Following the style and themes of his previous work "What is a Woman?", Matt Walsh offers his next piece, "Am I Racist?" to keep us laughing along as he serves extremely left liberals a taste of their own medicine. He acquires DEI certification, gets kicked out of anti-racist white grief counseling, confronts his racist uncle before the attendees of his anti-racist workshop, and ends it with a brief, dream-like monologue exposing his true feelings underneath all the mockery.
my favorite moments
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Walsh brings on Robin DiAngelo for an interview. In a masterful maneuver, he pins her underneath her own claims and she willingly wriggles and squirms.
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He takes to the streets to ask random real people - "What are you doing to decenter your whiteness?" A kid asks him to clarify, "why would I decentralize my whiteness?" The slip of decenter to decentralize was a really innocent and beautiful revelation, confirming that there are a lot of conflicting narratives out there borrowing language haphazardly, criss-crossing their way through the minds of my generation.
The film should be taken in as entertainment, but the words flying around, if taken in their context, are very heavy. However, there's no way it could be all that new to you if you went to college in the last decade or have a Twitter account. It was very funny, and I appreciate the way Walsh is uniquely able to locate the tickle spot of wokeism.