Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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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…

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and between the racist algorithm and you you're not making anything better. So just be aware of that.

Larry Elder did a video in which here's the first part of the video so you'll get the sense of it. He said quote, rather than thank Adams for saying out loud what clearly a lot of people feel including a lot of black people so we could have a healthy discussion about this, Adams is being hounded, shut down and canceled.

Now Larry Elder, I endorsed for governor of California and by the way I think he would have been great. When people tell the story of me do they tell the story about how I supported Obama for president and I think he did okay? Nobody's perfect so I had things to criticize but I thought he was a solid president. I backed Ye before I realized what his mental state was exactly but I thought wouldn't that be fun to have a president Ye? I've backed Larry Elder for governor because I thought he was the best one running. That's it. I just thought he was the best one running. I've backed Vivek Ramaswamy who I think is Indian American I think. And do you think that context was ever mentioned by the press?

How many of the stories you read about me said that I'd helped Black Lives Matter try to organize their messaging? How many reported that I strongly supported against the will of much of my audience — it cost me money — prison reform? That was not so popular among Republicans so I lost audience supporting that and knew it and did it anyway. How many know that I once blogged in

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favor of reparations? Not the way it's being described now where it's just a cash payment but some kind of a grand agreement among black Americans and everybody else to do something that would maybe mostly help black Americans but it would help everybody poor. And then you've got something everybody can say all right I see how this mostly affects black Americans but that's because they were in the…

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