As regular readers of my posts know, I have little patience for long interviews. But I was blown away by this one. It’s the best interview I’ve seen in 2020.
I hadn’t heard of either Boyce or Oliver before, but from now on, whenever I see their names, I’ll pay attention.
I was so enthralled by the first 37 minutes that I forgot to time stamp things. So this time stamping will be rough up until the 38th minute.
In the first 30 minutes or so, Oliver talks about what it was like to grow up as a black kid facing extreme discrimination and racism in America. And not 1940s or 1950s America, but America of the 1990s and early 2000s. In one story he tells how he won over a white racist in school. Really neat story.
38:00: Why the cops suddenly apologized for torturing him. Hint: nepotism.
39:50: Why what’s going on with cops is not systemic racism. Many of them would like to treat everyone badly, but their statistical analysis stops them with certain groups.
41:38: The left’s preemptive strike against expertise and the recent Steven Pinker attack.
46:45: How what the left is doing could lead to an even more virulent and wider spread white nationalism.
57:00: We need arenas for the non-political. (By the way, my own is pickle ball. Political conversations are actively discouraged.)
59:00: Oliver makes a fantastic point about the failure of Communism.
1:03:40: Being in a cult isn’t fun.
1:14:50: We need to be ruthless against bad ideas but not against the people who hold them.
HT2 Bob Murphy.
READER COMMENTS
Thomas Hutcheson
Jul 16 2020 at 8:15am
If true this would be perfect example of the difference between “racism” and “systemic racism.”
*I* have little patience with interviews w/o transcripts. 🙂
Handle
Jul 16 2020 at 2:11pm
Protip: If the YouTube video has subtitles, you can generate the whole transcript at youtube-subs.net
Charles L. Hooper
Jul 21 2020 at 4:46pm
Wow. Wow. Wow. I wasn’t going to watch the whole interview because it was already late in the evening, but I did and finished after midnight. Religious people say that God chooses people for certain tasks, especially difficult but important ones. Well, if that’s true, God chose Adrian Lee Oliver to experience and understand racism—and Oliver survived the challenge. Instead of buckling under, Oliver used his intellect to understand at a deep level what was and is happening. The result is a unique tale and a precautionary but hopeful and inspiring message. This interview is topical given the events of 2020.
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