Back to episode — Episode 1117 Scott Adams - Persuasion Against Antifa, Cohen's Book, Gravity Batteries, Fake News
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is case they're treating Islam that way, but I think they do the same with the Falun Gong and I think they would do the same with any Christian sect in China if there was such a thing. So it has more to do with religion than it has to do with Islam. But it's an interesting approach, as immoral as it is. Here's something we learned from the coronavirus. That the regular flu was always... I saw the…
← Previous segment →So when I finish a speculation by saying I could be wrong, the I could be wrong is not just for you. When I finish a statement that is obviously speculative and that I say but I could be wrong, I'm talking to myself. And that's part of my self-programming to remind myself I could be wrong. It's a really good thing to do that. So if you think I was talking to you when I said I could be wrong, I was a little bit, but mostly that's programming myself. That's a good strategy. You should use it.
So one thing that Black Lives Matter and Antifa have in common, besides wanting to tear down the government, is they both seem relatively okay with sexual assault. Now isn't that a weird thing to say? Because if you ask them I'm sure they would say no, no, are you crazy, we're not okay with sexual assault. That's crazy. But they do act that way. Because Antifa literally wants to do away with the police. What do they think is going to happen when the police go away? It's going to be massive sexual assaults as well as massive every other kind of crime. There's not really an alternative to that happening. So we know that Antifa wants an end state in which there would be massive sexual assault. They don't say that's a goal, but it's obviously what would happen. There's no way around that really.
Black Lives Matter, as you're watching them, they're talking about the, I'm forgetting the names. There are so many victims now that I'm getting their names mixed up. What a terrible world when there are so many famous victims of police actions that I can't keep their names straight. You know at one point it was a perfectly reasonable thing for the protesters to say. You know they would say the name, say the name, say the name, to make sure you didn't forget somebody who had been in this situation. But now there are enough of them that I think I could be forgiven for forgetting which one is which. It's getting hard to keep them all straight, which of course is Black Lives Matter's very point. And so that point is taken.
But we're watching this latest case of the gentleman who got shot seven times and was accused of a sexual assault before that. Now I'm gonna say alleged and accused because just because he got shot seven times does not make him guilty of an unrelated crime. Can we agree at least, can we at least agree that no matter how many times he got shot for something else that doesn't make him guilty of the unrelated allegation? But it might be. But it does seem to me that Black Lives Matter is de-emphasizing the sexual assault, emphasizing the police action, and that's a choice. It's a choice to lower that priority. So there's one thing that Antifa and Black Lives Matter have in common, is less concerned about sexual assault. And I think the Republicans get that right because the Republicans are kind of obsessed with that topic, especially if anybody underage is involved. That is a very Republican kind of thing to go after stopping that. And the president's actually had amazing, well during his administration it's hard to know who gets all the credit for what, but during the Trump administration the actions against every kind of sexual trafficking have been unprecedented. So that's another gigantic difference that should be mentioned more I think.
I want to confess some stupidity, and I know I'm doing this, and let me remind you before I do this that I've told you that one of my superpowers, and indeed I think one of the values that I can bring, is that I'm not embarrassed by stuff. And it's a learned skill to not be embarrassed by stuff. And so I'm going to embarrass myself now by confessing something I don't understand that I think many of you do understand. And maybe you could explain it to me. Now sometimes when I say something doesn't make sense, I'm asserting that there's something wrong with the thing because it doesn't make sense. In this case I'm not asserting that. I'm asserting that there must be something wrong up here in my head area, somewhere in the brain department, just to me personally, that there's something that other people seem to understand that I don't. And let me put it out there. Here's what I don't understand.
When President Trump or people who agree with him say that the reason we're discovering so much virus in this country is because we're doing more testing, and the critics say oh, how stupid, that was stupid, it's just not true, it's just not true. Ask all the experts. The amount you're testing has nothing to do with how much virus you're detecting. And every time I hear that I go, okay, continue, continue making the point so I can see the part where you say that doing the thing that detects the virus is not the thing that's detecting the virus. Because there's probably a good reason all the smart people are saying it. You know all the anti-Trumpers say it. They say it consistently. And I believe there are even pro-Trump people who say it, and they mock him like it's just sort of obvious why that's wrong. And I say to myself, what's wrong with me? Why can't I tell what's going on here? I don't honestly, I don't even have a theory for why that's wrong. Now is this one of those situations where CNN etc. are just telling you that an apple is a banana and they're just trying to get away with it? Or is there actually a smart version of this where they can explain why testing does not find more virus? Tests are all wrong. Some people are saying that's a different topic.
All right, so I'm looking at your comments. I don't think anybody understands that. Yeah, so are all of you? All right, here's the funny part. The reason I've never
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mentioned this in public is because I thought it was just me. I thought I was being stupid because I can't imagine a scenario where doing more testing doesn't produce more positive results. I don't get it. All right, so apparently there's nobody here who even understands what the argument is, much less agrees or disagrees. It's like you don't even know what they're talking about. And we let that g…
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