Back to episode — Episode 34 - Why Kanye and John Legend Are Watching Different Movies
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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…
← Previous segment →Let's talk about this Charlottesville hoax. This is usually at the top of the list when people say, well, you know, it's no longer in doubt the president is definitely a racist because of the Charlottesville situation in which he referred to people who were at the event as, quote, "fine people."
Now, the people who were trapped in their mental prisons say, my God, there's more evidence of what we already believed. How can he call these Tiki-torch-carrying racists, who have self-labeled themselves? They've labeled themselves as racists. You don't even have to wonder if they're racist. They are self-labeled. They're marching. They're out. And then the President of the United States gets on TV and says there were fine people there. Ah, head exploding. He must be a racist. Now it's proven.
Well, there are two explanations that fit the facts and evidence. One of them is the one I just said under this movie. And there are some problems with this movie. But here in this movie, the President of the United States is a giant racist. And although he's a very capable person who made billions in real estate, conquered the reality TV show world, won the nomination, became president, is making progress with North Korea where nobody else has, juiced the economy, he's done a lot of things that feel like the sort of things that only really smart, capable people can do.
But how would that explain how this person, who is so smart and so capable over decades, would decide that it was a good idea to go on national television as a sitting president and say, you know, I think I'll side with the people marching with Tiki torches for racists? In order to believe that he did that, you have to believe that he decided to go against his own family. Because remember, the Tiki torch people were doing anti-Semitic chants. His daughter has converted to Judaism. His son-in-law, who's in the administration, is a Jew. His grandkids are Jews. His main advisers, lots of them are Jews. Netanyahu loves him. Israel loves him. He's moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
So you would have to believe, in order to believe movie one, where the president is a racist and he has called the racists in Charlottesville fine people, you have to believe that he went against his family and that he decided that it would be a good idea to come out as a racist on national TV while president. Maybe. You know, but we've seen strange things happen, right? Maybe.
But let's compare it to the other movie, and then you can decide which one seems to fit the facts a little better. So movie two says the president believed, incorrectly, that there might have been some people there protesting the removal of statues. Remember, the whole event was around whether the Confederate statue should be removed. And the president is for keeping the statues, and he thinks, he's not a racist. Well, I don't want to get in his head, so let me retract that. I always mock people for imagining they can imagine what other people are thinking. So let me back off that.
Let's just say that he's in favor of keeping the Confederate statues for historical reasons. And there are a lot of people in his space who agree.
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For the record, I completely disagree with keeping the statues. The statues are not history. The statues are decorations. You would not decorate your own house in a way that offended half of the country or even 20 percent of your neighborhood. You just wouldn't do it, right? Because you'd be kind of a dick if you did that. So the statues, while I understand the argument that it's part of history…
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