- Starring
- Matt Walsh, Robin DiAngelo
- Director
- Justin Folk
- Rating
- PG-13
- Genre
- Comedy, Mockumentary
- Release date
- Sept. 13, 2024
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
In Am I Racist?, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh dives headfirst into the clown show world of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Armed with a camera crew, man-bun, and a wit dryer than the Women’s March, Walsh goes on an undercover journey to expose the contradictions, absurdities, and profit-driven motives fueling the DEI movement.
Am I Racist? Review
“Personal journeys of self-discovery are important personal journeys that people take to discover the importance of self and the importance of journeying personally.” – Kamala Harris*
Matt Walsh has experienced a rather meteoric rise amongst the pantheon of conservative political commentators. Only a few years ago, he was podcasting from his car. Since then, he has become a virtual household name in right-leaning circles as a best-selling children’s author, movie star, and hit documentarian, with 2022’s What is A Woman? launching his already rising star into the stratosphere.
His latest, Am I Racist?, which will also be The Daily Wire’s first original theatrical release, is an hour-and-forty-one-minute masterclass in trolling. Once again, Walsh wields his signature dry wit and unflappable deadpan delivery like a sword, cutting through the nonsense of one unsuspecting anti-white racist after another—sometimes whole rooms.
Even though the team at The Daily Wire, no doubt, went to great pains in securing interviews with top-echelon modern-day snake oil saleswomen like Robin DiAngelo to say nothing of staging a get-together for the vile hucksters of Race to Dinner, a $2,500 a plate women’s only gathering in which two melanin-rich harpies force-feed a meal of anti-white anti-American propaganda to retarded self-flagellating Karens, the film’s secret sauce is its simplicity. Walsh, sporting a disguise of nothing more than tight jeans and a man-bun, need only repeat each charlatan’s repugnant claims and pseudo philosophies back to them in his enervating baritone for their puddle deep water to recede, leaving them sputtering in confusion as they attempt to clarify their opaque and vapid points of view to great comedic effect.
And that is the point, after all. Conservatives often say that were these dangerous ideas not so pernicious, consuming our children, friends, and families while granting politicians greater and further-reaching powers than any of the Founding Fathers whom they daily malign would have ever imagined, they would be funny. However, Walsh reminds us that they are indeed funny and that their absurdity is the true weapon that we can brandish against what has become a never-ending onslaught of mindless progressive insanity from those on the Left.
That said, some viewers may find that Am I Racist? isn’t quite as impactful as its gender-affirming predecessor. In that film, three little words scorched the earth surrounding every radical crazy at which it was leveled – “What is a woman? Of course, the question’s effectiveness is directly proportional to the binary reality of human gender and, in fact, all of mammalian history. It is among the simplest and most easily recognizable of truisms. There are no feelings, procedures, chemical compounds, or magic imp that can transmogrify a man into a woman and vice versa, and all but the most mentally disturbed of us know this implicitly. Whereas, in Am I Racist?, the targeted fools are able to internalize their ignorance of the complexities and realities of actual racism as bulwarks against rational thought, believing that if their own mental superiority cannot unravel the mysteries, no one’s can.
The result is that audiences will revel in having their belief in the intellectual and ethical failings of these human rejects affirmed but won’t be as satisfied as they were with What is A Woman when, ultimately, few appear to know that they are stumped. Furthermore, structurally, the film begins to drag somewhat toward the middle, and it seems almost as though the filmmakers were trying to fill in time before getting to the grand finale. Any other time, the material they used as filler would have been entertaining on its own merit; however, it is bookended by such hilarity-inducing brilliance that its minor deficiencies are amplified. Fortunately, this counts for a tiny section of the movie and is only less by comparison, and therefore still has its charm.
Unlike What is a Woman?, Am I Racist? isn’t meant to be an open dialogue. Rather, it is an almost two-hour gotcha piece designed to make you feel good while giving dirtbags all the needed rope. It may not be as technically tight as Walsh’s previous entry, but it is laugh-out-loud funny, infinitely gratifying, and beyond Worth it.
WOKE ELEMENTS
Dozens in Virtually Every Scene
- Of course, they’re all being shown to be as ridiculous as they deserve.
*While she’s certainly not beyond making such a stupid statement, Kamala Harris did not actually say this. It is satire. Relax.
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
14 comments
Ktuff_morning
September 13, 2024 at 1:54 am
Some pretty strong language in this one.
“retarded self-flagellating Karens”
“dirtbags”
“human rejects”
“vile hucksters”
I’m only curious to see who you hate so much. What exactly did they do to deserve such invective? I can’t tell from your review. You don’t give any specifics.
I bet they’re just your run-of-the-mill boors, if that. Without any power or influence. Well, they do have the power to get your blood pressure up.
I believe you when you say they’re obnoxiously anti-white so I’m not going to seek this one out thank you very much. At least your review provides some value despite the eyeroll-inducing bombast.
By the way I feel sorry for women actually named Karen. Imagine if your first name was turned into a derogatory term. You’d probably want to change your name.
Is that even a good idea? I mean you’d have to deal with credit report problems, IDs, title deeds, legal issues, always having to refer to your “previous alias” when filling out forms. What a hassle. Otherwise there’s always the smirk, the disrespect, the dread of introducing yourself. I really do feel bad for women who have the misfortune of being named Karen. Wendy’s another one I think. Shrapnel’s flying everywhere in the culture wars.
Ktuff_morning
September 13, 2024 at 9:32 am
..Have you considered attacking the behavior and not the person? You avoid the distortions of labeling, generalization and filtering. Unless of course it’s your intention to label, generalize and filter in which case you’d not be in compliance with commandment nine. Also I think Jesus said something about eye motes and first stones? Oh whoops I almost forgot. You have the God’s forgiveness escape clause. Never mind. Christian life sure is easy isn’t it?
I’m curious how you’d tackle a review of Onibaba the subtext of which is the Christian hypocrisy of the west for the bombing of Hiroshima.
Sweet Deals
September 14, 2024 at 4:29 pm
Considering that you’ve proven yourself to be such a vociferous opponent of those who promote anti-whiteness, I’m surprised that you are willing to defend them.
Ktuff_morning
September 16, 2024 at 2:34 pm
I’m concerned about his immortal soul.
Sweet Deals
September 16, 2024 at 3:25 pm
Considering that you’ve proven yourself to be such a vociferous opponent of people who practice religion such as Christianity and Judaism, I’m surprised that you care.
Ktuff_morning
September 22, 2024 at 9:32 am
Most Christians and Jews don’t really live according to their own professed religious values. They’re cultists. It all boils down to tribalism-justifies-hypocrisy and vice versa, the converse referring to the delicious self-affirmation of having permission to violate your own principles against “the other”. Did you know Christians and non-Christians have the same rates for theft and murder?
pdh628
September 15, 2024 at 4:27 pm
just another woke trash from Hollywood pushing it out on us i give it a big 0
James Carrick
September 15, 2024 at 4:39 pm
How is it woke?
Petranic1
September 21, 2024 at 9:20 pm
Matt Walsh triumphs again! Hilariously funny. Anything that embarrasses and exposes the DEI grifters like this wonderful film should be celebrated. Well done Matt and the entire team that produced this gem.
Sweet Deals
September 23, 2024 at 8:59 pm
So, you’re not really anti-religion. You’re anti-hypocrite.
Well, it’s a good thing you’re warning us about the evils of calling people rude names. I’m sure you would never be caught doing such an awful thing to anyone.
JK
September 29, 2024 at 4:25 pm
I’m not racist. I dislike everybody 😉
Bussy Goblin The Bussy Gobbler
December 23, 2024 at 12:34 am
I’m gonna go ahead and save everybody some time and spoil this “movie”. Yes Matt Walsh is racist… But like everyone already knew that already right? I like i couldn’t even watch this with friends just to laugh at him. I mean if you want to waste an hour and 41 minutes of your life have fun ig but you’re never going to get that time back. unrelated is anyone else creeped out by the man baby plush in the diaper that he has of himself? like that’s genuinely concerning to me lol
A white woman who apparently is fragile and racist. Or am I a woman? I should ask Justice Ketanji-Brown.
February 5, 2025 at 11:39 pm
This was not as good as “What is a Woman”, in that we didn’t have an, um, obviously gender confused individual stumped when confronted dead-on by his (?) own inconsistencies like a deer caught in the headlights, but when Matt guilt-tripped Robin DiAngelo into opening her wallet and paying her “reparations”, I was banging my fist on the table whilst simultaneously gasping in between huge guffaws. And when he presented his DEI class with weapons with which to physically hurt themselves to punish themselves for their internalized racism? I had to pause the movie to wipe away the tears of laughter. The movie will not change any minds, because as both of Matt’s films have shown us, those who fall for woke ideologies don’t really have minds; rather they merely have blank slates upon which the media records the talking points of the day. Those who DO have minds can appreciate several things: 1) the dollar counter showing how profitable DEI training is (and a running total in the top left would have been great!) 2) How white people sit there very uncomfortably hearing how racist they are (when they are not actually racist) but are too cowardly to stand up and say anything for fear of cancellation/firing 3) Turning Borat-style targeting upon the people who champion Borat 4) How “cultural appropriation” is a subset of the DEI grift. A+ for effort, A- for humor, B for content. If he had managed to get Ibram X. Kendi, it would have been A+ for content. Alas, that probably would have made the film go over budget, though. 😉
amvictory
March 27, 2025 at 10:54 pm
pdh628, Have you even watched it, or is your comment a knee-jerk reaction to the title?