Back to episode — Episode 2035 Scott Adams - ESG, FBI And J6, And How My Plan Is Going So Far
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aying attention and you're going to hate me for a while but you're going to be glad I did it. That's my prediction. You're going to be glad I did it but you can hate me for a while. Just like the white racists hated Rosa Parks. They probably hated the hell out of her I assume, right? But not now. So time is on my side because you are going to be happy that I waded into the conversation. Now one o…
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All right. What else? I asked the poll. I said on Twitter, now this is a Twitter poll so don't take it too seriously, but I said if you're white is it better for you to lie to Black Americans about where you think things are at or to be honest and see if you can figure out solutions? Well I haven't checked but 25 percent of white Americans said it's better to lie. Is that healthy? Do you think it's healthy that 25 percent of Americans feel they have to lie to Black Americans? How in the world is that healthy? And is there any Black American who wants them to lie to them? If I may say one super racist thing and I think I will. You want me to say something super racist so I can get canceled again? Here it comes. Super racist. Black people like honesty. Super racist, right? Black people like honesty. Anybody want to argue with me? Individuals. I'm not talking about like some race grifters and stuff but individually I've never met a Black person who wanted to be lied to. Is that even a thing? No. They like some honesty. Do you know who doesn't like honesty? Tell me who doesn't like honesty. There's an answer to this question. Who doesn't like honesty? Liberal women. Liberal women. Yeah. And the men who need to do what the liberal women say. Yeah. The left is mostly a female-centric philosophy with men who are willing to go along with it. Mostly. Like everything. Lots of exceptions, right? So even when I said the racist thing I said just now which is Black people like honesty, do you think I meant every single Black person? All of them? No. It never means all of them. It never means that. You would have to be an NPC to think that any statement about a group is intended to mean all of them. In no world, in no conversation, at no time ever has anybody ever been that interpretation. But that's the interpretation the news has taken because they're not honest. It's fake news.
All right. Here's something that June Stone said to me on Twitter. She's a Black woman and she was not a big fan of my comments. Not a big fan. But she was not a big fan in a different way than you expect. So let me read her comment because I think it's a good one. She said Black people don't need people who think like you, meaning me, giving us quote success strategies. Just work on your own internalized biases and colonial mindset. Which I suppose I do have, right? Is that unfair? She says I should work on my own internalized biases and colonial mindset. That's fair. You know I usually make fun of mind readers but is there anybody who doesn't have internalized bias? Like how could you not have an internalized bias? Nobody can get rid of their internalized bias but working on it is something we all should do, right? You can't get rid of it but you got to stay on top of it, right? You got to know what it is. You got to work with it. You got to try to tamp it down, right? So I would take your advice as good advice. I should work on my own internalized biases as should all of you, as should all Black people, as should all white people and everybody in between by the way. I always keep leaving out Asian Americans and Indian Americans and Hispanics but it's only because I'm simplifying things.
All right. So she goes on and she says, let me read it again. She says she doesn't want people like me giving Black people quote success strategies. Come back when you've done the work and change your heart. So here's how I replied. I said I hear you June but success strategies quote unquote are your only hope to slice through systemic racism. You are asking for more systemic racism by being denied the influence of successful people. The government isn't coming to help make you successful and it's largely a learned skill. So here's what I'm telling Black America. Success is a learned skill. If you learn that skill systemic racism will only be a pain in the ass in your life. It won't stop you from success. It will just be a pain in the ass. But you can slice right through it with some pretty basic well-tested universal, you know nothing about Black or white, just universal success strategies. I happen to have a lot of them. My best-selling book that is now canceled, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, would be the primary source. But I also talk about these things at length so you'd be looking for, you could just Google the same thing. So you could just Google these terms if you don't want to read my book. Google talent stack and systems are better than goals. Those are two concepts. There's a whole bunch of other stuff about passion being BS and affirmations and a whole bunch of other forward-looking and even stuff about reciprocity. So it's just a book full of things that work for everybody. There's no Black or white or I think it would work from 14 years old to whatever age you are.
Bubba says are you comfortable at the fulcrum of all of this power and energy or am I unhappy? I am weirdly comfortable. You know what this feels like? It feels like exactly where I'm supposed to be. That's what it feels like. It feels like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. I feel like I was supposed to get canceled now. You know if you take the big picture of this I was canceled on an industry that could be dead tomorrow, right? The newspaper industry could, I know I long predicted that when it starts to completely fall apart there'll be like a collapse period. It'll just completely go away in a year or two. So I managed to accidentally, wasn't my plan, but I escaped a dying industry and increased my attention level. You know people's attention to me on this form, the live stream and social media form. Now this is a growing field and it's growing even more toward election day. So I managed to escape a dying industry and get a turbocharge in the most exciting industry that's happening at least in the entertainment field which is podcasting. So that's pretty good. I do have offers coming in that won't come close to matching my old income but I'm also retirement age, right? I don't really need to go set the world on fire any more than I did this week. So and like I said my personal life is unchanged except people like me more. I mean I'm getting more respect for not apologizing than anything I've ever done in my life. I did not see that coming. Like that was a surprise. If you told me that not apologizing would be like this mark of something. And by the way the reason I don't apologize is because I didn't do anything that deserves an apology. I'm really big on apologies. Like some of you maybe disagree with apologies. I'm very big on apologies. I think apologies are a great way to go but only if you did something wrong. If the only thing I did was make people mad so they'd pay attention and then I could help them, I'm not going to apologize for that. Now I'm not going to apologize for making you mad while trying to help you. That's not going to happen. Yeah I mean I could give a husband apology. I thought about that. I thought about doing a tongue-in-cheek husband apology. Now a husband apology is when you know you're not in the wrong but you have to apologize anyway. But if I did it I would make sure that if I did it I would make sure you knew I wasn't serious. Yeah don't worry I won't apologize. I will give you my promise that I wo
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n't apologize. All right. Isn't it dishonest to intentionally try to fool people and then chastise those same people for being fooled? Is it dishonest? Yes. Is that what you're looking for? I mean I just told you it was dishonest but it was for a good purpose, right? Yeah I mean it's temporarily dishonest. The intention was always to be fully transparent but yeah in communication sometimes you te…
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