Digital Social Hour - The Unseen Political Bias in Higher Education | Vince Dao DSH #837

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Starting point is 00:02:11 Do you think it was because of politics? Everyone knows when it happened. Whatever it is just started to... Something I think about the combination of Obama sometimes playing into the racial stuff a lot. I think social media kind of in some ways amplifies. A bunch of social factors, I guess, came together that first of all polarized our politics and playing into the racial stuff a lot. I think social media kind of in some ways amplifies a bunch of social factors, I guess, came together that first of all, polarized our politics. And

Starting point is 00:02:29 then secondly, created the woke progressive parade that we talk about today. All right, guys, got Vince Dow here today, fellow Asian. I know. Let's go. I don't have I don't know what height genes you have but i i don't have not the asian ones i don't know i'm half white you got okay yeah well i i'm part white too but i don't get i'm italian so i guess i got two short jeans you know like the jorda town i've never met an italian asian that's a rare mix yeah it is a rare mix that's super cool long story that goes back to uh the vietnam war and a lot a lot of a lot of stuff that's awesome man yeah so i'm irish so we're close okay yeah ireland's in europe waysian power waysian baby which side did you lean more towards growing up um you know i would say like in the beginning it was more the asian

Starting point is 00:03:19 side but i don't know i never really live life like thinking about my race, if I was to be totally honest. I grew up in Southern California and up until about 2015, 2016, I don't know. We were still sort of living in that old school liberalism where race like genuinely didn't matter or at least people acted like it didn't matter. So I never really for most of my life honestly it was like yeah i guess i'm asian i guess i'm white but i'm more american that's totally different than how i grew up i was uh people were racist to me growing up really where'd you go new jersey new jersey yeah yeah i thought uh most asians got bullied growing up but that's interesting that you didn't well there was i remember in kindergarten um it was because i i brought chopsticks to school oh

Starting point is 00:04:06 that's that's badass in kindergarten yeah that's cool but and and it's funny because my mom specifically told me like do not do that like i like your people are like other kids gonna be like um but i was like i did it anyway and then like i think one kid said something to me and i just was like okay i guess i'll just eat with a fork from now on wow but that was about it honestly my whole life um and i don't even think for him it was a race thing if i'm gonna be honest it was just like that's strange yeah so like um but yeah i mean i guess la is very diverse to begin with so it was never really a thing present in people's minds of course until until, you know,

Starting point is 00:04:45 race became so prevalent in society again, I guess. Yeah. When did it become like that? Do you think it was because of politics? Yeah. I mean, a lot of people have their theories on what exactly happened, but everyone knows when it happened, right? The last few years of the Obama years is when we call it the woke back then we called it sjws

Starting point is 00:05:06 whatever it is just started to uh come out of the woodworks i mean i'd argue like far left radicals always existed in society but um something i think about the combination of obama sometimes playing into the racial stuff a lot social media I think social media kind of in some ways amplifies the most insane views because they get the most engagement and probably a little bit of a skew in the college campuses specifically. Just kind of a bunch of social factors,

Starting point is 00:05:38 I guess, came together that, first of all, polarized our politics. And then secondly, created the woke progressive parade that we talk about today. I never realized how liberal colleges were until Charlie Kirk. Yeah. I mean, I really had no idea because I went to Rutgers and looking back on it now, it was very liberal. Yeah. To be honest. Really? Did you have that experience too when you went to college? Well, I'm actually just finishing up college right now. But I mean, I go to the University of Florida, so. Not really? Not really. I mean, I'm in just finishing up college right now. But I mean, I go to the University of Florida.

Starting point is 00:06:11 So not really, not really. I mean, I'm in the business school. And to me, it is actually very rare to run into a liberal. But all my friends who are in humanities and political science, it's funny, we have like this different view of what the school is, because they'll say this school is so freaking liberal. You know, they're surrounded. And then in my classes, literally, literally like it's rare to find someone where you immediately can identify that they're a liberal most people are just non-political most people are conservative you know yeah well you don't see many liberals in entrepreneurship other than mark cuban yeah and even even him you know something is off about that whole relationship like i don't know if they have something on him or he like has a certain favoritism like he's trying to get something out of the democrat party or whatever it is but i don't know something about that whole relationship is very insincere to me there's a bias there because

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Starting point is 00:07:54 an operating agreement with i gaming ontario fox news last night saying she did a great job yeah but i watched it and i would say i'm pretty objective like even though i obviously lean to towards the right i thought she did terrible yeah like i thought i thought it was obvious and even the fact that like her team was trying to end the interview early i mean that's the greatest indication that you can possibly get out there because um yeah if it was going well why would you end it early yeah but mark i mean mark cuban has basically just became a campaign surrogate for kamala and it's just very strange because on one hand she's this progressive populist who's going to go after the billionaires and then that was like one month of her candidacy and then the next month uh she's actually the capitalist who's

Starting point is 00:08:34 going to be good for business and mark cuban's out there it's it's very incoherent it makes little sense but now growing up in in cali though were you pretty liberal at first? I when I first like I've been involved in politics since I was very young like in seventh grade I was interested in because that was like 2015-2016 yeah so when I first started out I actually was a Bernie Sanders supporter okay so but I was always I would like kind of akin myself to Tulsi gabbard like i was always sort of an anti-establishment also anti-woke like kind of like pro working class leftist i guess because um i remember back then you know bernie sanders on the social issues was not nearly as woke or as progressive as he is now um but specifically that summer, I was very, I don't know,

Starting point is 00:09:27 for some reason I liked Anonymous. I liked Weebly Leaks. I was just very anti-establishment. I guess it was like my edgy puberty years. I think a lot of people go through that phase, right? So when Hillary got the nomination, I was like full-blown BN on, I guess we'll say. I believed the election was stolen from Bernie,

Starting point is 00:09:45 you know? And, um, I, I was sort of like neutral in the 2016 election, but I was kind of rooting for Trump to win. Cause I would not support Hillary. So I was one of, I guess you could say those Democrats or leftists that didn't get behind Hillary in 16. And then, um, when I got a little older, got into high school and stuff, I kind of just became more conservative over time. Yeah. I feel like the access to information got easier as we got older. Right. Now we could actually look at the real data before they did a great job of hiding it through traditional media. Right. Like it was really hard to find the truth 10, 15 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know. I think I always had an inclination that the current system was broken. And I think in 2016, especially Bernie

Starting point is 00:10:21 Sanders was sort of the left wing version of Trump. Now, I kind of felt like he, I guess, sold out to the party. And that's kind of the moment where he lost me originally was, you know, after all the things that Bernie supporters believed about Hillary and how she was a total pawn of the establishment and she was going to bring us into World War III. I remember when he got on that nomination stage at at the dnc and didn't try to challenge or contest the convention for me i was like i felt very betrayed by that you know because i was like oh this guy isn't really the crazy anti-establishment warrior that we thought he was and i guess over time yeah i became disaffected with the left as a whole wow yeah i wonder what

Starting point is 00:11:01 happened with him because i remember that 16 campaign it was everywhere yeah and uh he just folded as soon as hillary got involved right yeah i i mean because he's always been i guess a bit of a pushover you know same thing happened in 2020 with joe biden and i remember one of the criticisms of him even used to be that he was so soft in debating you know because he's a very talented speaker and all, but like he would not really go on hardcore attacks against his opponents. And it's like when you're running against two of the biggest establishment politicians of all time, Hillary and Joe Biden, you know, you saw, you know, for Donald Trump, how effective it was to go after Hillary, to go after Jeb, you know, and Bernie, I think one of the big downfalls of his career and why he never got a nomination is because he really refused to do

Starting point is 00:11:48 that, you know, so. Absolutely. Are you feeling good about this upcoming election? I am. I mean, always nervous until the end, you know, in 2022, I was pretty confident and then you saw it happen. So we should definitely shouldn't get complacent. But the early voting numbers are looking very good for us in terms of the trends, like which counties have higher turnout, lower turnout. That's in our favor. The polls shouldn't trust them as a whole. But the fact that the momentum is with Trump in the final weeks of the election, I think is a very good sign.

Starting point is 00:12:20 And clearly, the Kamala campaign is in a bit of a panic as it is because they are sudden she never did interviews before all of a sudden they're trying to send her to do every interview as you can you know totally changing up the strategy that to me suggests that they know they must see internal polls and probably the public ones too that show okay they're in pretty big trouble 100 like why would she go on fox news that's like a really risky move right and they wouldn't be taking these risks if they didn't believe there was necessary it's actually i think on their part a calculated risk because they know if we keep doing nothing then we're gonna lose so we gotta try it's like throwing the hail mary it's a low percentage play but maybe something

Starting point is 00:12:58 will happen you know yeah i think that strategy didn't work because trump was going on so many shows that they were like we got we know about trump what about kamala like let's see her on shows so that kind of forced her to get on and it was just one of the big criticisms of her you know it's like she doesn't put herself out there and i think for a long time honestly kamala has run a fundamentally arrogant campaign when you really look at it i don't need to do interviews why they're not necessary i have the democrat machine on my side no policies even their convention was like, first of all, they did it in Chicago, which I understand it's in the Midwest, but still, usually you do a convention in a swing state. They didn't think they needed to, right? The Palestine protesters, they think they're a non-factor. They didn't

Starting point is 00:13:38 really even appeal to the independents, I thought, that well at their convention. So I think now suddenly they're realizing all of that, now that the honeymoon phase and that surge is over, all of their arrogance is catching up to them. And now they're in a panic mode. Yeah, I'm excited. I mean, I'm worried about integrity still. For sure. Because last election, obviously a lot came out after and they don't really seem to be talking about how they're going to stop it at all. So that doesn't make me comfortable. Too big to rig. Yeah. So hopefully things are good, though. I'm in a swing state this year, and I think we'll go right, but we'll see.

Starting point is 00:14:09 I'm in Nevada. Yeah, looking forward to seeing what happens there. Polymarket's looking good. College Chief, 60% right now. Yeah. So we'll see what happens. I think especially what your governor did in 2020 really destroyed the credibility of the Democrat machine,

Starting point is 00:14:23 the Reed machine it's called, right? Yeah, and there was a guy, I don't know if you saw this, he went on Patrick Bette David's show with one of the machines and he rigged it. He changed the boat on a podcast. He showed how easy it was to hack into it. Unbelievable. I mean, it's that easy. If a random hacker can do it, you don't think the government can do that? No, absolutely. Absolutely. Like it's so easy. If you could tell Trump one thing thing what would you tell him or ask him one thing tell him or ask him either one whatever's compelling you two weeks until the election that's a uh we're gonna send this to him i'm compiling everyone's answers okay then i would

Starting point is 00:14:58 say you know this is more to your team as well but you know chase every vote like don't leave anything for granted on the table there's frankly millions of people in this country believe it or not who are still low propensity voters and maybe they live in a small town in wisconsin or something and they're not registered to vote or they are registered to vote but you know maybe they're not going to do it whatever um make sure you're sending people to these areas to like, you know, give them a helping hand. Like, obviously not do anything illegal, but like, hey, are you registered to vote? Are you going to vote? Blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 00:15:32 Because I think all the little things that Kamala largely ignores, by the way, are going to make the difference. So chase every vote for sure. Absolutely. Thanks for coming on, Vince. That was fun. Appreciate it. Yep.

Digital Social Hour - The Unseen Political Bias in Higher Education | Vince Dao DSH #837

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