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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I could write the script without ever looking at it, why watch it ?
From the trailers, it seems kind of Spinal Tap funny.
“that every group has an awful fringe”
It’s disingenuous of this author to say this is fringe in the Democrat progressive side.
If the WP is saying to do something. Then it definitely best not to do it.
“This column will contain spoilers, starting with: He is not sincere.”
WOW! I’m shocked. Those ComPost people are really sharp - you can’t get nothing past them!
An analogy to this idiotic article/excerpt...
If you don’t like those that are mutilating children, it’s easy to convince yourself that Wokism is an assault on the innocent. But if you’re reasonable, acceptance of Wokism as a natural outcome of one’s choices is obvious.
It was funny.... And stupid.
I love Matt Walsh. I loved his “What is a Woman?”, especially Jordan Peterson’s reply toward the end. A friend and I are going to see “Am I a Racist” this weekend.
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I have a good, conservative friend who has seen it three times and will likely see it again. He said it's hilarious. I will probably see it as well.
By the time the Jussie Smollett re-enactment skit came on, it was non-stop laughing to the end of the movie (note the contents of the Subway bag after the mugging, pickles in the snow); It's small stuff like that, that keep the laughs coming.
The scene about getting people to sign a petition to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument and make it 30% taller and paint it black ... gab-smacking hilarious...
And stay til the end of the movie after the credits ... the book store phone call is, well like I said, Monty Python could not have done it better !!!
FIVE STARS *****
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