Borat asked ridiculous questions of normal people. Matt asked ridiculous people normal questions. There’s a difference. Borat is manipulating people, Matt simply lets them be themselves.
I saw the movie. I’m a 65 year old white grandma and sat next to a young black man with long braids. We said hello and chatted before it started. We both laughed so hard during the movie and walked out and discussed it after. It was a nice connection. We wished each other well. ❤
Sorry found it cringe. I had a few laughs but way too few. If you have gone through DEI training, it is very much like that and I really don't have a desire to spend my free time (and money) watching a variation of DEI training.
the left wants to gaslight everyone about there being a lot of smart black people that could see how racist the Critical Race movement was, many will speak out but there are too many activists "journalists" that are partisan propagandist controlling the narrative.
My company is HUGE on DEI. We are constantly getting notifications and invites to all kinds of dei events. They also exclude everyone from joining. You literally have to be a person with whatever that group is about. To me that promotes seperation not inclusion. I hate it all.
I worked for a company in Canada very much the same. At first it was no big deal but as time went on it became a very big deal if you were not showing up for those events or only going to a token few of those events. It eventually split the office into two camps - the true hard core believers in the ideology and those who simply wanted to do their work and go home to their families and spend time with them. And then slowly but surely one by one of us in the latter group were being laid off for dubious reasons. I quit before that happened to me and that was the best decision i ever made.
I was just about to warn you of the pitfalls that you could expect in the future from your company if you do not show interest in these events. But then you just got someone making a comment that details the exact same thing I was about to worry about. Same thing happened to me. I’m just one of those people that likes to do her work and go home and keep her head tucked down. But they won’t let you do that, they insist you play their game or you’re gone
@@thedingo8833It felt like the office suddenly had political commissars like they used to have in the former Soviet Union or maybe like how Hitler Youth kids would hear their parents say something & report their parents to the Gestapo - like suddenly you were aware that you were being monitored by certain co workers who were into the ideology and it just got worse and worse because it was all behind peoples backs ...those events got more and more frequent too , like at least one evening during the work week and one on the weekend which really cuts into the time you can spend with your spouse and kids....for me after working 40 to 50 hrs with a group of people the last thing i wanted to do was to spend half the weekend with my co workers - what bothered me too was that those who bought into the ideology and attended all the events were more often than not mediocre pretty lazy workers but because they were part of the ideology movement they could get away with that while the far better workers were being downsized....after that i had to be in charge of my own fate so i went the self employed route.
I saw the movie today with my 15v year old son. We both laughed a lot and my son said the saddest thing ever at the end. He said he never started thinking about the color of people until about 3 or 4 years ago when people started making a big deal about it. It's terrible what has happened with the race hustle and it's impact.
It actually happened a year before he was born, when people lost their minds over a black man becoming the president of the USA. I get the milestone of such an event, but what it did to the inner fabric of not only the U.S. but it stirred up things over here in Europe as well. And not for the better, as we all, some of us at least, know and have known since day 1. I spent over 2 years in the U.S. in the late 80s to mid 90s and i cannot remember a single racist moment and if there was someone being racist, same like over here in those days, everyone would roll their eyes or call him names and tell him to get lost. Also, and that is very important i'd say, everyone was making fun of everybody. And everybody knew what a joke was and what a mean, personal insult was. Now even mentioning a basic fact like that gets you dozens of "Very funny, you must be a white cis straight rich man...." gobbledeegook comments.....No, no, you don't make fun of anyone but white folks now, they are the oppressors, so they deserve... Okay, way off course, you are fortunate to have each other, it will get rough before it can get better/normal again i'm afraid.
It shows some people are so superficial with fragile egos in order to build themselves up to feel good about what they were born with in this avatar, or meat jacket. Lolol
@lowandodor1150 Having a black man in the white house was not the issue. The problem was the specific black man that believed the U.S. was systemically racist and also he was a hater of capitalism (not the crony type that deserves hate because it is not capitalism). This specific man's policies were racist, and he through race into everything. He believed all actions by police were racial and came on national TV and condemned the police at the beginning. When it turned out to not me racial, he would not correct himself. This man set race relations back 60 years, and he soured them around the world. I would love to have a constitutional libertarian black man who loves America as a president. That man was the polar opposite of this and the world has suffered so much because of the misguided stupidity of the American electorate.
@@louisebrown4622 You'd be surprised just how many black people, and "people of color", in general, don't agree with the reverse racism and woke stuff. There are some even against it(wish there were more)- like myself. I've been against it since the 90's. I'm on of the OGs- being anti-idealistic, anti-group, anti-nihilistc since I've been a boy. There are many, you're seeing the hustlers mostly... and the ignorant. Like I said- I'd have preferred if more of us actually stood up against it. If you're a decent human being- racism is one of the things that you should be against- in all it's forms, including it's current form.
Real conversation I had: DEI pusher: “You should never ask someone about their ethnic background.” Me: “Really? I grew up with and went to school with a lot of international students, coworkers. They always seemed proud of their heritage and happy to share with me if I show a sincere interest.” DEI pusher: “Well, someday someone may ask your kids what they are.” Me: “Ah! My son has some Norwegian blood and some Japanese blood, so he can tell people he’s part Viking and part samurai. How cool is that?” DEI pusher: Sour look, crosses arms Me: “Wait… if you’re refusing to engage and show an interest in what makes people who they are, and why they’re special and unique, aren’t you alienating the same people you claim to be helping?’ This ideology does not bring people together or unite them, it’s divisive. Always look at the outcome or results. It might sound noble, but is it virtue signaling or does it actually help people in real ways?
I'm a descendant of the Maori people of New Zealand who once were cannibals. I'm married to an Australian woman from Tasmania who can trace her ancestors back to the penal colony established by the British. Most Tasmanians can. Our son laments that he is a descendant of convicts and cannibals. This is true and we think it's hilarious..
@@dwwolf4636Exactly, its intent is destruction, not construction. I'm Polynesian/Japanese/Roma and I'm from NYC, so people have often had trouble "placing" my accent. But since about 2012, when I'm meeting new people who are white, they're scared to ask anymore "Where are you from?" and it's sad, because that used to be a good way to get to know a little bit about a new coworker, by sharing stories about where we've lived, and our family heritage. When people are walking on eggshells around each other, it's so much harder to form a cohesive team. And that's the goal of Marxism under the guise of "community": To prevent people from forming trust, to keep them always on edge, uncertain, afraid of being ratted out for WrongSpeak.
@@zxyatiywariii8Thats because alot of these whyte people on the coasts can be cowardly. I live in the mid west, i won't allow anti whyte bigotry a d neither will my friends. If i were to meet you, id ask "hey, how are you? Where are you from?" It would be normal. I understand some whyte dudes are a little scared because nobody has their back. They want our money lol, but they won't stick up for us. Which is sad, because we fight for everyone's rights.
I am so glad I listened to this conversation. It's like a breath of fresh air. I spent my childhood in the Soviet Union, and I don't want America to turn into it.
Remember the TV show Laugh-in from the 1960 (around then)? And Sanford and Son? And the Flip Wilson show? Where did that easy going go? This seemed to be just cruising along. White people could go to an night time outdoor James Brown concert wirhout getting hassled. Now we have all this anger. Where did that come from?
@@user34user73 I don't want your "free" stuff that got forcefully taken from another worker and given to me without my consent. I support my class and it's interest. I won't be a bandit like you and rob them via tax collectors. You're evil to the bone. We choose freedom over enslavement to the tax collectors.
My daughter, who I was quite close with, went off to college (Princeton University) our relationship was great. Four years later…she’s a whole different person. She barely tolerated me. I was very confused & I just tried to go along to get along. That was back in 2007. Now, she hasn’t spoken to me in about 4 years. I have a grandson who is now 6 and an almost 4 year old granddaughter who I have never seen. I dared to say I didn’t believe I was a racist & believed a large part of the population was not racist, including the police. I DID read the book “white fragility” and I thought the entire book was absurd. I may never see her again & that saddens me, but I do not want to bend to that level of ridiculous either. She will always be my child who is greatly loved.
Mike Rowe! Quit messing around and run for president already. Nobody on the planet has spent more time working with the people who make up the foundation of America than you have. Also, you've got the voice for it, dude!
Mike, i have the utmost respect for you, my friend. I have had immense respect for you since you started Dirty Jobs so long ago, trying to destigmatize these important trades, and i have even more now hearing you speak up about truth. Keep doing what you are doing, sir.
time for a dei-free employer... I know not what it is you do for a living, but it's time for a rethink, eh? MANDATORY?? fuck that.. not so much of that in the trades, I've been in machine shops for yrs and there is no such thing. it's very uncomfortable for those believers on a walk thru and it shows. my lead and i run all applicants to cnc dept thru the sex offender registry. no woke bullshit, and no perverts. just come to work and make your $.
I would absolutely sue for discrimination and demand my employer provide discovery of the ACTUAL racist incidents that precluded DEI training. Because in America quotas are illegal. And DEI training is a handbook on hiring based on skin color. Make them admit to their own racism. And get paid out for the discrimination against you! When businesses start facing consequences regularly this will quickly end. But brave people need to stand up.And if you complain and find yourself out of a job you can EASILY sue for retaliation.
I studied in East Germany behind the Wall. I learned about Fascism, Communism, Socialism, and Marxism. We were the only US University asked by the East German government to study their governmental system 6 1/2 hours a day for two weeks. They tried to indoctrinate us on how great Communism was even though we were seeing the two hour breadlines and the barbed wire walls keeping us prisoner. Four years ago when people were being locked down and mandated to stay in their homes and get a shot, I didn’t buy it for a minute. Why? Because all of these tactics are in the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx. People wonder how this happened and it’s because Obama is a Marxist. He’s the one who started the racist division that we had conquered in so many ways in America. He’s the example that anyone of any race can be president of this country, yet he was speaking as if their race is oppressed and that would be an impossibility. Obviously, the evidence was the opposite of what his rhetoric was. Race and gender wars are used in Marxism to create division amongst a society for the sole purpose of that community staying weak. A house divided against itself cannot stand, and that’s the Pinnacle of Marxism. For if we all got along, we would overtake any corrupt government, but if we’re all fighting, the corrupt government wins. People don’t know their history so they’re bound to repeat it. Psychological warfare, is apparently illegal between countries, but it is alive and well in homes and within this country to control others. Once someone is brainwashed through propaganda and lies, you can give them the truth and real facts and they are going to be unable to see it. They have become the defender of their very abuser. The whole country is suffering Stockholm Syndrome. Their victims refuse to see that the very people that have enslaved them are the ones that they keep listening to for the solution to freedom. The lies are so considerable that they can’t even face the truth because it’s too terrifying to face that they trusted someone so deeply, yet they betrayed them in the worst way possible. They slowly demonize people and groups in the media with blatant lies and false accusations so much so that it causes such hate, that the people eventually scream “crucify him!!” This is nothing short of demonic. This was Hitler’s tactic. What a great speaker he was. Everyone just loved his “Strength through Joy” in his speeches while demonizing the Jews. The demonization of the Jews came slowly through the media, and it wasn’t long until the masses of the people were agreeing that the masses were justified in hating a group so much that they should be eliminated. The crazy thing is the very people who were being enslaved, were still believing their captors in the camps. Even though they were lied to over and over again by their captors, the Jews still believed that they were going to get a shower, and they voluntarily lined up to face their death. Like lemmings to the sea, the sheep follow the wolf down the cliff. I hope that most Americans wake up and find out that most of its citizens are full of love and kindness and generosity towards people of all races, and that only through unifying are we able to keep this country protected and safe from corruption and destruction.
@@ellencook1658 Thank you. It’s based on personal testimony and real experience. Once you experience it, you can see the signs and symptoms everywhere.
Mike is spot on. Don’t fault me for my thoughts. Or for expressing thoughts (that I may have but am not proud of). Fault me for my actions if/when you see prejudices in me.
Just as an outsider (IE an aussie) can I ask why many people identify as African American, Hispanic american etc. WHY are you all not just plain Americans. Just my opinion by identifying as a race backed American you are just causing racism to exist. In short if I were to become an American I would not identify myself as an Australian American.
@gregharding7329 - Good, fair, valid question. I've been saying / ( commenting on YT pages ) for years that people born / raised ( or becoming a citizen ) in this country means: American. Even a "native" American. ( To those who hate the term "American", it's only short for United States American. ) The hyphenated race-based-American is endlessly divisive. It goes past respecting people of different groupings ( based to this day on skin tone??? ) is fundamentally dismissive of the uniqueness of individuality, including within an ethnicity or community or family, etc. People can always go home and speak whatever language they want, eat whatever food, but: We Are Americans! ( My appreciation to you for your "outside" opinion. Basically, it reminds us of how stupid we sound and appear to the world. Not being sarcastic. It helps us truly "progress". We have a bad habit of virtue-signaling to a nauseating degree. Plus, there ARE some factions that don't want to admit progress, growing unity, and non-skin-colored connections. )
Until the end of the last century, what you ascribe to actually existed (for the most part). Then, political correctness, starting in academia, dictated we start make distinctions according to ethnicity. It only seemed annoying, but now we realize there was a very sinister motive. America in my early life of 1950's through about 1990's, was much safer, prosperous, and free. This constant victimization mentality and hate did not exist. It is basically secularism versus Christianity.
Having watched it 4 times now, I believe the #1 best thing the movie has done is shine a light on it, and make it OK to talk about it. For years we've been walking on eggshells about this.... Not any more. Enough is enough. It's time for sanity and common sense to reign again.
@@longgone9738That's not true. There have been a lot of rather a-political people who talk about movies online that have spent time on this. Even if flaming liberals don't see it, the fact that it's reached ordinary people and made it a discussion topic is good
@@longgone9738 We'll see. To everyone I know that is left of center I has said "Hey have you seen 'Am I Racist?' yet you leftwing liberal nutjob?" --- and so far they have all been receptive.
I got called a racist the other day in a conversation about risks during pregnancy when I cited a study showing that certain risks were 1000x higher if a woman was giving birth in sub Saharan Africa instead of the US. Apparently it's racist to talk about unflattering data?
I got called racist for saying" the blacks are ticking me off " and they're a white family just up the road!!!! Their neighbors are the" whites " a black family. Not my fault!!!
One of the things I love about Matt Walsh is he never went to University/College. Many who did are blinded with arrogance that they think they are somehow better/more entitled to their opinion than others.
I'm an RN and I only have a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing. College taught me so little about life that I have really no recollection of learning much about anything except for science classes like Anatomy and physiology & Chemistry. Of course I had to take a crap load of other things that were totally unnecessary in social sciences and merely padded the coffers. I learned how to be a nurse on the job at the bedside starting 30 years ago in August. Peace
@VincenzoPentangeli there was a time when that might have been true, but definitely not in the last 30 years. I never got my piece of paper from high school. It used to bug me just a bit, but in the last 10 years, I have come to the conclusion that someone did me a big favor, getting me out into the workforce ASAP.
@@rheannak3934because one does not attend college doesn't mean that they are stagnant and remain in the same place, surrounded by the same people..Its possible to experience different cultures and worldviews without attending college.
My daughter just seen you speak in Sioux Falls and my boy seen you in 2010 at the National Boy Scout Jamboree. They said it was a touch stone moment for them each time. The boys said they would not rest on their Eagle Scout laurels and my daughter said she would believe in her self and ideas and to take a loss as a learning experience and to move forward and not dwell on it. She works nights and weekends as a CNA at a nursing home and goes to business school during weekdays. She just turned 19 on the 10th of Sep a day before my 60th birthday, so we are proud of her work ethic and perseverance at her young age. So please keep inspiring our youth not to rely on the Government and to think and work for themselves.
Thanks for the great interview!! I'm a Chinese immigrant and an American veteran. I met an old white dude in a bar in one of the Minneapolis suburbs. He blatantly called me a "racist" out loud because I was against open border. It was a bazaar experience, to say the least. I'm not sure how legalizing meritocracy or anything related to it would resolve the problems before us. It may create more of the vicious cycle we are experiencing. It may take an act of God to bring down the system. "Being offended is something the privileged do.... Americans can get offended on other people's behalf." ~ Comedian Vir Das
Same. My friend said I was a racist for wanting legal organized immigration. I know young girls get sexually abused trying to get to the border. So close it. Stop the chaos, drugs and torture of young people. How is this racist? Now look at the amount of human trafficking. Out of hand. Children crossing and getting assigned to a sponsor with no background check. No one tracks them. But I’m racist. Zero logic.
@@Green_Party How many MORE millions of people have to push their way into the USA, to convince you that the border is now open? Have you not seen the videos of scores of people walking right into America? Stop playing semantics jumble.
The only people that are racist or the ones that constantly talk about it. Anti-racism is racism. I love everyone until they give me a reason not to. Lived in Toronto Canada for 2 years and that people from all over the world and all different religions. Everyone got along, maybe a few jokes about the pakistanis but that was it. This was 25 years ago but still this new narrative is absolutely BS! Most Americans aren't racist.
If you acknowledge the fact of natural evolution then I don't see how you can not be racist. Of course humans have evolved with different advantages. There is a reason 77% of the NBA are black, and 71% of the NFL. They are bigger and stronger through evolution and breeding. Look around your room and look to see what technologies have come from Africans, Aboriginals or Native American indians. Where have governments systems and institutions came from? Aircraft, Automobiles, Space travel, computers, fiber Optics, antibiotics, basically everything advanced comes from Asians and whites. Leftists simply want to name call and make you evil by believing in evolution.
This podcast was so very wonderful. Thanks Mike for putting this out. At 1:11:45 when Mike quotes Peterson, "My words are mine" it actually brought tears to my eyes. What a powerful moment and thought. That people would try to actively try to compel us to say things, in this day and age, after everything we have experienced around compelled speech, is mind boggling.
I'm in my early seventies I watched racism take many turns and flips, I've seen people seeking entitlement from their slave ancestors. Reverse racism I've never owned a slave. As an American I believe everybody has an equal chance to make your life better it's not a birthright.
I believe you are correct ya old fart! Yup...pretty much my view at the young age of 69. I remember the last of Jim Crow, the equal rights movement, special rights for blacks in affirmative action, another form of racism like miss black America, and the entire shit show feminism brought us from the sixties onward morphing into the freak show we have today. Have to say --> Reverse racism is not valid, not a thing. Anti-white racism is racism, "reverse" would imply that racism is a one way white against the world thing, whereas in REALITY any person of any color can be racist against any other color/creed etc...racism is racism. Racism was at an all time low until Obummer stoked the flames of anti-white hatred/racism and kept it burning STRONG through BLM and the media until Biden. Intense ride the last 15 years! America is not racist, the Marxist progressives are!
As an American you are wrong, and that is a fact even if skin color is ignored. In fact, your point is one of the weakest points that conservatives cling to.
By 'everyone', you mean 'everyone except those who don't', right? I would describe those two groups as follows, one group is those who lived with/received enough Justice to not be derailed. The other group is those who did not. Peace
My two bits about Obamacare... If you didn't have private insurance, you HAD to sign up for Obamacare. I prefer natural health methods and chose not to sign up. To my surprise, the IRS fined me for not having health insurance. Basically, they stole half of my tax return the years the ACA was in effect. I was happy when it was repealed. We should not be forced to carry health insurance. My body - my choice.
There were grifters too. Agents that would advertise as carriers but were just agents. They took money for nothing, and you still didn’t have insurance! People got fined like you, thinking they had paid for a service in lieu of expensive insurance plans, but failed to meet the basic criteria.
@@Lagarheads It was my bill... I paid for something I didn't sign up for. And, I haven't been to the doctor in over 20 years because I'm healthy. So, nobody has paid for me other than myself.
I was incensed. In the same boat here and I have a natural interest in health & take responsibility for my own health. I’m not big into running to the dr to leave unheard, unsatisfied or scratching head sent to get a prescription fur the millionth time. ZPak or Whatever. The upper respiratory infection diagnosis given regularly to most I know. My life has been one increasingly more difficult since Obama. FYI my don wasn’t on antibiotics until about 3 years old. Most of my peers would’ve sent him 2-4 times by then
@@Lagarheads Amen and hallelujah and Allah whatever and if Buddhists, sikh and Hindu have anything "THEY" EXCLAIM! If you are going to use Fairy Dust and vegan or WHATEVER, PAY YOUR OWN WAY!
Hired in a new job and did the inadequate training computer courses. Several modules on DEI crap and almost walked out with a bad vibe feeling. Forced to be kind to certain people no matter what? Um, no. However, after observing on egg shell shoes for a month, realized that no one pays attention to that junk. People that are kind humans continue employment. Jerks are fired pretty quickly. Heck, we all joke around about what some would scream to be offensive. Most folks are much more intelligent and goofier than what the media and government portray. The extremes ruin much for many.
The Lord is consistently amazing; The Psalmist is ever true. Psalm 7: 14-16 "Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. *He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.* His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate."
Another great interview Mike! I just want to let you know what a profound effect your work is having. I live in (very-ughh-blue) New Jersey, I'm in the tuxedo rental business, and last week I rented a tux to a man who is in the Paramus NJ local of the electricians union. Part of his job for the union is promoting young people to enter the apprenticeship program. He says he now gets regular and frequent calls from high school guidance counselors wanting him to attend their career days because so many young guys are interested! You were instrumental, I think, in bringing this change about. So thanks and keep up the good work!
He’s all different kinds of things isn’t he? Sometimes he is thinking of his children and sometimes he is thinking of only himself. Sometimes he is a guy that has taken care of baby alone since birth. He is sometimes a guy that wishes to see his children and put them aside when he decides to work, in the same convenient way that a married man does. Sometimes he is a man that wants his children’s mother to be as convenient as she was before children and has broken his family. Sometimes he is a man that has seen his wife cheat and abuse drugs and is trying to protect his kids. Sometimes he could care less. Sometimes he is only thinking of moving on without them. Sometimes he is willing to hurt them to get to their mother because she won’t fall into the place he wants her to. Sometimes he will do anything he can to make sure that his children can thrive even if it means helping their mom and moving in with his parents.
I saw the film. I thought the the funniest scene was the Race to Dinner. Woman whose husband is black says it is racist of her to let him know when he is getting too loud at social gatherings She has "marriage" confused with "racism."
My favorite part of that scene was when the event runner said she "used to be white." I was shocked that they just let that go without further exploration.
Nope, HE has racism confused with marriage. Most women who think their husband's are too loud aren't referring to their race, just how embarrassing they are acting. Lots of people are loud, no matter the race.
I thought that was weird also. Especially since it seemed very situational. I can think of a number of situations where I'd appreciate someone pointing out that I was talking loud while at dinner. I can also think of a number of meals I've had where I'd basically want to tell someone to leave me alone and think they were crazy. I think a lot depends on the restaurant and who you are eating with. At least to me I can't imagine how this would have anything to do with race. Although I think the idea that this is normal in marriage is also weird to me. Who wants to be married to someone that is constantly telling them to be quite when they are talking during dinner. I certainly wouldn't want to be unless it was a fancy restaurant or was some type of official business dinner.
Matt Walsh is a great salesman, just like all of the conservative talking heads and pundits. Not one of them, not even Savage or the late Limbaugh has ever been out there getting arrested for civil disobedience. Not one of them has really done anything but sell books, relief factor and a few films. The conservatives that join the boat rallies, the trucker rallies and the Trump rallies all feel good about doing something with other people, but none of it is fixing our actual problems. DC just keeps on sticking it to We The People and nothing changes, ever. Has the anti-American rhetoric and agenda items been stopped? Stemmed? Reversed? Nope. Don't get me wrong. Go vote and call your Senator, but just realize that voting is not doing anything of substance. Our republic is in the kind of trouble that requires more action than voting and debating.
Maybe they don't have enough proof of it being an agenda, i agree with you it is an agenda, but for the life of me I cant think what it is. Deliberately fomenting social unrest doesn't seem to make any sense to me, I cant imagine a healthier or wealthier society coming from it. Do you have any idea what the end game is? 😢
My straight laced "cannot tell a lie" wife of 33 years happened to be holding her ludicrously overpriced theater drink cup as she boarded our hotel elevator after screening "Am I Racist". A wedding party of elegantly dressed black folks got on with her. She struck up a conversation about the occasion that obviously brought them together and if you haven't guess by now... someone spotted her cup and asked the logical question... "What movie did you see?" Having ZERO capacity for lying, the best she could manage was "I don't remember" Her next attempt at a coherent response was " I think I fell asleep" Someone tried to help by suggesting "Beetlejuice?" "Yeah, that was it" she blurted. "Wow that bad? I guess we won't go see that" Back in our room upon hearing her retelling ( I had dropped her at the door to park the car) I laughed till my sides hurt.
I saw it last week in Sherman Oaks, CA. Everyone in the theater was howling! 😂 So funny! A theater employee told me that out of all the movies there, it's doing the best. I'm going again this week with some friends. ❤
Our theater in Nevada County CA withdrew the movie because of 'public outcry'! Then again, those few 'public' are probably the same folks who are trying to force our Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza - in our rural mountain town in NorCal.
Excellent interview and the movie is absolutely brilliant! I pray that every freedom-loving American will see this in the theatre. That's where the magic happens. It's awesome!!!
I can’t wait to see the movie. In March of 2020 I had a baby and we were quarantined at home so I spent a lot of time watching the news. Back then I believed democrats were the compassionate ones. I can’t tell you how badly the media messed with mt mental health. I was basically told the pandemic will kill me if I step outside to get fresh air or anything time my husband who is black, leaves the home he would be shot down by police. I became so anxious and I still struggle with anxiety 4 years later. It’s horrible and there’s absolutely no accountability on their end. They continue to weaponize empathy to place fear in everyone that if you don’t vote democrat our country will turn into this bigoted racist place. It took me years of reprogramming my mind to understand that Trump isn’t this horrible man. That republicans aren’t evil and black men aren’t being shot down every day. Even when I first saw the true statistics I didn’t believe it bc I believed the media when they painted the picture that this is happening every single day to every black man! It’s horrible what they are doing to vulnerable people. I was in an extremely vulnerable place after having my baby and a pandemic going on, I will never trust these media outlets again!
Same! I had just gotten home from the NICU where my infertility baby had unexpectedly needed surgery after birth. I was primed with grief and stress to fear this virus would kill my baby or me. I really only started to question it when they said BLM riots were okay! I still got the jab in early 21 but never again…
@ yes I also got the first round of vaccine but never again for me as well! I will never trust the media again! They did so much harm to my mental health and many vulnerable women were in the same boat as me with giving birth during that time! It was horrific!!!!
A liberal coworker tried to corner me with the question "do black lives matter?". He lost his mind when I retorted "The real question is to whom do black lives matter?".
@tbert88-t2k Incredibly naive of you to think the HR would side with him. I have a feeling you're one of those people who think everything in this respect is exaggerated and aren't actually familiar with the reality of just how bad it is out there. This movie is supposed to be a wakeup call for people like you.
@tbert88-t2k just becaouse youre a coward. That doesn't make the rest of us cowards. by your logic I can claim you don't exist cause well, I once read people on the internet don't exist. let me guess you're still in high/middle school huh.
Mike I believe you hit the nail on the head. All of us of every group who always care for each other and won’t buy into the race garbage can solve this by joining together and making the race baiters, the anti racist types POOR BY SEEING THEY GET NOT ONE PENNY. We need our hard earned pay.
Growing up in the Chicago public school system, we were shown a film in grade five. This film had actors who depicted scenes of racism and gave examples of racial slurs to other people in the movie of different skin colors. That day we all learned what names to call each other at recess after the movie was over. Just like a South Park episode would depict this irony play out, we tackled each other on the playground as usual but with new names. We were corrupted but it didn't phase us. I forgot to mention that we also were all called to the principal's office after recess that day for tackling each other while using racial slurs. Did I mention I didn't know what these racial slurs were before that day?
Justin echos the same sentiment I have and I hear from fellow Gen Xers. Growing up in the late 20th century America we were taught to see past race, to not make race the defining characteristic of people. We were told to abide by the MLK doctrine of judging one by the content of their character not their skin color. And we were there! We got there! But something came along to put a stop to all that real progress. What and why? Well it won’t work. We aren’t inherently racist and we won’t be told we are.
The entire time, every race but one ignored that message, held onto their heritage, kept to their communities and held sacred their sense of kinship. Meanwhile that one race was slowly convinced that there's no such thing as heritage and kinship. We're I a conspiracy theorist, I'd say it was all orchestrated and purposeful.
It's a cult. You know because if you’re not absolutely 100% onboard with every thought they have, you’re labeled as some popular buzz word, bigot, racist, XX-phobe, etc.
One of my best friends is black, he bought into the whole spiel. I challenged his thought processes. I've known you 20+ years, I love you like a brother, for crying out loud the last fight I was in was with 2 blacks guys against a recheck bar(buddy and his big mouth brother+me). Are you saying that because I am white I deserve any less protection.......gear grinding ensued.
It is a fundamental tenet of the Left that anyone who says "one of my best friends is black" is clearly a racist oppressor. They have ridiculed such language at least since the 1960s.
One thing I have noticed is that there is one race in this country that some people seem to make the forefront of their being. 29:58 goes to a seeming inability to put the shoe on the other foot and ask what would happen if you replaced one word with another. I very often see people wearing t-shirts that say things like "Black Pride, Black Excellence, Black and Proud, Black Power", etc. We don't have to ask what would happen if you replaced "black" with "white" and put that shirt on a white man. He would be labeled a racist and possibly be physically attacked, ostracized, and possibly lose his job. I have never seen that type of self-branding with Asians, Hispanics, East Indians, etc. It's very strange.
@@ComputerKevAZ I have zero issues with a black president. It’s a Marxist who doesn’t respect our Constitutional Republic and our founding documents that I have a problem with. He introduced this nation to the DEI brain virus and planted the seeds for the absolute joke of a federal government and military that we now have. Why did he do this? Because he’s a Marxist and wants to rebuild the country into a milk toast weak state. He’s been directed by George Soros and the elites to destroy the very thing that keeps the United States from succumbing to world powers. They can’t control us until they rip apart our Constitution. Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg came out and said exactly that. He said similar things and so did Hillary. They are communist puppet’s.
Money and power, if you can make a group of people guilty enough you can manipulate them, have control of them. Make no mistake, the ibram x kendis want to be the ones "in control" and to be the "oppressors"....They're evil
Great conversation guys! The point you bring up about the inherent contradiction between the insistence that every organization should take DEI principles into account when filling positions while conceding that being labeled a DEI hire is a derogatory term is one that never occured to me despite being oddly obvious.
I said “All life matters” and I got chastised for taking away from the movement. A same race friend gave me this big speech and ridiculously inaccurate answer complete with inappropriate anecdote to go with it. That was the final straw, I left FB and all social media, this is the closest I get.
I love Mike Rowe and his perspective on America. Flawed though we are, never in human history has more been accomplished affording opportunities to its diverse citizens to excel in both the personal and economic realms.
Question: why are we still apologizing for slavery when we fought a bloody, awful Civil War to end it - out of deep commitment to belief that all are created in image of God, and that slavery was wrong and the ending of it is worth dying for? Why don't we acknowledge that and get credit for that? (Not a rhetorical question.)
"why are we still apologizing for slavery" There is no WE. I do not apologize for slavery. It was bad for the slaves, but less bad for them than without slavery they would simply have been slaughtered on the battlefield of endless African tribal warfare. My ancestor enlisted in the Union Army to help *end* slavery. Where is the gratitude for that? well, he actually did get some gratitude, a pension eventually and died of "consumption" (tuberculosis) if I remember right.
They are using anything, from race, gender, ideology, religion, wages, social status, food, anything, to divide. Even socialist versus capitalist :) Divide et impera.
*_[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon, laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution, these can lift at a colossal humbug, push it a little, weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand._* ~ Mark Twain *_Humor is the great thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away._* ~ Mark Twain
Those in the film aren't angry about their words or their statements. They are angry about who is going to hear them now. Their radical viewpoints only get pushed on college students and little children. Now they are outed and that's what they hate the most. Is the disinfecting qualities of sunlight.
When you hold absurd viewpoints in a mob, being in the mob is the point so you feel safe. If you hold those same viewpoints standing alone, your absurdity becomes apparent, and you feel vulnerable.
My young teenage son and I went to see it, we were not disappointed! He was so embarrassed at how some of the people were acting he opted to get refills at times! A young teen knew better and yet it was amazing at how quickly they would go against their logic and convictions! thank you for discussing and sharing! * thank you to the man who was humble and modeled peace and a foundation!! God bless him and his 53 grandchildren and family❤
@@truthseeker4446 right, because we biologists know that there are 6 defined genders. The Native Americans were right all along, and you bigots tried to exterminate them by following your false god.
Wow, I loved hearing Justin speak his heart/mind. I thought I was alone in thinking so much of the things he shared that resonate with my experience and perspective. Thank you for this discussion!
I lost a job I’d had for 7 years because of DEI pushers, and here’s what I learned from that experience: Racism is just a decoy for something worse. Acts 17:26, there’s only one race - the human race. In that verse, “nations” are cultures and ethnicities- still only one race. Okay so if people are victimizing each other, discriminating against each other, what’s causing that? Sin. What is the root of sin? Selfishness and pride. In the case of slavery, thinking you’re superior to humans of different skin tone, AND abusing and violating them for personal gain, it’s both. Humanistic solutions are not fixing this, as we’re seeing in social justice movements. The only way to fix hate and victimization is to address sin in the heart, and only God can do that.
Yes, original sin is the cause and we're all subject to that. There is no ethnicity that is immune to it. When we understand that and turn to GOD to help us overcome original sin, this all goes away.
@@sherigraham3873 True, but God has other plans. When my boss fired me because I was a straight white male and they wanted to hire a minority in my leadership position, I had about 5 different responses bouncing around in my head to show how ridiculous that was. But different words came out of my mouth (not my own thoughts). “A world without racism is a world without sin, and we can’t get there on our own. But I believe everything will be set right when Jesus returns and I don’t think it will be much longer.”
⏱️ Timestamps by TimeSkip ⏱️ 00:00:00 - Introduction & Overview 00:02:06 - Creating Critical Mass 00:03:59 - The Hornets Nest of Issues 00:08:15 - Comedy as a Tool 00:10:01 - Elevator Pitch for the Movie 00:12:29 - Peeling Back the Layers 00:19:21 - The Role of Money in DEI 00:21:10 - The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry 00:23:01 - Impact of Media on Race Relations 00:25:40 - The Systemic Racism Argument 00:35:34 - The Role of Observation in Behavior 00:39:10 - Creating the Perfect Sandbox for Filming 00:41:42 - Handling Criticism and Deceit Claims 00:48:14 - Understanding Black Lives Matter 00:55:32 - Meritocracy vs. DEI Initiatives 00:58:38 - Film Insights and Audience Impact 01:00:20 - Creating Found Footage Events 01:02:10 - Balancing Scripted and Spontaneous Moments 01:04:12 - Highlighting Real Stories in Film 01:06:25 - The American Dream and Its Perception 01:08:13 - DEI's Impact on the American Dream 01:12:09 - Compelled Speech and Its Dangers 01:16:54 - Collaborative Efforts in Filmmaking 01:20:19 - Discussing Safe Spaces Link in bio
I saw the movie. It shows the absurdity of RACIST IDEOLOGY. Those of us that worked with Men & Women from all backgrounds know that Blessing & Garbage comes in all colors!
Good interview. I'm 65 and BLM didn't confuse me as a sentiment. I read it as other sentiments I grew up with like "All you need is Love" or "Give Peace a Chance", like...Duh. What confused me was a cop getting in trouble for holding that sign very early on. IMO, it was political on BOTH sides and it still is. Having said that, academia IS racist (at least much more than the rest of us), which is why this stuff sells. These people aren't talking to us - they are talking to themselves. I have a story to illustrate... I went to college as an adult. In my first Psychology course when the subject was perception, I shared a story about getting on a plane to Mexico for my honeymoon. The steward said, "Hola." but what I HEARD was, "Hold on". (It was hilarious later when I figured out what he actually said). My professor went into a spiel about how I was subconsciously thinking about sub par workmanship because, you know, Mexicans, and I was thinking, '...No, "hola" just sounds a lot like, "hold on".... ??' That incident was very instructive to me as to the Psychology of my professor. She was a bit of a big deal professor too.
@@benfaubion it's not "like" a cult, it is a cult. If you study all the basic tactics of cults, they're using every single one of them. The brainwashing, love bombing, separation of families, isolation from anyone who thinks differently, exile for any dissenting thinking or behavior, and vicious attacking of anyone from the outside who tries to challenge the delusions, on top of constant propaganda.
I think you were referring to the Hawthorne Effect. The act of studying a group of people will change the outcome of the results. Based on early studies of factory workers who knew they were being observed.
wow, that is such a great point about DEI hires getting backlash if pointed out to be DEI hires... they clearly know themselves something is wrong if they can't stand behind it.
Mike Rowe not having children is such a very sad thing that we won't get more of him when he's gone fr his legacy will never be forgotten we must carry it I grew up with this man we all did and he's like that uncle that did it all and always had a cool story to tell and advice to learn from
The problem with discrimination in the U.S. is that you're constantly talking about race! From job and school applications and tests to news headlines identifying people by their supposed race all is obsessed with race statistics and categorizing.
We're "constantly talking about race" because con artists desperately need to justify their overpriced and worthless social pseudo-science graduate degrees and grifting has become the best way for them to support themselves rather than Starbucks barista.
I would like to point out again, that there is no such thing as systemic anything. A system is a collection of parts therefore it can never be a problem on its own. Any one of those parts can be a problem,any combination of those parts can makr a problem bigger or smaller, but the system itself can't be good or bad, right or wrong.
I gotta give it to you Mike. You were a child hood hero of mine and now at 38 years old you just keep going. I can't think of one other individual in my zeitgeist that has continued to impress me the way you have. I'm so happy to look into these comments and see that I'm far from being the only one who realizes just how amazing you are and how lucky we all are to have you.
Most people would be thrilled to get this much free publicity for their “cause” by being in a big movie like this. Everyone who does evil hates the Light. John 3:20
The leftists would prefer you make a serious movie. When you make something funny or you point out how ridiculous they are, or just downright poke fun at their ideas..they lose. And they don't lose in a small way. No. They lose in the context of Dracula being led out into midday daylight to a garlic festival.
@@xavierb9061 it's actually sad that you're so ideologically captured and brainwashed that you came here to try and poison the comments in many different threads on this video. I'm very glad that nobody is agreeing with your delusions, I hope you get the help that you need, but until then, just for your information, it's extremely easy to spot that you're mentally unwell, delusional and in a cult, and that you may think you're making a difference, when all you're doing is making it plainly obvious to the massive majority that you cannot help yourself from trying to spread cancerous ideology to everyone around you.
Older folk know what real racism looks like. The young people, however have to imagine it and therein lies the problem, maybe. Better to face the problem in a movie. Good job. Imo.
Thje "Tyrany of Niceness" is a great name for what exists everywhre today. I'm retired carpenter age 75 in Michigan living in an area where this concept rules. Very sad. Love the show Mike, you're the best.
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Borat asked ridiculous questions of normal people. Matt asked ridiculous people normal questions. There’s a difference. Borat is manipulating people, Matt simply lets them be themselves.
Borat was not playful, it was pointing at people and saying they're stupid. It is after all, the politics of the SBC.
Borat is viciously antiwhite. Look at the people he attacked and tried to humiliate. He is an antiwhite, just like D'Angelo
@@guser7137 What is SBC?
Excellent point!!
Baron-Cohen is a comedic genius
I saw the movie. I’m a 65 year old white grandma and sat next to a young black man with long braids. We said hello and chatted before it started. We both laughed so hard during the movie and walked out and discussed it after. It was a nice connection. We wished each other well. ❤
:)
Boy Marie you sure know how to go to the movies.
I havent had a friend like that in forty years.
That sounds like my times in the pharmacy line!! It’s amazing how the anticipation of good drugs (or movies) brings people together
Sorry found it cringe.
I had a few laughs but way too few.
If you have gone through DEI training, it is very much like that and I really don't have a desire to spend my free time (and money) watching a variation of DEI training.
the left wants to gaslight everyone about there being a lot of smart black people that could see how racist the Critical Race movement was, many will speak out but there are too many activists "journalists" that are partisan propagandist controlling the narrative.
My company is HUGE on DEI. We are constantly getting notifications and invites to all kinds of dei events. They also exclude everyone from joining. You literally have to be a person with whatever that group is about. To me that promotes seperation not inclusion. I hate it all.
I worked for a company in Canada very much the same. At first it was no big deal but as time went on it became a very big deal if you were not showing up for those events or only going to a token few of those events. It eventually split the office into two camps - the true hard core believers in the ideology and those who simply wanted to do their work and go home to their families and spend time with them. And then slowly but surely one by one of us in the latter group were being laid off for dubious reasons. I quit before that happened to me and that was the best decision i ever made.
I was just about to warn you of the pitfalls that you could expect in the future from your company if you do not show interest in these events. But then you just got someone making a comment that details the exact same thing I was about to worry about. Same thing happened to me. I’m just one of those people that likes to do her work and go home and keep her head tucked down. But they won’t let you do that, they insist you play their game or you’re gone
Right, it IS inclusive, but of only a certain criteria. If only there was a word for that.🤔
You should sue them for descrimination.
@@thedingo8833It felt like the office suddenly had political commissars like they used to have in the former Soviet Union or maybe like how Hitler Youth kids would hear their parents say something & report their parents to the Gestapo - like suddenly you were aware that you were being monitored by certain co workers who were into the ideology and it just got worse and worse because it was all behind peoples backs ...those events got more and more frequent too , like at least one evening during the work week and one on the weekend which really cuts into the time you can spend with your spouse and kids....for me after working 40 to 50 hrs with a group of people the last thing i wanted to do was to spend half the weekend with my co workers - what bothered me too was that those who bought into the ideology and attended all the events were more often than not mediocre pretty lazy workers but because they were part of the ideology movement they could get away with that while the far better workers were being downsized....after that i had to be in charge of my own fate so i went the self employed route.
I saw the movie today with my 15v year old son. We both laughed a lot and my son said the saddest thing ever at the end. He said he never started thinking about the color of people until about 3 or 4 years ago when people started making a big deal about it. It's terrible what has happened with the race hustle and it's impact.
It actually happened a year before he was born, when people lost their minds over a black man becoming the president of the USA. I get the milestone of such an event, but what it did to the inner fabric of not only the U.S. but it stirred up things over here in Europe as well. And not for the better, as we all, some of us at least, know and have known since day 1.
I spent over 2 years in the U.S. in the late 80s to mid 90s and i cannot remember a single racist moment and if there was someone being racist, same like over here in those days, everyone would roll their eyes or call him names and tell him to get lost. Also, and that is very important i'd say, everyone was making fun of everybody. And everybody knew what a joke was and what a mean, personal insult was.
Now even mentioning a basic fact like that gets you dozens of "Very funny, you must be a white cis straight rich man...." gobbledeegook comments.....No, no, you don't make fun of anyone but white folks now, they are the oppressors, so they deserve...
Okay, way off course, you are fortunate to have each other, it will get rough before it can get better/normal again i'm afraid.
EXACTLY, he is right.
Sadly, what your son experienced is widespread.....and the aim of the race baiters all along. Divide and conquer.
It shows some people are so superficial with fragile egos in order to build themselves up to feel good about what they were born with in this avatar, or meat jacket. Lolol
@lowandodor1150 Having a black man in the white house was not the issue. The problem was the specific black man that believed the U.S. was systemically racist and also he was a hater of capitalism (not the crony type that deserves hate because it is not capitalism). This specific man's policies were racist, and he through race into everything. He believed all actions by police were racial and came on national TV and condemned the police at the beginning. When it turned out to not me racial, he would not correct himself. This man set race relations back 60 years, and he soured them around the world.
I would love to have a constitutional libertarian black man who loves America as a president. That man was the polar opposite of this and the world has suffered so much because of the misguided stupidity of the American electorate.
I’m a black woman and Mike Rowe was one of my childhood heroes on Dirty Jobs. I‘m glad he’s speaking out. 😊
Thankyou
Mike stayed away from politics for a long time. I’m so glad he’s finally speaking out
Your the on,y one
@@louisebrown4622 You'd be surprised just how many black people, and "people of color", in general, don't agree with the reverse racism and woke stuff. There are some even against it(wish there were more)- like myself.
I've been against it since the 90's. I'm on of the OGs- being anti-idealistic, anti-group, anti-nihilistc since I've been a boy.
There are many, you're seeing the hustlers mostly... and the ignorant. Like I said- I'd have preferred if more of us actually stood up against it.
If you're a decent human being- racism is one of the things that you should be against- in all it's forms, including it's current form.
He’s amazing!
Real conversation I had: DEI pusher: “You should never ask someone about their ethnic background.”
Me: “Really? I grew up with and went to school with a lot of international students, coworkers. They always seemed proud of their heritage and happy to share with me if I show a sincere interest.”
DEI pusher: “Well, someday someone may ask your kids what they are.”
Me: “Ah! My son has some Norwegian blood and some Japanese blood, so he can tell people he’s part Viking and part samurai. How cool is that?”
DEI pusher: Sour look, crosses arms
Me: “Wait… if you’re refusing to engage and show an interest in what makes people who they are, and why they’re special and unique, aren’t you alienating the same people you claim to be helping?’
This ideology does not bring people together or unite them, it’s divisive. Always look at the outcome or results. It might sound noble, but is it virtue signaling or does it actually help people in real ways?
I'm a descendant of the Maori people of New Zealand who once were cannibals. I'm married to an Australian woman from Tasmania who can trace her ancestors back to the penal colony established by the British. Most Tasmanians can.
Our son laments that he is a descendant of convicts and cannibals. This is true and we think it's hilarious..
Division is the goal.
The issue is never the issue.
Advancing the goals of socialism/marxism is.
@@dwwolf4636Exactly, its intent is destruction, not construction.
I'm Polynesian/Japanese/Roma and I'm from NYC, so people have often had trouble "placing" my accent. But since about 2012, when I'm meeting new people who are white, they're scared to ask anymore "Where are you from?" and it's sad, because that used to be a good way to get to know a little bit about a new coworker, by sharing stories about where we've lived, and our family heritage.
When people are walking on eggshells around each other, it's so much harder to form a cohesive team. And that's the goal of Marxism under the guise of "community": To prevent people from forming trust, to keep them always on edge, uncertain, afraid of being ratted out for WrongSpeak.
Sound noble!?😂
@@zxyatiywariii8Thats because alot of these whyte people on the coasts can be cowardly. I live in the mid west, i won't allow anti whyte bigotry a d neither will my friends. If i were to meet you, id ask "hey, how are you? Where are you from?" It would be normal. I understand some whyte dudes are a little scared because nobody has their back. They want our money lol, but they won't stick up for us. Which is sad, because we fight for everyone's rights.
I'm proud to have been a volunteer for Matt Walsh helping him with getting bills passed banning puberty blockers and gender surgery on children!!
Thank you 🙏
@@cindythompson6952 Our children are our future so I'll do anything I can to help save them!! 🙏🏻
I am not a conservative, but 100% this is the correct course of action in this crazy world to prevent child abuse.
Matt 'millions' Walsh
@@mra4955 🙄
I am so glad I listened to this conversation. It's like a breath of fresh air. I spent my childhood in the Soviet Union, and I don't want America to turn into it.
Remember the TV show Laugh-in from the 1960 (around then)? And Sanford and Son? And the Flip Wilson show? Where did that easy going go? This seemed to be just cruising along. White people could go to an night time outdoor James Brown concert wirhout getting hassled.
Now we have all this anger. Where did that come from?
I'm with you on that!
You wish! Soviet union brought wold 8 hours work day, paid maternity leave, free medicine and education
You wish that in ‘merica
@@user34user73 I don't want your "free" stuff that got forcefully taken from another worker and given to me without my consent. I support my class and it's interest. I won't be a bandit like you and rob them via tax collectors. You're evil to the bone. We choose freedom over enslavement to the tax collectors.
@@user34user73Only liberals wish that
Robin D'Angelo and Ibram X. Kendi are passionate about White Fragility and Anti-Racism because it is quite lucrative for them.
Our philosophy is where our treasure lies.
Well as it has been stated a number of times, Follow the money, and boy do they follow the money
Race hustlers
If was about jews and antisemitism you wouldnt say that.
Ya mean like the "Black Lies Matter" movement?
🤔🤣
My daughter, who I was quite close with, went off to college (Princeton University) our relationship was great. Four years later…she’s a whole different person. She barely tolerated me. I was very confused & I just tried to go along to get along. That was back in 2007.
Now, she hasn’t spoken to me in about 4 years. I have a grandson who is now 6 and an almost 4 year old granddaughter who I have never seen.
I dared to say I didn’t believe I was a racist & believed a large part of the population was not racist, including the police.
I DID read the book “white fragility” and I thought the entire book was absurd.
I may never see her again & that saddens me, but I do not want to bend to that level of ridiculous either. She will always be my child who is greatly loved.
By the way, she’s married to a beautiful man of color…I love & greatly respect him.
@@lesliechew7293I assumed that was the case
I'm sorry that happened. Separating children from their parents is in the Marxist playback. This is on purpose.
@@lesliechew7293 Beautiful?
You have to give extra-special compliments because of skin color?
@@malachi- beautiful in spirit & love
Mike Rowe!
Quit messing around and run for president already. Nobody on the planet has spent more time working with the people who make up the foundation of America than you have. Also, you've got the voice for it, dude!
He'd have my vote!
He's to smart to make that mistake
Why would he want that kind of personal attacks and lawfare retaliation from the democrats and left? They are criminals. Worse than the Mob.
He'd have such a strong campaign and would probably end up doing really well
@@indelicato500 he'd probably end up drt
Mike, i have the utmost respect for you, my friend. I have had immense respect for you since you started Dirty Jobs so long ago, trying to destigmatize these important trades, and i have even more now hearing you speak up about truth. Keep doing what you are doing, sir.
After my workplace had mandatory DEI training…. I’m SO glad you made this movie. THANK YOU 🇨🇦
time for a dei-free employer... I know not what it is you do for a living, but it's time for a rethink, eh? MANDATORY?? fuck that.. not so much of that in the trades, I've been in machine shops for yrs and there is no such thing. it's very uncomfortable for those believers on a walk thru and it shows. my lead and i run all applicants to cnc dept thru the sex offender registry. no woke bullshit, and no perverts. just come to work and make your $.
Ugh. That must have been a nightmare for you
Shame on your employer. Tell them they got ripped off by race hustlers.
It's antiwhite training. We need to call these things what they are
I would absolutely sue for discrimination and demand my employer provide discovery of the ACTUAL racist incidents that precluded DEI training. Because in America quotas are illegal. And DEI training is a handbook on hiring based on skin color. Make them admit to their own racism. And get paid out for the discrimination against you!
When businesses start facing consequences regularly this will quickly end. But brave people need to stand up.And if you complain and find yourself out of a job you can EASILY sue for retaliation.
It's hilarious that Diangelo and a few others have deleted their X accounts!
Flown the chicken coop
Terrifyingly hilarious…
Did they??! Dang!
They are cowards!
@@aceee4386
Yes!
I studied in East Germany behind the Wall. I learned about Fascism, Communism, Socialism, and Marxism. We were the only US University asked by the East German government to study their governmental system 6 1/2 hours a day for two weeks. They tried to indoctrinate us on how great Communism was even though we were seeing the two hour breadlines and the barbed wire walls keeping us prisoner.
Four years ago when people were being locked down and mandated to stay in their homes and get a shot, I didn’t buy it for a minute. Why? Because all of these tactics are in the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx. People wonder how this happened and it’s because Obama is a Marxist. He’s the one who started the racist division that we had conquered in so many ways in America. He’s the example that anyone of any race can be president of this country, yet he was speaking as if their race is oppressed and that would be an impossibility. Obviously, the evidence was the opposite of what his rhetoric was.
Race and gender wars are used in Marxism to create division amongst a society for the sole purpose of that community staying weak. A house divided against itself cannot stand, and that’s the Pinnacle of Marxism.
For if we all got along, we would overtake any corrupt government, but if we’re all fighting, the corrupt government wins. People don’t know their history so they’re bound to repeat it.
Psychological warfare, is apparently illegal between countries, but it is alive and well in homes and within this country to control others. Once someone is brainwashed through propaganda and lies, you can give them the truth and real facts and they are going to be unable to see it. They have become the defender of their very abuser. The whole country is suffering Stockholm Syndrome. Their victims refuse to see that the very people that have enslaved them are the ones that they keep listening to for the solution to freedom. The lies are so considerable that they can’t even face the truth because it’s too terrifying to face that they trusted someone so deeply, yet they betrayed them in the worst way possible.
They slowly demonize people and groups in the media with blatant lies and false accusations so much so that it causes such hate, that the people eventually scream “crucify him!!”
This is nothing short of demonic. This was Hitler’s tactic. What a great speaker he was. Everyone just loved his “Strength through Joy” in his speeches while demonizing the Jews.
The demonization of the Jews came slowly through the media, and it wasn’t long until the masses of the people were agreeing that the masses were justified in hating a group so much that they should be eliminated.
The crazy thing is the very people who were being enslaved, were still believing their captors in the camps. Even though they were lied to over and over again by their captors, the Jews still believed that they were going to get a shower, and they voluntarily lined up to face their death. Like lemmings to the sea, the sheep follow the wolf down the cliff. I hope that most Americans wake up and find out that most of its citizens are full of love and kindness and generosity towards people of all races, and that only through unifying are we able to keep this country protected and safe from corruption and destruction.
... So I'm not crazy when I actively say this is another Nazi, Germany issue that's been going on. Someone sees it. Yes. I'm fucking VINDICATED.
Dude. You are telling truth from the start. Thank you.
@@ellencook1658 Thank you. It’s based on personal testimony and real experience. Once you experience it, you can see the signs and symptoms everywhere.
this comment needs its own video ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@montanalilac I made one on TikTok and I got banned. I’ll make one via my podcast at Throughaglassdimly
Mike is spot on. Don’t fault me for my thoughts. Or for expressing thoughts (that I may have but am not proud of). Fault me for my actions if/when you see prejudices in me.
Just as an outsider (IE an aussie) can I ask why many people identify as African American, Hispanic american etc. WHY are you all not just plain Americans. Just my opinion by identifying as a race backed American you are just causing racism to exist. In short if I were to become an American I would not identify myself as an Australian American.
Because they’re visitors to an Anglo Saxon society
I mean its pride of heritage for some, statistical data and divisive tool for most others
@gregharding7329 - Good, fair, valid question. I've been saying / ( commenting on YT pages ) for years that people born / raised ( or becoming a citizen ) in this country means: American. Even a "native" American. ( To those who hate the term "American", it's only short for United States American. ) The hyphenated race-based-American is endlessly divisive. It goes past respecting people of different groupings ( based to this day on skin tone??? ) is fundamentally dismissive of the uniqueness of individuality, including within an ethnicity or community or family, etc. People can always go home and speak whatever language they want, eat whatever food, but: We Are Americans!
( My appreciation to you for your "outside" opinion. Basically, it reminds us of how stupid we sound and appear to the world. Not being sarcastic. It helps us truly "progress". We have a bad habit of virtue-signaling to a nauseating degree. Plus, there ARE some factions that don't want to admit progress, growing unity, and non-skin-colored connections. )
Until the end of the last century, what you ascribe to actually existed (for the most part). Then, political correctness, starting in academia, dictated we start make distinctions according to ethnicity. It only seemed annoying, but now we realize there was a very sinister motive. America in my early life of 1950's through about 1990's, was much safer, prosperous, and free. This constant victimization mentality and hate did not exist. It is basically secularism versus Christianity.
It benefits in many ways to identify as a victim of nothing that ever happened.
Having watched it 4 times now, I believe the #1 best thing the movie has done is shine a light on it, and make it OK to talk about it. For years we've been walking on eggshells about this.... Not any more. Enough is enough. It's time for sanity and common sense to reign again.
Yes - the pendulum always swings back in the other direction. Sometimes, it takes its time getting there!
Largely only conservatives will watch it so do not expect dialogue.
@@longgone9738That's not true. There have been a lot of rather a-political people who talk about movies online that have spent time on this. Even if flaming liberals don't see it, the fact that it's reached ordinary people and made it a discussion topic is good
@@longgone9738 Yep.
@@longgone9738 We'll see. To everyone I know that is left of center I has said "Hey have you seen 'Am I Racist?' yet you leftwing liberal nutjob?" --- and so far they have all been receptive.
I got called a racist the other day in a conversation about risks during pregnancy when I cited a study showing that certain risks were 1000x higher if a woman was giving birth in sub Saharan Africa instead of the US. Apparently it's racist to talk about unflattering data?
The US is the worst country in the world, don't go attacking their feelings with your facts.
I got called racist for saying" the blacks are ticking me off " and they're a white family just up the road!!!!
Their neighbors are the" whites " a black family. Not my fault!!!
Or to express concern about cultural or economic disparities.
Facts to a liberal is like holy water to a vampire. 😅
Try addressing crime statistics 😂
The movie was SO GOOD!!! And so was this conversation. It just flows with you guys, doesn't it? So much love, for your movies, for you! God bless!
One of the things I love about Matt Walsh is he never went to University/College. Many who did are blinded with arrogance that they think they are somehow better/more entitled to their opinion than others.
They are just usually exposed to more ideas and cultures than by staying in one place surrounded by the same people for ever.
I'm an RN and I only have a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing. College taught me so little about life that I have really no recollection of learning much about anything except for science classes like Anatomy and physiology & Chemistry. Of course I had to take a crap load of other things that were totally unnecessary in social sciences and merely padded the coffers. I learned how to be a nurse on the job at the bedside starting 30 years ago in August. Peace
@VincenzoPentangeli there was a time when that might have been true, but definitely not in the last 30 years. I never got my piece of paper from high school. It used to bug me just a bit, but in the last 10 years, I have come to the conclusion that someone did me a big favor, getting me out into the workforce ASAP.
@@rheannak3934because one does not attend college doesn't mean that they are stagnant and remain in the same place, surrounded by the same people..Its possible to experience different cultures and worldviews without attending college.
“I am a human and capable of self- learning and consider myself a logical thinker” - Matt Walsh testifying in Congress.
I’m proud to be a normal white male who is a big Mike Rowe fan!! Keep it up brother!! Don’t hold back please!!
Dirty Jobs is one of the best shows ever made!
And I'm a proud normal trans black woman with rickets and a nasty std. I'm a huge mike fan and we need more common sense in this country.
I second that!
@@GhoolioDoesn’t sound normal!😂
Saw it. Loved it. It shows the ridiculousness of this racist movement to “abolish whiteness.” Well done.
My daughter just seen you speak in Sioux Falls and my boy seen you in 2010 at the National Boy Scout Jamboree. They said it was a touch stone moment for them each time. The boys said they would not rest on their Eagle Scout laurels and my daughter said she would believe in her self and ideas and to take a loss as a learning experience and to move forward and not dwell on it. She works nights and weekends as a CNA at a nursing home and goes to business school during weekdays. She just turned 19 on the 10th of Sep a day before my 60th birthday, so we are proud of her work ethic and perseverance at her young age. So please keep inspiring our youth not to rely on the Government and to think and work for themselves.
Thanks for the great interview!! I'm a Chinese immigrant and an American veteran. I met an old white dude in a bar in one of the Minneapolis suburbs. He blatantly called me a "racist" out loud because I was against open border. It was a bazaar experience, to say the least. I'm not sure how legalizing meritocracy or anything related to it would resolve the problems before us. It may create more of the vicious cycle we are experiencing. It may take an act of God to bring down the system.
"Being offended is something the privileged do.... Americans can get offended on other people's behalf." ~ Comedian Vir Das
Bizarre*
Same. My friend said I was a racist for wanting legal organized immigration. I know young girls get sexually abused trying to get to the border. So close it. Stop the chaos, drugs and torture of young people.
How is this racist?
Now look at the amount of human trafficking. Out of hand. Children crossing and getting assigned to a sponsor with no background check. No one tracks them.
But I’m racist. Zero logic.
When has there ever been an "OPEN BOARDER"? THE MORE PEOPLE SAY THAT THE MORE PEOPLE COME, AND THOUSANDS DIE TRING TO GET HEAR.😡
Thank you for your service and patriotism for your adopted land.
@@Green_Party How many MORE millions of people have to push their way into the USA, to convince you that the border is now open? Have you not seen the videos of scores of people walking right into America? Stop playing semantics jumble.
Not one to sit through lengthy videos, this one was entirely worth it! Love listening to Mike Rowe! What a smart common sense guy!
The only people that are racist or the ones that constantly talk about it. Anti-racism is racism. I love everyone until they give me a reason not to. Lived in Toronto Canada for 2 years and that people from all over the world and all different religions. Everyone got along, maybe a few jokes about the pakistanis but that was it. This was 25 years ago but still this new narrative is absolutely BS! Most Americans aren't racist.
You are correct.
It's an agenda to divide.
Those types of people would suffer the most if racism ended. Their careers depend on racism.
If you acknowledge the fact of natural evolution then I don't see how you can not be racist. Of course humans have evolved with different advantages. There is a reason 77% of the NBA are black, and 71% of the NFL. They are bigger and stronger through evolution and breeding. Look around your room and look to see what technologies have come from Africans, Aboriginals or Native American indians. Where have governments systems and institutions came from? Aircraft, Automobiles, Space travel, computers, fiber Optics, antibiotics, basically everything advanced comes from Asians and whites. Leftists simply want to name call and make you evil by believing in evolution.
Wow, we're almost alike...I hate everyone until they give me a reason not to...its a whole new world
@@theroc495 I just don't care about people until they give me a reason to
This podcast was so very wonderful. Thanks Mike for putting this out. At 1:11:45 when Mike quotes Peterson, "My words are mine" it actually brought tears to my eyes. What a powerful moment and thought. That people would try to actively try to compel us to say things, in this day and age, after everything we have experienced around compelled speech, is mind boggling.
I'm in my early seventies I watched racism take many turns and flips, I've seen people seeking entitlement from their slave ancestors. Reverse racism I've never owned a slave. As an American I believe everybody has an equal chance to make your life better it's not a birthright.
I believe you are correct ya old fart!
Yup...pretty much my view at the young age of 69.
I remember the last of Jim Crow, the equal rights movement, special rights for blacks in affirmative action, another form of racism like miss black America, and the entire shit show feminism brought us from the sixties onward morphing into the freak show we have today.
Have to say --> Reverse racism is not valid, not a thing.
Anti-white racism is racism, "reverse" would imply that racism is a one way white against the world thing, whereas in REALITY any person of any color can be racist against any other color/creed etc...racism is racism.
Racism was at an all time low until Obummer stoked the flames of anti-white hatred/racism and kept it burning STRONG through BLM and the media until Biden. Intense ride the last 15 years!
America is not racist, the Marxist progressives are!
As an American you are wrong, and that is a fact even if skin color is ignored. In fact, your point is one of the weakest points that conservatives cling to.
By 'everyone', you mean 'everyone except those who don't', right? I would describe those two groups as follows, one group is those who lived with/received enough Justice to not be derailed. The other group is those who did not. Peace
@@gatoryak7332 Do you realize that you sound like a whiney victim?
Brings to mind the gov programs of Affirmative Action. Tax credits allowed many to be hired for positions they did not qualify for.
My two bits about Obamacare... If you didn't have private insurance, you HAD to sign up for Obamacare. I prefer natural health methods and chose not to sign up. To my surprise, the IRS fined me for not having health insurance. Basically, they stole half of my tax return the years the ACA was in effect. I was happy when it was repealed. We should not be forced to carry health insurance. My body - my choice.
There were grifters too. Agents that would advertise as carriers but were just agents. They took money for nothing, and you still didn’t have insurance! People got fined like you, thinking they had paid for a service in lieu of expensive insurance plans, but failed to meet the basic criteria.
Your body. Your choice. Our frigging bill. Thanks.
@@Lagarheads It was my bill... I paid for something I didn't sign up for. And, I haven't been to the doctor in over 20 years because I'm healthy. So, nobody has paid for me other than myself.
I was incensed. In the same boat here and I have a natural interest in health & take responsibility for my own health. I’m not big into running to the dr to leave unheard, unsatisfied or scratching head sent to get a prescription fur the millionth time. ZPak or Whatever. The upper respiratory infection diagnosis given regularly to most I know. My life has been one increasingly more difficult since Obama.
FYI my don wasn’t on antibiotics until about 3 years old. Most of my peers would’ve sent him 2-4 times by then
@@Lagarheads Amen and hallelujah and Allah whatever and if Buddhists, sikh and Hindu have anything "THEY" EXCLAIM!
If you are going to use Fairy Dust and vegan or WHATEVER, PAY YOUR OWN WAY!
Hired in a new job and did the inadequate training computer courses. Several modules on DEI crap and almost walked out with a bad vibe feeling. Forced to be kind to certain people no matter what? Um, no. However, after observing on egg shell shoes for a month, realized that no one pays attention to that junk. People that are kind humans continue employment. Jerks are fired pretty quickly. Heck, we all joke around about what some would scream to be offensive. Most folks are much more intelligent and goofier than what the media and government portray. The extremes ruin much for many.
Loved when D'Angelo handed over the cash.
Fell in the pit she dug.
The Lord is consistently amazing; The Psalmist is ever true.
Psalm 7: 14-16
"Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
*He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.*
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate."
Another great interview Mike! I just want to let you know what a profound effect your work is having. I live in (very-ughh-blue) New Jersey, I'm in the tuxedo rental business, and last week I rented a tux to a man who is in the Paramus NJ local of the electricians union. Part of his job for the union is promoting young people to enter the apprenticeship program. He says he now gets regular and frequent calls from high school guidance counselors wanting him to attend their career days because so many young guys are interested! You were instrumental, I think, in bringing this change about. So thanks and keep up the good work!
“I didn’t consent to be touched” was my favorite line.. 💖💖💖
Followed closely by a mumbled “c neverrr be too careful…”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The next movie. "What is a Father" in Child Custody Court.
to avoid straight up copying the format of previous movie titles while maintaining the same naming theme: "When is Dad coming home?"
He’s all different kinds of things isn’t he?
Sometimes he is thinking of his children and sometimes he is thinking of only himself.
Sometimes he is a guy that has taken care of baby alone since birth.
He is sometimes a guy that wishes to see his children and put them aside when he decides to work, in the same convenient way that a married man does.
Sometimes he is a man that wants his children’s mother to be as convenient as she was before children and has broken his family.
Sometimes he is a man that has seen his wife cheat and abuse drugs and is trying to protect his kids.
Sometimes he could care less.
Sometimes he is only thinking of moving on without them.
Sometimes he is willing to hurt them to get to their mother because she won’t fall into the place he wants her to.
Sometimes he will do anything he can to make sure that his children can thrive even if it means helping their mom and moving in with his parents.
What Is Climate Change?
??? Is this a reference I don't understand? Are you saying Matt Walsh is having some kind of paternity scandal?
@@TheInfamousBertmanI think he’s just describing different kinds of fathers
Dirty jobs was one of my favorite shows growing up. So glad mike has a podcast
God speed, Mike. Youre doing the Lord's work.
The Lord's work was completed on the cross..it's all desperate action on satans part now-
@@RadHameth33And we ‐‐ I mean, you ‐‐ just sit passively on (y)our thumbs until ...?
I saw the film. I thought the the funniest scene was the Race to Dinner.
Woman whose husband is black says it is racist of her to let him know when he is getting too loud at social gatherings
She has "marriage" confused with "racism."
Lol, Serena Williams Father said people where racist to call her too loud
My favorite part of that scene was when the event runner said she "used to be white." I was shocked that they just let that go without further exploration.
Nope, HE has racism confused with marriage. Most women who think their husband's are too loud aren't referring to their race, just how embarrassing they are acting. Lots of people are loud, no matter the race.
I thought that was weird also. Especially since it seemed very situational. I can think of a number of situations where I'd appreciate someone pointing out that I was talking loud while at dinner. I can also think of a number of meals I've had where I'd basically want to tell someone to leave me alone and think they were crazy. I think a lot depends on the restaurant and who you are eating with. At least to me I can't imagine how this would have anything to do with race.
Although I think the idea that this is normal in marriage is also weird to me. Who wants to be married to someone that is constantly telling them to be quite when they are talking during dinner. I certainly wouldn't want to be unless it was a fancy restaurant or was some type of official business dinner.
He keeps talking about "these issues". These are not issues, these are agendas. Sheesh
Great point Chuck.
100%
Matt Walsh is a great salesman, just like all of the conservative talking heads and pundits. Not one of them, not even Savage or the late Limbaugh has ever been out there getting arrested for civil disobedience. Not one of them has really done anything but sell books, relief factor and a few films. The conservatives that join the boat rallies, the trucker rallies and the Trump rallies all feel good about doing something with other people, but none of it is fixing our actual problems. DC just keeps on sticking it to We The People and nothing changes, ever. Has the anti-American rhetoric and agenda items been stopped? Stemmed? Reversed? Nope. Don't get me wrong. Go vote and call your Senator, but just realize that voting is not doing anything of substance. Our republic is in the kind of trouble that requires more action than voting and debating.
Maybe they don't have enough proof of it being an agenda, i agree with you it is an agenda, but for the life of me I cant think what it is.
Deliberately fomenting social unrest doesn't seem to make any sense to me, I cant imagine a healthier or wealthier society coming from it.
Do you have any idea what the end game is? 😢
And? What’s your point? Why are you policing his words? He’s doing more about it than you are. You must be fun at parties.
My straight laced "cannot tell a lie" wife of 33 years happened to be holding her ludicrously overpriced theater drink cup as she boarded our hotel elevator after screening "Am I Racist".
A wedding party of elegantly dressed black folks got on with her. She struck up a conversation about the occasion that obviously brought them together and if you haven't guess by now... someone spotted her cup and asked the logical question... "What movie did you see?" Having ZERO capacity for lying, the best she could manage was "I don't remember"
Her next attempt at a coherent response was " I think I fell asleep"
Someone tried to help by suggesting "Beetlejuice?"
"Yeah, that was it" she blurted.
"Wow that bad? I guess we won't go see that"
Back in our room upon hearing her retelling ( I had dropped her at the door to park the car) I laughed till my sides hurt.
I saw it last week in Sherman Oaks, CA. Everyone in the theater was howling! 😂 So funny! A theater employee told me that out of all the movies there, it's doing the best. I'm going again this week with some friends. ❤
This is refreshing to hear!
What movie?
@@sonjacharles2457Am I Racist
Our theater in Nevada County CA withdrew the movie because of 'public outcry'! Then again, those few 'public' are probably the same folks who are trying to force our Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza - in our rural mountain town in NorCal.
@plc1048 so much for the first amendment.
Excellent interview and the movie is absolutely brilliant! I pray that every freedom-loving American will see this in the theatre. That's where the magic happens. It's awesome!!!
If was about jews and antisemitism you wouldnt say that.
@@xavierb9061why?
@@xavierb9061people don't behave the way those portrayed in this movie do around Semetism. You can't really compare the two.
@@IVY12023 trans are similar? You making excuse for coward he can do commentary and every group except
I can't wait until its released in the UK ❤
Real men talking about issues some people won't. Much respect.
I can’t wait to see the movie. In March of 2020 I had a baby and we were quarantined at home so I spent a lot of time watching the news. Back then I believed democrats were the compassionate ones. I can’t tell you how badly the media messed with mt mental health. I was basically told the pandemic will kill me if I step outside to get fresh air or anything time my husband who is black, leaves the home he would be shot down by police. I became so anxious and I still struggle with anxiety 4 years later. It’s horrible and there’s absolutely no accountability on their end. They continue to weaponize empathy to place fear in everyone that if you don’t vote democrat our country will turn into this bigoted racist place. It took me years of reprogramming my mind to understand that Trump isn’t this horrible man. That republicans aren’t evil and black men aren’t being shot down every day. Even when I first saw the true statistics I didn’t believe it bc I believed the media when they painted the picture that this is happening every single day to every black man! It’s horrible what they are doing to vulnerable people. I was in an extremely vulnerable place after having my baby and a pandemic going on, I will never trust these media outlets again!
Same! I had just gotten home from the NICU where my infertility baby had unexpectedly needed surgery after birth. I was primed with grief and stress to fear this virus would kill my baby or me. I really only started to question it when they said BLM riots were okay! I still got the jab in early 21 but never again…
@ yes I also got the first round of vaccine but never again for me as well! I will never trust the media again! They did so much harm to my mental health and many vulnerable women were in the same boat as me with giving birth during that time! It was horrific!!!!
A liberal coworker tried to corner me with the question "do black lives matter?".
He lost his mind when I retorted "The real question is to whom do black lives matter?".
I would've blown raspberry for the answer
@tbert88-t2k Incredibly naive of you to think the HR would side with him. I have a feeling you're one of those people who think everything in this respect is exaggerated and aren't actually familiar with the reality of just how bad it is out there. This movie is supposed to be a wakeup call for people like you.
@tbert88-t2k just becaouse youre a coward. That doesn't make the rest of us cowards. by your logic I can claim you don't exist cause well, I once read people on the internet don't exist. let me guess you're still in high/middle school huh.
@@jackimhoff6767
@@squidikkait’s not as bad as the media and a small fraction of this country believes.
❤ Matt Walsh. I saw the movie with my mom and we both thought it was absurdly hilarious😅
Mike I believe you hit the nail on the head. All of us of every group who always care for each other and won’t buy into the race garbage can solve this by joining together and making the race baiters, the anti racist types POOR BY SEEING THEY GET NOT ONE PENNY. We need our hard earned pay.
Growing up in the Chicago public school system, we were shown a film in grade five. This film had actors who depicted scenes of racism and gave examples of racial slurs to other people in the movie of different skin colors. That day we all learned what names to call each other at recess after the movie was over. Just like a South Park episode would depict this irony play out, we tackled each other on the playground as usual but with new names. We were corrupted but it didn't phase us. I forgot to mention that we also were all called to the principal's office after recess that day for tackling each other while using racial slurs. Did I mention I didn't know what these racial slurs were before that day?
That's so funny, I'm sure none of your friends took offense, though😂😂
Justin echos the same sentiment I have and I hear from fellow Gen Xers. Growing up in the late 20th century America we were taught to see past race, to not make race the defining characteristic of people. We were told to abide by the MLK doctrine of judging one by the content of their character not their skin color. And we were there! We got there!
But something came along to put a stop to all that real progress.
What and why?
Well it won’t work. We aren’t inherently racist and we won’t be told we are.
Something was named Obama
100%
The entire time, every race but one ignored that message, held onto their heritage, kept to their communities and held sacred their sense of kinship. Meanwhile that one race was slowly convinced that there's no such thing as heritage and kinship. We're I a conspiracy theorist, I'd say it was all orchestrated and purposeful.
@@bobgraff1796 agreed
2008. The GFC. Just when people were starting to question the one percent, suddenly a distraction.
the LGBT TRANS flag is also everywhere.. banks, businesses, schools, goverment buildings, sports facilities etc. Why?????
It's a cult. You know because if you’re not absolutely 100% onboard with every thought they have, you’re labeled as some popular buzz word, bigot, racist, XX-phobe, etc.
You're racist. It's was easy to say, then what do you say?
Cause God and Country are dead, the guys want to have sex with each other 😂
The majority of people are fine with it, only weirdos get angry.
Yea, it’s dumb, that flag is stupid and I’m so over seeing it.
One of my best friends is black, he bought into the whole spiel. I challenged his thought processes. I've known you 20+ years, I love you like a brother, for crying out loud the last fight I was in was with 2 blacks guys against a recheck bar(buddy and his big mouth brother+me). Are you saying that because I am white I deserve any less protection.......gear grinding ensued.
It is a fundamental tenet of the Left that anyone who says "one of my best friends is black" is clearly a racist oppressor. They have ridiculed such language at least since the 1960s.
One thing I have noticed is that there is one race in this country that some people seem to make the forefront of their being. 29:58 goes to a seeming inability to put the shoe on the other foot and ask what would happen if you replaced one word with another. I very often see people wearing t-shirts that say things like "Black Pride, Black Excellence, Black and Proud, Black Power", etc. We don't have to ask what would happen if you replaced "black" with "white" and put that shirt on a white man. He would be labeled a racist and possibly be physically attacked, ostracized, and possibly lose his job. I have never seen that type of self-branding with Asians, Hispanics, East Indians, etc. It's very strange.
We’re going backwards in this perspective. Everything changed in 2008 and has continued to slide downward since.
We jumped the shark when we had a black president before we had a black vice president.
@@ComputerKevAZ I have zero issues with a black president. It’s a Marxist who doesn’t respect our Constitutional Republic and our founding documents that I have a problem with. He introduced this nation to the DEI brain virus and planted the seeds for the absolute joke of a federal government and military that we now have. Why did he do this? Because he’s a Marxist and wants to rebuild the country into a milk toast weak state. He’s been directed by George Soros and the elites to destroy the very thing that keeps the United States from succumbing to world powers. They can’t control us until they rip apart our Constitution. Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg came out and said exactly that. He said similar things and so did Hillary. They are communist puppet’s.
Racist 😉 😂😅
@@ComputerKevAZ
More like we "walked the plank" into the deep blue sea... ☠️🏴☠️ 😉
Yep and ALL by design!
I gasped and laughed,!! Revealing who the REAL racists are, and you know its about the money! 😅
Money and power, if you can make a group of people guilty enough you can manipulate them, have control of them. Make no mistake, the ibram x kendis want to be the ones "in control" and to be the "oppressors"....They're evil
Not only. It's to create division and destroy Western countries...
Justin looks like actor Tim Robbins who played Andy Dufresne in 'Shawshank Redemption'.
Yah, he does.
@@nancygawlowicz2562 Indeed 👍
YES! Thank you 😂
Great conversation guys! The point you bring up about the inherent contradiction between the insistence that every organization should take DEI principles into account when filling positions while conceding that being labeled a DEI hire is a derogatory term is one that never occured to me despite being oddly obvious.
In response to BLM I adopted "Your Life Matters". Whomever reads it understands that their life matters. Nobody I know argued with me.
Best statement I have heard! Beautiful! I will borrow it if you don’t mind? Wonderful words and true!
@@kellymc6812 share with all possible. Nobody argued here but nobody picked it up either
I said “All life matters” and I got chastised for taking away from the movement. A same race friend gave me this big speech and ridiculously inaccurate answer complete with inappropriate anecdote to go with it. That was the final straw, I left FB and all social media, this is the closest I get.
@@kellymc6812 be my guest
SO smart. I wish I would have heard this back then so I could use it too. ❤
Watching after the movie, “Am I Racist?”, came out and it’s been a huge success. Well done Justin Folk, Matt Walsh, and crew!
A must see.
Keep asking questions. We do not need less speech. We need MORE.❤
I love Mike Rowe and his perspective on America. Flawed though we are, never in human history has more been accomplished affording opportunities to its diverse citizens to excel in both the personal and economic realms.
Question: why are we still apologizing for slavery when we fought a bloody, awful Civil War to end it - out of deep commitment to belief that all are created in image of God, and that slavery was wrong and the ending of it is worth dying for? Why don't we acknowledge that and get credit for that? (Not a rhetorical question.)
Amen! Such a good point.
Because people are profiting from racism. The easiest way to power is convincing someone they're victims and that you can help
Civil War was fought over control of countries economics both side funded by the Rothchilds. End of slavery was an after benefit.
Because there's no mooney in that.😂
"why are we still apologizing for slavery"
There is no WE. I do not apologize for slavery. It was bad for the slaves, but less bad for them than without slavery they would simply have been slaughtered on the battlefield of endless African tribal warfare.
My ancestor enlisted in the Union Army to help *end* slavery. Where is the gratitude for that? well, he actually did get some gratitude, a pension eventually and died of "consumption" (tuberculosis) if I remember right.
It is called using racism to promote socialism.
Social engineering 101
Indeed, and not just racism. It's the same in the lgbt, and even the military industrial complex.
using racism to silence critics of socialism
They are using anything, from race, gender, ideology, religion, wages, social status, food, anything, to divide.
Even socialist versus capitalist :)
Divide et impera.
luxury for the few and everyone else has “equality” is the goal .
A refreshing, sensible conversation. Thank you!
Mike has been blessed with such a freaking great voice! Wow!
*_[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon, laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution, these can lift at a colossal humbug, push it a little, weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand._*
~ Mark Twain
*_Humor is the great thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away._*
~ Mark Twain
Those in the film aren't angry about their words or their statements.
They are angry about who is going to hear them now.
Their radical viewpoints only get pushed on college students and little children.
Now they are outed and that's what they hate the most.
Is the disinfecting qualities of sunlight.
When you hold absurd viewpoints in a mob, being in the mob is the point so you feel safe. If you hold those same viewpoints standing alone, your absurdity becomes apparent, and you feel vulnerable.
Well said.
Great interview! Great movie. Laugh-out-loud funny!
My young teenage son and I went to see it, we were not disappointed! He was so embarrassed at how some of the people were acting he opted to get refills at times! A young teen knew better and yet it was amazing at how quickly they would go against their logic and convictions! thank you for discussing and sharing! * thank you to the man who was humble and modeled peace and a foundation!! God bless him and his 53 grandchildren and family❤
One thing monsters can not stand is their own reflection.
Ketanji Brown Jackson has STILL not answered the question, "What is a woman"?
She an idiot!
Right! Absolutely asinine. Still confirmed 🤦🏼♀️wtf
Shes not a biologist 😅
@@truthseeker4446 right, because we biologists know that there are 6 defined genders. The Native Americans were right all along, and you bigots tried to exterminate them by following your false god.
Why should she respect the Biopower construct of heteronormative phallocentric bigotry?
I still don't buy coke products because of Robin Deangelo's "be less white" training coke made their employees take.
Wow, I loved hearing Justin speak his heart/mind. I thought I was alone in thinking so much of the things he shared that resonate with my experience and perspective. Thank you for this discussion!
The oppressor/oppressed discussion at 23:00-:45 shot right past the central origin of that polemic which is Marxism.
I lost a job I’d had for 7 years because of DEI pushers, and here’s what I learned from that experience:
Racism is just a decoy for something worse. Acts 17:26, there’s only one race - the human race. In that verse, “nations” are cultures and ethnicities- still only one race.
Okay so if people are victimizing each other, discriminating against each other, what’s causing that? Sin. What is the root of sin? Selfishness and pride. In the case of slavery, thinking you’re superior to humans of different skin tone, AND abusing and violating them for personal gain, it’s both. Humanistic solutions are not fixing this, as we’re seeing in social justice movements. The only way to fix hate and victimization is to address sin in the heart, and only God can do that.
Yes, original sin is the cause and we're all subject to that. There is no ethnicity that is immune to it. When we understand that and turn to GOD to help us overcome original sin, this all goes away.
I agree. We are being played. Manipulated and coerced toward a bad future.
Marx epitomized his own ideology; a drunken parasite living off his wealthy friend while he perfected his doctrine of envy and entitlement.
I just see the start of another Nazi, Germany. And my family were run out of their homes because of funny moustache man.
@@sherigraham3873 True, but God has other plans. When my boss fired me because I was a straight white male and they wanted to hire a minority in my leadership position, I had about 5 different responses bouncing around in my head to show how ridiculous that was. But different words came out of my mouth (not my own thoughts). “A world without racism is a world without sin, and we can’t get there on our own. But I believe everything will be set right when Jesus returns and I don’t think it will be much longer.”
⏱️ Timestamps by TimeSkip ⏱️
00:00:00 - Introduction & Overview
00:02:06 - Creating Critical Mass
00:03:59 - The Hornets Nest of Issues
00:08:15 - Comedy as a Tool
00:10:01 - Elevator Pitch for the Movie
00:12:29 - Peeling Back the Layers
00:19:21 - The Role of Money in DEI
00:21:10 - The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
00:23:01 - Impact of Media on Race Relations
00:25:40 - The Systemic Racism Argument
00:35:34 - The Role of Observation in Behavior
00:39:10 - Creating the Perfect Sandbox for Filming
00:41:42 - Handling Criticism and Deceit Claims
00:48:14 - Understanding Black Lives Matter
00:55:32 - Meritocracy vs. DEI Initiatives
00:58:38 - Film Insights and Audience Impact
01:00:20 - Creating Found Footage Events
01:02:10 - Balancing Scripted and Spontaneous Moments
01:04:12 - Highlighting Real Stories in Film
01:06:25 - The American Dream and Its Perception
01:08:13 - DEI's Impact on the American Dream
01:12:09 - Compelled Speech and Its Dangers
01:16:54 - Collaborative Efforts in Filmmaking
01:20:19 - Discussing Safe Spaces
Link in bio
I saw the movie. It shows the absurdity of RACIST IDEOLOGY. Those of us that worked with Men & Women from all backgrounds know that Blessing & Garbage comes in all colors!
Stolen virtue is as bad as stolen valor.
No it’s not
Good interview. I'm 65 and BLM didn't confuse me as a sentiment. I read it as other sentiments I grew up with like "All you need is Love" or "Give Peace a Chance", like...Duh. What confused me was a cop getting in trouble for holding that sign very early on. IMO, it was political on BOTH sides and it still is. Having said that, academia IS racist (at least much more than the rest of us), which is why this stuff sells. These people aren't talking to us - they are talking to themselves.
I have a story to illustrate... I went to college as an adult. In my first Psychology course when the subject was perception, I shared a story about getting on a plane to Mexico for my honeymoon. The steward said, "Hola." but what I HEARD was, "Hold on". (It was hilarious later when I figured out what he actually said). My professor went into a spiel about how I was subconsciously thinking about sub par workmanship because, you know, Mexicans, and I was thinking, '...No, "hola" just sounds a lot like, "hold on".... ??' That incident was very instructive to me as to the Psychology of my professor. She was a bit of a big deal professor too.
Yes I bet you were somewhat astonished to learn that most of academic professors were like this and therefore the entire mainstream academia 😅
@@angela_somanythings5670 , I don't know about most of them because I didn't HAVE most of them, lol. But the blind spots are huge from where I sit. :)
I'd like to see BLM go back to Bureau of Land Mgmt.
My father-in-law was a sheep herder in Wyoming. He had a lot of problems with that BLM, lol.
@@lauramau2530 I think most farmers do.
Nice
That’s funny - when I first saw all the BLM headlines I was so perplexed why the bureau of land management was on the top of the news cycle
@edmobley3 hahahah!!
These DEI people are crazy. They even gaslight themselves.
They are obsessed over this stuff for sure. It’s like a religion, or a cult.
@@benfaubion it's not "like" a cult, it is a cult. If you study all the basic tactics of cults, they're using every single one of them. The brainwashing, love bombing, separation of families, isolation from anyone who thinks differently, exile for any dissenting thinking or behavior, and vicious attacking of anyone from the outside who tries to challenge the delusions, on top of constant propaganda.
There is a certain class of race problem solvers that don't want the patient to get well. Booker T Washington
Good Point 👍👍
I think you were referring to the Hawthorne Effect. The act of studying a group of people will change the outcome of the results. Based on early studies of factory workers who knew they were being observed.
The dentist's attention to my teeth keeps me paying attention.
This is the fictional basis for the format of the Truman show, in the film
Interesting, thank you!
wow, that is such a great point about DEI hires getting backlash if pointed out to be DEI hires... they clearly know themselves something is wrong if they can't stand behind it.
If you listen to the old George Carlin comedy you will realize he was the first person to question things no one would talk about.
He was ahead of his time!
No he wasn't. Comedians have been doing that for time immemorial.
@@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat yes he was.
I think Socrates was
@@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat not anything like Carlin. Are you aware of his work 🤦
Mike! Can we get Something to Stand For on a physical release? DVD? Would love to add this to our homeschool curriculum!
I wasn't planning on going to see it, but now I have to!
It's worth it!
Stay until after the credits!
@@valerieleonard572 I didn't stay - what happens???
@@missdemeanor3524funny bit at the end when he calls the bookstore back to get the book with a title he can’t say because he’s white
Mike Rowe not having children is such a very sad thing that we won't get more of him when he's gone fr his legacy will never be forgotten we must carry it I grew up with this man we all did and he's like that uncle that did it all and always had a cool story to tell and advice to learn from
The problem with discrimination in the U.S. is that you're constantly talking about race! From job and school applications and tests to news headlines identifying people by their supposed race all is obsessed with race statistics and categorizing.
We're "constantly talking about race" because con artists desperately need to justify their overpriced and worthless social pseudo-science graduate degrees and grifting has become the best way for them to support themselves rather than Starbucks barista.
It's intentionally been designed that way
Actually citizens aren't, it's the Propaganda Box that is..and it's called Mainstream Media..
Great interview! Thanks Mike and Justin. 👍
I would like to point out again, that there is no such thing as systemic anything. A system is a collection of parts therefore it can never be a problem on its own. Any one of those parts can be a problem,any combination of those parts can makr a problem bigger or smaller, but the system itself can't be good or bad, right or wrong.
Maybe systemic hatred of Straight White Men would fit. More accurately, emergent behaviour when everone inside is racist...against SWM.
I gotta give it to you Mike. You were a child hood hero of mine and now at 38 years old you just keep going. I can't think of one other individual in my zeitgeist that has continued to impress me the way you have. I'm so happy to look into these comments and see that I'm far from being the only one who realizes just how amazing you are and how lucky we all are to have you.
The American dream is only available to those of us who are willing to work. It’s not the product of victimhood. Nobody has to “like” anyone…
Most people would be thrilled to get this much free publicity for their “cause” by being in a big movie like this.
Everyone who does evil hates the Light. John 3:20
That is soooooo true
The leftists would prefer you make a serious movie. When you make something funny or you point out how ridiculous they are, or just downright poke fun at their ideas..they lose.
And they don't lose in a small way. No. They lose in the context of Dracula being led out into midday daylight to a garlic festival.
This is why they hate libs of tiktok so much. She doesn't even do anything, all she does it repost their own videos.
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Mike is the man….he has earned wisdom ….we need to listen to people like this !! 🙏❤️🙏
It’s all in the effort to make people to feel guilty for not being like ‘they’ are.
As to WHAT THEY ARE is still up for discussion.
If was about jews and antisemitism you wouldnt say that.
@@xavierb9061 you keep trolling this comment
@@xavierb9061 it's actually sad that you're so ideologically captured and brainwashed that you came here to try and poison the comments in many different threads on this video. I'm very glad that nobody is agreeing with your delusions, I hope you get the help that you need, but until then, just for your information, it's extremely easy to spot that you're mentally unwell, delusional and in a cult, and that you may think you're making a difference, when all you're doing is making it plainly obvious to the massive majority that you cannot help yourself from trying to spread cancerous ideology to everyone around you.
That voice... Anybody is ever going to voice God in a movie. It has to be this guy
I want to have Mike do directions on navigational devices.
I wonder if he has a twin single brother LOL!!! 😂 Another guy with a beautiful voice is Lawrence Fox. He is from the UK.
😉 But.. But I thought Morgan Freeman was the voice of God.... That's what's Hollywood is telling us.
He should quit smoking.
@@calartian85 i don't think Mike Rowe smokes... like at all.
Older folk know what real racism looks like. The young people, however have to imagine it and therein lies the problem, maybe. Better to face the problem in a movie. Good job. Imo.
Thje "Tyrany of Niceness" is a great name for what exists everywhre today. I'm retired carpenter age 75 in Michigan living in an area where this concept rules. Very sad. Love the show Mike, you're the best.
I liked how they showed how much the DEI people were getting paid, it really shows how much of a scam the whole thing is.