Episode 1071 Scott Adams: Protests, Biden the HOAX Parrot, Teacher Unions, Calculating How Much BLM

Date: 2020-07-26 | Duration: 45:58

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• Kanye for Kingmaker

• Teacher Unions and DSA list their demands

• How many HOAXES does Joe Biden believe?

• Black lives matter more than White lives

• Capitalizing both Black and White

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[Music] hey everybody come on in it's time it's time for a coffee with scott adams the best part of the day possibly the best part of your week until tomorrow and it's going to be a burner oh yeah it's going to be a good one i don't know why yet but i just feel it i feel like everything's going to start going right after today everything's looking up i hope you're not worried about anything in the world because the world is going to be fine it always is
is but first we're going to have something i like to call the simultaneous sip to make things even better and all you need to join in with the simultaneous sip is a copper mug or a glass attacker challenger style canteen joker flask of vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine head of the day the thing that makes everything better including the grota virus the economy

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including the grota virus the economy racism you name it everything ufos too that's correct go
speaking of ufos my prediction is that we do not have in our possession any ufo material so i hope i'm wrong because wouldn't it be cool if we did but i'm going to say that all of our looking for ufos will produce nothing but mysteries about what we saw in the air there will not be any discovery now or later that we have in our possession alien technology as much as i would like that are you watching the limited coverage of the seattle slash portland protest slash riots there's something i noticed in the last bunch of videos now you'll only see these videos for the most part i think you'll only see them on the internet

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see them on the internet so if you're on twitter you've probably seen some coverage of the police trying to roll up the protesters and etc fire is being set it doesn't look super bad
bad you know a few fires yesterday of course it'd be bad if it's your place it's on fire but relatively small numbers but here's what i noticed in all of the footage i saw from portland and seattle from last night's action i didn't see any black people
what happened to the black people it's a black lives matter protest allegedly at least all the video i saw was just the police beating up anti-fun white people did did the black people say all right we're done now or are they at a different protest or are they not going to the ones that turn into riots because it's the anti-fog people who start the riots is that why i mean what's going on here exactly but i i don't know what these protest

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but i i don't know what these protest slash riots are in seattle and portland if they don't include black people because i thought black lives matter was sort of the point anyway it could be just the selective videos that i saw so i won't make too much of that what about kanye kanye said one of the reasons he was wants to run for president is so biden will lose
that's kind of frank here's what i think kanye could do i don't think he will do but what he could do imagine if you will kanye just runs for president in the normal way even if it says a write-in
what happens well he just splits the vote and predictably it would allow trump to be elected but is that what he wants because all that would do is change who wins without any leverage on who won in other words it wouldn't

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words it wouldn't it wouldn't really give any power to black people who wanted to get anything done here's what kanye could do if he wanted to run the whole country without without the bother of being president because being president is kind of a pain and i think kanye would be wasted in a job that's mostly meetings do you want kanye to be in a job those meetings hey kanye you gotta go cut a ribbon you got to meet ahead of state for no real reason except we do it once in a while it would be a complete waste of kanye's talents i think but what he could do is start an endorsement party a party of people who simply say that they will look to kanye for um to sort out who would vote or like kanye basically endorse one of the candidates for president not just this year but in future races so you'd have a let's say a group of

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so you'd have a let's say a group of maybe you could give five percent of the public i don't know if you could but let's say kanye could get five let's say 10 of the public to say i will i will look to kanye for his endorsement and you could imagine that his endorsement would be based on who he thought could do the best job for not just the black community but for people in need in general which would end up being the same because if you took care of people in general the neediest you end up being a far bigger impact on those in most need so kanye could be a king maker he just has to not run for president maybe maybe you could do that too but you know the real win would be for kanye to say look democrats what do you got republicans what do you got just tell me what you got tell me what you're going to do and i will just look at them and they'll say okay this package looks better than this package i think you should vote for this guy

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i think you should vote for this guy you're not you're not obviously not bound to it it would just be an endorsement but given the closeness of our national elections and given that a five or ten percent swing especially in the closed states is all the difference between winning and losing a third-party endorsement party would actually run the country and that this is completely practical completely all kanye would have to do is say that's what he's doing and he'd say look i'm going to be the birthday party and the birthday party is an endorsement party at the you know week before the election i'll tell you who i think you should vote for
so he said kanye is a russian stooge somebody says you know that one of the great things about kanye and there are a lot of great things about him is
that you don't have to wonder what his motivation is

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motivation is you don't really wonder what kanye's motivation is do you it seems like he's right out there he's not doing it for money obviously i don't think he's doing it for his reputation because look at the trouble it's causing nobody would do this just for their reputation um i don't think he does it because he's bipolar somebody's saying because he's insane no i don't think he's doing it because he's bipolar and i would i think i would um take kim kardashian's view of it which i do which is the thing that makes kanye kanye is inseparable from whatever you know the bipolar thing is and i'm not sure that that's you know diagnosed correctly because there's just a lot of gray area in that world but that's who he is and he's being completely transparent about it i do think that it may give him periods of you know thinking he can do things that other people can't do

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other people can't do but here's the thing what exactly is it that kanye can't do if you had let's say you had a mental condition that made you think you could fly but then you flapped your arms and you flew are you still crazy right because that's kanye's life here at kanye you know little little kid kanye what are you going to be when you grow up oh i think i'll be a famous famous uh hip-hop musical artist and a fashion designer and what would you say to 12-year-old kanye you would have said um maybe we should have somebody look at that because that sounds a little bipolar to me because you know you don't grow up to be you know a superstar in two different fields and then kanye became a superstar in two different fields at least you know probably more if you added it up so is it bipolar if you can do it right

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if you can do it right because part of the bipolar thing is that you you get kind of full of yourself and you know you think that everything's easier and possible and then you go through phases where it may be less so but if somebody goes through a phase where they think the impossible is possible and then they go do it are they crazy i know feels like maybe that's just somebody who can see the future it's sort of sort of weird all right
um the coalition of 10 teachers unions and the democratic socialists of america just put down a list of demands according to a tweet i saw so here are some of the things that the teachers unions are demanding they want to ban new charter schools and ban private school choice now what kind of union gets a say over its competition in what world do we want a union

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in what world do we want a union to get to decide what their competition does these are just different businesses what does the public school union have to do with a new charter school or a new private school why did they get any say about that how is that any of their business that's just their competition the fact that they even have the the balls to put out a statement about what the american public can do with its own money you know meaning that if we wanted to be funding some of these private options uh i don't think that's the business of a union what people do when they're not doing something with your business so that's way over the line and of course they want more money everybody wants more money and police free schools do you know how you can have a police-free school i would recommend a charter school or a private school because public schools probably you're not going to get there

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so i would say again that until we get to the point where we understand that the
the teachers unions are the source of all systemic racism now when i say the source i don't mean the cause because yeah i would agree that the cause is this legacy of slavery and all the ripple effect but as i've said before the school system is the equalizer if you get the school system right meaning that everybody's got a fair shot at a good education then you've at least you've at least said here's a path with the very least amount of racism that that you could experience you just have to succeed and then racism will still exist you can't get rid of the way people think we're just tuned that way but you can make it a non-issue in your life and i like to use oprah as by example i doubt oprah has a lot of racism problems in her daily life and if she does she probably cries herself to sleep in a big bag of money and it doesn't hurt so much so you can't make all your problems go

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so you can't make all your problems go away but you can make them hurt less
so i was wondering if we should select our presidents not based on votes but by some kind of scientific study of how many hoaxes they believed do you realize how many hoaxes our politicians act like they believe or do believe it's hard to know because they could be lying but at the moment uh biden is biden is tweeting that uh president trump ordered a slow down on testing for the coronavirus now the president did joke about that in the context of well if we weren't testing so much you know you wouldn't find so much of it and i wouldn't look so bad so maybe i'll tell them to slow down now that was obviously a joke and when his all the people who do the testing or involved it with it were asked they said no nobody asked us to slow down testing that's ridiculous but biden puts it out there like it's real he still puts out the fine people

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real he still puts out the fine people hoax like he's the last person in the world who still thinks that's true although a lot of democrats still do he's saying that president trump on the coronavirus quote ignored the experts from day one that's literally the opposite of even what his critics say right because trump basically was right down the middle with it with the experts all the way the only time that i've claimed that he didn't follow the experts my critics claim i'm wrong and that he followed the experts that time too which was closing china so i'd said because the president said the experts have advised against it other people who seem to have better information than i do claim the opposite the experts were not against it so that would mean that the president was actually compatible with the experts from day one and still is right because you do get to a point where it's not a question of the experts

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not a question of the experts you know all being on one side it's more like nobody can tell is it better to open up the the businesses should we test it should you try it in some states or not these these are not science questions as much as art and guessing and having a system where you can adjust if you guessed wrong which we have we have a system of quickly monitoring and adjusting and it's working it's working um so between the russia collusion hoax the fine people host the slowdown on testing hoax they ignored the experts from day one hoax biden basically doesn't believe a single thing that actually happened he's living in a completely artificially constructed world
speaking of that there was a provocative article in human events i think by jane coleman called the specter of systemic racism and she compared it to

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and she compared it to the salem witch trials meaning that in in her opinion the salem witch trials were a mass hysteria very much like in her opinion the systemic racism now her argument is that systemic racism can't be observed or measured you just can't find any so that it would be a hoax just like finding a witch you think you see it all the time but when you actually dig down there's there's no witch there and there's no systemic racism i would disagree with this point of view and i would say this is i've evolved to this current position which is that whether systemic racism exists or doesn't isn't entirely a function of how you define it so you can define it in the way it exists or you could define it in a way that doesn't and the way it does exist for sure is that the people who have money are kind of locked in

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kind of locked in and they they have a system which makes it a little bit harder for people at the bottom to get up to the top so if most of the people at the top happen to be a certain race let's call them white yeah there would be some systemic things that keep the people with the money keeping the money and the power and it wouldn't matter who they were that just happens to be mostly white people in the united states but whoever is in power is going to have a system that keeps them in power right what's the point of having power if you don't create a system that keeps you there so i think in that sense it does exist now
now if you define it that way you also have to ask yourself if it should be fixed because the way i defined it doesn't necessarily scream out that it needs to be fixed because uh those those uh limitations on black people you know rising up in this you know system that's a little bit rigid um

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rigid um is just as hard as a white person so for a white person who has no special advantages they're born into a poor world they have as many or more problems different problems let's just call them different problems but they got problems too so to imagine that it's a white versus a black problem of course is just looking at it in the least effective way but so i would say that you can't say systemic racism exists or doesn't exist you just can define it any way you want basically but let's ask this question um you know the entire stuff we're up to right now is uh or what we're into is the black lives matter protests and so the question is do black lives matter that's the question everybody's being asked now of course the answer is yes black lives matter but let's let's dig down a little bit let's say let's look at it with just a little bit more depth this question of black lives

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depth this question of black lives matter which we start with the we start with the position yes yes but how should you answer the question and i've been noodling on answering it this way
way because i you know i i role play in my mind what would happen if i were asked this on camera it hasn't happened yet i don't think i don't think anybody's asked me while i'm being recorded which is weird because you'd expect it would happen by now but here's an answer i'm noodling with do black lives matter yes absolutely followed by far more than white lives because um well let's let's dig down so my claim is that black lives matter and that at the moment they matter more than white lives now that's not a complaint that's not a political position i'm just going to be an economist i'm just going to look at it all right so we're going to break it down and say on various levels

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down and say on various levels you know what is the economic value of various people do you think this will get me canceled yet if i don't get cancelled for this i'm
i'm uncancelable so we're going deep this time we're going all the way to the bottom of the well are you ready do you are you brave enough to go with me come with me here it comes how about an economic calculation are black lives more valuable and again we'll get to a number of dimensions so if you're only seeing a part of this make sure you see the rest of it otherwise you'll see something out of context and you could get angered if you see it out of context if you see it in context it won't bother you that much from an economic perspective is a black life worth more than a white life i would say yes unambiguously so because economically and here are all the reasons that a black life is worth more than a white life on average this is just not average we're not talking about every person compared to every other person just on average

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person just on average here's why let's say you're a fortune 500 company you have two candidates one is a qualified black candidate one is a qualified white candidate both equally qualified who gets hired well the black candidate will get hired almost every time because they have two benefits they can do the job remember my situation is that it's two candidates equal qualifications so they get a good candidate can do the job plus they have more diversity and diversity does have an economic value to the big corporations who are trying to get more of it so in an economic sense from let's say a business which is putting a dollar value on a candidate the black dna has a higher dollar value would everybody agree with that now this does not apply i don't think to small business i think when you get down to small business people are watching them as carefully you know there's not as much pressure on some company you've never heard of

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on some company you've never heard of then there is you know on apple computer or something like that so small companies i would say probably more likely to discriminate probably i've never seen any data on that but doesn't that feel feels likely so i would say that in the small business world it might be reversed a little bit meaning that there may be enough racism that the black lives would matter a little bit less in that marketplace to various people who have their racist and non-racist reasons but i'd say big companies black lives are valued it unambiguously are valued higher than other lives because they like diversity how about in the media let's say there's a
a big media platform could be a news platform could be an entertainment platform and they have two options one they could have a hit show with a white host or white cast or they could have a hit show with a black host and a black cast

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with a black host and a black cast which would they select given that both of them give them the same income so they're both hits and they both make the same amount of money which is worth more to the platform i would say the black content because they get again a double benefit they want more diversity that may bring more black viewers to their network which is good so i would argue that in the arts at the moment content by black artists is worth more because society sort of valued it that way now again if you think that i'm putting any value judgments on any of this like it's my opinion it shouldn't be you're not seeing anything like that i'm just doing the math all i'm doing is telling you values and subject to opinion of course how about um tax-wise one way to know how much something is worth is by looking at how the public organizes its tax system for example

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organizes its tax system for example would you say that the tax system and therefore the government puts a high value on education you would because there's a lot of money that gets taxed and put into education so you'd say that that society values education we put a lot of money into the defense so society values defense that's embarrassing i've had chocolate all over my along my arm
and you would say for example that wherever money flows that's where society has decided that the money is better suited here so there's more more bang for the buck and i would say that in that world the black lives matter more than white lives in the tax situation because i and again you'd have to fact check this but i'll bet you would find that because of the economic disparity that money flows largely from uh on average white people to on average people of color

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color and also from the asian community to other communities as well so the ones that are doing the best economically are paying the most taxes in dollar amount you know you can have your argument about percentages but in dollar amount the ones who have the money are paying the most and that money is flowing away from them to another group so this one's this one's not as clear as that means that one group is economically more valuable but you can see that society has a very distinct preference for transfer of wealth from white people to black people and that that's our system as it exists now there are lots of you know reasons why that makes sense i'm not saying it doesn't make sense i'm not arguing against it i'm not arguing against it somebody says you're not embarrassed i don't know what that means in all caps you can't yell at me you're not embarrassed in all caps because you should be

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in all caps because you should be embarrassed if you're yelling at me in all caps i'm not even sure if that was for me all right how about socially our black people uh our black lives more valuable or less valuable than white people socially somebody says you're just you're just spewing well you do have a an option to disagree with me with reasons there's enough there's enough room in your little comment there your little text blocks to uh to make a comment i see i'm making everybody mad so i'm going to keep going how about socially i would argue that uh this is just an observation so i wouldn't put any any weight behind this but i'd be interested in your opinion in in my observation black people have very much social ability to to get into you know white social groups at least where i live there would be no no

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no no barrier to that whatsoever no friction but does it work the same way the other way if you were if you were white could you easily break into an all-black social situation and feel comfortable with that i know it would be hard but i think it's quite easy it was just my experience my experience is that any black person who wanted to break into any white social group could do it effortlessly on top of that black people are one of the rare groups that have their own fetish category in porn now again i'm not going to put a value judgment on any of this i'm just describing just describing if you had an option of being your own fetish category meaning that you would know that some portion of the public really really wants to get with you it's not the worst place to be there's no
no there's no fetish category for generic white people we don't we don't have that little extra

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we don't we don't have that little extra thing you know to be a little extra exotic no i i get that people have their own preferences for who they want to be with but i would argue that you could make a case again this would be a little subjective that uh black people do have some social advantages because they can kind of go everywhere and
and i've never seen any friction to it in my whole life i've never i've never seen anybody say i don't want to be friends with somebody because they're black or anything like that i've just never even seen it once so i would say that socially pretty good or at least even
do our black lives uh valued more than immigrant lives i would say uh the system of the united states would say yes so the um the system of immigration let's say that immigration continues that explicitly values black lives

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explicitly values black lives in the united states the ones that are already here you know the citizens it explicitly values them higher than undocumented immigrants that's what our system does now puts everybody who's an american citizen at a higher status and greater value than anybody who doesn't have that status yet again you could argue that that's good or bad that's not my point today i'm just explaining it so black lives matter certainly more than immigrants in terms of our system not the way we necessarily think about it but the the system how about um if the police kill a black man
man at a police stop versus a white man which one has the most value now here value is a weird construct but there are no protests about white people being killed by police now you could say well there's a good reason for that scott is there there are more white people killed by police than black people it's not even close so you could say

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it's not even close so you could say it's a question of percentages and i i would hear that but i also say it is a truth that there's probably no amount of white people that could ever be killed by police that would cause a protest right so i believe that there is actually some special value that's put on black lives and i'm not saying that's right or wrong i'm just saying that the amount of energy that the even the white public if you look at antifa look at the character of the protesters at least in the northwest it looks like it's more white than black so i would say that that's a lot of white people who have put more value on black lives at least more value in terms of what they're willing to fight for
for for whatever reason now again all of these are complicated if if if i made it look as if these are clean decisions that would be incorrect these are really gray overlapping sort of decisions but when you ask do

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sort of decisions but when you ask do black lives matter i would say that from the perspective of white people the answer is unambiguously yes
yes it's not just yes as hell yes it's hell yes
yes economically socially police-wise it's helios in every possible sense from white people's perspective so that's why the question i think especially strikes us as provocative in a bad way meaning who are you trying to convince were you trying to talk me into thinking that black people have value i didn't need to be talked into it i i was there you know there was no con no conversion necessary and i think was it hotep jesus who said when i was talking to him on his podcast i think it was he who said that the black lives matter is black people talking to themselves have you have you ever thought of it that way because it is actually kind of perplexing why i

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it is actually kind of perplexing why i would need to be convinced of something that i started out believing and then his theory that it's black people convincing themselves that they matter i think well you know i can't say that because you know i don't think that would be for me to say but i'll put it out there so you can decide if you want to what you want to do with it all right um i had this weird situation this morning where i read something where i agreed with cnn and i thought i read it wrong i had to read the sentence three times to convince myself i had read it correctly just because i had accidentally agreed with cnn here was the situation so i guess some some school books are going to use the standard of capitalizing the b in black and the associated press and new york times have already said that they'll do it
it but here's the cnn uh statement so cnn made the same decision except they will also capitalize white

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they will also capitalize white and i read that and i thought well that can't be right because new york times an associated press if they're going to get away with just capitalizing to be in black you'd expect cnn to go the same way wouldn't you wouldn't you expect them to go the same way and i did and then it says cnn made the same decision but will also capitalize white and i was going to say hey but you should also oh wait a minute that's exactly what they should do that's exactly what they should do and here was the standard i was going to suggest for myself so i'm going to adopt i don't think i'll be consistent with it because it's going to take me a while to make this a reflex but i plan to adopt capitalizing the b in black whenever there's no reference to anybody else so if nobody else is referenced in the sentence capitalize b in black but if it's if you're also talking about white people in the same sentence i would also capitalize the w in white

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i would also capitalize the w in white now would i need to capitalize the w in white if i only talked about white people and there was nothing in whatever i was talking about about black i would say that's more optional but i would never do a situation where i'd capitalize the b and not the w in the same document um i wouldn't do that so i would agree with cnn on capitalizing both it just keeps it clean just keep it clean but then you know don't we already correct me if i'm wrong don't we already capitalize hispanic why don't i know the answer to that can somebody tell me the answer do we already capitalize hispanic and and really why don't i know that why don't i know that i can't even picture it in my mind as to whether it's always capitalized well you'll tell me um i told you the other day about the story about the sinclair local networks there's a whole bunch of local tv news networks their right leaving

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networks their right leaving company and they were going to run this program claiming among other things that dr fauci was behind the coronavirus and he gave it to china that gave it to us and of course that this is a highly debunked uh thing and i guess the public outcry was sufficient that they decided to delay it now when they delayed it that doesn't mean they're not going to run it maybe they'll run it with some extra context or something that's not known but it's interesting that a conservative leaning entity was going to run a bunch of content that would have been terrible for trump i'm seeing in the comments people are saying that you would capitalize caucasian and latino or is it latinx now is that preferred uh indian and asian well indian would be capitalized of course

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capitalized of course asian would be capitalized because asia is
is i don't know it's kind of
you know any one of the one of the commenters says scott the adams anybody who uses that that dumb ass word is is is blocked forever so goodbye to you
that's only being blocked for being uncreative all right um so there you have it there's not much going on today
um in summary i would say this systemic racism is the teachers unions the teachers unions are overwhelmingly white and they want less choice in schooling and it is that less choice in schooling that makes really every bad thing that happens to black people now you can't fix bad education in

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now you can't fix bad education in in a year you know it's sort of a generational problem but you could make a big difference in a year or in a generation not a year so i would say if we're going to pretend that systemic racism is something we care about and and pretend that black lives are something we care about you shouldn't have to pretend about that and you think that poor white lives are something that you care about it's all the same problem it's just the teachers unions get rid of the teachers unions you can save the next generation you don't you don't and complaining about how many people got killed by police while we don't want to forget that problem it's your smallest it is really hard not to swear do you know how hard it is to not swear i mean i'm trying to do my best i realize i'm more uh you know i don't get there all the time but uh worrying about your smallest problem

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worrying about your smallest problem which is the number of people killed by the police is the smallest problem there is no problem smaller than that in the black community all bet now if you happen to be the direct victim of it or your family it's your biggest problem duh but in terms of the larger systemic racism it's just it's just the teachers union you fix that one thing and you're fine how how hard would it be for kanye to fix um this is a this this will sound crazy but look how easy it would be how hard would it be for kanye to fix systemic racism in one generation it wouldn't be hard he could actually do it right it might be the only person who could i mean think of another person who could it's hard to come up with anybody kanye could fix it just by concentrating on working against the school unions now i don't think kanye usually is a guy who likes to oppose something

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who likes to oppose something i think he's more about a positive image of things which is why we love him he's more about make things better and you know look at the good side and you know he's not so much about looking backwards and and blaming other people that's just not his deal and we don't want it to be but he does have the power and if he could simply define systemic racism as whatever is wrong with the education system i think we could do the rest and if kanye simply said i'm going to endorse whoever has the best plan for schools there we go all right there we go aren't you glad you waited for the end here's what kanye could do to fix more than anybody's ever fixed he could just say i'm gonna endorse the party that has the best plan for school that's it just just the one thing whichever party has the best plan for educating the kids who are not otherwise well served

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well served that's it i'm going to give my full endorsement full-throated to that one thing because the other stuff it's trivial the one thing will just change the entire nature of the united states make us more competitive competitive i mean your education system is drives your economic system that drives your defense and we're talking about national defense is completely degraded by having a poor school system that's educating people who don't have that many options so why isn't this idea going viral it's a really good question and i think it has to do with this there are so many teachers in the world this is just a guess by the way and i'm gonna this will be an example of how if your skill stack includes more than one kind of field that you studied it's easier to have idea sex as james eltashir has popularized that idea

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but here's the idea in the um in the field of coronavirus and virology you have this herd immunity issue and you can get to herd immunity by maybe 60 of the people in the population having some immunity so you don't have to have everybody immune you just have to have a lot of them and that's enough to stop a virus likewise somebody asked why isn't the idea going viral of going after the teachers unions because i didn't make that up right in fact i'm i'm one of the latest people to come to her probably because the entire conservative movement has been complaining about the teachers unions forever so here is my guess my speculation about why it's so obvious what the problem is the teachers unions reducing competition in school is so obvious and yet
yet it's not a thing it's not the number one thing we're talking about every day here's why i believe that there are enough people who are teachers or have a teacher in their

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are teachers or have a teacher in their family that they don't want to rag on teachers that's it there's so many people connected to in some meaningful way a working teacher that they don't want to
to be pushing something that's bad for teachers because the teachers union is trying to protect the teachers more than more than they're trying to do other things
case in point my own sister who is probably watching this right now hi cindy uh she's probably watching it right now and she had asked me what i thought about uh ragging on the teachers unions when my own sister is a recently retired teacher did you hear the key words recently retired and i told her that until she retired i wasn't going to say this stuff that i wasn't going to complain about teachers and teachers unions until she was retired and she just retired so now i have a full uh

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so now i have a full uh full uh freedom i guess to go after what i think is the real problem now think about my situation as vocal as i am about as many things as i'm vocal about i don't hold back too much on any topic i held back on that because it was a personal situation in which i didn't want to you know degrade my own sister's lifestyle but now she's retired i'm free right her pension's locked in so i i think that that's it i think there's a herd immunity toward going after the teachers unions just because so many of us have some strong relationship with the teacher i think that's what it is exactly so we have to somehow break that now can you and i break that no no i do not have the power or the influence to get through that herd immunity do you know who does kanye right like for for me this is like

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kanye right like for for me this is like um you've you've probably watched me push over a lot of bamboo walls you know if you give me a soft structure give me a little uh you know drywall i can punch through some drywall but if i had a concrete wall i you know that's the end of my power i could bang on the concrete wall all day long with my powers of persuasion but i don't have that much horsepower but kanye does kanye could blow right through a concrete wall kanye could like bulldoze a concrete wall like it wasn't in there because he has that level of persuasion power you know above my own so if he were to identify the one single biggest problem with uh structural systemic racism which is the teachers unions or simply just you know rather than go against somebody it's better to say i'm in favor of school choice you know i'm going to help some people develop some models of better schooling or something like that you know go go the positive direction but if he were to uh just make a single

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but if he were to uh just make a single a single-issue endorsement criteria he would determine the next president and he would end systemic racism in one generation so there you go all right um somebody says black lives matter equals no charter schools incorrect black lives matter do not mind charter schools you hear this clearly black lives matter are not opposed to charter schools kind of like them now that everybody's different so i'm not speaking for everybody in black lives matter but what i've been told by a member of black lives matter is that the black community kind of like school choice why wouldn't they it's obvious that they should like it it's obvious
all right that's all for now and i will talk to you later