Episode 1028 Scott Adams: Calculate Reparations, CHAZ Updates, Fixing Everything That is Broken

Date: 2020-06-15 | Duration: 51:48

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• CHAZ community concepts and racial strife

• We now know…all our trusted institutions are corrupt

• Our foundational crisis is a broken news business

• A preference for victimhood

• Whiteboard: Everything Wrong With the World Right Now

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hey everybody come on it's time it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams and you already know who you are so put us all together and you've got everything you need except you might need some kind of a container for your beverage what kind of container well it could be a copper mug or a glass of tanker chelators taina canteen Joker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better including coronaviruses economies and race relations yeah everything happens now except go I can

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everything happens now except go I can even feel some of our natural disasters mitigating just a little bit the wind has died down a few degrees yet it's it's looking good so you can tell that the anti-trump errs are running out of material when they start to repeat so and some of their attacks are the dumbest attacks you've ever seen for example they're going after Trump for his health now I think it's fair to go after anybody over 70 for their health if they're running for president so the attack in general perfectly fair but the trouble is the candidate he is running against is actually decomposing in a basement somewhere so any health issues that you highlight on Trump even if they're true it's gonna bring the question of health to the front I don't know if that's what

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to the front I don't know if that's what they want to do if Biden is your candidate I'm seeing more and more evidence that Camel Harris will be the vice presidential pick the smart people have decided that she's the only one who can be picked guess why because of her race and her gender why is it okay that the job of Vice President of the United States at least the candidacy of the Democrat side will be determined by race and gender why are we okay with that it did it just sort of we just ended up here without paying attention isn't the very thing we're supposed to be guarding against is picking a candidate based on their skin color and their gender and we're not even pretending you know in the old days you would sort of pretend you weren't but you really were you know when Obama got elected and you got something like 95% of the black vote

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got something like 95% of the black vote you know nobody was well not nobody but people didn't want to say well it's we want a black president but people are sort of water to black president a lot of people who just said it's time let's get us a black president I was one of those people and I still think it was good that we had a black president for two terms I think it served us well in terms of how the country feels about itself it did not solve racism as it turns out it didn't didn't really solve anything all right um so I wouldn't worry about the attack on Trump's health he did say that the ramp was slippery that's what I told you so if you want to find out the future you know where to come there's a funny story about the ticket sales for Trump's rally reportedly that they've sold order

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rally reportedly that they've sold order people have asked for something like a million tickets but there's a there's only room for a few hundred thousand or whatever so the ticket sales or at least the inquiries are through the roof but here's what's funny so there's some suggestion that Democrats were buying tickets so that they could essentially keep Republicans out of there so that you know it would be empty but I don't think they thought this through because there were always so many people out doors that if the Democrats bought a bunch of tickets for seats and then didn't show up they would just let the people who are outdoors inside and they would have not had to pay for a ticket because the Democrats paid for the tickets so I don't know that they thought this through because I think they've cleverly figured out a way for Democrats to buy tickets for Republicans if any of that's happening that would be hilarious

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so the president is apparently going to sign some kind of executive order on policing tomorrow I don't know what the details are but do you think that will help no you know doing something isn't going to help so the protesters have you know number of demands let's say you've met them all let's say they had 15 demands and you just gave them all 15 things what would happen would the activists then retire no because that's their job if you're an activist you're sort of uh stuck being an activist you don't really go from activist to well I think I'll be an accountant now once you're an activist you're sort of locked into that activist life so if if the activists for black lives matter you know it just has a mental experiment suppose they got everything they asked for well they're not going to retire and claim victory doesn't work that way they would still

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doesn't work that way they would still be activists so if you gave them everything you wanted they don't have any kind of retirement plan they would have to keep telling you that you didn't give them enough because it's sort of the job so while I do think that one should look to fix you know any systems that have problems at the policing certainly is quite imperfect I don't think we should think of him in terms of solving the problem because you could solve the police problem but it doesn't really have much to do with the overall racism problem that that sort of evergreen situation I saw a funny headline on Fox News that black lives matter is starting to doubt the sincerity of the white activists in the Jazz zone they're starting to wonder if the white activists are quite in there for the right reasons so I don't know what could be funnier than difficult race relations within the

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difficult race relations within the protesters themselves now I don't want to see anybody get hurt but I wouldn't be on have used if racial strife broke out within the people protesting against racial strife just for entertainment purposes again I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt but for entertainment purposes that would be quite terrific and it looks like it's heading in that direction I woke up early this morning to start work 3:00 a.m. or so the first the first thing I see on Twitter is Jack boo Sabich dental lifestream as he was leaving the Chas zone where apparently he's been undercover for three days so Jack and somebody who was working with on this were undercover with masks and you know hats and stuff and they were just operating and taking videos and stuff within the Chas ode and now

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and stuff within the Chas ode and now he's out so he's letting us know because he's left the zone he's not going back but a good job do you remember seeing all that all that good video on CNN from inside Chas nope you didn't see any of that do you remember on Fox News all that good video inside chat no no you didn't see any but you did see a lot of coming in a jazz and some some large percentage of that I guess came from Jack personick so well we're gonna talk about that more about that in a minute I decided to be in favor of reparations but now for the reasons you might imagine I'm in favor of reparations because I really really want to see people try to calculate it don't you aren't you just a little bit curious about that I don't think there would be anything funnier than watching yeah the

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anything funnier than watching yeah the dog catch the car you know they say dogs chase cars but what if they catch one what are you gonna do with it well similarly I'm not not comparing anybody to a dog so don't say that it's just an analogy similarly what would happen you know if if everybody agreed to calculate reparations what if people said you know yeah it's good idea let's let's sit down let's get out the pencil let's get out the spreadsheet let's figure out who's owed whopped and and what are they own for example I have some open questions I'm descended from abolitionists people who tried to end slavery so as a descendant of abolitionists how much do I owe Oprah because that's my understanding is that I would know Oprah some money because not only was I descended from people who fought to end slavery and did

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people who fought to end slavery and did not own any slaves themselves they sacrificed to try to end it but also I'm white so that you know there's got to be some expense involved with that by coincidentally being white so I would just like to know how much I owe Oprah that's just one question some of you would have questions too for example let's say you didn't have any of these the immense privileges that you thought you thought were owed to you by being white well do you still have to pay well yes you do and the is this is explained to me that even if you were poor and white and your family didn't do anything useful for you and you had to make it on your own that you still owe black people money because your your family could have taken advantage of being white and it's not black people's fault if you didn't do it if your family didn't do it that's sort of on you so that's the argument I've

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of on you so that's the argument I've been told you might find that unconvincing but that's the argument so I've got two days left in my one week challenge for somebody to explain to me was systemic racism beans with a current example now lots of people have explained to me what it means with examples of things that don't apply anymore like laws that used to be the laws etc Tim Poole had an interesting definition which I've never heard from anybody else so I don't know how common it is I can only say that I've never heard it before and it goes like this and I think there's a phrase here called going on tour which refers to getting in the small amount of trouble which you can't get out of and it just magnifies the rest of your life for example let's say you've got a traffic ticket but you couldn't afford to pay it because you're

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couldn't afford to pay it because you're poor and you're black the poor the poor part being more important than the black part and so you don't pay your ticket and then you get pulled over again and now you've got an outstanding ticket they take your license but you still have to drive your car because that's the only way to get to work and then the next time you get pulled over or now you've got tickets and no license now you go to jail but you can't afford a lawyer now you've got a criminal record so so that by being poor you can't extricate yourself from small problems because you can't even you know pay a fine now I don't know how so this don't take too much from this specific example but rather generalize it to the the larger point that small troubles could be compounded over time and that Tim Poole would like to define that as sort of a structural systemic racism but it still doesn't pass the test of how does any other poor

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pass the test of how does any other poor person get out of this if you're poor and white how do you pay your ticket I mean there's something terribly missing from this do the poor white people suddenly produce money out of nothing and they can pay the ticket with having no money before they got stopped like how do they get out of trouble why isn't it exactly the same for all poor people so what makes this systemic racism if it applies to everybody who doesn't have now I think there was on top of this there was the example that of something that no longer is the case where each municipality would be stopping people and maybe they stopped black people at a higher rate so if black people were being stopped at a higher rate for no particular reason well that would be just regular racism I don't know if that's systemic that would just be a cop being a racist and if there were more than one cop of course there are who

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than one cop of course there are who would also have those same opinions it would be multiple cops who are racist but is that systemic racism it just looks like cops being racists just like every other profession would have some people being racists so two days left nobody has given me a coherent definition of systemic I've gotten lots of definitions and now I've gotten lots of examples but the examples are all the things that are illegal now there are all examples from the past I I tweeted today that if it seems as if every one of your trusted institutions have lost credibility in the past few years that's probably an illusion now you think you'd yourself wait a minute that you know the news went bad Congress went are bad you know basically our intelligence agencies the police basically everything went bad all all

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basically everything went bad all all the things we trusted turned out to be corrupt all of them everything basically everybody is lying to you top to bottom government or just everybody corporations you name it and here was my my take on that my take is that nothing changed the only thing changed is that now you know it that those institutions were not worse they were not worse now than they have been in the past you just found out they were all always corrupt they were all always lying to you you just found out now there's certainly a matter of degree and I think that is certainly in the news business there's been a worsening but it's not like the news was always given that to you straight right I mean back in the Walter Cronkite days do you think the news was always honest

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do you think the news was always honest you know right down the middle I don't think so I don't think so but now we're just more aware of it now I will point out that when Trump was running for president even before he was elected I told you not all of you but I said publicly a number of times that he would change more than politics he would change our view of reality and he did he sure did because some of the things you've learned about reality are that we don't make decisions based on facts and reason a few years ago you would have said we did you know sure we don't do it well so we need to improve it but now you know it's not even part of the process don't you now you know facts and reason don't work and the reason they don't work is we don't know what the facts are they're all lies all of our facts are unreliable but at least you have your sense of reason right but we

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have your sense of reason right but we we observe in public people unable to read so what happened was over time we human beings were you know we started out being irrational and superstitious and you know we didn't have any ability to reason we'd you know we didn't have any math or philosophy skills we were just primitive people but over time oh boy did we evolve mentally we learned science we learned how to do controlled tests we learned reason and logic and then we put them all together our ability to to find facts and then marry that with logic and reason to make good decisions how'd that work out not at all as soon as you get it outside of the realm of science or math where you can actually check to see if something makes sense you know you run the math you test it you can find out if something's true or not over time but in the messy real

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or not over time but in the messy real world all of our facts are lies or even if they're true we don't know they're true so you can't even trust them things sometimes are true by coincidence so in a world in which your facts are all lies or at least you can't trust them and there's no two people you can put it in a room who will agree what is a logical way to approach something we've created a system that can't work that's right we've created a system which absolutely favors logic and data and there are two things that we don't have any of and can't get logic and accurate data so we built a system that relies completely on the two things we don't have and can't get that's where we are now amazingly we have such robust systems that they seem to survive all of us somehow you know

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to survive all of us somehow you know the Republic keeps chugging along somehow democracy and the Republic seem to work somehow capitalism keeps chugging along you know we have protests and stuff but we get past them so amazingly we built a system that work just by design we can't work if you don't have the right data and you don't have anybody who can do logic and reason that's not much of a system but that's where we are I would say that so anyway the big point is that nothing got worse you got smarter nothing got worse you just found out and that was the Trump effect because if Trump had not framed the news as fake news it probably would not be nearly as convincing that they really do make up the news they actually just make it up I don't know that we would have understood that as a civilization and now I think everybody

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civilization and now I think everybody understands that although half of the country thinks it only happens with you know the other side there's still half of the country that has not reached the level of awareness to know it's both sides that make stuff up they still think it's only the other side if that's where you're at you're you need to catch up all right there's not any there's no such thing as the one side that's telling you the truth and the other side of this lying if you're stuck there you're very confused about your world but I have I have hope that you'll make it to the next level I have a suspicion that the inhabitants of chas the new autonomous own and what used to be Seattle whatever's left of Seattle I have a feeling that they are not economists on the whole probably got a lot of engineers and they're but I bet they have a lot of artists so this is a

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they have a lot of artists so this is a I've said this before I know that people can't tell if I'm kidding about this because parity and reality have gotten so close but I'll tell you directly and this will be my promise to you if I ever tell you directly the way I'm doing it now
now I am telling you directly you can trust them all right if I try to leave something out or I've tried to you know if I were trying to just persuade you know that might look a little different but if I tell you directly I forgot what I was going to say you know if you notice how often I'll go on a tangent and then when I get down the tangent I'm like ah I wish I knew what that was related to by the time I got through the end of it this is one of those times when having no sense of embarrassment really comes in handy
anyway I don't think Chaz has many engineers or economist and oh here's the

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engineers or economist and oh here's the part I was going to say I am completely serious no parody completely serious when I say I very interested in how Chaz works out I'm very interested in letting it run a little bit now I don't think he can run forever because the city has to be reclaimed I don't think you could have a lawless Zone in the middle of in the middle of the city but I'm completely in favor of the very very very gentle way that is being treated I'm very much in favor of learning something from it and I'm very much in favor of the people involved learning something from it I just watched the video I don't know if I retweeted I just watched it before I get on of a black activist who and why do I have to say black right language what's wrong with the world that this story that has nothing to do with the guy being black I still think it's important

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being black I still think it's important to the story and it is it actually is important to the story but it sure shouldn't be right so he's an activist who happens to be black and because we're in the middle of what we're in the middle of the part about being black actually is important to the story and he was he was an activist against police brutality against black population in particular and the police asked him to come in for a training day so that he would train like a police officer and they gave him certain situation you were a police officer would pretend to be uncooperative you know being arrested in such things and at the end of the training the activist said okay changed my mind completely now that I see the split the split-second decisions and the amount of you know perceived risk that even I had just changed just in a in an artificial environment he said he completely changed his mind

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he said he completely changed his mind and people should cooperate with police and that the real problem is people not knowing they really need to cooperate with the police now that was just one guy in one anecdote I don't know that that could be repeated but I think there's something happening with it with Chas that's just like that because they're they're washing themselves have racial strife I guarantee that there's at least somebody there who is worried about the fact that these the security / police force is mostly black if not all black I don't know so you don't think there's somebody white in Chas who is worried about the fact that the police force seems mostly black and that maybe there might be some bias involved I don't know you me since this is a self-selected group of people who identify as having a lack of bias maybe not maybe not maybe they're they're so self selective and filtered

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they're so self selective and filtered that that that doesn't register as any kind of a bias but I think if you let the experiment run a little bit longer people are gonna you know some racial tension will emerge which is would be interesting to know since these are all the anti-racist people I think they'll recreate systems and find out that they need money and economies and all those things and sent 'iv so let's run it but ultimately they have to leave there because not their property and I would love to see this experiment taken somewhere else like I would love love love to see some part of a state just carved out for experimenting let people go there and develop a system and see if they can live with no police force because I think if you designed your community right and part of the design would be deciding who could be there and who couldn't all right so you can imagine

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couldn't all right so you can imagine controlling the elements of a design of a community I could imagine that you could get your need for a police force down to almost nothing for example imagine you built a community and one of the one of the rules is that every block had to have a working or retired police officer who owned a gun just just imagine that every block you know there's at least one police officer you just make that a rule alright one of these apartments or one of these homes has to be reserved for a police officer now that police officer doesn't need to be working in that community their job could be you know miles away somewhere else it's just that if you put a certain kind of person with a certain kind of training and you sprinkle them around the community you probably get a better result just just one of many things you could do to design a safer place all right I

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do to design a safer place all right I would love to see an experiment in which something like Chazz gets set up in which the dominant theme is a victim let's say a victim dominant system meaning that whoever can most effectively make the case that they're the biggest victim in whatever situation is involved that the biggest victim gets the most say that the most resources and attention goes to the whoever can present themselves most effectively as the biggest victim now that's the system that Chazz not explicitly but by their collective actions seem to favor I'd like to see how it goes because I think they need to see how it goes too now the alternative - this would be a system that's more aspirational and self-reliant and you know you can do what you want to do and

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know you can do what you want to do and then just run an experiment all right let me tell you what I think is wrong with everything in the world right now and I'm going to do this on the whiteboard yes there's a whiteboard and what I've done is I've taken our current situation the world situation and I put it into the the bottle of a car engine now if you don't know how car engines work I'll give you that really quick explanation of just the car part and then all that we'll talk about the human system that's operating like a car so in a car you've got this thing called a carburetor that takes air and gasoline mixes them into a sort of a mist if you will and it feeds that mist over to the spark plug which adds the fire to the gasoline that's knowing in a mist there's another word for it a you know a gaseous air form what would you call it but anyway the spark plug ignites that

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but anyway the spark plug ignites that and the timing of the spark plug is controlled by other devices in the car these small explosions in in confined spaces make the Pistons move and the Pistons are connected to the wheels through a series of gears so if all of this is working the way it's supposed to you would have the air and the gas mixed in just the right amount you would have a spark plug which is really well timed so it's sparking just right against just the right amount of gas there and then it makes the Pistons and wheel turn now I've the second layer is in the the purple letters so just you know by way of overlaying the human system on top of us so you can see it as a machine oh and by the way this is a vapor is the word thank you fumes vapor atomizes those are the words I was looking for not miss

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the words I was looking for not miss now what what you're seeing here is a technique I use a lot when I'm trying to think through a complicated situation often I'll translate it into my mind into a machine so that I can look at the machine in my mind and you know rotate it and see all the parts and then I diagnose it like an engineer and it's just a way to hold things in your mind in a way that you can see them connected so it doesn't matter what the machine is as long as it forms a good analogy so that's what I've done here imagine if you will that the gas is the GOP and the Democrats are the air now it's just kind of fun that you've got air and gas and if you had to assign a political party to those you would definitely give the demo had Democrats the air and the Republicans the gas right it just seems like your fits by way so they're feeding they're feeding their stuff into the carburetor which is like the news so the

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carburetor which is like the news so the news is the thing that takes all of these inputs and sort of normalizes that and turns it into a workable form for the public and for the government and then sends it over the spark plug the spark plug is like Trump the president in general about Trump right now now normally the spark plug is controlled by advisers so the the president doesn't just spew anything that you know comes to his mind it's a filtered and massaged and you know they any controversial or offensive things are taken out of it it's all scrubbed up so it's nice and clean and tight and doesn't offend anyone that's what advisors do but we don't have that situation what we have is a president who has a Twitter account and the advisors are not controlling his timing so you got a wild spark plug and you've got a news business that no

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you've got a news business that no longer acts as a carburetor instead it acts as an accelerant because their business model changed in the old days the news was trying to give you something that was sort of a common view of the world that would also be productive so the carburetor used to work to make things work better even if the news wasn't right we were all on the same page so the carburetor used to be helpful but now the news really just tries to throw as much fuel onto the fire as possible so they're putting way too rich a formula onto the spark plug so you've got the news it was ramped up out of control it's like a broken carburetor as feeding too much fuel to the spark plug which is Trump who has already got its own timing issues so you got a wild ride going on here and of course it's you can still move forward maybe just lurching instead of as

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maybe just lurching instead of as smoothly driving but here's my take on the engine of society the engine of society is broken and it's primarily because of the news business is no longer a traditional news business the news business is in the business as many smart people have told you jacking up that part of your brain that gets you excited so it's not about informing you whatsoever it's just about getting you excited so your excitation gets applied to issues which you might have handled differently if you had not been all excited by the news and so my view of the the problem with the world as the news and then if you fix that one thing everything else would be easier to fix so in my opinion the foundational crisis is the news the news business being

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is the news the news business being broken completely broken just absolutely worthless and the news business is no longer trying to help the country they've simply taken a team and they're just trying to help their team nobody's helping the country did I say nobody nobody's helping the country well what's interesting is that this engine has a new factor which is the independent journalists and voices on the Internet I'm talking about your Tim Poole's I'm talking about if your mic sir which is I'm talking about me you know just anybody who is an independent voice and isn't especially worried about getting canceled now the some extent would also be like a jacked up a Sabich but you works for you know larger news entity but the people who are not in let's say that that the most mainstream of the mainstream news it's people outside of that who are trying to hold this model together we're trying to

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hold this model together we're trying to keep the you tried to keep the car in the road because the news business used to do that function that you used to be a carburetor but now it's not so you you do see the independent internet personalities trying to calm down the system try to give it a little more a little less fakeness in the news calling out the mistakes etc it helps a little I don't know if it's enough yeah Taibbi is another good example cheryl atkinson another good example yeah
informational warlords somebody's using that phrase information a little warlords or persuasion in warlords yeah there is something like that so I believe that our problems with race are mostly a news problem meaning I'm not saying that the problems don't exist

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saying that the problems don't exist because somebody will take me out of context and say you said there's no problems now I'm not saying that I'm saying that the way we're approaching the problems are because the news has assigned us opinions to make us fight basically so the news business is the foundational crisis the other crises happen on top of that right then and there in many ways caused by a broken new business all right what about sharks with laser guns and somebody asked me
all right yeah all right that's what all I want to say about that topic let's see what else we've got going on here do you think it's immoral to tell people that they're victims I was thinking that today it

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victims I was thinking that today it seems to me that the way black people are being abused in this country it just changed forms and it didn't stop happening in other words you know all of the past racial and Justices to a large extent you know we've been working pretty hard as a society to try to you know to reduce those but then we just come up with a whole new way to abuse black people and right now it's happening because we're all lying to them you know me included of course I don't take myself out of that we're just lying to black people do you know why were lying to black people it's because the news is broken the news is broken so you have to lie because it's a it's a survival thing what do I think black people need to do differently to have more success I don't know if I could tell them because I feel like I'm sort of forced into line because to move

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of forced into line because to move forward with anything you pretty much have to be able to talk about it yeah how do you make a decision or work together when you can't even talk that doesn't make sense that's where we are so we we we have a news business which has fully endorsed the victim driven system that if you complain the most and you make the best case that you get more resources now if you were to design a system that was based on that principle it would surely fail so we have a system that can't work and we have a news biz this they can't tell you we can't work and then you have people like me who I'd love to help I mean I really would I'd really like to be helpful but I'm forced to lie to black people because black people require it I mean it's basically you know it's almost demanded white people require it the news requires it my career requires it we just all have

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my career requires it we just all have to lie so anybody who wants the truth
you're gonna have to do something different to get it because what you're doing now is I'm gonna give you any truth so as long as victimhood is the dominant preference there's not much we can do here and so I ask you this suppose you've got your average young black man and your average white black man I'm sorry the average young white man so the just consider young black man young white man and you tell the you tell the young black man that the deck is stacked against them and the system is racist and he's going to have all these problems now forget about for a moment whether that's true or untrue because it's not going to matter to my point my point is that people have sort of an operating system about how to succeed if you if you give somebody an

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succeed if you if you give somebody an operating system that says the system is stacked against you specifically how are they going to perform poorly poorly and we know that because you know there have been experiments in which the schoolchildren are told they're gifted or not and if they're told they're gifted they perform better when people are told that they can succeed they perform better when people are told no there's a problem that's a big problem that's beyond what you can handle in other words you can't personally fix racism it's something bigger than you you're just a victim of it so you know good luck you're not going to succeed as well as other people I would say it's immoral to give anybody that message because it would so handy their abilities to succeed that I mean it just feels like evil I don't know how I don't know how else to say it it's not just bad advice it's so bad it's evil even if it's true alright so if you're

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even if it's true alright so if you're if you're hung up on the Scot it's true there there is racism it it is a problem it will be an obstacle I say to you you're off my point whether it's true or not and obviously it's true but that's irrelevant to what strategy that you use if your strategy is to act like it's not a problem you'll have you'll have a better life and isn't that what everybody wants to simply go through life like yeah it's an obstacle but it's like a cardboard obstacle because I have these good strategies and you know my my mental game is strong my physical game is strong and my career is good my family is good yeah there's this little cardboard in the way about Paul push that cardboard out of the way ah there's more cardboard are you kidding me there's more cardboard so you probably never have to stop pushing the cardboard out of the way because like I said

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out of the way because like I said racism sort of built into the system you can't get a kick a rid of it completely no matter how hard you try but you could certainly have a life strategy that makes a cardboard instead of concrete I think that is realistic so I would say that the current messaging from all the people who mean well is is absolutely immoral even if true because your strategy has to be separate from the facts like the facts don't limit your strategy your strategy should be whatever works best so there you have it and when did race become a privilege problem and here's what I mean by that now I don't want to diminish you know the racial racial problems so accepting that racial problems have been big R big will be big you know

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have been big R big will be big you know no diminishing of that aren't there other problems that people have if you have cancer is that a bigger problem or a smaller problem than being black in America if you know if you're four foot nine is that a bigger problem or a smaller problem trying to get a job trying to have a good life than being black in America if if you're really ugly is that you know and I can say that because I I I'm a part of that community if you're fairly ugly is your life gonna be just as good or you can have you know the same number of obstacles as everybody else so here's my point if you listen or let's say you have mental illness let's say you're addicted and you've got a genetic propensity for it is your life great because you're also

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is your life great because you're also white in these cases how is that their race became such a privileged the problem that it sits over above all problems that no seems to me lots of people have problems yes and of course we've we've just overshot the mark here the the fact that we're talking about Kamala Harris really being the only one that Joe Biden can pick because she's black or person of color or whatever however details you want to put it on that I don't know I don't feel like that's a better world I really don't think it is I understand that we got here but I at this point I think it's immoral to continue lying to black people and and let me be more specific about the lie the lie looks like this the lie is that you should take the truth and then build

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you should take the truth and then build your strategy or victimhood around that and that that will get you to a good place this is just a lie the truth is if you use the basic principles of strategy that everybody else who succeeds uses your odds of succeeding are really high really really high like almost guaranteed if you do the right strategy so denying denying people anybody the truth that your strategy is what you should be working on not your victimhood is immoral it's just it's just flat-out immoral that you know that people like me can't just be honest and say look I know you've got issues everybody's got problems what's your best strategy and then work on the thing you can change that's it just looking at your comments for a moment and I guess the yeah one of

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for a moment and I guess the yeah one of the things I I've heard has systemic racism is a read an example from was an african-american woman on Twitter who was saying she told this story about when she went in to get a loan for her first home the lender said you know maybe he could get family members to help you with the down payment 50 hundred thousand dollars you know get a family member to help and as she tells the story she doesn't have any family members who have an extra fifty or hundred thousand dollars so if you do you're starting from a privileged white privileged position to which I say you're right it's not the white part though yes it at the money part which part of that was the white part because there are poor white people who are not getting fifty and a hundred thousand dollars from their parents either in fact what percentage of white people have ever gotten fifty thousand dollars from their parents I don't know the

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from their parents I don't know the answer to this but it's not a big number right I've never gotten fifty thousand dollars from my parents in fact I I helped support my parents I paid them so I don't know if you if you put a number on it let me put a guess on this the number of white families percentage-wise who could help a child get a house so we're talking you know tens of thousands whatever number you want to put it on what percentage of white families could do that 20 percent I'm gonna say I guess a maximum 20 percent is Fe all right maybe ten percent but no more than 20 so you've got eighty percent of the white world who is just being thrown under the bus

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who is just being thrown under the bus because they don't have money and they don't have any victim privilege so their white privilege didn't didn't buy them a thing because their parents got nothing and yeah they didn't even get great advice so they got nothing and then and they're not even victims so they don't get that extra victim juice you know if you're a poor black kid all you need is an education and you can you can walk into any fortune 500 company and you're hired the same day now if you don't know that then your strategy needs work because you can every time you could just walk into any fortune 500 company with a college degree probably 100 percent of them would hire you as long as you didn't have you know any bad I don't know criminal record or some weird thing

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so I'm seeing guesses from 5 to 20% but certainly 80% can't do that so every time I see one of these examples of somebody telling me what they think is system ik racism is I always apply it to the same test alright a poor white kid with no money now talk me through this how does the poor kid with no money get a benefit because there are other strangers who are also ye who have money how does that work do I get their money because I'm also white and has that work right so these are the conversations that the news business and social media and the activists have decided that even if we want to be helpful we have to instead treat black people like their children and they can't have an honest conversation you know I guess the rules of society are that I can't be I can't be useful I can't be helpful can't help anybody with a strategy because I would just be racist so there you are all

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just be racist so there you are all right uh the victim juice yeah that is a funny saying alright looking at your comments it looks like I've said enough for today and I will talk to you all tomorrow