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 here's the funniest thing that I heard this morning. I wish I could give credit. Did I tweet it? I wish I could give credit because it's so brilliant. So if you're on this Periscope and you're the one who said this, it's a brilliant thought. It starts with this. Did you notice that there was some science recently, I don't know how recently, but there's some science to support the idea that you're born conservative or born liberal. You know that one of the defining characteristics is that conservatives are more creeped out by yucky stuff. They're more easily disgusted and more easily concerned about security and fear. So there's some thought that in terms of your DNA you're born with a certain propensity to be either disgusted by things that are not typical, or you also have maybe more concern about security, about safety.

Now suppose that's true, or don't you think that's true? Somebody says Jordan Peterson has talked about this for a long time. Now let's say that's true. Now let's also say that the squad and others have been mocking conservatives for a lot of different things. Is it not true that these two things are evidence? Are these facts so you can fact-check me? Now fact one: science says that being conservative or liberal is at least partly genetic. You're born that way. Partly true. Is it also true that the people on the left mock conservatives in general? They mock them specifically but they also mock them in general. Is that true? It is true.

Geordi is on it. You know where I'm going on this. If your political view is that you're mocking people because of things that they can't change, in other words genetic traits, in this case the genetic propensity to be a conservative, you are by your own definition a bigot. There would be no difference. No difference scientifically. There would be no difference between mocking somebody with a handicap and mocking somebody who had a genetic propensity toward conservatism. Am I right?

Now when somebody pointed that out to me, it was the first time I'd even heard that thought. It was just today on Twitter. And I thought that is a hundred percent true. There is nothing wrong with that thought. You know, my first thought was there was just sort of a funny political thing to say. You know, sometimes they're just clever political things to say that sound right but they're not actually scientifically rational. But this is actually a hundred percent scientifically rational. If you're making fun of conservatives as a group and that group has a genetic quality that makes them distinct, most of them, it doesn't have to be every single one but it doesn't work that way, as long as most of them have this characteristic in common, if you're mocking them for being uneducated toothless rubes who believe in conspiracy theories or whatever people are saying about conservatives these days, even if you're calling them racists, you're treating them as a class and it's a class they have a genetic component that makes them a class. They are a class because of a genetic component according to science.

So have we not reached the point where literally everyone is a bigot? Not always just racist because you could be bigoted against religion and you could be bigoted against gender and everything else. But have we not reached peak bigotry where absolutely, well here, what would be the best situation in the world? Can I tell you the best situation in the world to know that you're in the healthiest, best situation? I would look for the following things: everybody in the world realizing that everybody else in the world, including themselves, is a bigot just in different ways. So that there would be nothing healthier, in my opinion, there would be nothing healthier for this world than to realize that we're all bigoted sometimes. Because in my view that's the moment of greater understanding.

I would say that the people who would call themselves woke are a level below where they need to be. There's a level above woke that's enlightened. Woke says we must make a separation between these people who are bigots and the good people who are not. That's what woke means, right? There's some people who are not bigots. They're the good people and we should put some pressure on the people who are bigots to make them less bigoted. That's woke. The level above woke is enlightened. Enlightened says being less bigoted is not an option. We're all bigoted because we have a human brain. The human brain is not a rational device. The human brain operates on patterns and we're not good at patterns. Those are the two things you need to know about the human brain. It operates mostly on patterns and number two, we're not good at it. We see patterns where there are none and then we say, hey it's a pattern, I guess I'll treat this like the next one will be in the same pattern even if it isn't because it's all I have to go on. I usually don't have complete information about my reality so I have to look for these little patterns and use them as sort of a proxy or a guide to what's going to happen.

So I would say that we may have completely accidentally, President Trump's actions and our reactions to them have gotten us to the borderline between woke, where one person's calling another one a bigot, and enlightened, where we realize we're all bigots. We're all bigots because you can't turn off pattern recognition and number two you're not good at pattern recognition. Those are the things you need to know.

Now what do you do with it? What would an enlightened person do with the knowledge that bigotry is universal and it's not something the other guy does? What would you do differently when you achieve that enlightenment? Well if you're a good person, in my opinion, all right so here's my personal philosophical opinion. This is no, there's no news or fact here. This is my opinion. You could choose to reject it or accept it. In my opinion the best you can do as a person, the most respect I will give you, is if you say to yourself, yeah we're all bigots sometimes, it happens to me, and I'm going to use my best social reasoning to overcome it. I'm going to try to overcome it. If you're saying that, you're the best person a person can be. A person who says I'm not a bigot and you're a bigot are operating in a lower level of enlightenment. If they say you're a bigot and oh my God sometimes I am too, you're operating at a higher level. And then in order to be responsible, to be a responsible citizen of the world operating at that higher level where you say yeah it's all of us, but what can I do about it? If you're saying what can I do about it, you're good in my book. You're completely good. You're just dealing with what you know. How do you deal with the fact that the human brain is a pattern-recognizing machine and we're not good at it?

So I think the president has laid bare the fact that everybody is a bigot. That's the fact. I think we can no longer ignore it. Would you say, I would say that the entire conversation about the squad, the entire conversation about immigration, the entire conversation about whether conservatives or liberals are the good ones, that entire conversation should be revealing in the clearest possible way that woke is broke and that there's a level above it. And the president just completely accidentally, I don't think that he had any intention to do what I'm saying, but by showing that everything is bigoted and that even if you were to take the position that the country is the best organizing principle, the president consistently says country good, people outside the country are on the other team. And the so-called good people who think that bigotry is only something that other people have, those people have decided to flip out and go crazy and treat the country as if this is somehow the same as bigotry. So we may have completely accidentally blundered into a new level of enlightenment that I think is important.