You might not enjoy ‘Am I Racist?’ You should watch it anyway.

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Posted on 09/25/2024 6:50:13 PM PDT by grundle

In the mockumentary, Matt Walsh is concerned that he is racist. Awkward moments follow.

The movie’s conceit is that Walsh is concerned he is racist and trying to “do the work.” (This column will contain spoilers, starting with: He is not sincere.) In a deadpan parody of a self-flagellating White progressive, often wearing a ridiculously obvious wig, he interviews diversity experts, attends antiracist events and eventually sets up his own diversity workshop. Unsurprisingly, many of his targets are painted as grifters, demagogues or well-meaning morons. Interspersed are more sympathetic figures, White and Black, trying to convince this caricature that race doesn’t actually matter very much.

If you don’t like the people he’s lampooning, it’s easy to convince yourself that he’s revealing something deep and important, just as I’ve heard progressives argue that “Borat” movies were laying bare the hateful underbelly of America. But what Walsh is actually revealing is two not-very-surprising realities of human nature: First, that every group has an awful fringe, and it’s easy to make that group look bad if only the fringe’s worst moments survive the cutting-room floor. Second, that the human instinct for avoiding confrontation is exploitable if you’re sufficiently willing to violate the social contract.

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1 posted on 09/25/2024 6:50:13 PM PDT by grundle

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