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Now I don't know if that's what happened, but let's check it. Let's find out. I'm going to try to write C-H-A-O into a tweet and see what happens. I don't have to speculate. I can test it live. Okay, testing. All right. Now if I start with C-H-A, um, how do you spell it? Nope, it did not autocorrect. It did not autocorrect because I capitalized it and probably because it knows it's a name. Maybe. So on Twitter it didn't autocorrect, but I don't know. Yours did. So try this on your device, because on Twitter on the app it didn't do it. Did anybody get it to autocorrect? Anybody? So there, nobody's device autocorrected, right? All right. I don't think anybody did. All right, so it probably wasn't a typo or an autocorrect typo. He may have done it intentionally, or he might not have known how to spell it. Maybe he just didn't feel like looking it up.

Who is organizing the Shelly trolls? So the ones coming into the feed and just saying Shelly every day. They are organized, right? But who would organize that? Like why would you waste your time with the lamest thing you could possibly do? Is there anything you could do that would be less useful than that? Like literally anything.

Anyway, so I think the Chow might have been just a general insult to dog chow, or maybe he's just being insulting or being a jerk or something. I don't know. We'll never know. But it's not optimal, but it's certainly entertaining.

So I've been provocatively tweeting lately about the relative benefits and discrimination against white males versus other people, and I'm learning some interesting things. Now of course there are a million different opinions, but one of the strangest ones is that there do seem to be a number of people who believe that white men somehow get allocated some resources at birth. Nobody says that directly, but the way that I'm treated is as if I was born into some advantage just by being white, like assets. Now they don't actually say assets, but the way they talk about it is I did. Because I'm trying to figure out what I got that a black person didn't get. Like what was the asset I got? Because if I go to corporate America, the black male, if equally qualified, would be favored. What benefit did I get? Was there something I could do that you couldn't do if you were black? I don't know.

Somebody pointed out that I was successful as a cartoonist because of my white supremacist advantage. But exactly the same time I became a cartoonist there was another cartoonist who was coming up at the same time, Rob Armstrong, who did Jumpstart. And so the two of us were like the two young cartoonists who were brought on about the same time. We both had identical opportunity, and I think he had a little bit extra opportunity. Do you know why? Because when the salesperson went into the newspapers with his property, his comic, it was about a black family. The salespeople could say, you know what, you've got a whole bunch of black readers but you don't have enough black content, so here's one. It was almost automatic in places that had a large black population. Sold into probably all of them, did great. It was a very successful cartoonist.

Now I didn't have that advantage. So I had to do other things and play around until I could find a formula that worked. But cartooning is the most accessible industry. Well, art in general I think is the most accessible industry for everybody. It was the one thing where the quality of your work really was the main thing. It really was the main thing. I mean if Rob Armstrong had not been a good cartoonist, it wouldn't have worked. And it was basically a skill that allowed him to succeed. So I'm not sure that the world understands that there are some areas that are completely free of any obstacles of discrimination, completely free. And cartooning was one of them. Probably a lot of arts are like that.

So why is it that when I describe my situation, people say I'm complaining? Have you noticed that if I just say, you know, somebody has this advantage, somebody else has this advantage, it sounds like I'm complaining? And people say that I don't have the right to complain. A big problem is that I don't have the right to complain. And do you know what they're really saying? I don't have freedom of speech like other people. Literally shut the fuck up, white boy, is essentially what a lot of people are telling me today. Just shut the fuck up. White people should not be talking about stuff. And I'm not complaining, because I'll say it as clearly as I can.

And by the way, there's actually some research I heard about. I haven't seen it, but I heard about it. There's some research that shows that white people did better by being denied jobs in corporate America because they started businesses like I did, and they did better than if they had just a salary. So now I don't know about the other people. I don't know if the research is valid. But I will tell you that had I not been closed down from promotions in corporate America, I probably would not have at least as soon left to do something that turned out better. So why would I complain about the best possible outcome for me? Though it doesn't kind of make sense.

And even at the time when it was happening, you know, before I knew that things would work out for me, I don't really remember feeling like abused or anything. It was just sort of the way it was. I just sort of accepted it as the landscape, and then I looked for my path out. And there were plenty of paths out. So as long as I had lots of alternative strategies, I didn't feel too much abused at that time. I knew I could get a job just about anywhere. I will contend that qualified workers can always get jobs. We have an economy that just expands to meet all the qualified people. It's the unqualified people who have trouble. And even right now unqualified people can get jobs. It's a good time to get a job.

But anyway, don't confuse what I'm doing with complaining. Those of you on YouTube do not know my long-term plan. Those of you on the subscription platform Locals know exactly what I'm up to. So there's a long arc to this. You're seeing phase one. In phase one I get everybody really mad, and then I make them pay attention to me on this topic at the same time that they're really, really mad at me and calling me racist and canceling me. That is an intentional strategy, and it's going to get worse. Meaning you should look for more provocation, not less, until — well, I'll just tell you what I'm doing. I guess I could tell you too. I know you won't tell anybody.

You know that the world is bubbled up. The people on the left talk to themselves. People on the right talk to themselves. And what I discovered when I had a little bit of cross-pollination on this question, we were living in completely different worlds on the question of discrimination and employment. In other words, what people thought was true was just opposite, just weirdly opposite. And I'm not saying who's right. I'm saying they were completely different worldviews of what even is happening. How can you solve anything if you don't even have the same opinion of what the situation is?

And so if I could get people mad enough at me, I can maybe get them to hear something from another bubble. And I can bring one bubble into the other bubble, and maybe for the first time there could be something like a useful process. So getting in trouble is the plan, and I'm going to get as close to being canceled as I can. But I don't think I'll be canceled. Do you know why? Because I'm not going to say anything bad. I actually think it's hard to get canceled. And if I did say something bad, my understanding is that the platform would give me a chance to take it off. So I just would. I just take it down. So it's not, it's kind of hard to get canceled. You have to work at it really. So I don't think I'll get canceled, but I'll get as close as I can.

All right, but I wanted to clarify one thing. When people hear me talking about this topic of employment and what advantage you have if you're white versus black, people think that when I say I was discriminated against, there's a part that I assume they know, but now I know they don't know it. I've been discriminated against in employment for being a white male by white males. It's like by white men. I've only been discriminated against by white men covering their asses. I've never been discriminated against by a black man ever. Not one. I can't think of one example in any realm from employment to anything else. I can't think of anything where a black man discriminated against me. But white men, oh, white men are awful. White men are terrible. White men are terrible because once they have power they want to keep it, and the best way they can keep it is