On a second listening, what Scott said has a very different context when quote-mined down to "get the hell away from black people". The full clip is Sowell type 1B discrimination while the legacy media headlines look like the racist racist uncle spouting type 2 discrimination. If I listened to The Lotus Eaters correctly, Scott was saying get the hell away from black people because affirmative action gives PoC an unfair advantage in the workplace, not to have a clinical phobia of them.
Looking past normies; leftists and other aggressively conventional-minded types do not care for statements-of-fact or even how statements will be interpreted, but how statements should be interpreted. The literal minded, outside that detestable quadrant, lap up their bullshit and society conflates their naivety with innocence. Hence the 'sarcasm', which is Scott twisting establishment rhetoric against itself, isn't having the corrective effect on society it should.
I listened to the same lotus eaters segment, and I think Carl sums it up accurately as: "He's in favor of white flight" and "You shouldn't have to live near racists".
I don't disagree with either statement, and frankly, neither did Malcolm X. I'll add his quote in a separate reply later.
What's the "joke" here?
Saying, something like, "well, if 25% of a group were racists, you'd call them a hate group" isn't exactly satirical, it's simply a statement of fact.
On a second listening, what Scott said has a very different context when quote-mined down to "get the hell away from black people". The full clip is Sowell type 1B discrimination while the legacy media headlines look like the racist racist uncle spouting type 2 discrimination. If I listened to The Lotus Eaters correctly, Scott was saying get the hell away from black people because affirmative action gives PoC an unfair advantage in the workplace, not to have a clinical phobia of them.
Looking past normies; leftists and other aggressively conventional-minded types do not care for statements-of-fact or even how statements will be interpreted, but how statements should be interpreted. The literal minded, outside that detestable quadrant, lap up their bullshit and society conflates their naivety with innocence. Hence the 'sarcasm', which is Scott twisting establishment rhetoric against itself, isn't having the corrective effect on society it should.
I listened to the same lotus eaters segment, and I think Carl sums it up accurately as: "He's in favor of white flight" and "You shouldn't have to live near racists".
I don't disagree with either statement, and frankly, neither did Malcolm X. I'll add his quote in a separate reply later.