Back to episode — Episode 1021 Scott Adams - Lying Statistics, Trump Polls Plummet, Democrat Strategy Debacle, BLM
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akes the box like everything that you think about people and power and racism and who thinks what and does what. This just shakes it all up. It just makes you think. And it gets you mad or excited or you put yourself in the place. But the trick of this is if you have enough people, there's always somebody who's willing to do anything. If you have a million people you can get somebody out of the mi…
← Previous segment →ob, I like to be productive, I like to create things that people want and pay for, and I would like to be paid for those things because it just works better that way. So I'm finding that I'm becoming increasingly uncancellable. If you have FU money you're uncancellable. But if you also care about your ongoing career you're not completely uncancellable because I'd still like to be a cartoonist. I'd still like to be able to come on video and talk to you. I still like people to buy my books. So I'm not completely uncancellable but I'm getting closer because I always talk to you about Locals, the new platform which I've joined now. Locals is a subscription platform and it's growing so it's becoming a larger percentage of my overall income. At the moment it's still the minority part of my overall income but it's growing pretty quickly. When it reaches a point where it's competitive with my income in general, meaning that even if I lost everything else I would still have a real job, it would just be limited to Locals which would be fine if that was a big enough community, and I'm becoming increasingly uncancellable. And I don't know what that does because I haven't been there before. I've never been in a place where I not only have FU money but I have an FU job. I've never had that before. I've only had the money, not a job that was invulnerable. And I'm getting close to that. I'm getting closer and closer to being actually invulnerable. And I'm wondering if at some point I would have freedom of speech. I'm getting close and it's kind of exciting because I would like to be able to have freedom of speech the way Black Americans do, the way women do. Women less than Black Americans. But someday, God willing, I will have freedom of speech. I don't know if that will make me speak any differently. I actually don't. But it's kind of exciting. I got real excited the other day when I thought, hey, are you kidding me? I could actually tweet some data that was actually just useful and true. I could just tweet true data and I don't have to lose my career. Could be good. Could be good.
Anyway, in response to Leonidas's tweet there was of course lots of interaction on it and he went into some detail in the thread which I would recommend to you. And so look for it in my Twitter thread. I just tweeted it this morning.
So starting with the claim that for every 10,000 Black people arrested for violent crimes, now this is the key phrase here, violent crimes, three are killed. For every 10,000 white people arrested for, again, violent crimes, four are killed. Now of course the big question mark is well what about non-violent crimes? What about all the people getting hassled and abused, beat up, humiliated, all those other bad things for non-violent crimes? What about all that? I mean that's got to be part of the equation, doesn't it? And so I don't know the answer to that. But I tweeted back that which group gets stopped and hassled the most by police? Because let's say these statistics are true and let's take out the violent crime. Let's say that it was
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true that statistically slightly more white people are killed, not even slightly but more white people are killed by police than Black people. But what if Black people encounter the police ten times more? What if there's just more police presence in Black communities because they tend, at least in the urban areas, they're going to be lower income. More crime comes with lower income so there's goin…
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