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'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' You’re explaining too much. And I don't mean to be rude about it, but, they were just crazy. | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' They were crazy. But my point is, the accusation is in and of itself so powerful in modern circumstances that people, the idea of standing up to it doesn't occur to most people. And the fact is I was not well enough positioned. The thing descended into madness. It descended into literal anarchy with armed students, roving the campus, the same mob was looking for me, searching car to car, for example. It was a very dangerous situation | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' With baseball bats | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' With baseball bats. But what I'm getting at is I checked with myself and did not feel vulnerable to this accusation. I felt most people could not endure it, but I was in a position to, and in an odd way— | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' You'd been effectively driven out of your own university as an undergraduate, standing up against racism. | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' Indeed. | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' These people had flipped the script, and said, if you don't sign up for our racism, you're a racist. Yeah. | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' They did. | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' I don't, you know, here's the thing. I have two documents that I've studied that have a lot of longevity to them. One begins with, “We hold these truths to be self evident” and the other one begins with “In the beginning”. And I think we've made a huge mistake taking this as an argument. It's a non-serious position held by morons and idiots, or people who've been indoctrinated and infected with an idea that there's something left-wing about being a racist. I'm not interested in it, and I also think that it's really important to stop giving these people their due. Like, it's really important to exclude them from the conversation, because if you have to have a three day symposium as to whether or not racism can be redefined in a way that makes it impossible for certain people to be racist but impossible for other people not to be racist, there's just no point. It's just needs to be thrown in the garbage because it just, it's a suicide idea that wastes everyone's time and plunges the world into stupidity, madness and hatred. | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' Well, you and I are in total agreement about the necessity to shut the bad actors out of the conversation. | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' Great. | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' I do have some concern about a large number of people who fall into one of two camps. They're either confused, or they suffer from so much cowardice that they will sign up for ideas that they ought to know are wrong. | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' Yeah. But I think you're not getting the message. We've made a huge mistake, and I refuse to spend time, because these people have decided that this is a tax that we should pay, that they have a serious point. It's a non-serious point. It's a terrifying moronic non-serious point that you can redefine racism to be anti-racism and anti-racism to be racism. | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' Nobody knows this better than me. | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' Great. Okay. Are we done? | ||
'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' We are. | ||
'''Eric:''' | '''Eric:''' Good. With that aside, my concern—you know that I play this game, which is called “What is the least interesting, interesting thing about X?”, where I take a person and I take their top characteristic. So for example, the least interesting, interesting thing about Dolly Parton is that she's busty. The most interesting thing is she's a genius level songwriter, and a fantastic singer, and an entertainer, and a great business woman. Doesn't matter. But the key point is we get hung up on some stupid superficial characteristic, and we don't see the actual interest or majesty in a person, and I feel like that has happened to you. I feel like, at some level, having known you for a very long time, you are an incredibly interesting person for totally different reasons than the reasons for which you have become famous. And I would like to use this episode and, by the way, you're welcome back anytime. Love to do a series with you. Love to, you know, make this a regular part of our lives if people like it. | ||
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'''Bret:''' | '''Bret:''' Cool. I think you know, you and I both hear a lot of curiosity about what our relationship is like, and what our discussions sound like. And so I think there's lots of room for that. | ||
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