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← Previous segment →ing things to try to correct a worse racism with something that's also racist that's like the small r trying to defeat the big R. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with a little racism as an antidote to a lot of racism because don't you end up with less racism? If you could spend some money to make some money and make more than you spent wouldn't you do that?
So being accused of racism is just part of my expense. It's part of what I'm paying. But if you're arguing about the meaning of the word it's a diversion from the argument. So here are the ways that now and I think you're all aware that at least half of the world wants to really really avoid the actual topic. Have you noticed that most of the energy is about avoiding the topic? There's almost no energy on the point I was making. All the energy is going sideways.
So here's what happens to the energy. People saying all right a bunch of examples the diversions. First diversion is that Rasmussen poll you looked at it's not enough people to be a good sample. Well first of all there's nothing about my argument that depends on the poll. I used the poll as a jumping off point for the conversation so I don't depend on it. But I will say about the poll that even though it was just like a hundred some black people were interviewed and only 60 some had a problem with the phrase it's okay to be white. Now is that enough people? Now what most people don't realize is that there was only an eight percent margin of error meaning that even if it's off by eight percent more or less it wouldn't change the point. It doesn't change the point if you're off eight percent. It's not a point about an exact number. It's a point about too many people being primed by the media to have a negative opinion about white people. Just too many.
Now let me ask you this. And then other people said that the question was a racist some kind of neo-Nazi question or something. So suppose the question had been different. My take on the question "is it okay to be white" is that a black racist could still say yes to that. What do you think? I think a black racist could still say yeah it's okay to be white but you're all screwing us and you're all doing bad things. Suppose the question had been asked this way: Do you believe that white Americans are the cause of past and continuing systemic racism? What would have been the percentage of black Americans who would say white people are the cause of past and the primary cause of continuing systemic racism? Because even I think that's true. Even I think that's true. But the difference is it doesn't make me think less of white people. Do you know why? Because I don't know any white people doing that. I don't know any white people who are plantation owners. Not a single one. I don't know any white person who's in any intentional or even accidental way perpetuating systemic racism. I don't even know one. Now they may be doing it by inaction but then it gets a little more conceptual. But I don't know any white people like that anyway.
Let's see other diversions are that I'm a racist for pointing out the correlation and I use the word correlation and I was quoted back for saying correlation. I'm a racist for pointing out the correlation between crime and the density of black population. Now what I said was that the causation is systemic racism and that got turned into oh you're saying there's a correlation between black density and crime therefore you're a racist which is the opposite of what I said. I said that systemic racism which I also believe is primarily formed by and enhanced by white people almost by definition I think that's the cause. That's the cause of black poverty. It's the main contributor to black poverty and then poverty causes the crime. Now there's nobody who disagrees with my statement that there's a high correlation. The correlation is caused by history and the correlation is that poor people have more crime. Who disagrees with that? But it's part of the diversion to avoid the point. We're going to attack you on that thing.
Here's another one. The people who oppose clarification that was funny. And then the complaint that it's okay to be white is a racist meme that just seems to be trying to avoid the point because like I said the poll and the question were not important to my opinion. It was my lived experience and I'm joining that now with all the people who are chiming in. So a lot of white people are coming to me and whispering some version of you know I think it is okay to be white. It's not a racist thing. And a lot of white people are telling me privately that they're feeling increasingly victimized by the narrative but also the video showing the crime makes everything worse.
Somebody says crime is a tribal trait. Well no it isn't. Crime is a tribal trait? I don't think there's any evidence for that. It seems to me everybody who's rich does less crime than everybody who's poor for obvious reasons. If you're rich stealing stuff is all downside no upside. It's easy to be honest when you're rich. I can tell you that for sure.
I think the "it's okay to be white" is the question that would get you the least amount of racism in the answer. Am I wrong? The way Rasmussen asked it "is it okay to be white?" I think a lot of people who actually had bad feelings about white people would still say yeah it's okay to be white but you're also the cause of all our problems. I don't want to be around a community of people who think that I am right now in my current existence the cause of their problems. And I would argue that nobody disagrees with that.
El Chapo is an example of a rich criminal but El Chapo can't change because he can't really retire. When you're ahead of a cartel I'm pretty sure retirement means getting killed. You didn't have a choice. Which is why I think you could actually convert the cartels. I think you could actually convert them to an honest industry if there were any way to do that because they would want to get out of the crime business once they're rich. If you're the head of a cartel you had a billion dollars isn't the thing you'd want more than anything to not be a criminal anymore? Like somehow launder that into the legal world so you don't have to worry. But there's no way to do that. Be great if there was.
Then I asked this question on Twitter. So this is another unscientific poll. I said does canceling me make race relations in America better or worse? Because that was the point of it right? The point of canceling me is to make race relations better ot
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herwise why do it? What do you think? Nine percent said it made it better. Fifty percent said it made it worse. Forty said no change. Well I think most of the world didn't notice because most of the world doesn't even read the news. They don't even know any of this happened. Too early to tell. It's hard for me to imagine it made it better. I don't know. Maybe because it made this conversation poss…
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