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ays it was anti-white is what it was. Could be. I didn't see the details. Did not see the details. And there was something about the Rothschild in there that you know makes your eyebrow go up. What do you say about the Rothschild because there might be a little conspiracy theory in there. So I don't know what he said but I just note that that happened and he didn't apologize. And I'm not sure that…
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All right. Here's something I did that hasn't gotten me canceled and I think that that is hilarious. I tweeted this yesterday and where do you see how much attention it got? I tweeted this. I said have you ever seen an engineer, scientist or statistician argue that police are killing Black citizens at an alarming rate? Ask yourself why. Now do you see what I did there? Let me explain it because I think you see the general idea but there's a little bit more to it. The natural frame for our conversations about big stuff and the Black Lives Matter stuff is big stuff. Our natural frame is either the left versus the right or maybe Black versus white or Black versus non-Black. But our natural inclination is to just put things in this group versus that group which is terribly unproductive and also makes you stupid because you're not really using reason. You're just saying well what team am I on so I guess I support the team.
But what I did was reframe that. Instead of thinking it was Black versus non-Black or left versus right, how about people who know how to look at data versus people who don't? How about that? That's my frame. People who are trained to understand data and to analyze it versus people who don't. And so I put this on here and you would think that I would get canceled immediately for this but unlike Nick Cannon I think people are afraid of me meaning afraid to give attention to this point of view because you know if you gave attention to the point of view that the Black Lives Matter protests, the primary trigger not the only topic they have they have gen
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eral topics about systemic racism etc. But the trigger, the primary thing that the protests have been about, the George Floyd situation is complete, it's complete. And I gave myself enough freedom by setting the groundwork in the things that I've done up to this point that I might be the only person in the world who can say that out loud. Do you know anybody else who's saying this? That the Black…
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