{"id":2340580,"date":"2024-09-13T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/am-i-racist-exposes-the-grift-of-the-anti-racist-industry\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:24:28","slug":"am-i-racist-exposes-the-grift-of-the-anti-racist-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/am-i-racist-exposes-the-grift-of-the-anti-racist-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Am I Racist?&#8217; Exposes The Grift Of The Anti-Racist Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fam-i-racist-exposes-the-grift-of-the-anti-racist-industry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2340580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The satirical documentary &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221; by Matt\u200c Walsh, explores themes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-american-activists-blast-bidens-pandering-anti-racism-order\/\" title=\"Asian-American Activists Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Pandering\u2019 Anti-Racism Order\">anti-racism<\/a> through a comedic\u200c lens. Drawing inspiration from Sun Tzu&#8217;s notion of understanding one&#8217;s enemy, Walsh embarks on a quest to become an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-private-school-students-anonymously-accused-school-officials-of-racism-the-school-caved\/\" title=\"Elite Private School Students Anonymously Accused School Officials Of Racism. The School Caved.\">anti-racist<\/a>, \u2063critically engaging with the ideas espoused by diversity, \u200bequity, and inclusion (DEI) experts. After earning a DEI certification and attending related workshops, he is discovered while \u2063mockingly participating, leading to his ejection. Undeterred, he decides \u2063to\u200d go undercover to \u200cfurther delve into DEI concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the film, Walsh comically depicts the absurdity of the language and concepts surrounding anti-racism, exposing both the challenges and contradictions faced by those in\u200c the movement. He interviews various individuals, from activists\u2062 to everyday citizens, revealing their skepticism toward overly complex anti-racist jargon. \u2063A significant moment occurs when Walsh meets Robin DiAngelo, author of &#8220;White Fragility,&#8221; where their interactions \u2064highlight the monetary incentives in the anti-racist discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221; humorously critiques the state of race relations in America, suggesting \u2063that the recent focus on \u2064racial issues has not \u200byielded the intended positive outcomes. The film&#8217;s comedic approach invites audiences\u200d to reflect on the complexities of race in contemporary society while \u200calso satirizing the performative aspects \u2062of anti-racism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In &ldquo;The Art of War,&rdquo; Sun Tzu wrote, &ldquo;To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.&rdquo; In &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_nS9VWcxfMY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Am I Racist?<\/a>,&rdquo; the satirical documentary released by the Daily Wire that&rsquo;s in theaters now, writer and star Matt Walsh leans into that concept with gusto, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fracturedatlas.org\/what-does-it-mean-when-we-say-doing-the-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doing the work<\/a> necessary to become an anti-racist. Fortunately for him, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts he lampoons don&rsquo;t have the same level of dedication to studying their purported enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh earns a certification in DEI, he visits a bookstore to pick up <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/robin-diangelo-plagiarized-minority-scholars-complaint-alleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plagiarist Robin DiAngelo&rsquo;s<\/a> &ldquo;White Fragility,&rdquo; he goes to a workshop examining how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-alleges-incoming-nyc-schools-chancellor-discriminated-against-white-administrators\/\" title=\"Lawsuit Alleges Incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Discriminated Against White Administrators\">dismantle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-kicks-off-so-called-progressive-package-with-decades-old-policies\/\" title=\"Joe Biden kicks off so-called progressive package with decades-old policies\">systemic racism<\/a><\/a>, and he disrupts the opening meditation session at that workshop. Somehow, no one initially recognizes him nor realizes he&rsquo;s mocking them, though the microaggressions he commits lead to him being found out by the other workshop attendees. Rather than allowing him to do the work after that discovery &mdash; and surely, they see that he is someone who needs to do the work &mdash; he gets escorted out. They also call the police on him.<\/p>\n<p>This macroaggression means that Walsh has but one choice for his project &mdash; he must go undercover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0\">a la Eddie Murphy<\/a>. The subterfuge allows him to truly start doing the work. He learns that whiteness is insidious, all Republicans are Nazis, and white women are the worst. Through his efforts, viewers also learn those things and more, such as the fact that you should never hire him to be a server at your dinner party about how white women are the worst. When it comes to learning how to clear dishes, Walsh still has work to do.<\/p>\n<p>We also learn that there&rsquo;s a lot of money in teaching white people to be anti-racist, even if its teachers approaching their lessons as living buzzword clouds, verbally assaulting their students about decentering their whiteness, decolonizing themselves, and not &ldquo;tone policing&rdquo; people of color. We see bikers refuse to do those things even as they denounce racism, not least of which because they&rsquo;re normal people for whom phrases like &ldquo;decentering whiteness&rdquo; and &ldquo;decolonizing themselves&rdquo; are obvious nonsense. Black people Walsh talks to are just as bad as the bikers at accepting such concepts.<\/p>\n<h2>Meeting DiAngelo<\/h2>\n<p>Not that all his results are so grim. When he mansplains &ldquo;mansplaining&rdquo; to DiAngelo in their face-to-face meeting, for example, she accepts his more enlightened definition. She is also much better at being an anti-racist than the normal people he attempts to educate, though she seems unenthused about joining Walsh in offering a black man some cash as a personal act of offering reparations. It&rsquo;s not that she can&rsquo;t afford it. Walsh pays her $15,000 for their one-on-one session, a stack of cash that undoubtedly encourages her to be a thorough anti-racist.<\/p>\n<p>She does educate Walsh in turn, though. After their meeting, he realizes that there&rsquo;s a lot of money in being an anti-racist &mdash; DiAngelo&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9749517\/An-anti-racist-author-Robin-DiAngelo-makes-728K-year-speaking-engagements.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">impressive earnings<\/a> are but a drop in the bucket &mdash; and it would be foolish for him not to get a little bit for himself. His Do the Work Workshop, however, is not the financial boon for him it is for others, earning him only a few thousand dollars. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&rsquo;s because his methodology involves less catered food and wine and more self-flagellation. If it all sounds ridiculous, it&rsquo;s because it is. Perceptions about race relations in the United States have been <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1687\/race-relations.aspx\">trending downward<\/a>. It&rsquo;s almost as if the huge push to focus on race over the past decade has had an opposite effect than the one intended.<\/p>\n<h2>Things Aren&rsquo;t So Bad<\/h2>\n<p>This is the beauty of &ldquo;Am I Racist?&rdquo; It hilariously skewers the anti-racism industry as the destructive grift that it is, one that enables its high priests and priestesses to earn lavish amounts of money for lecturing white people about how awful they are. It shows that most people are not of the faculty lounge or corporate diversity training milieu, blathering on about systemic racism and land acknowledgements. The men and women on the street Walsh talks to, regardless of skin color, rarely agree with his pronouncements. Many openly argue with him. The huge chasm between real people and the charlatans who seek to profit off dividing us is exposed, all with humor and verve.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Am I Racist?&rdquo; is a stunning reminder that offline and out in the real world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-biden-doesnt-want-you-knowing-about-drug-price-controls\/\" title=\"What Biden Doesn&#039;t Want You Knowing About Drug Price Controls\">things aren&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t so bad, even if our perceptions have been skewed. It also reminds us that the fight to turn America into a country wholly focused on cosmetic differences is one that the sane can easily win. For as Sun Tzu also said, &ldquo;If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The anti-racist industry may have won a few battles, but as its leaders and soldiers do not know the enemy, even one as prominent as Walsh, every victory they achieve will lead to defeats, and soon they will be wholly vanquished.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Richard Cromwell is a writer and senior contributor at The Federalist. He lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife, three daughters, and two crazy dogs. Co-host of the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeandcochon.com\/%E2%80%9C\">Coffee &amp; Cochon<\/a>, you can find him on <a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/jrichardcromwell%E2%80%9C\">Facebook<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rcromwell4\">Twitter<\/a>, though you should probably avoid using social media.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Art of War,&#8221; Sun Tzu stated, &#8220;To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.&#8221; This idea is embraced wholeheartedly by Matt Walsh in the satirical documentary &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221; from the Daily Wire, currently showing in theaters. Walsh immerses himself in the anti-racist movement, undertaking various efforts to understand it. However, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts he mocks do not exhibit the same commitment to understanding their supposed adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh obtains a DEI certification, picks up Robin DiAngelo&#8217;s book &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; at a bookstore, attends a workshop on dismantling systemic racism\u2014and even disrupts its opening meditation session. Initially unnoticed by others as he parodies them through microaggressions, he eventually gets recognized and is escorted out of the workshop after his antics are discovered; they even call the police on him.<\/p>\n<p>This leads Walsh to go undercover like Eddie Murphy to continue his project. Through this disguise, he begins to genuinely engage with anti-racism concepts and learns that whiteness is pervasive and that all Republicans are labeled as Nazis while white women receive particular criticism. Viewers also discover these insights alongside him\u2014such as why hiring him as a server for discussions about white women would be unwise\u2014as he still has much to learn about clearing dishes.<\/p>\n<p>The film reveals that there\u2019s significant financial gain in teaching white individuals how to be anti-racist; however, many instructors approach their lessons with jargon-heavy rhetoric that often alienates students rather than educates them. For instance, bikers reject these ideas despite denouncing racism because terms like \u201cdecentering whiteness\u201d seem nonsensical to them. Similarly skeptical responses come from Black individuals Walsh interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Not all interactions yield negative outcomes; during his meeting with DiAngelo\u2014where he humorously explains \u201cmansplaining\u201d\u2014she accepts his interpretation but appears reluctant when it comes time for reparations discussions despite being well-compensated for her time with him ($15k). This encounter opens Walsh&#8217;s eyes further: recognizing there&#8217;s substantial profit potential in being an anti-racist educator prompts him to consider pursuing this path himself\u2014even if his own workshop doesn\u2019t bring in nearly as much revenue due partly to its less lavish setup compared to others\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately revealing absurdities within race relations discourse today\u2014the film critiques how recent emphases on race have seemingly backfired\u2014&#8221;Am I Racist?&#8221; effectively lampoons what it describes as an exploitative industry profiting off guilt-driven lectures aimed at white people regarding their perceived shortcomings. It highlights how most everyday people don\u2019t align with elite academic or corporate narratives surrounding systemic racism; instead engaging directly shows stark contrasts between genuine public sentiment and those profiting from division.<\/p>\n<p>In essence,&#8221;Am I Racist?&#8221; serves as a comedic reminder that outside of media portrayals or academic circles things may not be so dire after all\u2014and suggests those advocating for divisive ideologies may ultimately face defeat if they fail truly understand both themselves and their opponents\u2014a notion echoed by Sun Tzu\u2019s wisdom regarding knowledge of oneself versus one\u2019s enemies leading either toward victory or failure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":2340581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/matt-e1726019352246.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4094,36487,5243,36971],"class_list":["post-2340580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anti-racism","tag-cultural-critique","tag-racism","tag-social-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/matt-e1726019352246.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2340581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}