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word is "direct," right? I'll read it again. "Even with Twitter you cannot find evidence of any direct government censorship." If I hadn't called out the word "direct" and you're just sort of casually listening, wouldn't you assume that the government never tried to get anything censored at Twitter? Because they never directly did it. All they did was continuously ask Twitter to do it. But once y…
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Equity is for losers. Literally, you know, Black America it seems, and a lot of their allies, are pushing for this thing called equity, equity of outcomes. And I say to myself, hypothetically, if you divided a bunch of young people of any colors or ethnicities, you just randomly divide them into two groups. You say, all right, group one, we're going to have you focus on equity. We want something like similar outcomes for people. So organize your life toward being mediocre. Try. If you work really hard, I think we can get you up to average. All right, so that's one group. But you'll also be dragged by systemic racism and the ghosts of the past. But if you can work through all that, the system will help you get up to average. You can be medium too.
Now the other group, be they white or Black or Asian Americans, whatever, you say to them, all right, here's the deal. We're going to teach you how to focus on the future, build a talent stack, and we're going to try to get you to excel. You're the ones who are going to have the tools of success, and you're going to use these tools to be better, better than people who don't know how to do it. You're going to go as high as you could possibly go. Not everyone will reach the top, of course, but you're going to outperform ordinary people who don't know how to do this kind of thing. All right, then check back in a few years. Which group is doing better?
Well, what if you get what you try to get? The people who wanted equity achieved mediocrity just like they wanted. The people who are learning to excel probably beat the average. On average, who was happier? Equity is for losers. Every time you hear equity you should say, you know, why are you shooting low? Why would you shoot for medium? Why wouldn't you shoot for Black Americans excelling beyond the average of other groups? Is that racist? Would it be racist to say, look, Black Americans, if you learn these tools of success and the rest of the world doesn't, or at least any more than they already are, you can beat them, right? You're already beating them in sports, fashion, music. You can beat them at everything if you use the right strategy. It's just a strategy. I think that would work. But equity is for losers. That's like shooting for the middle.
And hypothetically, if I let this is sort of impossible in the real world, but imagine if I specifically could train a generation of Black Americans, young Black Americans, the tools of success. You know, systems over goals and don't get hung up on passion and how to calculate the odds and how to persuade people, you know, just all the tools of success, how to negotiate, how to handle money, you know, basic stuff. If I did that for let's say five years, or let's say I educated a generation, I just did it every day, how long would it take for Black Americans to surpass the performance economically? How long would it take for the Black Americans I trained to surpass white Americans, especially who did not have the same training? Right, because poor white Americans also don't hear the tools for success. It's something that high income people are more likely to be around. I think it would take one generation. Some people said five to ten years. That might not be wrong. That might not be w
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rong. But you know, the big drag on Black America's education, so that's got to be job one. Biden is such a lying guy that nobody can tell if he's got dementia or he's just making up stuff. So he actually says in public that, quote, "MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding the police." MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding the police. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, said th…
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