a clever joke. You have to listen to all the words. He says, at this point I'd rather Hunter Biden be our president than Joe. Hunter lines his blow and screws prostitutes. Joe blows his lines and screws us. Pretty good. Pretty good.

All right, let's talk about wokeness. So you've heard my opinion that I think calling people what they would like to be called is just good manners. And then I also resist people forcing me to do anything because I'm willing to do it as good manners, but I'm not willing to do crazy things. And I'm not willing to get punished if I get one wrong, right? If I use the wrong term, I'm not willing to take any punishment for it because I think manners have to work both ways, right? A little bit of forgiveness both ways.

So I saw this criticism of me. It was in response to a Matt Walsh comment, but the comment was about me. It's from RealCamDawg, Twitter user. And he says, right on, right on to Matt Walsh about whatever Matt Walsh was saying. And then he refers to me. He goes, Scott Adams could learn something from you, meaning Matt Walsh. And then this user says he has gone full woke. Now, meaning me. In a show last week he accepted and used the left's way of using language. I can't even take him serious now.

That should be seriously, and it should be I can't take him seriously. And you should get rid of the even. Even doesn't add anything. I can't take him seriously now. And then you can get rid of the now because that's the context, right? So I just had to take a pause to fix your horrible sentence. But he says I can't even take him seriously now. And then he says to me, he said at one point, quote, I don't want a dead name. So I'll be clear, blah blah. So he says that he's sickened by me basically because I bought into the left's requirement.

To which I said to him, the part I don't like is when I said I like the part of wokeness in which people inform me how they prefer to be addressed. That's good manners. For example, if a woman wanted me to address her as Ms. or a Miss or Mrs., would you object to that? Would you object to any of those words? I wouldn't. Suppose somebody asked me — and this happens all the time because I'm a famous person. When people talk to famous people and they've gotten familiar, they'll sometimes say, may I call you Scott? To which I say, of course. That being my name and everything.

So we know it's a normal custom that we ask people how they'd like to be addressed and then we do our best to use it, right? Now, the problem is if you do it wrong. Maybe you have good intentions, but you do it wrong. So here's what I said in my tweet. I said I like the part of wokeness in which people inform me how they prefer to be addressed. That's just good manners. And then I added, the part I don't like is when people such as this guy, the guy tweeting at me, or the LGBT community tell me there would be penalties if I use the wrong word. Then I ended with, you can all go fuck yourself.

So it might be this guy who's criticizing me for being too woke is the LGBT community. He and the LGBT community are the same people because both of them are telling me what to say. And I am happy to use polite terms that people feel comfortable with always. And I'm completely on board with that. You tell me what you would like to be called and I will call you that as best I can.

But to the LGBT community, and I've said this many times, if I get it wrong and you give me a hard time, you can go fuck yourself with a blunt instrument. Just get out of my face. Because if you can't give me a little bit of manners in return, well then you don't deserve any. That's how it works, right? We're polite to polite people. You know, if somebody's not polite to you, you get to shoot back. That's how it works.

So would I go any harder on the LGBT community if they came after me for making a mistake, which is what it would be because I wouldn't do it intentionally, it'd just be a mistake. Would I be as hard as this guy who thinks I shouldn't use their word? These are two groups telling me how to talk. There's no difference. One of them is telling me that he's going to punish me in public by calling me out and never watching me because I don't use the right words that he wants me to use. Well, let me be clear. You are your enemy. You are your enemy if you're telling me how to talk. You're your enemy because they're the ones who you don't like because they're telling you how to talk. No, don't tell me how to talk. Not the LGBT community, not this guy who's apparently not on board with everything the LGBTQ community wants. Do not tell me how I should talk unless you expect this response. You know, it's free speech, so you can tell me to say anything you want, but you know you're going to get a response. All right, we'll get rid of you.

All right. And then here's what a comment back to me on my comment was. If you're using preferred pronouns instead of reality — this is somebody else's opinion — that's idiocy, not good manners, not playing pretend with these psychos. So he doesn't want me to depart reality for the purpose of manners. What do you think of that? Do you think that people should depart reality just to be polite? Is that a good idea or a bad idea to depart reality to be polite?

Do you know what manners even are? What do manners have to do with reality? When I go to dinner and the woman I'm with is served first, what's the reason for that? What would be the functional purpose of