Back to episode — Episode 2041 Scott Adams - Closing Mexico, J6 Lies, Reparations, A Persuasion Lesson And More
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f that was the case we'd have a lot more white MVPs. Wouldn't the numbers be way worse? So Barkley's sort of statistical instinct is that if 80 percent of the voters were white and racial bias is in it that we see like mostly white winners. Does that make sense to you? That makes sense to you? Neither of these arguments make any damn sense. Neither side makes any sense, right? Because neither of t…
← Previous segment →reading, right? The best objection was that you can't have it both ways when obviously you can very easily. Obviously you could have it both ways. It's just two things. It's not two opposite things. It's just two things. I can have an apple and an avocado at the same time. Do you know what I can't have? I can't have an apple and not an apple at the same time. That would be, you know if Dan Abrams made that point and said he says he can have an apple and not an apple at the same time and he just can't do that. No Dan I can have an avocado and an apple same time. No conflict.
So you tell me your opinion. I've asked this on the Locals platform. I'm going to talk to them privately in a minute but on YouTube has the narrative about my little drama shifted in my direction once you realize that all the adjuncts, you know the people who just like to make trouble, the click horrors and the trolls, once they get bored with it does it look like things started moving my way or no?
So I'll ask both of you. So people are seeing different things. So what you should say is that some people see it and some people don't which is what it looks like. So best case scenario because it's not possible to persuade everybody. Not everybody sees everything. But for the people who have been exposed to the context everything looks pretty good. So I'm going to leave that.
The reason, here's a little media tip if I didn't give you this one. The reason I'm leaving that one interview up there and I'm turning down others is that as soon as you have more than one it turns into a court case. You know what I mean? So the Cuomo interview hit all the points I needed to hit. So I was just leaving it there as one consistent thing. Because the moment I talk to somebody else somebody is going to illegitimately say you said two different things even if I don't. More likely they're going to miss the context and because they miss the context on one they're going to say well you're lying because you said this in this one but you said this in this one and it won't be true. Both of them will be completely consistent but the news only has to tell you they're inconsistent and you go down. So I just leave it with one story as long as possible.
And the next thing, the next part of the play is I want to see if there's any semi-legitimate news organization who decides to tell the whole story like as a story. So in other words would the New York Times or something say actually there's a way more interesting story here that connects to a larger trend. Which is the whole thing I was trying to do is connected to a larger trend. Will anybody tell the whole story of why I did it, how I felt about it from my perspective, not guessing, no mind reading, and then describe my strategy for handling it, my intention for doing it, and also how I reframed once I had your attention. I reframed from all the backwards looking strategies for success to forward-looking ones. And then also reframe from looking at the big picture of systemic racism which you have to work on rather focusing on individual success. So even if you don't fix systemic racism you can just slice through it like a hot poker through butter. And there's a reason I always repeat that one because it's visual and it's repetition so you'll know if I won.
Here's how you'll kn
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ow if I won. If you hear anybody in the media refer to strategy as looking backwards, strategy a rearview mirror strategy or planning for the past, and then they compare it to looking forward and how can we work together, how can you learn the tools of success, etc. If you see anybody in the public eye who starts using that frame that would be probably from me because it's sticky and it's the high…
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