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Back to episode — Episode 2671 CWSA 11/26/24

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ose, because it just sounds like an InfoWars episode. Just too on the nose. We keep hearing about the elite satanic pedophile rings. So the first thing against it is too on the nose. It would be a good way to sell a book. The next thing is the documentary effect. This one's important. I talk about this a lot. If you see a documentary that makes one claim and never shows you the other side or you d…

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added things to the story. That's what the memory stuff would be. It would be there was something bad, no doubt about it, but maybe the story got bigger because she was a child. Children can imagine things in detail and then think that they were true all their life and never experienced them. So I don't know. I'm solidly right on the fine line between this is real and this is not real. I can't tell. So I give this just as an example of what to look for. This is a rare case where if you look for everything and you can even identify the things you should have found, you still can't tell. So this one really has me. My brain is scrambled on this one. I'm usually confident. I'm not right 100% of the time, but I'm usually confident in a case like this. If somebody was lying like that, I could tell if they're lying. I can't tell. This one's a puzzler.

Well, there's another study that says that according to some NC study, they looked at trainings from people like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, who were part of that woke white people are bad part of the world. And they wanted to see if anti-racism training made people more anti-racist. What do you think happened? Scott's rich guy fetish is annoying. Well, am I supposed to talk about people who didn't do anything? So I'm pretty sure that the guy who's doing DOGE is more interesting than your gardener. Your gardener is a fine guy, and I have nothing against your gardener. But if you think I'm going to do the show and talk about your gardener instead of interesting people who are doing massively important things to the world, well, you're an idiot. So go troll somebody else.

Anyway, they found that the anti-racism training, surprise, made people more racist. Do you know how they could have saved some money on this study? Yes, they could have just asked me. How would I have known that anti-racism study would make people more racist? Same way you did. It's the most obvious thing in the world. If you make somebody think of things in a certain frame, they will think of things in a certain frame. If you tell people, well, your environment is full of racism, look, there's some, there's some, let's talk about some tonight, let's talk about some at your job, let's talk about it when you go home, let's talk about it. If you fill your head with the idea that racism is everywhere and it's coming to get you, what are you going to see in the real world? Racism everywhere coming to get you. You didn't have to do a study. Of course it made things worse. Of course it did. And it's also the opposite of positive, optimistic. Oh, your systemic racism can never be fixed. All white people are racists. What could you do? So no, it was obvious that the more you make people think about racism, the more racist they'll be.

Which brings us back to the wisest thing that— what's his name, actor who plays God? Who's the actor with the—who's the Black actor who's about 85 now and he always plays God? What the hell is his name? You know who I'm talking about. There's a little lag in the comments, so you'll tell me in a second. I'll tell you what he said, and then you'll remember who it is. Morgan Freeman. Thank you. Thank you. So Morgan Freeman was asked, maybe it was on 60 Minutes many years ago, what do you do about racism? Like, how do you address it? And he says, stop talking about it. Just stop talking about it. Just let everybody be people. And the first time you hear that you say to yourself, well, that's an easy thing for an actor to say who hasn't really—he hasn't put in the work, you know, he hasn't researched the literature. That's easy for you to say. Just stop talking. Oh, you've already made your money. Oh great, you've made your money so you don't have to worry about it. But the rest of us should just stop talking about it, right? Just stop talking about it.

Well, turns out he was exactly right. The talking about it is what makes it a problem. I do believe that systemic racism is real. Of course

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it is. Of course it is. But I also believe that if you act like it's real, you're going to see it. If you act like it's not real or that it's not going to stop you if it is real, you'll do fine. It's the thinking it's real that is the problem. It's not even the racism. Because if you acted like you didn't even know it existed, you'd end up like Zuby. He's got a great life. Zuby just pretends it do…

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