a weird way is an anti fast and a Christian preacher somehow got into the mix there he snuck in somehow started preaching some stuff and they didn't like what he was saying I think it was maybe not pro and Tifa enough and so agree a group of antiva grab the preacher put him in a chokehold they put him in a chokehold and as they put the chokehold on up and the guys yelling you're joking me I can't breathe so yeah and I'm not making fun of George Floyd that part is beyond you know way beyond any anybody joking about that I'm only joking about auntie first and and and this preacher guy getting choked because if there's one thing well all right the fun part about this is watching auntie fest and realize

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this is watching auntie fest and realize that they're gonna have to recreate everything that they hated in order to exist they'll just recreate systems that were a problem so they've already got a wall they built a racist wall on day one they built a racist police force on day two now they're putting people in chokeholds for for violating freedom of speech and I guess their program now and uh uh and they segregated through if it started Jim Crow laws and Jim Crow laws in their public garden anyway and again I tweeted this yesterday and I didn't get very many retweets and I I have these two feelings about the you know the people in and Tifa stand on one hand is completely unacceptable they're taking other people's property you know we can't have a system that allows you

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we can't have a system that allows you know random chaos you have to have some kind of control for the Persis ayat II to work you know so I've got a long list of my complaints right but it's not all complaints I can't shake the fact that I have a natural affection for rebels people who just can't stand the system people are going to break the system now it's one thing if you're just a criminal alright if you're just the criminal I don't have too much sympathy for you but if you're if you're higher level thinking is that you're not trying to hurt anybody per se you just have a different idea of how the world should run etc even if it's a wrong idea there's something about rebel energy that I just like I like it I'm not going to apologize for that because I know you'd like me to write when you like me too apologize to that because I shouldn't say anything positive about the about the lawless rebels who were taking over

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the lawless rebels who were taking over an Tifa stand I agree to the whole list of what's wrong with that the whole list at every check box there's nothing on the list that I disagree with you about the bad parts but I just sort of like rebels you know I and I don't want to hide it because I feel like I'd just be lying to you if I hid that and I'll go further and say that although and Tifa stand by itself may not be the most productive use of energy we're going to learn a lot and if the only thing that came out of this is hey let's try the same experiment but in a more appropriate place someplace where they've planned a better someplace where the only people there other people will want to be there someplace where you know they haven't taken over anybody's land or property or anything like that so I think there's a way for that energy to be channeled into something that I would be fully supportive of which is people who just want to try something new now trying to change the entire

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new now trying to change the entire country because some small groups of people have you know an idea about that well maybe it's impractical but trying it in a community and then find again it works or what works and what doesn't and then extending that learning to other communities or you know maybe in 20 years the whole country says you know these experiments work so well let's just change our whole system could happen wouldn't rule it out so I am supportive in a weird emotional way while I agree with you a hundred percent the law and order must be restored eventually I wouldn't hurry about it because I think we're learning something just by watching it yeah you know and the week or two isn't gonna make that much difference to anybody all right I know you want me to talk about the new video of race yard Brooks who was the man who was killed at the Wendy's by police and I'm gonna make a general

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police and I'm gonna make a general comment so I'm only gonna talk generally so it's not about this incident it's not about black people it's not about race general comments I don't care about anybody I don't care their ethnicity not relevant I don't care about anybody who fights with the police officer and gets killed I don't I just don't care about them now that's different from saying everybody did the right thing it's different from saying the police did exactly what they should have that's different from saying maybe there's a better system where this could never happen I'm up for all of those conversations but I will not care you can't make me care about somebody who wrestled with a cop and got his ass shot now CNN is reporting this as this poor man was getting ready to celebrate with his daughter or her birthday okay everybody's human everybody's got a

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everybody's human everybody's got a human side but that feels like trying to whip up racial division so that CNN Headline looks like nothing but an attempt and naked attempt to make people more racist meaning make people hate each other for race so see that's despicable that they would treat it that way now I also agree any person who is killed whether it be in the line of a crime or anything else they're still human beings and still have to be fully valued as human beings no exceptions to that but how much I care personally about any person you know white black or anything else who gets killed by a cop after wrestling with a cop I mean they were actually on the ground and that asked that it looked like the cop at least one of them might have been injured it looked like he was limping and I don't know I'm gonna save all of my sympathy for other people do you know who I care

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for other people do you know who I care more about a lot more a black kid who couldn't get lunch today I care about that I care about a black kid who couldn't get lunch care about that a lot do I care about a guy who wrestled with the police and got his ass in shot zero zero Fox I don't care about that even a little bit you can't make me there's nothing you could do to make me care about that so and then on top of that my other larger issue is stop making me look like an idiot by debating anecdotes I refuse to be an Inuk doe idiot can we all agree that the problem is not what happened one day in one place ever the the big conversation if that's the tragedy even if it's a you know crime that's not what the conversation is about it's about the larger issue of you know pervasive racism

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know pervasive racism don't show me anecdotes if that's your argument if your argument is the big picture show me the data of the big picture and take all the anecdotes away because the anecdotes do nothing but making it worse I would argue however that the George Floyd thing did one very useful thing for society which is it made us really talk about an issue that we're having trouble talking about and there's a very interesting thing happening right now as in right now which is that you know the first several days because everything was so raw for summer days after the George Floyd tragedy emotions were so raw that I think by general common sense and decency that anybody who had a dissenting opinion on that just said and I think you have to have some appreciation for this I think everybody should appreciate the following statement there were a lot of

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following statement there were a lot of people who had dissenting opinions right away about their opinion of what we could or could not know about that situation based on the video those people with dissenting opinions just out of a sense of decency and also self press I'm sure held off and just said let's let's step back and we're not going to be we're not going to be quibbling the details on this one like this one isn't the one for debate this is the one we all felt it the same way the details the legalities the technicalities of it that's going to come later and those will matter a lot but what we saw was a shared experience and I think that I've never seen so much unity on anything in the United States which was the first you know hours and days after it the people with dissenting opinions just kept them to themselves and I think that

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kept them to themselves and I think that that was again it's the dog that doesn't bark so you don't notice it so much you don't notice what doesn't happen but this was a gigantic thing that didn't happen meaning that a lot of well-meaning people said okay I see it you know I've heard it in the statistics I heard the argument maybe I had a different sense of the statistics but I didn't feel it like I could hear the complaints from the black community about police abuse I hear it well I'll feel it and then you watch the video and now it's different now you hear it but you also feel it like you can feel it just it's almost like it's you because you were just there you know it was part of your almost your experience even though the video you know give you some distance didn't feel like distance didn't feel like much of a distance at all when you're watching it it felt like you were inside the video it was that powerful so I would like to you know

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powerful so I would like to you know shout out to the people who held off the people and of just simple human decency said at the moment this is not this is not for fighting this is not the debate moment this is a moment for something else so they stood back however there's a time in the place for everything the brave people who were waiting in in include people like Sam Harris who I think risked his entire life and career by doing a podcast in which he simply talked about the data and the statistics and tried to put this in context in the most rational way that you can and will probably be canceled for it I don't know if he has been yet but it was pretty provocative without being bad intentions and without anything that I heard that was wrong you know there was some tea to guess in there but that wasn't the topic of it and then I was just listening to ben

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and then I was just listening to ben shapiro yesterday and ben shapiro was also finally you know i think he too like everybody else just out of a sense of decency just held off a little bit but now he's just starting to ramp up into full speed you this is one of those situations where you need a full Shapiro you know I didn't mean you know what Ben Shapiro operating at 25 percent power because that's not enough yeah you want you want a Ben Shapiro that's that's full throated got that yesterday I don't know how much he said before that I'm sure he's been leading up to this but at this point he's just telling you the truth as he sees it and again we're all seeing our own truth but he's a strong voice so now you've got a Sam Harris who's telling you you know him very what's the just honest and well-meaning but provocative as hell even even though

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but provocative as hell even even though it's honest and well-meaning and now she bureaus in the fight alright so those are two people who just risked their entire lives to make this better they did that they both risk when I say their life well yeah literally their life because I think you could be in physical danger you could be in physical danger for even having the opinions that they've expressed in public even though they're well-meaning and based on facts and rationale doesn't matter doesn't matter it all you know Tucker's a little bit of a different category because I think he's playing to an audience a little bit more so if you were to compare Tucker's presentation it's a little more let's say right-leaning whereas i would say that sam harris is not right leaning at all nobody makes a similar case he just doesn't do it with a right leaning bent

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doesn't do it with a right leaning bent and I would say that Ben Shapiro's take on it you would expect it to be leaning right but you don't see that much of it you know I mean there's reference to family of course but you take that out with this otherwise it's just statistics so and I've been trying to speak honestly on this topic but of course it gets harder and harder but I'm going to be a little bit more you know following their lead if you will if we assume that they're taking a leadership position on the question and I think that's obvious they are then I will follow their leadership and you know move in the same direction just being trying to be a little more honest about a topic that is hard to be honest about so I'll just try to move that a little bit and we'll do that today in a minute all right here's an illusion that I think is hurting the world see if you think this is an illusion conservatives don't care about

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illusion conservatives don't care about other conservatives who break the law now what about it this way if if you heard a story in the news about a black American who broke a law and the police killed them in the process of trying to catch him let's say there was some resistance and then there was an identical story of a white Trump supporter who was also a criminal broke the law or resisted arrest police killed him two identical stories black guy and a white conservative if you're black what do you think conservatives think about those two stories what's your opinion because you probably think I'm just guessing I she opens in terms of a question so rather than make it a statement because I don't have facts to back it up I'll put it in the form of a question if you're if you're a member of the black community in America do you think conservatives would see those two identical situations the same would they see a trump supporter who broke a law

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see a trump supporter who broke a law resist arrest and got killed the same as if a you know a black Democrat did exactly the same thing would conservatives see them the same and the answer is not just yes but hell yes why would you even ask that stupid question it's hell yes right it's not even yes it's yes squared yes times 1000 how many times can I say yes those are identical to conservatives identical because there's one standard did you follow the law did you follow the Constitution did you yourself do some dumb ass thing that got you shot not my problem all right not my problem I think that that would be the conservative view I think that the black population believes that conservatives would favor a conservative

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conservatives would favor a conservative who is in exactly the same situation if you changed this Wendi's situation and you just replace Rashard Brooks the the person who was killed if you just replace it with a white guy do I give a about that white guy not any not even a little I do not care about that white guy in fact that white guys look making me look bad right because everybody thinks that I'm responsible for everything that any white person does isn't that how it works like you're all responsible for anything that anybody does who has any commonality with you even if you've never met them I hate that fricking white guy I'm glad the police gunned him down in case you're wondering what I think about the white guys no love no affection no no I don't I don't give a about the white guy who got shot by police if he wrestled with him and I'm certainly not going to extend that caring to any other

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going to extend that caring to any other group so I just think that's useful to know for context here's a question what should the police do if the suspect runs
what does the law allow the police to do if a suspect runs because if you if the police can't shoot a suspect who is running and the suspect is capable of outrunning them which I would think would be many suspects you know a lot of the people get stopped off and are young and healthy the police officer who stops them is often near burdened with equipment on his body and typically not nearly as healthy or as fast as a young twentysomething person of any any race who gets stopped what is what is the rule for what a police officer can do if they can't catch him on foot and they

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they can't catch him on foot and they can't shoot him so if I got stopped by the police for any crime let's say I was wanted for robbing a bank let's say I was wanted for murder but I don't have a weapon on me so there's no weapon on me and I've been stopped on the suspicion of murder the police say hey you know put up your hands and turn around and then I do this I put up my hands and then I turn around and I just run I just run I'm not a risk I have no weapon right so I just run can they shoot me cuz I'm 63 years old and I don't really think they could catch me honestly I don't think they could catch me even in my age I'll bet I can outrun the police most of them not every cop right a 20-something year old cop is gonna catch me but give me a 45 year old cop you know with full police gear on him I can outrun that guy so should I do

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him I can outrun that guy so should I do that should-should i just now run him every time because you can't have a system based on that so I just have a question about the rules now obviously if the person running away was a serial killer and you were pretty sure about that you could probably kill him because you're saving society if it's a terrorist and you're pretty sure about that you could probably kill him if he's running away if he just shot somebody and he still has a gun in his hand and he's running away he could probably kill so there's lots of situations where you could certainly shoot somebody in the back I think am I wrong about that scene lesson no it was going by but I don't know which question you're you're asking so let me suggest the following the police should always have a body cam or at the very least they should have a camera and when they stop somebody before that person turns to run away you should take a picture if you have

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should take a picture if you have somebody's picture and especially if you have their car with their license plate you know who they are if you have identified somebody either by taking their picture because later you could do facial recognition on that so a picture or a license plate or looking at their ID probably tells you who they are in this specific case where you know the identity of somebody who's running away and they're not an immediate risk shouldn't that be good enough if you know who they are that's good yeah so this is in the form of a question because I think you'd have to really work in police support enforcement to have a better sense if that's a good or a bad idea but what's different is you can now take a picture of somebody and identify maybe not on the spot but you could certainly figure out who they are from their pictures if you can identify somebody can you force them to come in to the police department and give

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to the police department and give themselves up maybe in the old days you couldn't in the new days you could close down their entire life in other words let's say the police know that you ran away and they have their so the first thing they do is I send you an alert on your phone beep the police have a warrant out for you come in or your phone service will be turned off and you're like whoa next day you don't come in your phone service will now be limited you cannot use the internet because your phone service is now limited you can't text you can make a regular phone call and call 911 that's Evan your next message comes in you your your name has been given to all retailers so you can't buy anything comes in your credit has been ruined you can't you'll never be able to get a loan you'll never be able to renew your license you'll never be able to buy

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license you'll never be able to buy insurance you'll never be able to get married own a gun legally owned a gun you'll never be able to have the rights of a citizen and we're gonna track you forever because since you have not you since you're now surrendered we're gonna track your phone everywhere and we're gonna listen in on it anytime we want now obviously they'd have to get a burner phone or something like that but the point is you could create so much discomfort digitally that you could probably force some people to either come in or to live a life off the grid which is pretty hard these days so I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad I just throw it in the mix and the only thing I'm adding is that technology allows us to know who somebody is in a way we never could have known before and once you know who somebody is there might be other ways to squeeze them rather than shooting them in the back as they run away a Greg Gutfeld asks this provocative question when this is over

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provocative question when this is over how will we deal with all the anchors who incited a race war and ignored the statistics because that is what happened there were people who went on TV and sparked a race war for money yeah because it's their job they get paid and they knew that that would be good for ratings so who knows what they were thinking but that's what happened here's the funniest thing the funniest tweet I saw today I laughed pretty hard at this so this is from Ephraim Norwood Twitter user and he was referring to a tweet of mine about brian Stelter 'he's new book now brian Stelter has a book and the funny thing is that the title of the book is hoax it's a he works for a network that there's nothing but push hoaxes and indeed Mike sort of itch did this acclaimed documentary called hoaxed with an ad on the end which is one of the

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an ad on the end which is one of the best things you'll ever see by the way if you haven't watched certain of itches movie hoaxed google it and find it and watch it it's sort of mind-blowing I would say it's an you know in the past year I've only probably you know absorbed three or four things that I really enjoyed in terms of movies and and that was one of them so watch that anyway so brian Stelter imagine him in your head you all know who brian Stelter is and he wrote a book million folks and this is what Ephraim Norwood said in his tweet he said it's writing a book my god it's evolving where's this going next it's evolving now I appreciate a good insult even when it's directed at me you've probably seen this every once a while there'll be a troll who insults me so cleverly on tweet on Twitter that I could just have to give it a like this isn't like wow

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to give it a like this isn't like wow that's pretty good and admit that's pretty good insult so I always appreciate a good insult so nothing personal against brian Stelter I'm not I'm not not really a big fan of making fun of people for appearance but that's pretty funny he's evolving I don't know why that's so perfect all right now let's cure racism I got 10 minutes left last night I had this thought I may or may not have been a little bit high and I wrote it under my whiteboard because I wasn't sure I would remember it in the morning and when I first had the thought I thought to myself I think this is a great idea but I wonder what it will look like in the morning you ever had that situation yeah in the you know at night you write down an idea or you wake up from a dream or something you write down an idea and then the next morning you look at your idea and you're like what the hell is wrong with me I should

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what the hell is wrong with me I should seek help this is the worst idea ever well this idea seemed brilliant last night and was just as good this morning and I think I can end police racism killing so I'm just going to narrow it to police killing more black people than white people as a ratio right here it is by the way you go love this you're gonna love it and hate it at the same time here's the idea create a prediction market also known as a betting market and you make the predictions based on what you think the coming year will yield in terms of police killings I'm looking at the comments you see a don't you I don't even have to finish this do I if you make a betting market on the statistics of police shooting and so long as you're tracking it several ways

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long as you're tracking it several ways because that's the problem right you want that you want all the different statistics that everybody thinks are relevant so one would be making a bet on the total number of white people killed in the coming year by police another would be the total number of black people killed now of course that doesn't tell you anything about racism you'd have to dig deeper so you'd have those betting markets as well you'd have the betting market for the percentage as a percentage of population but that also doesn't tell you everything you need to know you'd have one for the percentage of people who were stopped by police versus the whole population but again that doesn't tell you everything he needs No so you want to look at it for as many things as you can measure you get them all everything you can measure even if you think it's not the total answer by itself it's part of the mosaic of of data you build a betting market and here's what's going to happen what will what will people on the Left bet people

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what will people on the Left bet people on the Left will bet that the statistics will show there is racism and they're going to bet on that what happens if they lose well if they lose then our ideas of what the statistics are will come together right now there are two different worlds of statistics there's the left statistics they say that racism is rampant and it's obvious in the data the Conservatives have different data that says the data doesn't show racism the way you're explaining it anyway racism does exist everybody agrees but in terms of police killing by race conservatives say all the data says that isn't happening so have you make how do you fix the problem when people can't agree on the data a betting market a prediction market let's call it a prediction market because it would be highly inappropriate to bet on

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would be highly inappropriate to bet on people being killed especially by race so can we all agree that there's extreme inappropriateness of betting on police killing people by race you would agree right extremely inappropriate and you wouldn't do this unless you were adult enough to know where it's heading and the adult enough to know where it's heading is it's probably the only thing that will bring us together because when you take it down to money people stop screwing around alright I will say something well maybe I wouldn't people will say something that is a little bit untrue to win for their team but they won't do it when they bet their money on it people don't bet against what they think is going to happen but they will still certainly argue against what they think will happen they will certainly exaggerate something if it gives them advantage in an argument but they won't bet on it if it's their own money so if you turn it into a

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own money so if you turn it into a betting market and you have the right things tracked which is also key if you're tracking the wrong things it's not going to help you at all but if you track enough of the things you will eliminate disagreement about the statistics and once you've eliminated disagreement about the statistics you've also eliminated that now let's say it goes the other way what if conservatives are the ones that are completely wrong and once they start tracking this thing conservatives keep losing their bets so what would happen if let's say conservatives that billions of dollars that that discrimination of this specific type would not be found in the data what happens if they bet billions of dollars and then lost well there would be billions of dollars that would be transferred to the people who

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would be transferred to the people who were aggrieved yep assuming that they're betting on their own opinions so black people could just theoretically hear black people could that that their version of reality will be reflected in the data in 2021 so they could place bets and if they win they're gonna probably the odds are going to be in their favor right they might have 10 to 1 odds that they're gonna be right because that's a lot of people think that they're right so they would win billions of dollars that would effectively be reparations somebody beat me to it in the comments that's right so the betting market would be in effect a reparations market and the only thing that black people would need to do in order to take advantage of it is to be accurate in their understanding of the world so if their understanding of the world is more accurate than the people betting against them they would make a windfall and they could just it would be a money machine yeah you could just

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a money machine yeah you could just betting and winning and betting and winning every year you can bet every year and win every year unless they're wrong in which case that moves your head - what am I done oh I'm not done come on you think that's enough no way I would also like to see an internet test to identify low information voters there was a new study that was written up in some Stanford publication it doesn't matter for the study is for my purposes but it was a new study this said so this is brand new just today I just read about it I'm not sure when it came out but I think you'll see it in my Twitter feed study comes out and says that in Oakland so Oakland is important so you have to know where the place is a study showed that police would stop frisk and handcuff black motorists I just made up that number but it's some multiple like that three to five times more weights way more it's not even close

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way more it's not even close so it's way way more and then you would have a test and you'd say list at least three errors or omissions that would make this less credible than they would like it to be now I did this on Twitter just before I got on here and I didn't tell people I did not tell people what the three errors were because it turns out they're more than three but let me give you just a sense of them here's what they left out did black police officers stop black motorists at the same rate as white police officers isn't that obviously missing because what if you found out that we don't know what if you found out that black police officers at Oakland stopped black motorists exactly the same rate that's pretty important it's not there not only is it not there it's not called out as missing it's one thing not to track it it's a

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it's one thing not to track it it's a very big problem if you don't say it would also be good to know you know if this held across different kinds of police officers but we don't have that day
day that's left out that is really left out in fact it's left out to the point of being criminal because it's going to cause people to be killed you can see it in the riots right that is actually not tactically but from a moral standpoint that is a criminal omission because it will inspire people to violence it's almost like it's designed to do that and that omission is so obvious that you'd have to think that the authors were aware that it was missing and chose to leave it out it was a decision to leave it out how important is that pretty darn important here's another thing that was left out what is the crime rate in Oakland between young black men and

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Oakland between young black men and let's say everybody else now as Ben Shapiro pointed out I'm gonna give you approximate 'it is six is somewhere in this range there's something like 13% of the population of America is african-american but the rate of crime is like 50% 50% of I know some kinds of crimes fifty or sixty percent depending on if it's violent or property crimes I guess and and ben shapiro points out that even that is completely misleading and until he pointed it out even i was thinking that that actually that was a useful statistic is it useful to know that 13 percent of african-american the population is 13 percent african-american but there for some types of crimes 50 percent of 60% of them are committed by african-americans is that the statistic useful and accurate enough and the answer is not even close and ben shapiro

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answer is not even close and ben shapiro fixed it for me and i'd never had anybody say that and it goes like this it's not 13% because that would assume that women and men are committing crimes at about the same rate and they're not that 13% really should be adjusted down to half of that because that's the men it's the men all right so it's not exactly half of you know a little little more than half because women do commit crimes but it's more like 7% of the population young black men men his men are the problem here are committing 50 to 60 percent of the crime now if you thought that 7 percent of the people were committing 50 to 60 percent of the crime and I told you that that same group were being stopped quite a bit more say five times more does that sound out of

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times more does that sound out of aniline no it doesn't suddenly because you've had the context it sounds like well that's about why you'd expect that seems you know it's in line with the crime now what's missing also is what were these motorists doing that cause them to be stopped for example does the average 20 year old black person speed at the same rate in Oakland as the average anybody else because if there's a difference you would expect the people who were speeding the most to get pulled over the most suppose a young men are the problem how many young white men are in Oakland compared to how many young black men are in Oakland I don't know it's not in the study right so the big thing one of the big things this does is that it mixes up the fact that you know it's young men or the problem and it doesn't isolate that it's talking about black people and white people you should

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black people and white people you should weigh isolate that a lot more down to men mostly and young ones is mostly young men all right so I did see a study and I don't know that there's a truth to it that that african-american men were they actually sped more than other people I don't know if I believe that it's possible but let me tell you my experience for driving through Auckland lots of times all right so I have personally driven on 880 that passes you know what basically through Auckland lots and lots of times because that's my local area there is sort of a running joke if you will that the the lane on the left it's a multiple lane highway that the lane on the left is the black lane now the reason for that is that if you're driving there and you make the mistake of getting in that lane somebody will pull up to you a high-speed right

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will pull up to you a high-speed right up to your bumper and you know sort of encourage you to get that at that lane and that car will always be young black men now I've driven that Highway a lot of times and I stay out of the left lane because if I get in it a car full of it won't even do one driver it'll be a car packed with young black man will pull up to my bumper at a high speed even if I'm doing 85 they'll pull up to my bumper and I have to get out of the way now do i watch them getting tickets never seen it I've literally never seen anybody get pulled over I made a tea for driving too fast and Lee in the left lane I've never seen it and you can drive there all day long and watch cars full of young black men just zipping through that Lane exceeding the the the speeding the speed level now of course what I'm telling you is completely anecdotal should you reach

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completely anecdotal should you reach any conclusions based on one guy's story about driving on a road no no has no analytical value none so you should discount it I'm just telling you my experience that I've been to this very place that they did the study and I'm telling you visually haven't done the state that haven't done the study but visually and experientially there's a really big difference in how everybody's acting and again it's an emphasis on the because if you removed all the black people from Oakland I'm pretty sure that young young white men would still be exceeding the speed limit you just replace them with other young men and they'd probably be doing more illegal stuff than the rest of the public how about this what did the study say about how the people who were stopped reacted to the police was it the same as everybody else because if the police

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everybody else because if the police stopped me I'm very polite very polite but I do not come from a history of racism I have not been told by the media that the police are targeting people like me I have not lived a life where I'm hearing I'm hearing story after story of somebody I know who was stopped and hassled by the police I do not live a life in which I have been pulled over often by the police I have been pulled over for things I didn't do and it's pretty common but not really hassled I mean they all those situations went perfectly smoothly so I don't have anything that would bias me toward the police in particular like no experience in my life that really doesn't so how hard did is it for me to be reasonable when the police stopped me it's easy it's easy put me in the life of a young black man now just just my brain just gets

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now just just my brain just gets transported into a young black man and now I get to live his experience and now the police pulled me over do I act exactly the same I doubt it it's not because I'm black because in this experience I groove by brain into the black person right just for the thought experience I'm not mad because I'm black I'm mad because I've got experience that says people will look like that guy a police officer is trouble and I don't like it it offends my sense of pride it offends me on an identity level at my core I'm offended by this person am I going to some words am I gonna show a little bit of attitude am I gonna resist a little bit see how we'll see how much I can get away with I might especially if I'm 23 years old I might write so I don't think it's racist even slightly to suggest that some

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slightly to suggest that some populations have different experience right if the way you act is based on your experience well who's going to say that's racist of course you act differently based on your experience so do all the people who have a different experience act the same as people have you know yet another different experience of course not where's that in the study of good so of course it's silent on that not only is a silent on that but it's silent on being silent about it it doesn't even say you know if we do this we know more or maybe we should study this additional thing it's just silent it's a it's a lie by omission how about is it corrected for income don't know probably not is it corrected for level of let's say education no probably not how many of the citizens themselves were racists who knows you know I'm not sure some of those questions are important but the point is if you could get people to

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point is if you could get people to understand that if they can't look at a study like this and immediately just pick out three major problems that completely invalidate its credibility now that doesn't mean it's not true right this is an important distinction even if this study is complete bunk meaning thing analytically they did everything wrong that doesn't mean there's no racism it just means the study isn't good all right so don't don't think that if the study doesn't show it it does exist doesn't work that way you could have all the racism in the world but if a study is poorly poorly designed you don't know what you're looking at that's all I'm saying so we should at least educate people up to the point where they would know for themselves if they are low information voters and if they could have a little you know specific test give them all the same same test and the same questions and say tell us where the

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same questions and say tell us where the bias is if you can locate it I will listen to your opinions if you can't tell where all the gigantic problems are and something like this we can't yet talk you need to educate yourself up to at least the level that you've you know data is lying to you routinely if you don't know that the data is lying to you routinely it's tough too it's tough to move forward all right that is my lesson for today I hope it's useful and I will talk to you soon

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