Am I Racist is in theaters now. That is a first for Daily Wire films, which have previously been siloed behind the paywall on the website. It also got a wide release, which is remarkable. If it is in your area, go see it. We do a lot of complaining about the leftist tilt of the film industry, so it behooves us to support a good conservative film when one appears.
We saw it a couple of days ago. It is solid and funny in parts. A lot of people are calling it a Borat style mockumentary. Not having seen the Borat movies, I have to punt on that, but my sense is that it is closer to a straight documentary, Matt Walsh’s funny disguise with the wig and manbun notwithstanding. Basically, he puts a microphone in front of people, asks them simple questions, and lets them talk. The DEI types come across as total idiots, but you already knew that. And he engages in some pretty great trolling.
Getting Robin D’Angelo to pay reparations to one of his crew, who is blackish, is outstanding.
The film was released September 13 and made back its $3 million cost the first weekend. It is now approaching 4x its budget. It is in record breaking territory for a documentary and may end up as the top documentary of the year.
Viewer ratings are extremely high. Obviously conservatives are turning out. The interesting angle to me is the obviously orchestrated blackout by the critics. As of now, there are only 12 critics reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and all are from the little guys — the YouTube freelancers, etc. The big thing to note is that NOT ONE of RT’s “top critics” has reviewed the film — or if they have, RT isn’t publishing them.
NOT ONE. For the top documentary of the year. That’s not a coincidence and it’s not just the dominant LeftWorld tilt of the tribe. That’s an organized, disciplined silencing. One would ordinarily expect a scattering of contrarians, a few independent thinkers, and a slew of lefty critics who review the film to savage it. But ZERO reviews from the top critics? Impossible unless an order has gone out and is being enforced. I’d like to know the story on that.
RT is not independent. It is owned by Fandango (Comcast) and Warner Bros Discovery.
Matt Walsh has been pointing out that several major liberal publications have indeed reported on the film, but with pieces written by news or feature writers. NONE of the movie critics from those same publications have reviewed the movie. Occam’s Razor suggests either that RT has put out the word that the critics will lose their platform if they touch it, or alternatively, RT is simply refusing to print top critic’s reviews. But the censorship seems to me to be obvious.
Getting Robin D’Angelo to pay reparations to one of his crew, who is blackish, is outstanding.
“MLK said a lot of things!”
The tension between “white centricity” and avoiding “cultural appropriation”.
White people are oppressors and there is nothing they can do about that (so why are we here again?).
It is amazing not just that reviewers are not reviewing it, but that so many publications that the “top critics” are employed by are writing articles about the movie. There is no way that is not deliberate.
>Getting Robin D’Angelo to pay reparations to one of his crew, who is blackish, is outstanding.
I was literally laughing out loud in that part of the movie, as were a couple others (there were only 8 in the theater, but it was a late weeknight showing). That was classic.
Since Jussie features for a piece of the movie, here’s perhaps the best 5 minutes of comedy in the last 10 years:
Dave Chappelle on the Jussie Smollett Incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZXoErL2124