Back to episode — Episode 1544 Scott Adams - It's A Cornucopia of Fake News Today. Watch Me Tear it Apart
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at doesn't have the problems of homeschooling. Oh yeah there are problems. And doesn't have the problems of public school. I feel like it's going to be clusters of people who band together maybe with the help of an app or some parent company and form groups of 12 people for homeschooling. Get together at somebody's house, put on the big screen TV. All you need is a parent somewhere in the house. S…
← Previous segment →y else mentioned parents as being domestic terrorists and nobody said the FBI should be monitoring them. They're just available in case there is ever a situation in which it becomes domestic terrorism. Is that wrong? Maybe I wouldn't have done it. Maybe you wouldn't have done it. But it doesn't really fit into any controversial bucket that I can find.
All right. So this of course created the most wonderful situation. So Aaron Rupar who is famous for tweeting misleading video clips, you know a clip out of context, so famous for it that we even call them Rupar videos. So if I say somebody published a Rupar video you probably know oh that's one where they took something out of context to change its meaning. So he properly calls out that that's what's happening. So Rupar points out that the right is taking stuff out of context and making it look like Merrick Garland was calling parents domestic terrorists. Nothing like that happened.
Today Rupar says Scott is off today. What you know for sure is that you're having a problem with what I'm saying. What you don't know for sure is I'm wrong. The same way I don't know for sure you're wrong. What you know for sure is I'm saying things that were not compatible with what you thought. But that is exactly why you watch this content. If I said what you already believed you could just watch Fox News because they're going to say exactly what you believe.
But so Rupar is correctly calling out that other people are Rupar-ing videos. At the same time he reported, new Rupar, he Rupar'd. He called people out for Rupar-ing on this topic and then immediately he tweets a Rupar video meaning out of context which accuses Ted Cruz of defending a parent who did a Nazi salute. Did that happen? Did Ted Cruz defend a parent at a school board meeting who did a Nazi salute? Yes. Yes. That's this is how Rupar videos work. Yes it's out of context.
What was the context? The context was that the person who did the salute was mocking the school board for being Nazis. The person who did this salute and Ted Cruz are anti-Nazi and using it as an insult against the school board that was acting like Nazis. In that context that is pretty much the opposite of what Rupar tweeted, right? But the fact that he's calling out other people's Rupar while he's Rupar-ing is pretty funny. Pretty funny. Yes it's just free speech. And by the way even if this person had done a Nazi salute you could still defend them. You wouldn't agree with them but you could defend it on free speech. But that's not what happened. That wasn't the issue. They weren't pro-Nazi in the first place. They were anti-Nazi to begin with.
All right. Here's another fake news in my opinion. The whole debate about who is a woman or a man is so ridiculous. So ridiculous. We act like we're talking about the same thing but it's a fake disagreement. The conservatives like to say no it's the most basic question. If you can have babies you're a woman. You know if you have the other equipment you're a man and that's it. There's no shading it. That's just it. The whole woman versus man thing is settled by who can reproduce and who can't.
The left doesn't use the same definition and just says yeah we understand the whole who can reproduce part but they also would like somebody who feels that they're more of the other gender than they were born could have that right. These are not disagreeing opinions. These are two opinions that don't disagree in any way. Pretending they do and then people are taking sides. It's a fake fight.
There's nobody who is pro-trans who doesn't understand that gender and reproduction were connected and blah blah. It's not like they don't know that. There's nothing to debate there. They simply have a preference for changing the definition.
So here's what's not a good argument. I'll make an analogy because you love those. Let's say I say you know this word is losing its meaning for historical reasons. Why don't we consider changing the definit
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ion of the word and here are the reasons why we should change the definition. And then the conservatives say no the word means X. And then the other side, okay yeah we agree on that. We agree what the word has always meant. What we're suggesting is that we update that and here's our reason why. And then the conservatives say you idiot that's not what the word means. And then the other side says ok…
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