t side – he's like the only person who seems to understand how incentives work. Have you noticed that? Now you could argue that with the UBI he's giving incentives wrong because hey why would you pay people to not work? But I think he's just ahead of the curve on that meaning that we're not going to have an option about paying people directly once the robots take the jobs. So it's not so much that Yang doesn't understand that paying people to not work can have effect on their incentives. Of course he understands that. But that we might not have a choice. Which is actually a pretty forward-thinking thing to say.

So my view on Yang of course is forming over time and at this point I still don't see him as a threat to get the nomination. But based on this one interaction alone for Yang to say publicly I think maybe we should ease up on some of this stuff from a Democrat – now any Republican would have said this right? Don't you imagine it would have been easy for a Republican to say let's ease off on the political correctness. But this wasn't even the case of political correctness per se. It looked like it was the real deal. And for Yang to go soft on that and to recommend that maybe we should think in those terms is a real game changer I think. And I think it's an important addition to the public conversation. So I would like to thank you Andrew Yang for doing the public service. So without even being elected I would say this is a valuable, literally a valuable public service that he would introduce this more productive way of thinking. I would call it. So this is productive thinking.

Now I can't tell this story without giving my complaints about Yang being a little racist himself. Now when I say Yang is racist I'm using the term to talk about the impact of someone's actions not their inner thoughts. I do not believe Yang is a racist in his inner mind. I don't think Biden is. I don't think Trump is. I don't think people at that level are actual racists internally. But it is certainly true that the impact of your decisions can, the impact of your statements, your choice of words can make people feel bad, can have racial consequences etc. So that part's all true but I don't think Yang's inner thoughts are racist.

So two problems I have with that. One you saw the debates. Yang did. He joked. He said quote "I'm Asian so I know a lot of doctors." It's kind of racist isn't it? Now again I'm not saying in his mind he's racist. He's just making a joke and I would follow his own advice that maybe we should benefit from being more forgiving than punitive. All right so I don't think that Yang should be punished for a joke. But here's the thing he should be a little bit more aware of and I think this is always worth noting. It's a stereotype that's positive and so he's probably thinking that's just a positive stereotype and I'm talking about my own people I'm safe right? But what would you feel like if you're not Asian, if you're not Asian-American in particular? How would you take that comment? It feels a little like my people are better than your people doesn't it? Is that the vibe you get from that? Because since being a doctor is considered a respectable thing that only smart hard-working people can accomplish, saying that his group is the group that has a lot of smart hard-working people sort of begs the question what do you think Andrew Yang of the other groups who don't have as many doctors?

Right. So again I will take Andrew Yang's leadership on this topic and I'm not going to suggest that you or anybody else should have a negative opinion for him for what I think was maybe a small blind spot about how that sounds when he says it. Now I don't request an apology. Not needed. I don't even request a clarification but it would be useful to him to know how that sounds to everybody. All right it's just useful feedback.

The other thing he said and I don't remember the exact details but there was a while ago early in the process that Yang made a comment that the rhetoric in this country was heating up to the point where it might be unsafe to be an Asian-American in this country, specifically Chinese-