Back to episode — Episode 600 Scott Adams - Let’s Discuss a Tweet Because Everything Else Seems to be Fine
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To that point, let me ask you this hypothetically. You're a black citizen of the United States. You've got two friends. One of your friends is a registered Democrat. One of your friends is a registered Republican. Which one's going to help you get a job? Which one's going to do you a favor? Well, maybe both. But I'll tell you, have you ever met anybody who, let's say an African American who became…
← Previous segment →Well, I think that something important has happened because this tweet, it seems to me that the charges of racism against each other have uncovered a truth that, like the dog that wasn't barking, it's a truth that we should rejoice at. During the time that we have been talking nonstop about whether the words "go back home" are really racist or just trash talk, while we've been discussing that, how many real examples of racism have been reported in the news? Think about it. How many actual examples of somebody didn't get a job, got rejected from something? I know there was a racial murder. You know, I'm sure that these things were happening somewhere around the country, but we just have been jabbering nonstop about a couple of words in a tweet because it's the worst thing happening.
Is there anybody here who, let's say that, is there anybody here who has negative feelings about, I'll just make an example, any person of color, so long as they're following the rules, meaning the Constitution, the rule of law, working hard? Is there anybody here who has any bad feelings about anybody who does those three things? You know, respect the Constitution, follow the law, work hard, even if you don't succeed. Everybody here respects that, I'll bet. I'll bet there are zero exceptions. And this is a pretty, you know, we've got what, 2.3 thousand people watching this live. I'll bet there are zero people here, zero out of thousands, I'll bet there are zero people who would feel bad about any person of color, any gender, any other anything, as long as you follow the rules, same rules everybody else is following. That's it. You know, we'd love it if you loved your country, but it's optional. Just follow the rules and try. Just try.
But if you're over on the Democrat side, I don't know what the standards are over there. Must be harder. CNN has just completely gone into crazy land. They actually had white nationalist Richard Spencer on because they, I guess they thought they could get him to say some quote that sounded like positive for President Trump and then they would paint President Trump with Spencer. So it was, Spencer's the white nationalist, I guess. And here's what he said. So Richard Spencer complained on CNN that Trump "wasn't going far enough," saying he gave the movement nothing. So in other words, the leader of the white nationalist movement is saying that Trump is giving them nothing. CNN invited him on to get some love of Trump, I guess, so that they can paint Trump by this guy's reputation. And the guy says he's given us nothing. Yes, that's exactly right. He's given you nothing.
But he goes on, "outside racist tweets," and what did he say? "They seem like they came from a drunk uncle." So Richard Spencer says the only thing we had gotten from the president is, in Spencer's opinion, "racist tweets" that look like they came from a drunk uncle. Now here's the problem. Who does CNN agree with? Who's on the same team as CNN? Well, I don't think they planned it this way, but I can tell you two people who have the same view of life: CNN and apparently Richard Spencer, who also sees the president's tweet as racist. So somehow the left has managed to align themselves with white nationalists because they have the same opinion of these tweets. And they can't even get the white nationalists to go a little step further and say but he's done things right. It's not just the tweets that we don't look suspicious. He's actually done things right. And the white nationalist says that he hasn't done anything for us. Not a thing.
That must have been the saddest day on CNN when they couldn't get the white nationalist to do anything except have the same opinion. And CNN, not a good look.
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Does it seem to you that now that everybody's a racist, meaning that literally just everybody's racist, and by the way I don't say this with hyperbole, when I say that the squad looks racist to me, I mean they look racist in the sense that they're framing things in racial terms and they think that something should be done differently because of something-something race. I think that's racist. Now…
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