Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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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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itism to another racial group? Now it might be a very good thing to do but it's going to be racist because it's treating the groups differently and then having the policy that represents your different treatment of the groups. Now if your point is to help a group that needs a hand up that's a good conversation to have and I'm always open to that.

All right this point is going to get deeper. Kevin Coste who I'm taking as probably a black man on Twitter just based on the profile and the conversation he said about me and my statement quote he was clearly being openly and purposely racist. Would you say that's true? Was I being — my provocative comments were they clearly and openly and purposely racist? Yeah I said they were. I said that. So he's arguing with me by agreeing with me. I'm saying yes, yes, right right. It was totally racist and it was meant to be that way. Would you like to hear the context now? Do you think that I was trying to make things worse for black Americans? How many think I was trying to make things worse for black Americans? Anybody? Oh somebody says yes. Some of you are saying yes. I wasn't expecting that. All right most of the answers are now the people who know me the most know the answer is no. If you weren't listening to the opening context I could see how you'd say yes. All right so people say yes don't know me as well. But people who know me on Locals they're a little closer to the answer.

So here's how I explain this about being openly racist and we're going to the whiteboards here. Are some things which I would argue are openly racist and at the same time you like them? Not everybody. I'm saying these are the things that are socially approved but they're clearly racist. ESG, CRT, Black History Month, affirmative action, DEI, college admissions if there's any preferences in those, and reduced free speech for some people. I think society generally thinks that white people should not have the same level of free speech and I think a lot of people would agree with that. They'd go oh if those white people are saying whatever they want our narrative will be impacted.

Now here's the one that I think is interesting. Voting for Obama. I voted for Obama in large part because he was black. Did anybody else vote for him because he was black? It wasn't the only reason. I think he was qualified and I think he did a good job. Unlike my audience I think he did a reasonably good job. And I respect your disagreement on Obama but here's why. And yeah I see a lot of people saying yes. Black America voted for him by overwhelming numbers and white Americans voted more for Obama than I think John Kerry. And I believe that a lot of us had the same thing in mind. I won't read other minds but I speculate that a lot of people thought like I did. Wouldn't it be good to finally have a black president so we don't have to hear any more complaints about how a black man can't succeed? Now obviously there's still plenty of structural systemic racism but isn't it good for the country that we've had a black president who was popular by the way?

I I'm pretty sure that was good for the country. Now at the same time racism went through the roof or I should say racial harmony dropped like a rock during Obama and then continued to drop. So nobody fixed it. So it's possible that something about the Obama era made things worse. I don't know exactly what. Policies you think it was policies could be. But I would say that voting for Obama if you were voting for him to make sure that we had a black president finally, that's why I did it plus he was qualified I thought. I thought that was racist. Was that racist for me to vote for Obama in large part because of his color? Was that racist? How would that not be racist? Somebody says no. Well okay yeah you probably have an argument there. If I heard it I'd probably agree with you. Well I would say that's racist. I did that. I did this racist thing. I'm guilty.

How about Black History Month? Is Black History Month good or bad for black people? Some of you say bad. Let's see you think I'm going to say it's bad. I don't know. I don't think it's bad. I feel like Black America went through enough. They get a month. If you have the experience of black Americans from slavery to today yeah you could have a month. I don't have a problem with that but it is racist. This is a racism I totally agree with. I'm totally in. That's fine. Let's be as educated as possible about our true history. Now you might say hey how about a woman's history month? Well we have that too. We do have a woman's history month. I don't know how many other history months there are but aren't they all either sexist or racist? All those months are sexist and racist right? They're totally sexist totally racist. I don't disagree with either one of them. I don't have a problem with them.

So there's a whole bunch of stuff and like I said affirmative action at the moment I think we should reconsider but historically I favor this racist totally racist activity. And the other ones you might like. I mean you might like ESG and by the way does everybody even know what ESG is? Do I have to define that? Let me explain. ESG is environmental social and governance. And the two things in there for corporations are being judged by entities that judge them including BlackRock. You know this multi-trillion dollar financial behemoth. So this huge financial entity BlackRock is pushing this idea that companies should be evaluated for their ESG quality. So the E for environmental they have to be reducing their carbon footprint and then the social and governance is they should have diversity at all levels up to the top of the organization.

Now the companies that push ESG, are they ha

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ppy that I'm one of the most noted critics of the thing that is the operating system of their company right now? They have ESG. So management of newspapers, do you think they were opposed to ESG? The management of newspapers or more importantly in many cases the hedge funds that own the groups of newspapers because that's how newspapers tend to be owned by big financial entities that own like a ch…

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