Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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s compared to the size of the holes in the mask? No, you'll never see that. Because that is not an argument that smart people make or informed people. If you're uninformed, do you think the virus travels on its own? If the virus left your mouth on its own without any water droplet, it would just fall to the ground or be dead because it had no water droplet. It'd be dry. I don't know. So here's th…

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. I'm not. I'm actually surprised that there isn't more racial violence, aren't you? I'm not recommending it, in case anybody was unclear on that. But given the media landscape, I'm surprised there isn't a lot more. And if there is a lot more, that would be kind of predictable, because the news is turning all the stories into black-white stories.

What would be the most obvious outcome of stories which focus on a person of this type kill the person of that type and vice versa? Would be more of it, of course. Because do you know what causes you to act? There's a requirement for action. There's a few requirements, but one of the requirements is that you have a thought. Because we think about the thing we're going to do and then we do it. But if you never thought of something, if it had never been in your mind in the first place, the odds are you doing it are pretty low.

So the news is putting thoughts in our heads of black and white crime with these videos, and then white on black crime with the mass shootings. And then we're doing this weird math where we're competing. All right, did the black people kill more white people? Well, it depends if you're looking at percentages or are you looking at raw numbers. And how often do the white people kill the black people? If you engage in that conversation, then you have been basically owned by the people who like to own minds.

If you want to be an independent thinker, reject the stories. Don't talk about them in the way that they frame them, black and white. There was an individual who killed some other individuals, and it's a huge tragedy. Not greater than any of the other tragedies that happen today. A tragedy. You know, it's a maximum tragedy, but not bigger than all the other ones, right? There are other people who died in terrible ways as well. So I'm just not going to participate in that.

We'll all wait for the other story that I think you're seeing a bunch of. Trump is gaining with black people. And maybe it's because he was unfairly accused. Maybe it's because Biden's not delivering. I don't believe any of it really. And here's why I don't believe any of it. It's not that the polls are inaccurate. I'm not saying that. They might be. It might not be. I wouldn't know. But there's going to be another George Floyd op. So whatever you're thinking about racial relations

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now, that will be completely transformed with the next George Floyd. So you know that there could have been George Floyds for four years during Biden, right? Easily there could have been more George Floyds. I'm pretty sure that whatever problems there are between police and the black community, I'm pretty sure they didn't get fixed when Biden became president, right? But the way we treated them,…

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