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ake it mean anything you want. But if you look at the context it's harder. So I don't believe... Let me tell you what the Washington Post did. Oh my God thank you. Right, I don't encourage you to do gigantic super chats but Ryan I appreciate it. All right. Here's what the Washington Post did. If you heard my comments in context they're much easier to go down, right? That's why a number of Black p…
← Previous segment →s is a group of people who have been programmed. And especially lately they've been programmed to have a reflexive bad feeling about me. So wherever there are groups of people who have been programmed by the media to have a reflexive bad feeling about you I would avoid them. Does anybody think that's a bad idea? Anybody? No matter what color you are and no matter what is the characteristic of the group you're talking about. If they've been programmed to not like you by the media is that a factor you should consider? Right?
So here's what happens. So now you can see how the media works. So I said something that literally everyone agrees with once they see it in context. I will accept the criticism that I was not as clear as I could have been. Does everybody agree with that? I'm accepting that criticism that I gave too much attention to one poll. Didn't change the message but I gave too much attention to it and I wasn't clear. Yeah those things I can just be guilty of. That's fine. But once you saw the context and especially people who know me personally they were pretty sure that it was just good advice.
All right. So I got canceled everywhere. There will be no more Dilbert except on the Locals subscription platform. And then what happened? Then the cover-up starts. Because little by little more voices are saying wait a minute what did you cancel him for? Okay I feel like I'm not getting the whole context here. So I'll just tell you that a prominent member of the media, somebody whose name you would know who is Black, contacted me today and said okay there's something going on here because my interactions with you suggest that what you said in public doesn't make sense. Like it was somebody who thought that the person that they had interacted with me was inconsistent with a story that's in the media. That's a media expert. Somebody who literally lives and breathes the media every day and looked at it and said this doesn't look right. Right now as I told him his instinct was good. There's something wrong here. Here's what's happening. So the papers and everybody who canceled me, they canceled me from their first impression which I admit was awkward and it could have been done better. Once they realized that within context I was simply giving advice that anybody would agree with, Black or white, the cover-up begins because they're not going to change their minds. So you know they're not going to change the minds. That would be too dangerous. So now they're saying that he said all Black people are haters. Did anybody hear me say that? Because that's what the news is saying now. Or the people who believe they've seen the news. And so now they've turned it into all. Is there any scenario where I've ever said that all members of a group have some one thing in common ever? Who would say that besides stupid people? Like this isn't even racist. That would be just stupid, wouldn't it? Like wouldn't that be literally just dumb if you believed all of the members of a group are thinking the same? In fact how many times have I said out loud or tweeted that all Black people are not the same? All. We've talked about all Hispanic voters completely varied, white voters all over the place. But do you believe that I would imagine the Hispanic voters are diverse and white voters are diverse but Black people are not? I mean who would have that opinion? Nobody, right? So if you believe that I had said this something about all Black people you really need to check your reading comprehension and your news source. Because nobody would say this. Imagine if you can imagine there's somebody in 2023 would have this point of view that there's something about all Black people that's negative like all of them. No. But literally nobody has that point of view. Nobody, right? But yet people have imagined that I could have and said it out loud.
The one poll is unreliable but it doesn't really relate to my point. So they have to make this poll, they have to artificially make it seem as if the poll is the only thing I was keying off of which it wasn't but I didn't clarify. So that's a good point. And then here's their best trick. They introduced the topic by calling it a racist rant or a racist tirade. If the title of the article says racist rant or racist tirade is the media telling you the news? Nope. That's not the news. That's a narrative. That's an interpretation is what that is. And so the Washington Post went full not fake news but intentionally misleading news. I don't know what you would call that. Is it fake if the facts are true but they leave out context to reverse the meaning? It's kind of a fake news situation but not exactly, right?
So this is what my week will look like. So all week nobody will disagree with me I predict because nobody's going to disagree with this in private. Nobody disagrees, Black or white. Nobody. It's completely agreed. But they're going to turn it into something I didn't say or something I didn't rely on entirely or they're going to label it so nobody knows what you're thinking. That's how it works. So if you're wondering how the media cancellation machine works that's how.
Anthony you're not wrong. Explain how that's a hate group isn't referring at all. Do you know what hyperbole is sir? So I was asked the question explain how it's a hate group does not refer to all of them. It would be the same way that I believe that whites have been called a hate group. Am I wrong? Have whites been called a hate group because they're allegedly so many white supremacists? Can anybody find, do you think if you looked on social media do you see anybody referring to white people as a hate group? Now if they did how would I interpret that? Let's say theoretically somebody said white people are a hate group. What is the reasonable way to interpret that? Is the reasonable way that it means everybody? Is that reasonable? Is that good reading comprehension? I think he means every person? Or would you recognize hyperbole and say oh he's making a point that there are too many people in that group who have negative views. I don't know what the percentage is but it's too many, right? So does anybody else have a question on that? Is that unclear that hyperbole is an exaggeration that people are supposed to recognize? In other words when you use hyperbole you're saying something that's technically not true but you assume that everybody's a good enough reader that they know what you mean, right? So let's say I say Republicans like God. Does that sound like all Republicans to you? The Republicans, let's say Republicans are religious. If I said that in public would you take that as all of them? That's an actual question. Would you take that as all of them? It's the way people talk. It's just a shorthand hyperbolic way to talk about a group to make a point. Sounds like you do. Yeah, exaggeration is nearly 100 percent of political discourse. That's true. Yep. It's the way people think. I don't think anybody thinks in 100 percent anything. So generally it's the thing I get in trouble for is 47 percent context. Yeah. Jet Magazine I would ask do you mean most Republicans? Yeah but what do you even need to ask? Would you need to ask me if I meant most Republicans? So that's my point. It's completely clear. Hyperbole or exaggeration in this case it's very clear what it is. So you shouldn't have to explain something that is ordinary conversation hyperbole. But I do. I do understand that people can be fooled by it.
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s still employed. So Dilbert will still be created. I'll just be putting it on the Locals platform. So you can find that at scottadams.locals.com. It's a subscription platform. Boss says admit you felt like that your whole life. Felt like what my whole life? I never felt like the narrative was poisoning Black Americans and that's really the catalyst for the entire opinion. So it's more like what…
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