cal enemies, and then people who were fooled by the fake news. It's not fake news because the quote is exactly accurate. What's fake is that when you take out the context it completely changes what was going on from helpful to horrible. And if you didn't know that, well you know it's really not your fault because the fake news was not feeding you in a useful context of course.

So I'd have to say that there's something positive happening. And here's another positive thing happening. I believe that now the conversation has already expanded in a useful way. Here's what I mean. The things that I said are the things that I'm being told by a lot of people privately. Yeah we all think that. They may not be exactly agreeing with what I said but some version of yes, you're speaking the truth, we're all thinking it. And I'm not sure everybody is interpreting what I said quite accurately but there still is this massive agreement. This is a conversation that is helpful. There's a helpful conversation now because anybody who even brings up this topic will be fully canceled, as I believe I proved. You will be fully canceled for this topic.

But do you realize what I've created? I've created a situation where people who can't say what I said can go on television and say well Scott Adams said, what do you think about that? Do you see what happened? It's now allowable conversation because you can attribute it to me. I did that. I did that for you. You can now say this isn't my opinion but I'd like to hear your feedback. Scott Adams said that. Stupid racist bastard Scott Adams said that. Damn freaking bastard who is more racist than any racist I've ever known says this. What do you think about that? And now you can have a conversation. Now it'll still be awkward. A lot of work to do. But you now have more free speech. You just have to be a little clever about it so you don't get canceled like I did.

And I'm also sensing that there's a growing willingness to talk freely because when somebody goes first — this is the whole point of why the general should be in the front line sometimes. I don't think that's always a good idea but your leaders should lead from the front sort of thing. Now I wasn't trying to lead anybody. I was trying to deepen the conversation. I was trying to provoke. Of course I was trying to provoke. Anybody who thought that was a literal serious statement should examine their reading comprehension. But of course I was trying to provoke. I was trying to get people angry. Mission accomplished.

I didn't feel I was that persuasive but apparently once the fake media got involved. And like I said among the people who were mad at me are my political enemies. I believe it's fair to say that 100 percent of the political right including people in news-related organizations did not think I should be canceled. What's that tell you? Is this about race? Is it about race? If only Democrats want to cancel me. You don't think there are any people in the Republican party at all who know what racism looks like including the black Republicans? You think they don't know what it looks like or how to deal with it productively? No. It started out as me being provocative but once it gained steam it just became political. It's just that they can hide that just the way an alcoholic can hide their alcoholism by forming a wine club. The press can get rid of their biggest political enemy.

And by the way I believe that's true because most of you have watched me twist the narrative like almost nobody can except Trump. Trump can. Trump can just have his way with the narrative like that. That's why I've been talking about him because he has those skills. But there are very few people in the talking out loud political world who can reframe something as effectively as I can, which is why my book that was just canceled, my new book, is all about reframing things. So what I'm doing now is an example of what's in the book. But in the book it would be more reframing for your own purposes. I'm reframing for public purpose which is really dangerous if you haven't noticed. It's really dangerous. Don't do it.

You know I don't mind doing it because here's another thing I've been teaching you for years. You've heard me say this a lot of times. If you want to succeed at anything, anything, here's the formula for success. This is the most summarized formula for success. If there's something you want to succeed at, find out the price and then pay it. This is the best advice you'll ever have. So I wanted to talk about this topic so I thought what's the price of that? Well the price of that is the risk of full cancellation and then I paid it. Have you heard me complain yet? Nope. Nope. I looked at the menu. I looked at the price and then I ordered that meal right in front of you. I just paid the price. That's all that happened.

Now I wasn't expecting it would be this high but that was on the menu. It was obvious that it could be. It was quite obvious that that was a pretty high possibility. I didn't know but certainly I paid that price. Now am I sad that I paid that price? I haven't experienced that yet. I have not experienced any feeling of regret which might surprise you because this is something that you don't go around once you've paid the price. I just bought a ticket to drive right through the middle of it. I'm going to bore a hole through the narrative because I paid the price. I bought the ticket. The rest of you can watch. I don't recommend participating but just watch.

All right. So I believe there's already a public benefit and would you agree with this statement? It would be a benefit to black, white, American, Asian Americans, Hispanic, name your category. Anytime you can broaden the conversation on the most important topic — in my opinion this is the most important topic in the country right now — you're probably improving your odds of a good outcome.

All right. I'm laughing at your comment but I'm not going to say it.

All right. Here's another thing. So Andy Ngo is publishing a video and apparently the City of Springfield, Ohio, and the context for this is all these videos of violence, individual violence, is creating a narrative in our heads that is super super dangerous because visual persuasion is the most important. And if you see three or four anecdotes about anything you don't even care about the data. Would you agree that if you see some visual anecdotes of some horror you'll never care about the data? It's the same problem that white people have said about Black Lives Matter. Probably the biggest issue about police brutality. If there are videos of police brutality you think it's happening everywhere because visual persuasion is so strong. But was there actually a massive problem of the police targeting black people in particular for violence? I don't know how big that was but our impression of it is big because we saw videos of it and we just kept seeing it. The George Floyd stuff. If you just watch that a million times like most of us did it looks like he's one of thousands of people or whatever.

So visual persuasion is very powerful and misleading. And at the moment there's this whole bunch of racist videos of only black people beating up white people and Asian Americans. Now what is anybody going to think? Forget about the data. Forget about the data. What is everybody going to think if their news sources on their social media are feeding them this constant stream of things that would make them in a reflexive persuaded way, not a thinking way but sort of a reflexive way, to cause people to have a bad feeling about Black Americans? Terribly unfair.

And what makes it worse is obviously the social media algorithms because the thing that's really bothering me is that if we didn't have obviously racist social media algorithms that are I think clearly suppressing all the Asian American and white kids beating up black people that just makes the problem appear one-sided. So I think we have to go all the way down to the social media algorithm level and maybe Elon Musk can fix that and Zuckerberg could look into it and fix that so that we're served up at least an equal amount of white kids beating up black kids and Asian Americans targeting black Americans on the street and stuff. Because if we've got something that was more balanced then it's not going to look all one-sided. What do you mean that doesn't exist? No it must exist because we wouldn't be talking about it this way if it didn't exist. Obviously it exists. So all of you racists who are just tweeting around these violent things of black people beating up other people just know that you're working with the racist algorithm