Obama And Racism

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also like you know like uh if we look into that Obama's conspiracy see uh what people are saying like you know he is not American citizen at all and he there are a lot of things around him what you how do you see that like you know because just because the black person is becoming the president of America or anything that sort like you know is that what you think I think number one is that America is a deeply deeply structurally racist country it can't help itself and by the time Obama runs for president uh we've already seen conspiracy thinking has gone from being pretty much mainly except for communism scares tactics uh on the right pretty much a left-wing hobby until the 90s and then the 90s we see it start shifting to becoming primarily a right-wing thing and so by the time Obama runs for president in 2008 um there's it's becoming much more of a right-wing thing to just throw out conspiracy theories and and have people go oh yeah and just believe it also Americans especially I think this is true in a lot of competitive things like sports um it's not enough to just root for your team the other team is also awful they're terrible they you cancri anything you want to ascribe to them is true and so by the time Obama is running for president we've already got this structural racism we've got right-wing voters really kind of just believing anything they hear provided it confirms their prejudices and you've got this methodology of let's destroy our enemy any way we can and so all this stuff comes out about Barack Obama uh there were so many in fact that since he was the 44th president and for my seventh episode I found 44 conspiracy theories about him I call it 44 for 44 and there are 44 there were more by the way there were over over 50 but I decided to keep it 44 44 conspiracies about Barack Obama um the most reasonable one is that oh he's not really um an American citizen and so there therefore he can't possibly run for president because it's one of the requirements and this was latched on to by Mr Donald Trump who thought hm you know I wonder if I can get my brand to become a bit more high-profile uh so I'll just jump on board with this and he was one of the big uh promoters of what was known as the birther movement show us the birth certificate blah blah blah blah blah and Obama was like you know blow me I don't need to show you the certificate and then finally they did and of course what a surprise everybody said that was fake so you know show us the birth certificate here it is no that's fake well I just can't win with you guys can I in the meantime I'm president and uh I'm going to get on with the business of it and so they come up you know there were tons of things about Obama he's a communist he's a Muslim like even if he was so what uh he can control the weather seriously there were actual Evangelical preachers who thought he could control the weather that he utilized um certain kinds of um speaking techniques in order to hypnotize people of course he's a shape-shifting reptilian uh you know on and on and on and on and on it all went and the conspiracy theories were uh astonishing every president America has weird stuff out there rumors about them but Obama it was it was quite spectacular to see the number of videos and blog posts and so on he's the Antichrist he's this he's that he's see he's secretly a Muslim he's secretly Jewish he's secretly both H he's a communist he's a fascist he's a communist and a fascist well that's not possible because they hate each other you know like it didn't matter it didn't matter what you said because all you needed to do with signal I hate this guy and then other people would go I hate him too and it didn't you didn't have to agree on why you hate him you just hate [Music] him so now right now the uh Trump is actually I think in America there is a conspiracy uh trial like you know Elon Musk and you know the uh uh the Joe um Joe Rogan and you know the Donald Trump like you know the uh what is think about that like you know they are behind all these conspiracies most I mean well here's the thing I mean Donald Trump and and the people around him in 2016 they started uh coming up with this concept of a posttruth society as one I can't remember who it was off the top of my head but one person literally said in an interview people who live in the what I like to call the uh truth-based World think this but we just say this and I remember when I first read that I went the truth-based what I like to call the truth-based world isn't that the world is there another way to look at it and apparently the Maga people uh say yes it doesn't matter I don't have I'm not going to believe your stuff I'm going to believe my stuff and say that's true even though it isn't even though it doesn't matter doesn't matter doesn't matter because let's face it whether uh we landed on the moon or not doesn't really affect me so therefore I'm going to enter into a world and a and a social system because I think some of this is about companionship um in and with the other people who say we didn't land on the moon and so now we're all in this posttruth world we can all have our own kind of little streams the Trump people now have gotten much better at utilizing this and uh we saw I mean you know Putin absolutely interfered in the 2016 election and um there was an interview with somebody from what I don't think it wasn't fancy bear but it was one of their big hacker Farms troll Farms who they were just laughing they just said we cannot believe that for a couple of thousand dollar in Facebook ads we were able to just sway the presidential election like that's just value for money right there you know now why would Putin want to do that because he wants to destabilize Western systems because he's not good at playing that game so he is good at playing his game and so he and I think a lot of these other uh quote unquote strong men um you we've been talking about the posttruth society what does it mean like what is it I mean it's a it's a it's a misnomer it's garbage it doesn't mean anything there's no such thing as a post-truth society because what is not truth if not lies or fantasy so you know by by using even the term posttruth you're you're basically saying fantasy and yet there are plenty of people who seem to be very happy to live in that fantasy world and um you know I guess for them something like my podcast I mean I hope I hope I hope I hope it's one of the ideas behind the podcast is that it will maybe knock a couple people back into the light um but really my podcast is for those that have to suffer those people you know Uncle Tony there's no help in Uncle Tony Uncle Tony is absolutely convinced that you know Queen Elizabeth II had Diana killed nothing you can do to change his mind it doesn't matter what you say it doesn't matter what proof you have he will always find a way to hang on to his belief so really my podcast is just for people going like what why does why does Tony go on about this here's why here's where it comes from here's what the proof quote unquote is uh and if you want to make counterarguments you want to go down that path here are the counterarguments you can make it won't help but you can try and every once in a while you might get somebody who goes oh well yeah because here's a funny thing I've discovered in the last few years of doing this almost all conspiracy theory believers they don't just believe in one I would love to meet or encounter a conspiracy theorist who just says one thing Kennedy was killed by the CIA end of conversation everything else I don't buy it I don't believe in Bigfoot I don't believe in be triangle I don't believe in Chemtrails but I do think Kennedy was killed by the CIA I would like to talk to that person but I don't think that person exists because if you believe one you tend to believe more and the way that the social media algorithms work is that they kind of have them all grouped together and so they will feed you that content and like I said it's a gateway drug once you think the government people within the government maybe Rogue elements but people within the government killed their own president once you're willing to accept that as a possibility then you know why not Chemtrails why not Bigfoot why not you know magnets cure cancer why not maybe who knows there is one thing which I would agree is that as a programmer as a software engineer what I believe is that the our thought is actually most of the people's thought is basically programmed by machines because machines is been designed in a such a way that it is kept on feeding the dopamine to the people so so that is how that is how the algorithms works so basically it will push what you personally like rather than that what can be possibly true so I what I believe is that the uh uh the thought of the people mostly is designed by the uh machines itself to a certain extent I mean we're certainly we're certainly getting a lot more uh information from uh machines heading our way uh and my a couple of episodes I've done in the past and some I'm doing in the near future are all about cognitive biases how the brain works how memory works we think our memory works this way it doesn't it actually works this way it's completely different than what you think and so our brains don't even work the way that we think they do so it's no surprise I don't think it's nefarious I don't think there was a a concerted effort to do this it's just kind of one of those unhappy accidents that by chance order to make money because that's what we're all about is making money um the way that these companies make money also happens to tweak the way that people think and sort of exploit these uh blind spots in these cognitive biases that we have and help create a more polarized society in which case my people are always right and the other people are always evil and you know there's a there's a psychological study years ago uh that showed that there's something called outgroup homogeny and ingroup um differentiation which is any group that I'm a part of we are all Unique Individuals but they are all the same they you know you live in India this is this has been the conversation in India since partition right they are like this but we are all unique individual people and this is from the Hindu side this is from the Muslim side this is from people in rajastan uh this is a people in you know against people in other parts of the country I mean you know India is is this truly unique interesting very vibrant very differentiated country um and yet these conversations that go on in the culture there also get I mean they get ugly sometimes you know people die because of thoughts it's just ridiculous you know I mean I don't I don't like Donald Trump but like somebody was planning to kill him come on man kill really is that what we're doing we're going to kill you know we're going to kill somebody because they their car broke down but there's a rumor going around on WhatsApp group that there's a witch in town you know like come on man