Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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ously fake all the time. Now as I have been telling you lately, I have decided to self-identify as Black. And I decided I have not explained that well enough because some people still think it is a joke, but it is not. Number one, I agree — literally no joke, being completely serious — I agree with the concept that people can self-identify. Let me give you an example. Let us say somebody is techn…

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ecause of my race, and my current one is probably down by a third or so because of my race.

Now you tell me, who do I have more affinity with? People who are discriminated against for race or people who are not? I have way more affinity with people who have been discriminated against for race. And by the way that is not a joke. That is literally true. I do have more affinity for anybody discriminated against by race. That is how it works. If something happens to you that happened to somebody else, you have some appreciation for it. That is how it works.

And I have also done more work to benefit the Black community than any other. So I would say that is my affinity group, and that is what I choose.

All right, here is a little issue that I saw in a cartoon, but it is actually a pretty good point. We are making a big deal, and should, about Asian American violence because we do not want any of that bias and discrimination in our country. So we started out with Black Lives Matter — you know, my group — but now we are sort of talking about Asian Americans being discriminated against, and we are very close, very close to saying Asian American lives matter. We are going to get to the point where they all matter except for these white supremacist lives. So it will be interesting to see how the Asian American thing has an influence on the Black Lives Matter thing, or if they just always live separately. But it seems like one would influence the other.

I told you that the news is all artificial, and what you consider the biggest story is often completely irrelevant, and what you consider no story at all is often the biggest thing happening. Here is a good example. I would argue that the biggest thing that is going to come out of the coronavirus thing is the death of public schools, because the teachers unions have overreached. The teachers unions have overreached. And if you are not following Corey DeAngelis on Twitter, because he is sort of the only one who seems to be consistently reporting on all the changes that are happening. But today we are hearing that West Virginia governor Jim Justice just signed this year’s most expensive bill to fund students instead of systems. Now that is happening all over the place. A bunch of different states, especially where they have Republican control, are deciding that the funding will follow the student so the student can go to whatever school they want, private or public, and it will not just go to the school instead. I think the teachers unions have destroyed public education as a monopoly. It looks like they overreached and destroyed it.

Now as you know the teachers unions are the biggest source of systemic racism, and I do not think enough of my people are talking about this, but it is the biggest source. And it might be on the way to self-solving. In other words the pandemic may have solved the biggest form of systemic racism in the country. I do not think there is a bigger story than that. I propose to you that this is the biggest story in the country, and it is basically one guy who is tweeting about it. It is the biggest story. Like this is the one that moves the planet. This one moves civilization. The entire future of the United States compared to let us say our competition with China is really, really dependent on this biggest story in the country, completely ignored. It is not even — you will not find it on any website. You would have to follow somebody on Twitter to even know it is happening.

Also from Rasmussen, 76 percent of folks say that gun ownership is a constitutional right. Seventy-six percent say gun ownership is a constitutional right. That makes about 25 percent, 24, 25 idiots, right? Because you could argue that something should not be in the Constitution, but it is hard to argue it is not there. It is another one of those examples where 25 percent, you can always count on them to be wrong on everything.

All right, here is my new section which will cause you all to get worked up. Are you ready? Are you ready for some fighting? Ready for some intellectual fighting? Come on, here it comes. Here it comes. Here is the red meat coming out. All right, I call this section “Am I Wrong or Are You Frightened?” And here is the concept behind it. An ordinary intelligent person will make ordinary intelligent and reasonable decisions when their emotions are not involved. If you take that same reasonable person who has got perfectly average abilities and common sense and reasoning and you put that person in a stressful, scary situation, how good is their reasoning now? Not good, right? So your ability to reason gets switched off as your emotions go higher. As you get angrier, as you get more frightened, as you are worried, as you are more anxious, your sense of reason just switches off. Does anybody doubt that? We all agree with that, right?

So if you have a situation — let us say hypothetically there was a situation where there was somebody you knew who had a really good track record of being reasonable and often right, a very reasonable person — and then you are comparing that reasonable person to another one who is just as reasonable. Two very reasonable people. They are often right, see things clearly. Now we are going to make one tweak. They are both reasonable. They are both usually right. But one of them is now really scared. One is really frightened. Now they start to disagree on a topic. One is not frightened an

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d is reasonable most of the time. One is pretty scared. And they have different opinions. Now who is right? Which one of them is more likely to have the right opinion? Because remember, same intelligence, same information, but one of them is scared and one of them is not. Yeah, the calm person. Statistically you should expect that the calm person has the advantage. Now let us talk about vaccine p…

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