Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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Yeah, to me I think that Obama was a marker for, you know he certainly marks the time that race relations started to plummet. But I think that was almost entirely because of the way the news handled it. That's my opinion. Because you know I remember going through that period and thinking oh my God it's just every day something that's vaguely racially related or race scare or Obama's going to take…

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people laughing at exaggerated displays of Blackness. Don't we also laugh at exaggerated displays of Karens? I've seen as many Karen videos as anything else. I mean it's more about the people being interesting not, anyway, reflecting a tendency among some to see black people as walking hyperbole. Is that a problem? You know I woke up this morning and I thought you know I hope there's no big problems today and then I find out that white people are using memes and therefore seeing black people as walking hyperbole. Have we run out of problems? Are we completely out of problems? They're sending memes around that are not your own race is mocking people for being walking hyperbole. I mean you have to try really hard to make that racist. You got to try really hard. But I guess they succeeded.

I saw a tweet from Christopher Rufo. It was a black mother who was doing a very forceful denunciation of ethnic studies curriculum in Minnesota. And her complaint was that it was teaching black kids that their obstacles, you know racism obstacles, so she was worried that it gave them the idea that they can't succeed because it was telling them through all these obstacles. And she would rather have her children and other black kids I guess be told that they can succeed, which is pretty smart. Then she went on too far. It started out great. I was going to tweet this thing. I was like oh finally somebody who can actually see what's good for Black America is black so maybe somebody will listen to her and is making a real good point. And I was like ah yes that's it. That's exactly what I want to say. And then she went on further and said quote, "I can see why you white proponents of this bill might support it. It's not your kids being told they can't succeed and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process."

Okay, so it turns out she's a huge racist. But she's not wrong about the messages sent to black kids. I think she's right about that. Just happens to be a racist. Do you

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believe that white people are why the ethnic studies are being taught in school? Now I do believe that probably in this particular school there might be more white people and therefore they might be the majority that are voting for it, right? But let me ask you this. If the black population of this same area in Minnesota, if the black population did not want ethnic studies, do you think that the w…

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