Back to episode — Episode 1137 Scott Adams - Black Strategy Matters, Antifa Wants Trump to Win, Seattle Solves Racism
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skeptical but the experts are telling you you could be much safer if you do these things but to do these things you're gonna have to give up this other thing called freedom. Do Americans say sure sure let's give up some freedom I'm in I'll save some lives? No we don't do that and we don't want to be those people. That's the bigger part. In order for us to have had the same success as other countr…
← Previous segment →I would say that strikes me as offensive even though I agree with the thought. The thought I agree with completely that people have to take responsibility for themselves even if somebody else caused the problem. So I agree with the thought but here's how I would have said it better. Instead of saying Black behavior matters I would have said Black strategy matters.
In fact if somebody asked me if Black lives matter here's one way I might answer. If somebody said Scott say it say it do Black lives matter? I'm not going to be the jerk that says no. I'm not going to say the first thing out of my mouth is not going to be all lives matter because I'm not an idiot. Why would I cause trouble that doesn't need to be caused? Here's how I might handle it. Absolutely Black lives matter. Super super true. Black lives matter. Black lives matter. I might even put up my fist and scream it. And then I would say would you agree that Black strategy matters? In other words that if you have a good strategy you'll probably get a good outcome. If you have a bad strategy you might have a bad outcome. Would you agree with that? Because that's my problem. My problem is not Black lives matter because of course they do. Duh. My problem is your strategy sucks. If you use a strategy that is guaranteed to get you the wrong answer don't blame me when you get the wrong answer. Don't put it on me when you're doing an objectively obviously clearly bad strategy. That's not on me. You got to take that on yourself.
Here's a general rule that I think is a good one. If you have somebody who's protesting or wants some kind of change and you've got other people who seem to be the ones who are in the way. If one of those sides says let's work together I'll do some things differently maybe you'll do some things differently. I acknowledge that the problem might not be me. I mean I might not have caused the problem we're trying to fix and maybe you didn't cause the problem we're trying to fix. But if you're not approaching this from the perspective of both of us need to do something differently you are not really a credible player. If somebody comes to you and says only you need to change you'll never get there. You can never get there if your starting assumption is that one side needs to change even if all the problems are on the other side. The group that maybe doesn't think it's their fault still needs to say you know I don't think we did anything wrong but if you're willing to change I want to
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do whatever I can to make it easy for you to change. In other words I'll do something different even though it's not my fault. It might not even be my responsibility. But if you want to be productive both sides every time have to say I'm going to do something different. You need to do something different too. But we have to start with that assumption. As soon as you say you need to do something di…
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