Back to episode — Episode 1352 Scott Adams - Chauvin Verdict and What it Means About America
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very day. Punishing other white people is the easiest thing we do." Let me give you a story that a lot of people didn't believe when I've been telling this story for years. It's completely true. But when I tell it there's a certain percentage of you who will swear I'm lying. Trust me, I've been saying it for I don't know, 25 years since I've been able to tell the story. And there would be literal…
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So let me tell you, Black Americans, if you're ever wondering will white people punish other white people to protect themselves? Yeah, like really quickly.
So the punchline is that I moved from that bank. I quit it almost immediately, quit the bank, moved to the phone company where I got on the management fast track and I was going to be senior management in the phone company. And my boss called me in and said, "I don't know how to tell you this but the word just came down. We can't promote white people anymore. Not white men anyway. Women maybe. But we can't promote any white men because we got caught. It's only white people at senior management."
So second company, how long did it take the white people to throw me under the bus? One second. No hesitation. If you want to kill white people, ask white people to do it because they're really willing. No hesitation.
So I think that's largely an invisible thing. If you're imagining being a Black person in America, some of you are, you don't have to imagine it at all. Imagine what that would be like if the news just kept showing you George Floyd situations, Black people being abused, Black people being confused. And it's greater than the percentages in the public so it's a real thing, like a real issue. But if you don't see all the times that white people are stomping on the heads of other white people for their own benefit, you're kind of missing some context. It feels like white people are oppressing Black people and the part you miss is that successful white people are just screwing everybody. They're just screwing everybody because that's what's good for them to keep things just the way they are.
Anyway, that's useful context for you right there.
Do you think that there's no rioting because of the Chauvin verdict? I feel like that's the smartest thing they did is to make it guilty on everything because at least that had a chance of averting the riots and it looks like it worked. Looks like it worked.
You know, I said yesterday that I've said this a lot, that I don't believe there's any such thing as bad presidents and good presidents because by the time you get elected president you do have a certain minimum amount of talent. So they all have the minimum talent. But what makes you good or bad is just luck. Is your specific set of talents and your personality suited for the exact problems that come up while you're president?
Now COVID was exactly the wrong problem for President Trump. And I'm not even sure his supporters would disagree with that too much, right? It just wasn't the right match because optimism, which was the Trump thing, optimism and the pandemic, they just didn't fit together. But optimism and the economy, great. Trump and the economy, I love that combination. Optimism, economics, works great.
I feel as if Biden was exactly the right president for this. Doesn't make him the right president for other things. But for this I feel like he was exactly the right guy because he's boring. He didn't make it about him even though he put pressure on, you know, in some ways you could argue that the politicians put pressure on t
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he jury. But there wasn't going to be a fair trial anyway. So I think Biden might have been maybe exactly the right person because he took all the energy out of it. If there's one thing that Biden can do, it sucks the energy out of a topic. And what did you need? This topic to have less energy, right? When I talk about Trump being an energy monster it's usually in a positive sense. He can take en…
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