Back to episode — Episode 2041 Scott Adams - Closing Mexico, J6 Lies, Reparations, A Persuasion Lesson And More
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will make an argument when there's an argument against it. Now sometimes you can't avoid that, right? But if you have a choice and you can make your argument in a way that nobody can argue, well that's the best you could do. You can't beat that. Like by definition you can't beat something that just shuts everybody down. Who exactly is going to argue that the accused should not have access to the e…
← Previous segment →on my team at the time, and they go and ruin things for all of us? I'm disgusted by that. The violence, disgusting, right? Violence is bad enough. All violence is terrible. But this is violent and disgusting. The way the news treated it is disgusting. The way Congress did their special hearing and at least some part of it was total is disgusting. They were sending Americans to jail knowing that they were, apparently if you were to take the current reporting at face value, it does look like there's a good argument for evidence was withheld. I mean I guess that's a fact, right? I think we could say it's a fact that the defendants did not have access to this video. So that's just the fact, right? That's not an opinion. So that's the end of the story. That should be the end of the story, right?
Why in the world is anybody keeping these people in jail at this point? Whether or not they committed a crime can't be the question. We cannot reframe this as did they commit a crime. And again I'm only talking about the non-violent ones. Everybody understands that, right? A hundred percent of us I think oppose the violence, whether you're left or right. You know, close to 100 percent of us. But you know the left wants to make it whatever the violence is characterize the entire thing, which is totally disgusting. Just that's disgusting. But it might be no more disgusting than the right characterized Black Lives Matter. What?
So here's a question for you. The question of the day. What percentage of a crowd of protesters would have to be violent and or destroying property, let's say, before you would say it's a violent protest? What percent of actual participants in violent? Because it doesn't need to be that big, you know. And I think this is where the bias comes in. I think if you're on the right and you see Black Lives Matter and one percent of them are violent, it's going to feel like 30 percent because that's what was on the news. And you're going to say that's too much. But you wouldn't know what percentage it was. I have no idea.
If you said, Scott, gun to your head, you must come up with an estimate of what percentage of the Black Lives Matter rioters were actually destroying things or violent. And I'd have to say first of all I have no idea. Do you? I couldn't even guess. If you put the gun to my head I'd say one percent. Gun to head, one percent. And that's maybe something in that neighborhood. If we round, if you round it's probably around one percent for these protesters as well. What would you say? Some are saying up as high as 25 for Black Lives Matt
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er. If 25 percent of those crowds were violent and destroying things, the rate of destruction would be way beyond what we've seen, I think. But that's without data. That's just sort of living in the world. It has that feeling about it. You know what I mean? Sort of my collective experience of the world says that if 25 percent of those crowds were destroying things there would be no cities left. I…
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