Back to episode — Episode 34 - Why Kanye and John Legend Are Watching Different Movies
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And let me explain it. Now, the normal world, as you know, it's quite common. In fact, it's universal. It's not just common, it's the universal way that human beings look at things. We have confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance, and we imagine that we're rational creatures, but we're not. Now if you said to both these people, hey, John Legend, have you heard of these concepts, cognitive diss…
← Previous segment →But let me run through a couple of different pieces of confirmation bias. And I picked the two most frequently noted ones. There are lots and lots of them. And I think John Legend would be the first one to point this out. It's like, okay, you only mention two things, but look, I've got a long list. What about everything else on the list? In the interests of time, I'm only going to make the point with two of them, even though I know the list exists. Because if I can debunk the two most common ones, then at least it opens your mind to say, wait a minute, maybe that other stuff on the list isn't exactly what I thought if those two have been debunked.
All right, so let's do that. So the one thing that people like to say is that why is it that essentially I think a hundred percent of the out-of-the-closet racists support President Trump? That's very worrying, right? Like if that's the only thing you knew, is all the racists are voting for the same candidate, your hair catches on fire and you say, ah, that's not good. I don't like this guy. If the racists like him, I don't like him. That's pretty reasonable. It's pretty reasonable, right? That should be a gigantic red flag, right?
So the fact that African Americans, more than half of the country, sees that gigantic red flag, that's normal. They should see that this situation is a big red flag. So how do you explain it? Well, the one movie says, well, it must be that they can hear the secret racist whistle and they feel correctly this would be one movie's version, that the president's a big ol' racist. And so their supporting that fits all the facts that we see in evidence, right?
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But here's another set of facts that also fit, and I would argue that they fit a little better. And I did it with a Venn diagram. So here you've got, let's say the topic is stricter immigration, President Trump's preferred immigration policies. So that's the topic. If you do the Venn diagram, I think the GOP mainstream, the people who are not racists, would be saying, yeah, we like more immigrati…
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