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"Am I Racist?" documentary opens today in theaters...

Posted on 9/13/24 at 3:41 am
Posted by RollTide1987
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 3:41 am
From the creators of "What is a Woman?" The film stars Matt Walsh as he goes undercover in a Borat-like way to find out the inner workings of DEI and other movements related to racial issues in America in our present day.



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Posted by schexyoung
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 6:55 am to
What is a women was great. Looking forward to this one.
Posted by ThoseGuys
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 7:08 am to
I know this will come across as trolling, but I promise it is not. I have not seen more than a handful of clips and the trailers for What is a Woman and from this movie so I am genuinely curious; do people see this as anything more than propaganda?

Like is there anything in here that might remotely challenge his way of thinking (or my extension the viewer) or does he just find the most extreme examples of stereotypes to prove his point? Because that is all I saw in clips were people who were such caricatures of stereotypes that it made me wonder if they were just paid actors because they always perfectly set up Matt for all his talking points.

Or am I just missing the point and this is just about mocking the opposing viewpoints similar to how Borat wasn't worried about challenging how people thought and just wanted to lambast certain groups of people?
Posted by funnystuff
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 7:37 am to
The women at the end is Robin DiAngelo.


If you’re not forced to be kept in the loop on DEI developments by your employer, it would be normal to not know who she is… but Robin DiAngelo is arguably one of the two biggest mainstream advocates for the extreme version of DEI that really goes off the rails (it’s her and Ibrahm X. Kendi). She wrote White Fragility, which was a New York Times best seller and is often used by DEI trainers as something akin to their version of a Bible. She’s a figurehead of the antiracist movement, one who’s full time job is to go around the country to universities and firms to “teach” adults how to fight against the racism that is inherent within them.


Now I obviously don’t know the extent to which Walsh engages with her in good faith or in pursuit of deeper understanding. But I do know she’s not seen as “ the most extreme examples of stereotypes” by the left… she’s fully at the center of DEI advocacy at this point
This post was edited on 9/13/24 at 7:48 am
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 8:08 am to
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do people see this as anything more than propaganda?


Propaganda is saying that men can be women, women can be men, or anything in between.

Propaganda is telling a teenage girl going through puberty with her hormones going all over the place that they were born in the wrong body and if they mutilate and castrate themselves that they’ll be happy.

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Like is there anything in here that might remotely challenge his way of thinking (or my extension the viewer) or does he just find the most extreme examples of stereotypes to prove his point?


The extreme examples in What is a Woman are literally on par with Nazi level war crimes. There’s one person that Matt interviews in that movie named Marci Bowers who would be the Colonel Sanders of child sex change operations. He (yes he) has performed over 2,000 sex change operations many of them to children. This scumbag should be arrested, charged with crimes against humanity, and if convicted then receive the death penalty.

He is just as evil as Mengele. Here he is openly admitting that literally none of his male juvenile patients have ever had an orgasm once he got a hold of them and has admitted he knows of a child sex change operation as young as 13:

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Because that is all I saw in clips were people who were such caricatures of stereotypes that it made me wonder if they were just paid actors because they always perfectly set up Matt for all his talking points.


I assure you that Marci Bowers and Robin DiAngelo are real people.

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Or am I just missing the point and this is just about mocking the opposing viewpoints similar to how Borat wasn't worried about challenging how people thought and just wanted to lambast certain groups of people?



These people are out to ruin and completely control your life. In almost every Fortune 500 company, you have to annually admit that you’re a racist through DEI HR bullshite training. So no, these people need to be called out for the fascist bullies they are and in some cases hardcore Nazi war criminals when it comes to the mutilation and sterilization of children.
This post was edited on 9/13/24 at 8:47 am
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 9:18 am to
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Like is there anything in here that might remotely challenge his way of thinking (or my extension the viewer) or does he just find the most extreme examples of stereotypes to prove his point?


That's a bit of the problem. The core issue itself, that whites are inherently racists and blacks are inherently victims, is an extreme philosophy but is being normalized through the demand of acceptance (or else you'll be considered a racist).

To bring this back, briefly, to the trans issue: the most recent SCOTUS Justice (Brown) was asked during her questioning before Congress to define what a woman is. She responded that she couldn't because she wasn't a biologist. If you don't see the level of normalization to where a prospective (and then approved) Justice of the Supreme Court promotes such counter-reality points that it's impossible (or, at least, politically undesirable) to define something as basic as what a woman is (it's a human who was born with a vagina and has now reached adulthood) without some advanced degree, then you've already succumbed to the propaganda to the point where you can no longer discern reality.

To bring it back to the racism platform, there are absolutely those out there who propone DEI/CRT and alter reality in order to have a point every bit as much as the pro-trans movement tries to muddy waters between "man" and "woman" in an attempt to redefine them as having no concrete meaning. A great example of the racial aspect is the 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones.

If you aren't aware of it, the 1619 Project attempts to re-write history by presenting the Revolutionary War as a war against England for the colonies to keep slavery. The claim is so blatantly false that historians who specialize in 17th century slavery have called it bullshite. I can't find the article now, but one who was used by the Project for various historical data stated that not only was the way they used that data wrong but that she had contacted the Times and the author about it before publishing and they both ignored her.

Let me say this a bit more clearly: the 1619 Project re-writes history to falsely make slavery the central point (or at least "a" central point) behind the Revolutionary War and it has won a Pulitzer Prize.

That sort of rhetorical foundation is what's used to create the argument that "the whole system is built on racism". By "the whole system", they mean everything. Math, English, highways, courts, laws, etc. Everything. Because of that, everything must be "rebuilt" with the goal of "equity" (the E in DEI, which is a fancy way of saying "equal outcomes" as opposed to "equal opportunities"). Anything where blacks do not achieve at the same level of whites (and now they include asians, at times) is then racist (by default) and must be changed in ways which allow blacks to achieve at the same level.

Almost every college or university has a DEI office now.

None of this is speculation, it's easily researched reality. If you don't believe me, look it up for yourself. Once you do, ask yourself which is propaganda: an award-winning lie which is being used to craft policy or the pointing out that it's built on a lie.

To me, DEI is propaganda that has reached levels which would make Joseph Goebbels proud.
Posted by RLDSC FAN
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 9:21 am to
If this country is such a POS, why doesn't that lady just leave?
Posted by ThoseGuys
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 10:13 am to
So if she applying similar tactics as Sweet Baby Inc, which is a consultant firm that promotes DEI and if a studio refuses to hire them they put out hit pieces in various media calling them sexist, racist, etc?

Or are companies just so scared of not being viewed positive at this point that they just hire her regardless?

My employer has never had any real DEI crap and my previous job was before any of this crap was mainstream so when it comes to a workplace environment I pretty much as clueless.
Posted by ThoseGuys
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 10:22 am to
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Once you do, ask yourself which is propaganda: an award-winning lie which is being used to craft policy or the pointing out that it's built on a lie.

To me, DEI is propaganda that has reached levels which would make Joseph Goebbels proud.


To be fair, I believe propaganda is simply any media created with the purpose of pushing a message. It can be a negative or positive message. D.A.R.E. was propaganda even though all of us agree (hopefully at least) that kids shouldn't do drugs. There use to be plenty of WWII propaganda encouraging the US to join the war efforts and to get citizens on board with it.

So propaganda can be a positive thing.

But I was wondering if this movie would just be Bowling for Columbine levels of bullshite where he tries to pretend he's making a serious documentary or if it was more like Borat where he is finding the most extreme to mock them. Because I see comments comparing it to Borat, but I watch interviews and clips and it seems like he is trying to act like everything is a serious documentary about how crazy everyone on the left is.
Posted by boxcarbarney
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 10:52 am to
Looks like at 1:38 he's on Bourbon Street
Posted by boxcarbarney
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 10:55 am to
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Or am I just missing the point and this is just about mocking the opposing viewpoints


I know nothing about Matt Walsh or this movie, but I assume he's really just mocking and poking fun at these people. Their belief system is so off the rails that it really doesn't warrant serious consideration.
Posted by Bard
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 11:16 am to
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So propaganda can be a positive thing.


Fair enough.

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But I was wondering if this movie would just be Bowling for Columbine levels of bullshite where he tries to pretend he's making a serious documentary or if it was more like Borat where he is finding the most extreme to mock them. Because I see comments comparing it to Borat, but I watch interviews and clips and it seems like he is trying to act like everything is a serious documentary about how crazy everyone on the left is.


Sort of, and I say that because this meme holds a lot of truth:



To keep this a bit more M/TV oriented, back in 2005 Southpark lampooned tranny-ism with Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina. Like the character of Klinger from MASH (who dressed as a woman in order to get a psych discharge), the idea of transism was considered a joke by most, and a mental illness (dysphoric body image condition, very similar to anorexia) by health professionals. Today, the Left's candidate for President has advocated for federal money to be used to fund transgender surgeries for illegals (and this is without going into the dire economic crisis we're in with federal debt).

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The then-senator from California affirmed that she would use executive power as president to ensure transgender and non-binary individuals “including those in prison and immigration detention” get access to “all necessary surgical care.”

Harris noted that while the Golden State’s attorney general, she had pushed for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to offer transgender surgeries to inmates.


The further out to the fringe (in either direction) you go, the more there is an attempt to normalize those fringe beliefs as being legitimate. In other words, as the Left's fringe goes deeper to the Left, the center also moves leftward and eventually you get to the point where center-Left is what once was considered absurd. This is where we are now as classical liberals like Bill Maher are now being seen (and portrayed) more and more as being right-leaning.

So it's not "how crazy everyone on the left is" so much as it's "how far into crazy the center of the left has moved".
Posted by dawgfan24348
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 11:21 am to
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Like is there anything in here that might remotely challenge his way of thinking (or my extension the viewer) or does he just find the most extreme examples of stereotypes to prove his point?

You’re asking the wrong place, Matt Walsh and all the Daily Wire peddle right wing propaganda of course you’re going to get downvoted to oblivion because this board lacks total self awareness for the most part.
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 11:43 am to
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Like is there anything in here that might remotely challenge his way of thinking (or my extension the viewer) or does he just find the most extreme examples of stereotypes to prove his point? Because that is all I saw in clips were people who were such caricatures of stereotypes that it made me wonder if they were just paid actors because they always perfectly set up Matt for all his talking points.


I don't know, but I'd encourage you to listen to Matt Walsh's appearance on Rogan a couple years ago. It'll give you a good idea as to what his motives may be when making these movies.

Posted by RLDSC FAN
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 11:55 am to
Posted by arktiger28
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 11:58 am to
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You’re asking the wrong place, Matt Walsh and all the Daily Wire peddle right wing propaganda of course you’re going to get downvoted to oblivion because this board lacks total self awareness for the most part.


We lack self awareness? That’s rich. Most every part of main stream comedy culture exists to ridicule those on the right. SNL and Late Night shows, its a one sided event of mockery. But when one conservative media company releases a couple of documentary’s mocking the left you can’t handle it and call foul or propaganda. It’s like what happened with the Supreme Court. It was favorable to the left for decades and the right just took it. Then it becomes originalist leaning and now your ilk wants to destroy it. Get out of here with that self awareness crap.
This post was edited on 9/13/24 at 12:00 pm
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 12:02 pm to
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Their belief system is so off the rails that it really doesn't warrant serious consideration.


Doesn't warrant serious consideration? It's the defacto law of the land in the financial sector because of the control over lending institutions the progressive globalists have. You're about 15 years too late to dismiss it as just some fringe bunch of wackos on college campuses.
Posted by Corinthians420
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 12:05 pm to
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she’s not seen as “ the most extreme examples of stereotypes” by the left… she’s fully at the center of DEI advocacy at this point

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This post was edited on 9/13/24 at 12:06 pm
Posted by arktiger28
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 12:06 pm to
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Like is there anything in here that might remotely challenge his way of thinking (or my extension the viewer) or does he just find the most extreme examples of stereotypes to prove his point?


The entire premise of “What is a Woman?” Is Matt just dead pan asking professionals that title question and letting them talk. I just don’t see how letting the opposing opinion talk and hang themselves can be strictly considered propoganda.
Posted by Hayekian serf
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Posted on 9/13/24 at 12:13 pm to
You should watch What Is a Woman

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