Saw this with my Bride and my son last Saturday. Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire takes on the race grifter industry, many of whose proponents are lily white. The warning as to spoilers is fully in effect.
Sainted Rush Limbaugh used to describe his radio show as illustrating absurdity by being absurd, and that is what Walsh does in this film. His conceit is that he is an innocent seeking to find out whether he is racist and he takes a Candide like stroll through the DEI industry in pursuit of finding out. He allows the DEI proponents to hang themselves by the simple mechanism of asking them questions and having them respond.
The problem with message films is usually that they lack humor. Walsh makes sure that his message, that DEI is a grift, is always surrounded by a body guard of clowns.
The film is doing well at the box office and with audiences. Critics, at least those who publish on dead trees, are doing their best to ignore it, which only enhances its rebel cachet. Highly recommended.
I am proudly a racist and my race is human. That said, I wish I had Robert Heinlein’s optimism. From “This I Believe: Our Noble and Essential Decency” in 1952:
I believe in — I am proud to belong to — the United States. Despite shortcomings, from lynchings to bad faith in high places, our nation has had the most decent and kindly internal practices and foreign policies to be found anywhere in history.
And finally, I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown — in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability … and goodness … .of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth — but that we will always make it … survive … endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure — will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage — and his noble essential decency.
This I believe with all my heart.
Bingo.
“Oh..I’m not racist.” ..the raise your glass if your a racist clip.
Bravo Matt.
Looking forward to this work.
Well the problem with DEI is that it’s clearly for the benefit of the woke who do not have an ethnic trace in their bones. It’’s pathetic seeing grown adults reduce themselves to grovelling apologists. Ask any (sane) “ethnic” person what they really want and the answer is not tokenism. Everyone wants to be treated based on their merit and not what skin colour du jour they happened to be born with. Hopefully this movie hits our shores. Matt Walsh is great.
Exactly Ezabelle…
Black IT professional expounds here;
https://www.newsweek.com/i-am-proud-black-man-dei-undermines-us-opinion-1904486
from the Newsweek clip;
Philip R. Mathews
16w ago
There’s no DEI in pro basketball or football……. Just the best players on the field in order to win games😳 Ever give this any thought?
Great article Philip. Thanks. And you are on point about competitive sports.
LQC, Heinlein definitely had his off moments, but that was definitely not one of them. (Flashback: in JR High/HS. Taking the bus down Central Av in Albuquerque to the public library. Making a beeline through the stacks to the SciFi section. The intoxicating scent of Books. Asimov’s “Foundation” tucked under one arm, while my other hand reached for “The Door into Summer”. There were dreams then.)
That there are clowns and grifters is unremarkable. That they have a financial pipeline courtesy higher education and corporate HR is what is appalling.
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We laughed till we cried.
I had never hear the complete Jussie story and can’t believe anyone ever fell for it.
I’m glad he didn’t let anyone whip themselves 😂