@@peds8345 Way back in the day when IMDB had discussion forums(fora?), I was peeved at rich Hollywood types who contributed to 'liberal/minority causes'--I suggested they be stripped of every cent they had and left to panhandle in their underpants somewhere in the gnarlier parts of Los Angeles.
Why do I get the feeling Rotten Tomatoes will not allow Paul Chato, and The Critical Drinker to be considered as critics, and count their reviews in the Critics side?
I think it's more like: no matter what critics say - they lose. 1) You support this movie and give it a high score - "you are a racist, bigot, mesoginist, etc." 2) You go against this movie and give it a low score - your ass will be a laughing stock for the whole internet. (Not the first time, to be fair...) So... Critics as always, with tail between their legs, hide in the shadows.
The point of the movie is not that racism doesn't exist and should be mocked. It's that the "anti-racism" movement has nothing to do with fighting racism and actually advances racism. It just changes the targets.
"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists." -Thomas Sowell
@@andokomando - It's the Age of Kendi where it's high time that Non-Whites get to be racist as payback and revenge. But...oh, so conveniently, they're not racist for doing so and having their own bigoted superiority complex. They redefined the r-word. The ideological battle for the minds of America, from Academia on out, is real. Calling out racism in any shade from white to black IS good, and figuring out what exactly is racist and is not is also good.
I saw it this afternoon. It was subtle, but my favorite bit was when Matt asked DiAngelo “What is mansplaining?” Then interrupts and corrects her when she answers.
That does sound funny but I like the idea that it's (like most social documentaries) meant to be uncomfortable but proves that the liberal hivemind struggle to accept any uncomfortability in the process of learning. They often feel it's a proud moment if they can make others learn uncomfortably but can't handle their own medicine (or basically just logic).
You're very correct on almost everything you say, but I don't think Walsh needed to say anything about the actual racism that exists today. He was aiming at the DEI movement, which itself is racist, anti-opportunity, and anti-merit. One aspect of DEI, "diversity," was described in the film (by one of the actual DEI grifters) as "anything but white." I learned that back in 1993, as I was finishing college. Our student union had added a "diversity wing" that had offices for blacks, Indians, Asians, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Arabs, but no whites. That's "diversity" for you, and it always has been.
That's the thing I always noticed about all that stuff. So people set all these rules about what is and isn't okay, what you can and can't say, what you can and can't think about people of different colors, or races, or creeds. And they were happy with these rules when these rules were making their lives easier, silencing people opposite to them, and giving them opportunities. But then when people opposite of them asked THEM not to say certain things, think certain things, or do certain things, when these rules began to limit them as well, that's when they invented all these excuses -- "paradox of tolerance" this and "power imbalance" that -- to explain why THEY did not have to follow the rules they themselves set. And I think that's when people started to realize the people who set these rules don't actually care about these institutional problems but only cared about profiting off of a broken system.
@@jonstiffer4994 you ever been to central Africa or rural China/Japan? The hardcore "Southern" racists have nothing on real racism, my guy. Ain't saying they're not bad people, I just think they're kinda tame, but your views are distorted from a lack of exposure to truly horrific acts. Things are hectic here in Africa, and I'm in the safer parts of it (only 8th highest city on the homicide rate).
@@jonstiffer4994 Those Klansmen will still talk to Jideon civilly. In other parts of the world, people who are actually a threat will just come at you with machetes. Americans, I swear...
I've lived in a quite a number of countries, on 4 different continents, and the U.S. is by far the LEAST racist country I've ever lived in. But what's strange, is that it's the one that talks about its 'racism problem' far more than the others.
Because of the Christian spirit of the US, we constantly push ourselves to be better than we are and are willing to admit our flaws, unlike others. But what has been going on for the last 10 years is the devils work.
What did every other country you lived in do about racism? Pretend it doesn't exist hard enough for everyone else to believe that, or make people who brought it up "Disappear"?
How can you say the film ignores that racism is still alive and well in our society? Almost every single person he interviewed or showcased was a racist.
I agree. I thought his review was on target until he made that remark. I watched the movie, and Walsh's point is that the vast majority of people aren't racists. And with a few exceptions the people he was interviewing are the race hustlers who try to blow it out of proportion and stand to gain financially by doing so.
@@thomasbecker9676good one, best joke I've read in awhile. Much like how a supreme court justice was going to undo biracial marriage when hes been in one for decades.
I don’t agree with Walsh’s politics. But this movie was absolutely hilarious and a breath of fresh air. I’m a left winger myself, and I work or a university, so I get so much of the craziness shot at me every day from a firehouse, I knew I had to watch this just for the relief. But my god Walsh actually demonstrated some SERIOUS talent here. The comparison to Sacha Baron Cohen is valid!!
Respect. I'm most closely aligned with libertarians, but unfortunately all political parties are too terrible to support. I support those who push against the establishment... Ramaswamey, Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr., Candace Owens, etc.
It's a low hanging fruit distraction from things like Gaza. apart from that the Cohen comparison is half legit, except Borat highlighted the real race pressure half as it is, instead of bitching about bitches who don't understand their own racial fallacies and illusions.
Completely disagree with one point. Nobody should have to preface everything with a statement about how racism exists and is bad. The movie is clearly not claiming otherwise.
Nailed it. If you're ever wondering who the "privileged" are, just ask yourself who you're NOT allowed to mock, insult, or in general have to treat them differently than others less you be punished.
@@MumRah Agreed, those kinds of people love to feel morally superior. Half the time they get offended on behalf of a demographic that never asked for them to give their thoughts.
That’s Muslim privilege. They didn’t do nothing, okay maybe they did but it meant nothing, okay so they did do it because of freedom fighter bs. #Isreal
He didn't mock or downplay racism, he mocked the people who claim to stand against it. If anything he exposed just how racist are these people. And the comparison to Borat goes deeper since Sasha Baron Cohen is a Jew and we've seen how that same crowd treats Jews. Both he and Walsh are perfect targets for them.
The difference is Cohen espouses liberal values.. so he gets a free pass for a lot of his stunts. He also mocks and denigrates a lot of ordinary people.. and there's a kind of cruelty at play. His humour is also pure toilet.. so depending on your sense of humour, you'll love him or loathe him. Walsh, on the other hand, is dead pan and is not out to humiliate ordinary people, and I sense no cruelty in what he does...
Walsh may not be everyone's cup of tea, but his ability to encourage the modern-day snake oil salesmen to hoist themselves upon their own petard is astonishing.
When you realize that Matt's entire persona is built on maximizing the psychotic responses of the left, he gets a lot more tolerable. Most of his persona is satire. Even in his daily show. It's intentionally trying to bait the far left
@@chance_ondriezek99 There’s been a few instances where he’s slipped out his liberal biases, but you’re right, he is very good at not letting it affect his reviews, at least not overtly. That’s why I still enjoy watching his videos. For the most part, his audience are a bunch of Reddit lefties though, sadly.
I agree with his review, except the point that the film should acknowledge there's racism. I'm so glad the film DIDN'T go there. A huge part of the point is, everyone already knows this. It would be akin to a doc about flat-earthers wasting time to explain the earth is round. Yes, we all know the "common sense" position and the film doesn't insult us and waste time as if we don't.
One of the nifty things about a divisive movie is that the haters refuse to go see it because they already hate it beforehand, prejudged. So ... the Rotten Tomatoes viewer rating skyrockets because only the agreeable 50% took the necessary time to deal with it and laugh their asses off. Always repel the negative reviewers beforehand, so they'll never know what they hate.
I don't necessarily see this as a positive. Because people not wanting to even be confronted with certain arguments (or immediately dismissing them) is really not different from others mindlessly cheering it on (which definitely also happens. Like, I guarantee you there is also a specific type of "enraged" conservative/right-winger that will praise, upvote etc. this film even before having seen it. just for the proverbial "owning the libs" or whatever).
The DEI crowd take this stuff as seriously as many people take actual religions seriously. In other words they will not laugh at the absurdity of it. No way in hell. They will just go off and sulk.
They are actually worse than most religious zealots because they not only feel morally right, but they feel it their responsibility to use the long arm of the law to force you to ACCEPT it, and codify the absurdity.
I, a latino man who was born and raised in Latinoamérica, was called a racist for pointing out that people that live in the US anda call themselves latinos for the victim points but dont speak the language, know our culture or ever lived here, are not as Latino as me. Yeah...
I live in the east End of London, England. There's a black fella I talk to in the pub. He's nearly 40. He says he feels white bc he was raised by his white grandparents. He went to a mostly white school. The radio and TV were all dominated by white people. His friends, growing up and now, are 99% white. His never met his father or his family. He says he can't connect to black people bc of their culture and attitudes.
@@garyphisher7375it's insane that we have made substituted the word culture for color. He isn't white. White culture isn't a thing. Black culture isn't a thing. Not based off color.
@@garyphisher7375 I wish people were more capable of separating race from culture when talking about these things. I know there's always gonna be some overlap between the two for obvious reasons, but people in the US have such a reductive view on it that often makes it almost impossible to criticize certain aspects of a culture without someone involking the racism card on you. Or, as it's been happening with white and asian people recently, make it about an entire race when someone has an issue with a specific culture.
Sorry to hear that, man! But that's the whole idea behind those who hijack the true meaning of words to brain-wash the gullible: to tear apart families, to bring down the building blocks of a working society and to divide us, so they can establish new old rules according to which THEY are in power without having to gain our trust and support first... first they steal the meaning of words - than they steal our freedom and lastly our lives. I grew up with Communism, I have seen those patterns before.
@@Hereford1642 Well, we live in a time, where you are not allowed to say want you want anymore, where the wrong opinion gets you banned. And I think many people are way to sensitive and even striving to be as insulted as possible by everything. On the other hand...thinking about what to say and how to say it to avoid hurting others should be obligatory in every discussion in civilised culture. Finding the middleground is difficult these days.
A completely pointless disclaimer too. Let's be honest there are people who have made their mind up about the Critical Drinker and other similar channels already
I don't really see it that way. If I was him doing this review I might say that simply because I don't know all of the person's actual politics or something. It's not that big of a deal to let your audience know you're not taking a specific stance on the producer's politics.
The fact that he has to make that disclaimer to preempt accusations, despite it already being implicitly obvious, is very telling about the character of some of the people who would critique him for covering this movie.
It has become synonymous with: sane. At this point - if anything - the general population of real human beings would trust the opinion of someone more if they were called racist, because it is a signal that they are noticing things that the foreign invaders don't want them to.
There's no disguise. It is blatant and purposeful intolerance because, like all intolerant people, they believe they are good and their targets are evil. If only people would ever actually learn from history.
"Surf's Up" is a mockumentary - Fictional events presented as a documentary. "Am I Racist" is an exposé - Unflattering, but real people offering real services and reactions. Both are hilarious.
I thought the same thing. The point of a mockumentary is that is is not real. Like "Dark Side of the Moon". Stuff like "Am I racist" this has elements of that, since Matt's character is not real. But since the character is not the actual point of the film, mockumentary does not really fit.
My moment of reckoning was when the President of Harvard, who made her career as a DEI academic, said that calling for the genocide of Jews might or might not be against the university code of conduct depending on the context (imagine if this was said about any other minority). As a non white, social sciences major, white collar, cosmopolitan, Stephen Colbert viewer, mock republicans, man. That's when I started realising there is a huge ideological problem on the left, and started listening to the opposition. I still believe in liberal values, but at the moment I am politically agnostic. I can't really see myself belonging to any political camp. The edges have broken off from the center and are running wild. But I am more open than before, which is why I want to watch this film.
The way that parts of the (far-)left (ironically, just as well as parts the far-right) have embraced the terrorism against Israel and antisemitic positions in general is really heartbreaking and disgusting.
there's nothing wrong to adhere to certain core political ideals, to the left or right, but that's only possible in a healthy way (IMO) if one keeps critical thinking, make an effort to stay informed an open to change your mind if presented with compeling arguments / evidence
@@andresgonzalez-gm5ry political pragmatism used to be a core element of American political thinking in early 20th century (and Reagen as well). It's a good political ideology and life philosophy as well.
The film doesn't deny the existence of racism at all. It shines a light on a very specific movement, "anti-racism". I respect your review, but strongly disagree with the notion that they should have included a "and yes racism still exists" to force a cheap "both sides" narrative. EDIT: if anything, the film PROVES that racism still exists, since all those grifters are actually and openly racist.
it proves LEFT-WING racism exists, but doesn't talk about right-wing racism at all. not that it particularly needs to, but I do foresee a lot of people getting the idea that only left-wingers are racist and right-wing racism doesn't really exist anymore, which is totally wrong. I say this because the average american is incredibly stupid and only thinks in binary.
I once dated a black girl for a little bit, and we talked about racism in the US. She said "I've never experienced racism from white people. But I've been told by black people that I will. I've never had a white person say a slur against me, but I've seen plenty of black people do so to each other."
Imagine going around, greeting your friends, "Yo fuckface...", but theres this weird tradition among African Americans, mainly men, they greet each other with the dehumanizing slur which is the very worst word in the world, which derives from the word "black". So these Black men will beat the shit out of you if you insult them by calling them this, a word which translates to "black", and these Black men will call each other the N word out of endearment. So you can see, its a gaslighting scam they are running. Personally I wouldn't want to have anything to do with a person who calls their friends and themselves the N word, because it's the worst word in the world and you should stay away from people who greet their friends as "fuckface".
I'm a brown person and the most racism/colourism I've ever experienced is from other brown people. To brown people it's much deeper than just our race; it's our skin tone, castes, religions, regions our ancestors are from, the languages we speak. I don't understand why people want to be so very divided but mistreating people because of these divisions is racism. I've experienced no racism from my white friends and colleagues. There were some that were ignorant, just because they didn't have the opportunity to travel but they were not racists, they were only unaware of certain things, which we all are. In my 20's I did think they were racists to be ignorant but I later understood that there was no hate or spite or any malice.
Does Drinker really know nothing about Walsh being an evil person? A bigot-thoughtleader who calls all LGBT to the executionstand, a guy who constantly tries to pinpoint when underaged Girls are "most-fertile", a guy Some-More-News has covered multiple times, including in the critically acclaimed right-wing-nutjob-repelling GOP Videos ...
@@elle5627 That dosnt change anything abou9t America being systemic-racism-infested as 'Some More News' has proven definetively in his videos. Also, we have Bodycams who show Cops ber-cist a lotttt, soooo uhhmmmm - thts is at-best your personal-experience and means nothing for 'all brown people'
Yep. My wife is a minority and we have mixed race children, living in flyover country that is supposedly full of racists. In over 20 years we have not experienced racism one single time. Meanwhile, these "anti-racists" are openly hostile to men, whites, and Christians and the media not only condones it, they celebrate it. So utterly disgusting.
@@pahbert The entire point of the film is to trigger the libs. That's why they suckered in Robin DiAngelo but didn't bother including: Sana Amanat, Heather Antos, any of CA's state senators, Claudine Gay, any of CA's Supreme Court justices, Debra Leigh, John Blake (CNN), Don Lemon, need I go on? "But is ‘Am I Racist?’ really a movie? Yes, in that it’s about 100 minutes long and I saw it on a screen in a sad, mildewy neighborhood multiplex. But as a documentary narrative, it’s pretty flimsy. While Walsh is hard-trolling a crummy diversity seminar in Boulder, Colorado, the educator and attendees recognize him and call the cops because they feel 'unsafe.' This sets the 'plot' into motion, whereas Walsh dons a bad man-bun wig, changes his glasses, and gets an online DEI certification, so he can teach other white people how to be 'anti-racist.' The problem is right there in the premise. We know from the first five minutes, or from reading three of his Tweets, that Walsh thinks that 'anti-racism' is a nonsense scam. So the movie’s framing, that he’s on some kind of quest to expunge himself of his own so-called racist beliefs, is snarky-corny in a way that doesn’t quite work. Walsh is really just disguising himself as a DEI con-man to own the libs. That’s a good enough premise in itself. The narrative window dressing that he half-plays with falls flat. Either own the libs or be a lib who organically discovers that your whole existence is a lie. You can’t be both." - Neal Pollack
This movie is only relevant within certain US internet circles, and the review is not even 5 minutes. Doesn’t make much sense to post it on the main channel. If you guys want Drinker to promote it JUST because it‘s pushing a message you agree with, than you’re behaving no better than the woke mob.
Best thing was Matt never once disrespected, got aggressive or anything like that, he literally wanted to have a conversation with all of the people in this film, and they themselves made the film what it was, he didn't have to act, or try to make something up during interviews because they were entertaining all on their own, hence why majority of the people he interviewed disappeared from social media shortly after this movie came out, lol. 🤦🏾♂️🤣
I just watched it and it was really funny. The contrast between all the working class black and white people being so chill and accepting of each other and all the 'educated anti racist' snobs being the most racist people in the movie was gold.
Matt Walsh for me is a mixed bag. Sometimes he hits the nail on the head & provides deep intellectual thoughts, but sometimes he misses the forest through the trees. He's definitely a really smart guy and I have to give him credit for making these documentaries, cause lets face it...NOBODY else is willing to even try.
I do find IMO his teaching let him lean just a little bit too far back to medieval culture from time to time But I'd yet to meet one person that has the exact same values as me (I'd sooner believe this would be a psychopath wanting to eat me)
IMO he's fairly decent when it comes to "common sense" issues like men are not woman and not everyone is a racist. However, he reaches his intellectual limit when going beyond that. Which is fine, it's perfectly acceptable to be good at specific things and not others.
I think it’s because he’s very much a “black and white” thinker, there’s no middle ground. And he never doubts his own opinion. So his opinions are pretty extreme and often ridiculous… I don’t think it’s a limitation to his intelligence, but it’s what makes him so hit and miss for most of us.
Yes, and it’s totally okay to agree with people on some things and disagree on others. Society has made it seem like if someone has one flaw everything about them should be discredited.
Eh, this would be a bigger deal if it had been made 4 years ago. Now we've reached a point where, for all The Daily Wire and friends wants to cry "but we're not racist, it's the left who are the real racists," they don't exactly do themselves any favors by bringing on people like Steve Sailer, Jeremy Carl, Colin “Millennial Woes” Robertson, Patrick Casey, Kevin Michael Dolan, Kevin De Anna, Keith Woods, James Allsup, and going to bat for VDARE, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that used its funds for partisan purposes. Glenn Beck himself lives in a wealthy, pasty enclave. No wonder Sara Gonzales was allowed to host an unhinged panel on the "Haitians eat cats" hoax.
Only on the left. The movie doesn't address racism on the right, which does exist. Sadly, Matt Walsh enabled that by going to bat for VDARE after they were caught misusing their funds for partisan purpose. Note that VDARE is registered as a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
@@incurableromantic4006 You can see it in fields that have nothing to do with political agendas as well; in physics, for example, which was my major, you see the most unfocused people on the planet (in the sense that they don't care about researching anything practical, but rather the most theoretical nonsense bullshit that cannot be confirmed through experimentation for the forseeable future) babble about things with such confidence as if they are the holders of the ultimate truth, whilst chasing academia trends and rehashing the same research for those sweet research grants. Not to mention that even though they have nothing to do with political agendas, they are still poisoned by them. And, on top of that, they are lazy, vile and arrogant. Left this pile o' crap to do computer engineering instead. Academia is nothing more than a circus that has the power to give government approved toilet paper to people.
Yes, racism still does exist in the USA, but that's all the more reason I dislike these kind of people. Because they're the kind of folks who water it down and start saying ridiculous things like "math is racist" and "good morning is racist". They're making it lose all meaning. Heck, they're practically making it a COMPLIMENT with how far they've gone. So now when someone does come along who was a genuine victim of racism, no one cares or they just roll their eyes and ignore it.
"So now when someone does come along who was a genuine victim of racism, no one cares or they just roll their eyes and ignore it." maybe that was the intention all along, who knows 🤔
@@olis5233 Thanks! Yeah, there are some things about the show that I found a little grating, but overall it's a fantastic bit of storytelling and has great acting.
Sorry for being very "both side"-ish here, but that being said, I feel the same applies to so many "outrage!" RUclips channels etc. by now (who lean more on the right-wing/anti-woke/... side). Like, I figure a lot of them don't really have much of an issue with many of the media they review etc. ... but since it's become their business model, they gotta keep that gravy train rolling. (Which is btw also why I appreciate the Drinker. Because at least to me it hardly ever feels like he does "outraged" videos for the sake of it. case in point: him not even being "mad" about some more recent films or movies, but instead more "tired" etc.)
I find it interesting that any time a right winger makes some art, we always have to hear that disclaimer, "I don't condone their views, I'm just reviewing the art." Even from someone as level headed as you, Drinker. Yet we never hear that woe is me disclaimer regarding media from raging leftists. It's not needed on either side.
Even Jeremy Jahns did less of a disclaimer and posted it on his only channel vs drinker putting it on his second channel which is strange since the people who dont liek drinker would already find out he reviewed it anyway and his regular audience wouldn't care if it was on the main channel
Liberal values have been the mainstream of media for at least 20 years if not longer. They have purged any conservative values or thought from Western Media and have made even the most milk-toast of views of the right, extremist. By doing so, they have made it that one must accept what ever liberals say as the truth and the norm that you don't have to think about. The reason this movie is so devastating to them is, due to the fact that they have lived in an echo-chamber for so long. One where even the most insane and poorly thought out ideas are not questioned, merely applauded. So when Walsh comes in, not as an enemy they will just dismiss, but an ally that asks reasonable questions or points out the logical conclusions of their ideas. They don't have an answer for him, because they haven't needed an answer for them in decades. Which makes them look like idiots and frauds instead of the intellectuals they have always seen themselves as. And by doing this, he is going against the norm, attacking the mainstream, and being very controversial.
The first time I was called racist on the internet was in 1997 when I told a chat room that I didn't like the "Spawn" movie. It's been all downhill from there.
For me, Black Panther was unwatchable, and I actually like a good Marvel movie. I tried twice to watch it streaming but just had to turn it off after 20 minutes each time. But somehow, it was celebrated when it came out, with the first critic on RT to give it a rotten score getting rhetorically pilloried. I wish I knew why..
@@benu_bird Its not very good for that considering half my posts don't show up or are deleted because youtube thinks I'm a robot or something most of the time. 🤖
@@benu_birdRUclips isn't social media the way that FB, IG, or X are. Jonathan Heidt notes in his latest book that spending a lot of time on RUclips doesn't result in anxiety and depression compared to the other platforms.
Im a left leaning centrist but i would watch it just to hear what he has to say. I used to consider myself liberal, and lots of things about conservatism still bothers me, but i started to realise that both sides have faults, and both sides have merits. I just feel like as a society people have completely dug their heels in on where they stand and all objectivity had been thrown out the window. No one wants to listen to anyone anymore if the are on the other side. Politics belongs to the extremeists now and the moderates are hard to come by.
he probably didn't find it interesting or important enough to make a longer one on the main channel, I mean he could have million reasons to do it this way... not to defend the guy, lol, just sayin' (reading the other comments on here how he's coward and doesn't have balls etc. - "Leave Britney alone!" lol)
This film is *not* a parody though. These are real people, expressing their real twisted beliefs. With no provocation at all - Matt Walsh lets them do the talking.
remember kids: offense is always taken, never given... getting offended is a free choice that you're not forced to make - just becaue you can, doesn't mean you should... GI-JOE PSA! ♪
Yes, Drinker - actual racism still exists. And it's mostly against white people these days. One of the underlying themes of the work that for some reason you missed??
Lol it doesn't even need to be specifically against white people. It's mostly minorities against other minorities. I work in construction and have got to watch as two electricians on the job, one black and the other Cuban, argue about which has the superior skin color. Probably the pettiest argument I've ever seen tbh
How do you prove that beyond a reasonable doubt? Various viral clips don't tell the whole story. Not to mention that the very definition of white people has historically been unstable.
I'm not surprised it's on a secondary channel. Critical Drinker normally reviews movies, especially sci-fi and fantasy. This isn't a movie at all, but a documentary, which doesn't seem like his style at all.
I think it is quite possible for a black man to be racist (feel racial superiority of black over white) but I suspect that the people accusing you were not white ?
@@Hereford1642 no, what he's saying is that he's a black man and an ex-cop (?) who was being called racist... he's got a typo there... at least I think...
I saw this at the movie theater with my wife in a theater with people of all colors. We all laughed and had a great time… AND we all chatted after the credits when the lights came on!
Why did you add a disclaimer of not endorsement? This is a feature film playing in over 1000 theatres and 98% rotten tomatoes audience score. Film threat treated it like any other film and reviewed it. Nerdrotic put it in his main channel. Putting it in your secondary channel and with a trigger warning is disappointing, to say the least.
After seeing almost unanimous praise for this and having really liked Walsh's previous movie, "What is a Woman?," my expectations for "Am I Racist?" where sky high. I concur with the Critical Drinker's review about some of the interviews being drawn out, parts of it dragged and didn't hit. Overall though it was funny and interesting to watch, definitely worth seeing. 3.5/5
The drinker is doing what he is preaching. How many time have we heard him say " Why does Disney insist in upsetting half its audience with the political message?" He probably though this would be divisive so, he didn't put it up on his main channel.
I'd guess it's because of RUclips's heavy-handed censorship tactics. Sssniperwolf can harass and dox people while getting slapped on the wrist, but Drinker could catch hell for this just from people making shit up. The deciding factor is channel size.
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I will say mad props to Jeremy Jahns for actually reviewing it. Jeremy is one of the OG RUclips movie critics, and in a time where older RUclips critics have either sold out or caved to the media establishment, *cough Chris Stuckmann cough,* it’s nice to see someone who is a veteran of RUclips go against the grain, despite the potential backlash he may receive. He didn’t even disable the comment section either.
Have never been a huge fan of Walsh, but I saw this at my local AMC with an open mind. Loved it, he did a terrific job and I feel this should be required viewing for many. I can totally relate to the peer pressure associated with accepting current societal norms you don't agree with; apparently, I'm transphobic because, amongst other issues, I don't think transgender women should participate in female sports. If you want a pretty severe example, look up former UFC fighter Fallon Fox. During Fox's fight against Tamikka Brents on September 13, 2014, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head in the 1st round.
Drinker the only thing I would agree with on the assessment of racism in this country is yes it does exist and it’s coming all from the left who use actual DEI discrimination based on skin color and work school and other platforms this does not happen on the right in any capacity
That's not true. There's still plenty of racists on the right: Steve Sailer, Auron MacIntyre, David Duke, Kevin De Anna, Nick Fuentes, John Doyle, Laura Loomer, Pastor Joel Webbon, Lauren Chen, Stew Peters, Jeremy Carl, Candace Owens, Elijah Schaffer, Samuel Jared Taylor, Daryl Cooper, Ron Unz, Gabe Wooley, Tommy Robinson (legal name: Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), Lauren Witzke, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Stephen Wolfe, Andrew Torba, Sulaiman Ahmed, Richard Spencer (yes, he's back to his old tricks), Andrew Wilson, Hannah Claire Brimelow, Peter Brimelow, Alex Stein, Joel Davis, James Allsup, Keith Woods, Rebecca Crockett, Nico Kenn De Balinthazy (Sneako), Jesse Lee Peterson, Peter Quiñones, Isabella Maria DeLuca... the list goes on.
He's a legend for taking on these horrible, hypocritical people. The sad thing is even though their hypocrisy is obvious, they still won't see themselves as the problem.
You sound a little under the weather in this one. As well as a bit reserved. I have no qualms agreeing that Matt Walsh was absolutely brilliant in trolling these race grifters as ingenuously as he did. The movie has like a 99% Rotten Tomatoes audience score and has received almost nothing but praise in all the reviews I've come across. I proudly endorse this gem of an eye-opener.
Pretty good review. Thought it was weird how CD added "of course racism is bad...bad, bad, bad" at the end. Seemed forced. And actually not at all what this movie was about. This movie was about the anti-racist grifters who are making bank lately. And all the affluent white people and college students who lap up the shame and pay for more of it. The movie never said there was no racism. The movie was an exploration of the INDUSTRY and the leftist intersectionalist attack on our society and it's institutions. And I thought it was very good.
"But is ‘Am I Racist?’ really a movie? Yes, in that it’s about 100 minutes long and I saw it on a screen in a sad, mildewy neighborhood multiplex. But as a documentary narrative, it’s pretty flimsy. While Walsh is hard-trolling a crummy diversity seminar in Boulder, Colorado, the educator and attendees recognize him and call the cops because they feel 'unsafe.' This sets the 'plot' into motion, whereas Walsh dons a bad man-bun wig, changes his glasses, and gets an online DEI certification, so he can teach other white people how to be 'anti-racist.' The problem is right there in the premise. We know from the first five minutes, or from reading three of his Tweets, that Walsh thinks that 'anti-racism' is a nonsense scam. So the movie’s framing, that he’s on some kind of quest to expunge himself of his own so-called racist beliefs, is snarky-corny in a way that doesn’t quite work. Walsh is really just disguising himself as a DEI con-man to own the libs. That’s a good enough premise in itself. The narrative window dressing that he half-plays with falls flat. Either own the libs or be a lib who organically discovers that your whole existence is a lie. You can’t be both." - Neal Pollack
@@SirBlackReeds This Is Spinal Tap is a mockumentary, because it’s a fake documentary about a fake band that is intended to be humorous. If a mockumentary had some real moments in it, but is mostly actors, then it could still be a mockumentary. But the meat of this movie is real people saying what they normally espouse, not actors.
"Actual racism" is so rare and near universally condemned it's not worth talking about. Unless we're talking about anti-white racism, and that is plentiful and ubiquitous.
@@CMc-v7z I'm a subscriber, that's how I came across this video. Otherwise, I'm not sure I would. Most of Drinker's videos recommended on RUclips are from his main channel rather than this one.
In an age when you only have to declare yourself a woman to be a woman I see no reason why you should not declare yourself to be black. No need for any further physical alterations. Though, should you choose to dress up like a parody of the character you claim to be then that should be celebrated and protected in law.
I saw it the day it came out. It basically makes the point that the most racist people are the one claiming they are fighting racism and that they want people to be racist so they have something to supposedly fight against. It makes the point that the racism activists are more interested in trying to convince people we live in a racist society, and making money off of it, than in trying to make people more accepting of each other.
To paraphrase Bill Burr - "No need to fight them. Just lay on the ropes and let them punch themselves out." This movie does it perfectly. Matt isn't agressive or anything. He just lets the "experts" talk. And hilarity ensues.
Yeah, h's laughably-badly deflecting to hide he's blatantly R-cist + A bigot-thoughtleader who calls all LGBT to the executionstand, a guy who constantly tries to pinpoint when underaged Girls are "most-fertile", a guy Some-More-News has covered multiple times, including in the critically acclaimed right-wing-nutjob-repelling GOP Videos
I initially wasn't planning to see the film. Not because I feel any level of disagreement with it, but I just wasn't super interested. When Jeremy Jahns was treated like shit just for daring to watch and review it on his channel, I was inspired to finally check it out. Glad I did. It wasn't anything that hugely wowed me, but it does have relevant points to make. Unfortunately, those who need its message the most won't bother watching.
But it’s not. The amount of young people, especially women, that believe this shit is staggering. It’s at its worst in the Anglo-sphere, whereas mainland Europe, it seems more likely to be stomped out by the youth pushing back.
@@FrogWalrus There are many more who don't, and many who are having second thoughts, particularly are they are eaten by the machine they once supported.
We must not pay back hatred with hatred, we need to preserve our morals. The first thing that we must do is laws that this censsorshhip stop once and for all, and that the left lose the power of indotrination in schools.
@@FrogWalrusyes it's only women that seem to fall for this. The men who pretend to fall for it are mostly just looking for p**sy from said liberal women!
@@FrogWalrus I agree with you a bit but i must say every young lad i speak to doesn't buy into any of the modern nonsense , despite what i read they don't seem much different than i was as a young lad.
A really good unbiased review. I can't believe I solely rely on an cynical, alcoholic, British man to provide good, substantive ,well presented movie reviews. Thank you good sir.
Does Drinker really know nothing about Walsh being an evil person? A bigot-thoughtleader who calls all LGBT to the executionstand, a guy who constantly tries to pinpoint when underaged Girls are "most-fertile", a guy Some-More-News has covered multiple times, including in the critically acclaimed right-wing-nutjob-repelling GOP Videos
Actual racism is a thing that shouldn't be mocked??? Please Drinker get out of that trap. Either the trap where you agree to meet them halfway so they won't be offended, or the trap where you allow them become arbiters of propriety.
I agree. If racism is an idea in the free market of ideas this world provides, then any person can and should be able to make whatever opinion they have about it.
@@pr1sm828 But wouldn't freedom of speech extend to the other people as well? In this case: if the Drinker's position is "Apart from the clowns in the movie, racism is +also+ actually a real thing that still harms people.", why would he be in favor of it being mocked?
Matt Walsh is one of very few people who is genuinely moving the cultural needle - "What is a woman" really changed the tenor of the debate around an entire topic.
Yes! The crew under Jeremy Bohring are doing massive cultural impact work. A few years ago it felt really empty when they started talking about it (Andrew Klavan and Benny) but now the work coming out is truly showing...they are serious
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Borat asked ridiculous questions to mostly normal people, Matt Walsh asks normal questions to ridiculous people.
that made me chuckle , its true.
Exactly. Working ridiculous fairytale jobs while most justice involved (black) people can barely get work at Amazon warehouses.
@@peds8345 Way back in the day when IMDB had discussion forums(fora?), I was peeved at rich Hollywood types who contributed to 'liberal/minority causes'--I suggested they be stripped of every cent they had and left to panhandle in their underpants somewhere in the gnarlier parts of Los Angeles.
That's a good way of summing it up XD
borats actor was a jew from a rich old money family who was a minstrel.
The Rotten Tomatoes scores are great for this film. 99% audience score, and a big, fat blank from the critics. They refuse to even see this film.
Why do I get the feeling Rotten Tomatoes will not allow Paul Chato, and The Critical Drinker to be considered as critics, and count their reviews in the Critics side?
Whether they've seen it is beside the point
They refuse to acknowledge its existence, like a boogeyman
Of course the critics wouldn't watch the film. To them, it would be career suicide.
I think it's more like: no matter what critics say - they lose.
1) You support this movie and give it a high score - "you are a racist, bigot, mesoginist, etc."
2) You go against this movie and give it a low score - your ass will be a laughing stock for the whole internet. (Not the first time, to be fair...)
So... Critics as always, with tail between their legs, hide in the shadows.
The refuse to even see themselves in this film...
The point of the movie is not that racism doesn't exist and should be mocked. It's that the "anti-racism" movement has nothing to do with fighting racism and actually advances racism. It just changes the targets.
The people who "fight racism" need "racism" to exist so that their career can exist.
It moves the target away from right-wing media outlets (like the Daily Wire) and back on to those being marginalized - straight out of the Art of War.
And makes the grifters a ton of money
Yeah, this is a huge miss on Drinker's behalf. There is no downplaying of racism here.
As a wise man once said, "Racism hasn't disappeared, it's just under new management now."
my grandmother always told me - it doesn't matter what they teach you in school, Matt Walsh is black.
That actually made me laugh. I wish all the best in the coming apocalypse!
@@misteralagiz race is fluid and skin tone can be non binary color.
Great reference, I craclked up sooo much when I saw your comment
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"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists."
-Thomas Sowell
Amen. It is one of the quotes used in the movie.
Racism is alive and well, and if everyone was honest with themselves, they would admit to having racists views and assumptions.
Sowell is so underappreciated.
@@mofomartianp I'm gonna go a step further and declare that in moderation it is not only a good thing but a necessary survival tool. There.
@@sirchadiusmaximusiii LOL he's massively overrated. His theses barely pass for midwit conservative talking points.
The American demand for racism has outpaced supply for several decades now.
Except in the military .... natch.
The 00s werent very racist. Its like rodney king happened in 93 or 92 and racisim chilled til 2016. Now its like its fucking 1920 or something.
@@andokomando - It's the Age of Kendi where it's high time that Non-Whites get to be racist as payback and revenge. But...oh, so conveniently, they're not racist for doing so and having their own bigoted superiority complex. They redefined the r-word. The ideological battle for the minds of America, from Academia on out, is real. Calling out racism in any shade from white to black IS good, and figuring out what exactly is racist and is not is also good.
@@andokomando Feel that. I've never been more aware of race than in the past three years or so
We all have to thank social media and attention seeking, as well as dopamine addiction for this
I saw it this afternoon. It was subtle, but my favorite bit was when Matt asked DiAngelo “What is mansplaining?” Then interrupts and corrects her when she answers.
lmao that's hilarious, I might need to see it
SPOILER ALERT HELLOOOOOOO? WHAT AN ASSHOLE!
Wow, that's genius.
SPOILER ALERT! sheesh
That does sound funny but I like the idea that it's (like most social documentaries) meant to be uncomfortable but proves that the liberal hivemind struggle to accept any uncomfortability in the process of learning. They often feel it's a proud moment if they can make others learn uncomfortably but can't handle their own medicine (or basically just logic).
You're very correct on almost everything you say, but I don't think Walsh needed to say anything about the actual racism that exists today. He was aiming at the DEI movement, which itself is racist, anti-opportunity, and anti-merit.
One aspect of DEI, "diversity," was described in the film (by one of the actual DEI grifters) as "anything but white." I learned that back in 1993, as I was finishing college.
Our student union had added a "diversity wing" that had offices for blacks, Indians, Asians, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Arabs, but no whites.
That's "diversity" for you, and it always has been.
"Arabs but not whites" wait until they hear about the ethnicity of Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese, and Palestinians.
That's the thing I always noticed about all that stuff. So people set all these rules about what is and isn't okay, what you can and can't say, what you can and can't think about people of different colors, or races, or creeds. And they were happy with these rules when these rules were making their lives easier, silencing people opposite to them, and giving them opportunities. But then when people opposite of them asked THEM not to say certain things, think certain things, or do certain things, when these rules began to limit them as well, that's when they invented all these excuses -- "paradox of tolerance" this and "power imbalance" that -- to explain why THEY did not have to follow the rules they themselves set. And I think that's when people started to realize the people who set these rules don't actually care about these institutional problems but only cared about profiting off of a broken system.
I don’t care, I’m not having foreigners dictate what I do in MY COUNTRY& call my kids racist…..f them
I told my friends I’m going to the movies, they asked what I was watching, I said “Am I racist”, they said “yes, but what movie are you watching?”
😆😆😆 That's funny.
Zing!
*rimshot*
badom bom tsh
Were you speaking to your 17 black friends (depending on how you count them)? 😂😂
The film doesn't deny racism. It actually shows that the most racist people in the world are the ones supposedly fighting racism
Have you met any hardcore southern racists? The good ol' Klan kinda people? They still exist.
@@jonstiffer4994 you ever been to central Africa or rural China/Japan? The hardcore "Southern" racists have nothing on real racism, my guy. Ain't saying they're not bad people, I just think they're kinda tame, but your views are distorted from a lack of exposure to truly horrific acts. Things are hectic here in Africa, and I'm in the safer parts of it (only 8th highest city on the homicide rate).
@@jonstiffer4994 I grew up in the south. The deep south. These people are more racist than who I grew up with
@@greyaye8565 Africa and Asia are beyond racism. It's straight tribalism a lot of times. You can be genetically kin and they will still hate you
@@jonstiffer4994 Those Klansmen will still talk to Jideon civilly.
In other parts of the world, people who are actually a threat will just come at you with machetes.
Americans, I swear...
I've lived in a quite a number of countries, on 4 different continents, and the U.S. is by far the LEAST racist country I've ever lived in. But what's strange, is that it's the one that talks about its 'racism problem' far more than the others.
If it was truly racist, those people would simply be forced to leave, since they wouldn't be able to work or live there.
Because of the Christian spirit of the US, we constantly push ourselves to be better than we are and are willing to admit our flaws, unlike others. But what has been going on for the last 10 years is the devils work.
America's bombed nobody but brown people since 1999 🙄
Don't suppose you've any facts to support your anecdotal perception.
No, it isn't strange at all. Talking about problems is exactly how you solve them.
What did every other country you lived in do about racism? Pretend it doesn't exist hard enough for everyone else to believe that, or make people who brought it up "Disappear"?
How can you say the film ignores that racism is still alive and well in our society? Almost every single person he interviewed or showcased was a racist.
I agree. I thought his review was on target until he made that remark. I watched the movie, and Walsh's point is that the vast majority of people aren't racists. And with a few exceptions the people he was interviewing are the race hustlers who try to blow it out of proportion and stand to gain financially by doing so.
How many were J3w1sh though?
@@codynoth4183 none
@@ashishkhatri2771 So he's not exposing anything. Great.
movies like this are meaningless distractions for the truly racist crimes of the USA like Gaza today.
Think the word Racism has lost all meaning in 2024
Nah it’s still around and appalling but if you lump everyone to it then it gets away with it more.
That’s racist.
2008
Like a lot of other 'ist' and 'phobe' words these days
Same with fascist
'Actual racism is still very much a thing'.
Yes, drinker we know. Walsh was talking to them in this movie.
Walsh is one of them.
@@thomasbecker9676 I'm no Matt Walsh fan, but uh, no he ain't.
I don't follow Wallsh pretty much at all so I'm curious what did he do to be considered racists @@thomasbecker9676
@@thomasbecker9676good one, best joke I've read in awhile. Much like how a supreme court justice was going to undo biracial marriage when hes been in one for decades.
@@thomasbecker9676prove it
So many people are going to be upset at this movie and I'm all for it
What, the drinker isn't breedable? Bigot.
Hmmm you seem to be everywhere. Quick, say something a Bot or Reddit Mod would not say.
@@internetmovieguythe guy is not wrong though.
DEI is just the new slur. Let's be real here
Haven't seen 👀 you commenting on a Vaush video 🎥 recently....Come back they *need* you
I don’t agree with Walsh’s politics. But this movie was absolutely hilarious and a breath of fresh air. I’m a left winger myself, and I work or a university, so I get so much of the craziness shot at me every day from a firehouse, I knew I had to watch this just for the relief. But my god Walsh actually demonstrated some SERIOUS talent here. The comparison to Sacha Baron Cohen is valid!!
Come to the other side. Trust me I did and that's when you realize you've been brainwashed all these years by the left mainstream media
Maybe you do but you don't want to admit it.
Respect. I'm most closely aligned with libertarians, but unfortunately all political parties are too terrible to support. I support those who push against the establishment... Ramaswamey, Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr., Candace Owens, etc.
@@_shadownotes_ I’ve got some good buddies who are libertarian. Cheers dude. I think those are a good kind of people to get behind.
It's a low hanging fruit distraction from things like Gaza. apart from that the Cohen comparison is half legit, except Borat highlighted the real race pressure half as it is, instead of bitching about bitches who don't understand their own racial fallacies and illusions.
Completely disagree with one point. Nobody should have to preface everything with a statement about how racism exists and is bad. The movie is clearly not claiming otherwise.
Exactly, and most people get it! It's so tiresome at this point...
Yep. This is just a tired centrist talking point.
Professionally, Drinker has to. Shame.
@@chrismcdonald7086 He' covering his arse and saying I'm one of the good guys..if you really were you wouldn't have to say it.
lol
Why is it bad?
I remember when America was racist, sexist etc and schools, neighborhoods etc were safe, families were strong
Black Privilege is the ability to be racist and still be considered the victim.
Nailed it. If you're ever wondering who the "privileged" are, just ask yourself who you're NOT allowed to mock, insult, or in general have to treat them differently than others less you be punished.
Sounds about right!
@@MumRah Agreed, those kinds of people love to feel morally superior. Half the time they get offended on behalf of a demographic that never asked for them to give their thoughts.
That’s Muslim privilege. They didn’t do nothing, okay maybe they did but it meant nothing, okay so they did do it because of freedom fighter bs. #Isreal
@@halloumi1112 Malcom X had their number locked in.
I saw it in a packed theater and it was hilarious. Highly recommended.
^ clearly a lie
One of the funniest movies released in theaters in years.
Hahaha that’s exactly what I thought when I read that comment. ^^
Zero chance this movie packed a theater unless it only seats 3 people.
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He didn't mock or downplay racism, he mocked the people who claim to stand against it. If anything he exposed just how racist are these people. And the comparison to Borat goes deeper since Sasha Baron Cohen is a Jew and we've seen how that same crowd treats Jews. Both he and Walsh are perfect targets for them.
*how racist these people are
So racism exist but you cant stand against it or you are part of the problem, lol just wow
The difference is Cohen espouses liberal values.. so he gets a free pass for a lot of his stunts. He also mocks and denigrates a lot of ordinary people.. and there's a kind of cruelty at play. His humour is also pure toilet.. so depending on your sense of humour, you'll love him or loathe him.
Walsh, on the other hand, is dead pan and is not out to humiliate ordinary people, and I sense no cruelty in what he does...
Walsh may not be everyone's cup of tea, but his ability to encourage the modern-day snake oil salesmen to hoist themselves upon their own petard is astonishing.
The master of this art form is still Sasha Baron Cohen as "Ali G", and I hope Matt Walsh aims to follow his style.
When you realize that Matt's entire persona is built on maximizing the psychotic responses of the left, he gets a lot more tolerable.
Most of his persona is satire. Even in his daily show. It's intentionally trying to bait the far left
Best comment
He's a brilliant troll and a good deadpan comedian.
*Hoist with their own petards.
I salute the Drinker for reviewing this film. People shouldn’t be afraid of expressing their opinions, regardless of what film it is
@@wulfrache Yep. And he got massive hate on reddit and Twitter because of it.
Why would Drinker have any reason to worry about reviewing this movie? Jeremy Jahns I can understand, given his liberal audience. Not Drinker though.
@@wulfracheJeremy Jahns doesn’t strike me as a lefty. I’ve been watching his channel for over a decade and he seems sort of apolitical to me
@@chance_ondriezek99 There’s been a few instances where he’s slipped out his liberal biases, but you’re right, he is very good at not letting it affect his reviews, at least not overtly. That’s why I still enjoy watching his videos. For the most part, his audience are a bunch of Reddit lefties though, sadly.
I agree with his review, except the point that the film should acknowledge there's racism. I'm so glad the film DIDN'T go there. A huge part of the point is, everyone already knows this. It would be akin to a doc about flat-earthers wasting time to explain the earth is round. Yes, we all know the "common sense" position and the film doesn't insult us and waste time as if we don't.
Guess I can't be Batman for Halloween since I'm not a billionaire.
You also would need to be chinese and have consume a bat
you can identify as a billionaire so no problem here
You could go as Wonder Woman though...
It's this dumb ass comment. That's not equal to the problem at hand.
I'm disappointed by everyone that like this comment.
@@imperfectlump6070 No, because they'd need to be a greek demi-goddess created by Zeus from clay, otherwise... racism or something.
One of the nifty things about a divisive movie is that the haters refuse to go see it because they already hate it beforehand, prejudged. So ... the Rotten Tomatoes viewer rating skyrockets because only the agreeable 50% took the necessary time to deal with it and laugh their asses off.
Always repel the negative reviewers beforehand, so they'll never know what they hate.
I don't necessarily see this as a positive. Because people not wanting to even be confronted with certain arguments (or immediately dismissing them) is really not different from others mindlessly cheering it on (which definitely also happens. Like, I guarantee you there is also a specific type of "enraged" conservative/right-winger that will praise, upvote etc. this film even before having seen it. just for the proverbial "owning the libs" or whatever).
The DEI crowd take this stuff as seriously as many people take actual religions seriously. In other words they will not laugh at the absurdity of it. No way in hell. They will just go off and sulk.
They have replaced religion with DEI.
They are actually worse than most religious zealots because they not only feel morally right, but they feel it their responsibility to use the long arm of the law to force you to ACCEPT it, and codify the absurdity.
It is their religion
The mainstream reviewer blackout proves this. Nothing but one big sulk.
Religion, at least, has Culture.
DEI is blatantly Anti-cultural.
I, a latino man who was born and raised in Latinoamérica, was called a racist for pointing out that people that live in the US anda call themselves latinos for the victim points but dont speak the language, know our culture or ever lived here, are not as Latino as me.
Yeah...
Well, the lady who hosts the dinner party in Am I Racist? actually says "When I used to be white...."
I live in the east End of London, England. There's a black fella I talk to in the pub. He's nearly 40. He says he feels white bc he was raised by his white grandparents. He went to a mostly white school. The radio and TV were all dominated by white people. His friends, growing up and now, are 99% white. His never met his father or his family.
He says he can't connect to black people bc of their culture and attitudes.
Hahaha me too!! Same!
@@garyphisher7375it's insane that we have made substituted the word culture for color.
He isn't white. White culture isn't a thing. Black culture isn't a thing. Not based off color.
@@garyphisher7375 I wish people were more capable of separating race from culture when talking about these things. I know there's always gonna be some overlap between the two for obvious reasons, but people in the US have such a reductive view on it that often makes it almost impossible to criticize certain aspects of a culture without someone involking the racism card on you. Or, as it's been happening with white and asian people recently, make it about an entire race when someone has an issue with a specific culture.
I'm Filipino and was called racist and "part of the problem" by my sister when I told her i didn't stand for BLM.
All the Filipinos out starting fights with black people 😅 happens all the time. Sad, really.
If you try to donate to BLM it sends you to ActBlue, the Democrats' fundraising platform.
Sorry to hear that, man! But that's the whole idea behind those who hijack the true meaning of words to brain-wash the gullible: to tear apart families, to bring down the building blocks of a working society and to divide us, so they can establish new old rules according to which THEY are in power without having to gain our trust and support first... first they steal the meaning of words - than they steal our freedom and lastly our lives. I grew up with Communism, I have seen those patterns before.
She is the problem if she thinks supporting those scammers is the solution to racism
You're basically a white supremacist at this point 😂
Funny you have to have an "I'm not endorsing" disclaimer to keep certain segments from whining.
There is drinker caving to the peer pressure.
@@Hereford1642 Well, we live in a time, where you are not allowed to say want you want anymore, where the wrong opinion gets you banned. And I think many people are way to sensitive and even striving to be as insulted as possible by everything. On the other hand...thinking about what to say and how to say it to avoid hurting others should be obligatory in every discussion in civilised culture. Finding the middleground is difficult these days.
A completely pointless disclaimer too. Let's be honest there are people who have made their mind up about the Critical Drinker and other similar channels already
I don't really see it that way. If I was him doing this review I might say that simply because I don't know all of the person's actual politics or something. It's not that big of a deal to let your audience know you're not taking a specific stance on the producer's politics.
The fact that he has to make that disclaimer to preempt accusations, despite it already being implicitly obvious, is very telling about the character of some of the people who would critique him for covering this movie.
The words racist and racism have lost all meaning. Much like any word that is thrown around 24/7. It has no shock value left.
Like, literally.
It has become synonymous with: sane.
At this point - if anything - the general population of real human beings would trust the opinion of someone more if they were called racist, because it is a signal that they are noticing things that the foreign invaders don't want them to.
Call a white person that word and see if it has lost its meaning 😂
Like the term 'alt right' - the BBC use it for every non-Guardian reader
Yep, those two words plus "sexism" and "misogyny" have lost all meaning. Well apart from the everyday sexism expressed towards men...
Best description of the "woke" phenomenon i have ever heard:
"Intolerance disguised as tolerance".
They flip everything on its head. They like masculinity in women and femininity in men for example. All part of deconstructionism.
stop putting woke in quotes. that's what the left do to try to discredit the term
Gay race communism
There's no disguise. It is blatant and purposeful intolerance because, like all intolerant people, they believe they are good and their targets are evil. If only people would ever actually learn from history.
"Surf's Up" is a mockumentary - Fictional events presented as a documentary.
"Am I Racist" is an exposé - Unflattering, but real people offering real services and reactions.
Both are hilarious.
good catch
Come on bro this was wildly unfunny
I thought the same thing. The point of a mockumentary is that is is not real. Like "Dark Side of the Moon". Stuff like "Am I racist" this has elements of that, since Matt's character is not real. But since the character is not the actual point of the film, mockumentary does not really fit.
My moment of reckoning was when the President of Harvard, who made her career as a DEI academic, said that calling for the genocide of Jews might or might not be against the university code of conduct depending on the context (imagine if this was said about any other minority). As a non white, social sciences major, white collar, cosmopolitan, Stephen Colbert viewer, mock republicans, man. That's when I started realising there is a huge ideological problem on the left, and started listening to the opposition. I still believe in liberal values, but at the moment I am politically agnostic. I can't really see myself belonging to any political camp. The edges have broken off from the center and are running wild. But I am more open than before, which is why I want to watch this film.
The way that parts of the (far-)left (ironically, just as well as parts the far-right) have embraced the terrorism against Israel and antisemitic positions in general is really heartbreaking and disgusting.
there's nothing wrong to adhere to certain core political ideals, to the left or right, but that's only possible in a healthy way (IMO) if one keeps critical thinking, make an effort to stay informed an open to change your mind if presented with compeling arguments / evidence
@@andresgonzalez-gm5ry political pragmatism used to be a core element of American political thinking in early 20th century (and Reagen as well). It's a good political ideology and life philosophy as well.
If everyone is racist nobody is
you sly dog, you got me monologuing
@doombowser64 I just want to make sure you know that isn't true and doesn't make sense.
'The Syndrome" syndrome...!
Sadly not how that works.
I understood that reference
The film doesn't deny the existence of racism at all. It shines a light on a very specific movement, "anti-racism". I respect your review, but strongly disagree with the notion that they should have included a "and yes racism still exists" to force a cheap "both sides" narrative.
EDIT: if anything, the film PROVES that racism still exists, since all those grifters are actually and openly racist.
it proves LEFT-WING racism exists, but doesn't talk about right-wing racism at all. not that it particularly needs to, but I do foresee a lot of people getting the idea that only left-wingers are racist and right-wing racism doesn't really exist anymore, which is totally wrong. I say this because the average american is incredibly stupid and only thinks in binary.
It's a nice way to avoid accountability, to call it racism when it's time to make restitution for being a racist.
Its and irrelevant problem. Wtf has anything to do with denying it exist? :D
True.
That’s ironically the point. The pandering from ideologues in and of itself is racist.
I once dated a black girl for a little bit, and we talked about racism in the US. She said "I've never experienced racism from white people. But I've been told by black people that I will. I've never had a white person say a slur against me, but I've seen plenty of black people do so to each other."
Imagine going around, greeting your friends, "Yo fuckface...", but theres this weird tradition among African Americans, mainly men, they greet each other with the dehumanizing slur which is the very worst word in the world, which derives from the word "black". So these Black men will beat the shit out of you if you insult them by calling them this, a word which translates to "black", and these Black men will call each other the N word out of endearment. So you can see, its a gaslighting scam they are running. Personally I wouldn't want to have anything to do with a person who calls their friends and themselves the N word, because it's the worst word in the world and you should stay away from people who greet their friends as "fuckface".
I'm a brown person and the most racism/colourism I've ever experienced is from other brown people. To brown people it's much deeper than just our race; it's our skin tone, castes, religions, regions our ancestors are from, the languages we speak. I don't understand why people want to be so very divided but mistreating people because of these divisions is racism. I've experienced no racism from my white friends and colleagues. There were some that were ignorant, just because they didn't have the opportunity to travel but they were not racists, they were only unaware of certain things, which we all are. In my 20's I did think they were racists to be ignorant but I later understood that there was no hate or spite or any malice.
Does Drinker really know nothing about
Walsh being an evil person? A bigot-thoughtleader who calls all LGBT to the executionstand, a guy who constantly tries to pinpoint when underaged Girls are "most-fertile", a guy Some-More-News has covered multiple times, including in the critically acclaimed right-wing-nutjob-repelling GOP Videos
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@@elle5627 That dosnt change anything abou9t America being systemic-racism-infested as 'Some More News' has proven definetively in his videos.
Also, we have Bodycams who show Cops ber-cist a lotttt, soooo uhhmmmm - thts is at-best your personal-experience and means nothing for 'all brown people'
Yep. My wife is a minority and we have mixed race children, living in flyover country that is supposedly full of racists. In over 20 years we have not experienced racism one single time. Meanwhile, these "anti-racists" are openly hostile to men, whites, and Christians and the media not only condones it, they celebrate it. So utterly disgusting.
"Actual racism is still very much a thing and shouldn't be downplayed or mocked for the sake of political point scoring"
The message!
Are you suggesting that even the sheer argument of acknowledging to racism still exists to some extent is already "woke"?
(Because it's really not)
_either you die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain_ (lol)
Not even the drinker is brave enough to post this on the main channel.
And still with the disclaimers. But I am glad he posted this review.
The entire point of the film. Ironic.
He gets a hundred weenie points for that. In other words he's a bigger weenie now.
@@pahbert The entire point of the film is to trigger the libs. That's why they suckered in Robin DiAngelo but didn't bother including: Sana Amanat, Heather Antos, any of CA's state senators, Claudine Gay, any of CA's Supreme Court justices, Debra Leigh, John Blake (CNN), Don Lemon, need I go on?
"But is ‘Am I Racist?’ really a movie? Yes, in that it’s about 100 minutes long and I saw it on a screen in a sad, mildewy neighborhood multiplex. But as a documentary narrative, it’s pretty flimsy. While Walsh is hard-trolling a crummy diversity seminar in Boulder, Colorado, the educator and attendees recognize him and call the cops because they feel 'unsafe.' This sets the 'plot' into motion, whereas Walsh dons a bad man-bun wig, changes his glasses, and gets an online DEI certification, so he can teach other white people how to be 'anti-racist.'
The problem is right there in the premise. We know from the first five minutes, or from reading three of his Tweets, that Walsh thinks that 'anti-racism' is a nonsense scam. So the movie’s framing, that he’s on some kind of quest to expunge himself of his own so-called racist beliefs, is snarky-corny in a way that doesn’t quite work. Walsh is really just disguising himself as a DEI con-man to own the libs. That’s a good enough premise in itself. The narrative window dressing that he half-plays with falls flat. Either own the libs or be a lib who organically discovers that your whole existence is a lie. You can’t be both." - Neal Pollack
This movie is only relevant within certain US internet circles, and the review is not even 5 minutes. Doesn’t make much sense to post it on the main channel. If you guys want Drinker to promote it JUST because it‘s pushing a message you agree with, than you’re behaving no better than the woke mob.
Best thing was Matt never once disrespected, got aggressive or anything like that, he literally wanted to have a conversation with all of the people in this film, and they themselves made the film what it was, he didn't have to act, or try to make something up during interviews because they were entertaining all on their own, hence why majority of the people he interviewed disappeared from social media shortly after this movie came out, lol. 🤦🏾♂️🤣
I hope Matt was acting during the group circle thing. That was hilarious!
He actually said in an interview that part of the reason he could keep a straight face was because he genuinely wanted to know what they would say.
@@petercrocco5461 truly a critical thinker & an open mind
The fact that most reviewers are ignoring this and its receiving no mainstream promotion speaks volumes.
I just watched it and it was really funny. The contrast between all the working class black and white people being so chill and accepting of each other and all the 'educated anti racist' snobs being the most racist people in the movie was gold.
Matt Walsh for me is a mixed bag. Sometimes he hits the nail on the head & provides deep intellectual thoughts, but sometimes he misses the forest through the trees. He's definitely a really smart guy and I have to give him credit for making these documentaries, cause lets face it...NOBODY else is willing to even try.
I do find IMO his teaching let him lean just a little bit too far back to medieval culture from time to time
But I'd yet to meet one person that has the exact same values as me (I'd sooner believe this would be a psychopath wanting to eat me)
IMO he's fairly decent when it comes to "common sense" issues like men are not woman and not everyone is a racist. However, he reaches his intellectual limit when going beyond that. Which is fine, it's perfectly acceptable to be good at specific things and not others.
I think it’s because he’s very much a “black and white” thinker, there’s no middle ground. And he never doubts his own opinion. So his opinions are pretty extreme and often ridiculous… I don’t think it’s a limitation to his intelligence, but it’s what makes him so hit and miss for most of us.
Yes, and it’s totally okay to agree with people on some things and disagree on others. Society has made it seem like if someone has one flaw everything about them should be discredited.
Eh, this would be a bigger deal if it had been made 4 years ago. Now we've reached a point where, for all The Daily Wire and friends wants to cry "but we're not racist, it's the left who are the real racists," they don't exactly do themselves any favors by bringing on people like Steve Sailer, Jeremy Carl, Colin “Millennial Woes” Robertson, Patrick Casey, Kevin Michael Dolan, Kevin De Anna, Keith Woods, James Allsup, and going to bat for VDARE, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that used its funds for partisan purposes. Glenn Beck himself lives in a wealthy, pasty enclave. No wonder Sara Gonzales was allowed to host an unhinged panel on the "Haitians eat cats" hoax.
4:00 Actual racism is what this film is exposing
Only on the left. The movie doesn't address racism on the right, which does exist. Sadly, Matt Walsh enabled that by going to bat for VDARE after they were caught misusing their funds for partisan purpose. Note that VDARE is registered as a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
@@SirBlackReeds ok homie, whatever you say. If Walsh does something you disagree with it must be racist. Thanks for playing.
@@SirBlackReedsthere is no racism on the right. it's extinct. you're chasing ghosts
You're insane
@@aaronkcmobecause he is one
"Leading academics agree that....". Chances are whatever you hear next is total horse shit.
Bingo.
😂
Yeah - it's striking how the prestige of academia has plummeted in the last few years.
@@incurableromantic4006 You can see it in fields that have nothing to do with political agendas as well; in physics, for example, which was my major, you see the most unfocused people on the planet (in the sense that they don't care about researching anything practical, but rather the most theoretical nonsense bullshit that cannot be confirmed through experimentation for the forseeable future) babble about things with such confidence as if they are the holders of the ultimate truth, whilst chasing academia trends and rehashing the same research for those sweet research grants. Not to mention that even though they have nothing to do with political agendas, they are still poisoned by them. And, on top of that, they are lazy, vile and arrogant.
Left this pile o' crap to do computer engineering instead.
Academia is nothing more than a circus that has the power to give government approved toilet paper to people.
Usually when they have based their knowledge off Marxist and Frankfurt academics.
Yes, racism still does exist in the USA, but that's all the more reason I dislike these kind of people. Because they're the kind of folks who water it down and start saying ridiculous things like "math is racist" and "good morning is racist". They're making it lose all meaning. Heck, they're practically making it a COMPLIMENT with how far they've gone. So now when someone does come along who was a genuine victim of racism, no one cares or they just roll their eyes and ignore it.
"So now when someone does come along who was a genuine victim of racism, no one cares or they just roll their eyes and ignore it." maybe that was the intention all along, who knows 🤔
I wouldn't be surprised if Rotten Tomatoes begins hiding their audience score, much like how RUclips began hiding the dislike counter.
Well, it sits at 80% from critics; because the film doesn't go radically right-wing and Walsh's social experiment was surprisingly hilarious.
It's been amazing watching these cash guzzling 'experts' scurry away and hide after this.
You should have seen how quickly the cash-guzzling "expert" known as Lauren Chen hid after she was outed as being a useful idiot for Russia.
Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire are the greatest neocon grifters of all
@@SintoCarrera
So, you agree that 'experts' like Robin D'Angelo are grifters?
Last time I was this early, Drinker was still sober.
I respect the Black Sails pfp
Drinker needs to watch it for real
impossible
@@olis5233 Thanks! Yeah, there are some things about the show that I found a little grating, but overall it's a fantastic bit of storytelling and has great acting.
@RavenOConnor Agreed. One of my favorite scenes is with Ray Steven's, where they introduce Blackbeard...absolutely stellar
@@RavenOConnor yeah gay pirate villian arc xd
Thanks for the review! I wasn't impressed by the last Daily Wire production.
Grifters hate to have their grift exposed to daylight. They know it can't last in the light of day. That's why they're so mad at this movie.
They hate ridicule more than anything
Sorry for being very "both side"-ish here, but that being said, I feel the same applies to so many "outrage!" RUclips channels etc. by now (who lean more on the right-wing/anti-woke/... side). Like, I figure a lot of them don't really have much of an issue with many of the media they review etc. ... but since it's become their business model, they gotta keep that gravy train rolling.
(Which is btw also why I appreciate the Drinker. Because at least to me it hardly ever feels like he does "outraged" videos for the sake of it. case in point: him not even being "mad" about some more recent films or movies, but instead more "tired" etc.)
_grifters gonna grift_ (:D)
What a world we live in where Drinker has a more tepid and politically correct take than Jeremy Jahns
Or does he? 🤔
But Drinker’s country is not as free, and folks are already gunning for him. 😓
Learn to look beyond. 👍
@@DaveInPA2010 His country isnt free BECAUSE they are tepid and politically correct. Brits are more serf than citizen
And Jeremy Jahns is as apolitical as they come.
@@DaveInPA2010 It's not free BECAUSE they toe the line. They are serfs, not citizens, and they got what they earned.
I find it interesting that any time a right winger makes some art, we always have to hear that disclaimer, "I don't condone their views, I'm just reviewing the art." Even from someone as level headed as you, Drinker. Yet we never hear that woe is me disclaimer regarding media from raging leftists. It's not needed on either side.
Totally agree!
Even Jeremy Jahns did less of a disclaimer and posted it on his only channel vs drinker putting it on his second channel which is strange since the people who dont liek drinker would already find out he reviewed it anyway and his regular audience wouldn't care if it was on the main channel
Liberal values have been the mainstream of media for at least 20 years if not longer. They have purged any conservative values or thought from Western Media and have made even the most milk-toast of views of the right, extremist. By doing so, they have made it that one must accept what ever liberals say as the truth and the norm that you don't have to think about.
The reason this movie is so devastating to them is, due to the fact that they have lived in an echo-chamber for so long. One where even the most insane and poorly thought out ideas are not questioned, merely applauded. So when Walsh comes in, not as an enemy they will just dismiss, but an ally that asks reasonable questions or points out the logical conclusions of their ideas. They don't have an answer for him, because they haven't needed an answer for them in decades. Which makes them look like idiots and frauds instead of the intellectuals they have always seen themselves as.
And by doing this, he is going against the norm, attacking the mainstream, and being very controversial.
@@Bailonusliberalism is a female ideology
Did your country require you to voice a disclaimer about Matt walsh or racism on this video? We know you're friendly with the dailywire. Why worry?
They're afraid of a movie that debunks their whole worldview.
The first time I was called racist on the internet was in 1997 when I told a chat room that I didn't like the "Spawn" movie. It's been all downhill from there.
Blade Trinity sucked balls... whoops, I'm cancelled
For me, Black Panther was unwatchable, and I actually like a good Marvel movie. I tried twice to watch it streaming but just had to turn it off after 20 minutes each time. But somehow, it was celebrated when it came out, with the first critic on RT to give it a rotten score getting rhetorically pilloried. I wish I knew why..
@@haydn-db8zbecause our society is ran by women
The craziest I’ve heard is people thinking orcs represent blax people. And then not wondering how drawing that conclusion reflected on them
@@haydn-db8zI think black panther is pretty good I’m curious to hear what issues you have with it?
I signed out of social media 10 years ago and never went back. Problem solved!
You are commenting on RUclips. Guess what? That is social media.🤦
@@benu_bird Its not very good for that considering half my posts don't show up or are deleted because youtube thinks I'm a robot or something most of the time. 🤖
The grifters in the film do also- after they heard they were in the film! :D
@@benu_birdRUclips isn't social media the way that FB, IG, or X are. Jonathan Heidt notes in his latest book that spending a lot of time on RUclips doesn't result in anxiety and depression compared to the other platforms.
You'll be able to give the academics in Am I Racist? some tips on how to exist without it then 😁
Im a left leaning centrist but i would watch it just to hear what he has to say. I used to consider myself liberal, and lots of things about conservatism still bothers me, but i started to realise that both sides have faults, and both sides have merits. I just feel like as a society people have completely dug their heels in on where they stand and all objectivity had been thrown out the window. No one wants to listen to anyone anymore if the are on the other side. Politics belongs to the extremeists now and the moderates are hard to come by.
This should have been a main channel video
i guess someone is not as corageous as he claims to be, really a coward move tbh, but whatever
@@vickdinvick5485 glad i'm not the only noticer
Shortest review from Drinker ever, but glad to see he did one at least.
he probably didn't find it interesting or important enough to make a longer one on the main channel, I mean he could have million reasons to do it this way... not to defend the guy, lol, just sayin' (reading the other comments on here how he's coward and doesn't have balls etc. - "Leave Britney alone!" lol)
If a parody offends people, they are the people being made fun off.
Says the guy on a website where the owners get offended by parody.
This film is *not* a parody though. These are real people, expressing their real twisted beliefs. With no provocation at all - Matt Walsh lets them do the talking.
remember kids: offense is always taken, never given... getting offended is a free choice that you're not forced to make - just becaue you can, doesn't mean you should... GI-JOE PSA! ♪
Yes, Drinker - actual racism still exists. And it's mostly against white people these days.
One of the underlying themes of the work that for some reason you missed??
Acknowledging racism against Whites automatically makes you a hitlerite in 2024.
Lol it doesn't even need to be specifically against white people. It's mostly minorities against other minorities. I work in construction and have got to watch as two electricians on the job, one black and the other Cuban, argue about which has the superior skin color. Probably the pettiest argument I've ever seen tbh
How do you prove that beyond a reasonable doubt? Various viral clips don't tell the whole story. Not to mention that the very definition of white people has historically been unstable.
I'm wondering if a reply like yours is exactly the reason he emphasized it in the video.
did he even watch it before reviewing it, I wonder? O_o
I'm happy that Critical Drinker reviewed this film for us, but why is it tucked into his secondary channel? It's not exactly a low profile release.
I'm not surprised it's on a secondary channel. Critical Drinker normally reviews movies, especially sci-fi and fantasy. This isn't a movie at all, but a documentary, which doesn't seem like his style at all.
I am a black man by definition and I’ve been called races multiple times, especially when I was in law enforcement.😂
Sad to say, I would absolutely believe that.
I think it is quite possible for a black man to be racist (feel racial superiority of black over white) but I suspect that the people accusing you were not white ?
@@Hereford1642 no, what he's saying is that he's a black man and an ex-cop (?) who was being called racist... he's got a typo there... at least I think...
I saw this at the movie theater with my wife in a theater with people of all colors. We all laughed and had a great time… AND we all chatted after the credits when the lights came on!
My wife and I were invited to go see it last weekend. We enjoyed it. Lots of laughs! Conservatives are allowed to have their fun too.
Very happy I got to see this last night!
It won't be in most theaters near me next week.
Why did you add a disclaimer of not endorsement? This is a feature film playing in over 1000 theatres and 98% rotten tomatoes audience score.
Film threat treated it like any other film and reviewed it. Nerdrotic put it in his main channel.
Putting it in your secondary channel and with a trigger warning is disappointing, to say the least.
probably because drinker is in a country where you can be jailed for speech vs Gary Jeremy and Alan
@@WayStedYou good point, id forgotten about that
Nobody should ever forget that 90% of "right wingers" these days are leftists from the 1990s that leftism left behind.
Worse, he's in the Scotland part of the UK.
@@reubensandwich9249 did they scrap that "offensive" speech law there?
Great breakdown. It's a shame though. The people that really need to see this and learn from it are the very ones who refuse to watch it.
After seeing almost unanimous praise for this and having really liked Walsh's previous movie, "What is a Woman?," my expectations for "Am I Racist?" where sky high. I concur with the Critical Drinker's review about some of the interviews being drawn out, parts of it dragged and didn't hit. Overall though it was funny and interesting to watch, definitely worth seeing. 3.5/5
I'm surprised. Why is this is not on the main channel?
Drinker plays golf, he's just being careful.
The drinker is doing what he is preaching. How many time have we heard him say " Why does Disney insist in upsetting half its audience with the political message?"
He probably though this would be divisive so, he didn't put it up on his main channel.
@@iix23reviews are political messaging?
@@looinrims Read the comment section. 99% of the comment are political. 1% talks about the movie review.
I'd guess it's because of RUclips's heavy-handed censorship tactics. Sssniperwolf can harass and dox people while getting slapped on the wrist, but Drinker could catch hell for this just from people making shit up. The deciding factor is channel size.
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I will say mad props to Jeremy Jahns for actually reviewing it. Jeremy is one of the OG RUclips movie critics, and in a time where older RUclips critics have either sold out or caved to the media establishment, *cough Chris Stuckmann cough,* it’s nice to see someone who is a veteran of RUclips go against the grain, despite the potential backlash he may receive. He didn’t even disable the comment section either.
Have never been a huge fan of Walsh, but I saw this at my local AMC with an open mind. Loved it, he did a terrific job and I feel this should be required viewing for many. I can totally relate to the peer pressure associated with accepting current societal norms you don't agree with; apparently, I'm transphobic because, amongst other issues, I don't think transgender women should participate in female sports.
If you want a pretty severe example, look up former UFC fighter Fallon Fox. During Fox's fight against Tamikka Brents on September 13, 2014, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head in the 1st round.
Hey Drinker, we know actual racism still exists, Matt exposed it in the movie. Remember?
He's talking about the racism that has affected and still affects black/brown ppl, it's simply not the same.
He's talking about the racism that has affected and still affects black/brown ppl, it's simply not the same.
He's talking about the racism that has affected and still affects black/brown ppl, it's simply not the same.
He's talking about the racism that has affected and still affects black/brown ppl, it's simply not the same.
Drinker the only thing I would agree with on the assessment of racism in this country is yes it does exist and it’s coming all from the left who use actual DEI discrimination based on skin color and work school and other platforms this does not happen on the right in any capacity
That's not true. There's still plenty of racists on the right: Steve Sailer, Auron MacIntyre, David Duke, Kevin De Anna, Nick Fuentes, John Doyle, Laura Loomer, Pastor Joel Webbon, Lauren Chen, Stew Peters, Jeremy Carl, Candace Owens, Elijah Schaffer, Samuel Jared Taylor, Daryl Cooper, Ron Unz, Gabe Wooley, Tommy Robinson (legal name: Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), Lauren Witzke, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Stephen Wolfe, Andrew Torba, Sulaiman Ahmed, Richard Spencer (yes, he's back to his old tricks), Andrew Wilson, Hannah Claire Brimelow, Peter Brimelow, Alex Stein, Joel Davis, James Allsup, Keith Woods, Rebecca Crockett, Nico Kenn De Balinthazy (Sneako), Jesse Lee Peterson, Peter Quiñones, Isabella Maria DeLuca... the list goes on.
Any capacity??? Like 0? Man even hand sanitizer professionals are less sure than you
I’ve been told I’m only conservative because of my white privilege. I’m Mexican American 😅
Mexicans are white
Sounds like you had your minority card revoked
If you don't vote Democrat, you ain't Mexican!
“But you’re too white to be Hispanic!” Is what I’m assuming people would think if you said you were Mexican American
@rontheauraknight9606 it dosent matter. They were calling a black guy a racist nazi on twitter the other day. Thank God for this movie
Thanks for gently turning some people our way
One day we’ll be free of them, I just hope I live to see it.
He's a legend for taking on these horrible, hypocritical people. The sad thing is even though their hypocrisy is obvious, they still won't see themselves as the problem.
They preach inclusion, equality and tolerance, but practice exclusion, inequality, and intolerance.
That is by design. All of Leftism is projection.
You sound a little under the weather in this one. As well as a bit reserved. I have no qualms agreeing that Matt Walsh was absolutely brilliant in trolling these race grifters as ingenuously as he did. The movie has like a 99% Rotten Tomatoes audience score and has received almost nothing but praise in all the reviews I've come across. I proudly endorse this gem of an eye-opener.
Pretty good review. Thought it was weird how CD added "of course racism is bad...bad, bad, bad" at the end. Seemed forced. And actually not at all what this movie was about.
This movie was about the anti-racist grifters who are making bank lately. And all the affluent white people and college students who lap up the shame and pay for more of it. The movie never said there was no racism. The movie was an exploration of the INDUSTRY and the leftist intersectionalist attack on our society and it's institutions. And I thought it was very good.
but it isn't. "actual racism is still a thing" is something people say without every asking why they are saying it
Go to China with a black person
All it took was a bad man bun and dirty sneakers to get these schills at ease...well done Mr Walsh👍
It’s not really a mockumentary. It’s more of a documentary.
Fact
"But is ‘Am I Racist?’ really a movie? Yes, in that it’s about 100 minutes long and I saw it on a screen in a sad, mildewy neighborhood multiplex. But as a documentary narrative, it’s pretty flimsy. While Walsh is hard-trolling a crummy diversity seminar in Boulder, Colorado, the educator and attendees recognize him and call the cops because they feel 'unsafe.' This sets the 'plot' into motion, whereas Walsh dons a bad man-bun wig, changes his glasses, and gets an online DEI certification, so he can teach other white people how to be 'anti-racist.'
The problem is right there in the premise. We know from the first five minutes, or from reading three of his Tweets, that Walsh thinks that 'anti-racism' is a nonsense scam. So the movie’s framing, that he’s on some kind of quest to expunge himself of his own so-called racist beliefs, is snarky-corny in a way that doesn’t quite work. Walsh is really just disguising himself as a DEI con-man to own the libs. That’s a good enough premise in itself. The narrative window dressing that he half-plays with falls flat. Either own the libs or be a lib who organically discovers that your whole existence is a lie. You can’t be both." - Neal Pollack
It’s an exposé.
@@SirBlackReeds This Is Spinal Tap is a mockumentary, because it’s a fake documentary about a fake band that is intended to be humorous.
If a mockumentary had some real moments in it, but is mostly actors, then it could still be a mockumentary. But the meat of this movie is real people saying what they normally espouse, not actors.
"Actual racism" is so rare and near universally condemned it's not worth talking about. Unless we're talking about anti-white racism, and that is plentiful and ubiquitous.
we know why this is on the second channel lol
🙃 I thought the exact same thing.
Pretty sure the people that subscribe to Drinker aren't gonna mind this.
@@CMc-v7z I'm a subscriber, that's how I came across this video. Otherwise, I'm not sure I would. Most of Drinker's videos recommended on RUclips are from his main channel rather than this one.
@@VALonRUclips yes but I meant he could have put this on his main channel with no controversy.
@@CMc-v7z Yes, but it probably would have cost him some youtube suppression on his channel
I tried to hide my whiteness behind black face and was called a racist for it. I don't know what to do.
Maybe just be white! And be proud of it? 🤷🏾♂️
Hahaha
In an age when you only have to declare yourself a woman to be a woman I see no reason why you should not declare yourself to be black. No need for any further physical alterations. Though, should you choose to dress up like a parody of the character you claim to be then that should be celebrated and protected in law.
you cheeky joker you :D
The absence of mainstream critical reviews this film is receiving displays there total lack of Professional integrity.
I saw it. Laughed my butt off. I felt like I got my money’s worth and that’s better than most movies I’ve seen lately
I saw it the day it came out. It basically makes the point that the most racist people are the one claiming they are fighting racism and that they want people to be racist so they have something to supposedly fight against. It makes the point that the racism activists are more interested in trying to convince people we live in a racist society, and making money off of it, than in trying to make people more accepting of each other.
To paraphrase Bill Burr - "No need to fight them. Just lay on the ropes and let them punch themselves out."
This movie does it perfectly. Matt isn't agressive or anything. He just lets the "experts" talk. And hilarity ensues.
“They go say I’m racist, but they call everybody racist, I guess that means nobody is racist. Now it doesn’t mean much when you say it”
Yeah, h's laughably-badly deflecting to hide he's blatantly R-cist
+ A bigot-thoughtleader who calls all LGBT to the executionstand, a guy who constantly tries to pinpoint when underaged Girls are "most-fertile", a guy Some-More-News has covered multiple times, including in the critically acclaimed right-wing-nutjob-repelling GOP Videos
Good on Drinker and Jeremy for doing this. The movie is actually hilarious and worth a watch.
I initially wasn't planning to see the film. Not because I feel any level of disagreement with it, but I just wasn't super interested. When Jeremy Jahns was treated like shit just for daring to watch and review it on his channel, I was inspired to finally check it out. Glad I did. It wasn't anything that hugely wowed me, but it does have relevant points to make. Unfortunately, those who need its message the most won't bother watching.
Uploading the review in the second channel?
Hope you find your balls one day Drinker, the hardest you can go is make fun of star wars aparently
This kind of ideology is really on its last legs.
I really hope some people get their comeuppance.
But it’s not. The amount of young people, especially women, that believe this shit is staggering. It’s at its worst in the Anglo-sphere, whereas mainland Europe, it seems more likely to be stomped out by the youth pushing back.
@@FrogWalrus
There are many more who don't, and many who are having second thoughts, particularly are they are eaten by the machine they once supported.
We must not pay back hatred with hatred, we need to preserve our morals. The first thing that we must do is laws that this censsorshhip stop once and for all, and that the left lose the power of indotrination in schools.
@@FrogWalrusyes it's only women that seem to fall for this. The men who pretend to fall for it are mostly just looking for p**sy from said liberal women!
@@FrogWalrus I agree with you a bit but i must say every young lad i speak to doesn't buy into any of the modern nonsense , despite what i read they don't seem much different than i was as a young lad.
A really good unbiased review. I can't believe I solely rely on an cynical, alcoholic, British man to provide good, substantive ,well presented movie reviews. Thank you good sir.
Does Drinker really know nothing about
Walsh being an evil person? A bigot-thoughtleader who calls all LGBT to the executionstand, a guy who constantly tries to pinpoint when underaged Girls are "most-fertile", a guy Some-More-News has covered multiple times, including in the critically acclaimed right-wing-nutjob-repelling GOP Videos
Sure he’d prefer Scottish over British
"Identifying racism" really has become a cottage industry for grifters who will happily lecture people for a fee.
Yes, I was called a racist because I said I thought LeBron James was overrated
And even if you said that MJ, Wilt, or Kareem was better? God, don't even mention Bird or Stockton. 😂
What then if you followed it up by saying MJ was the greatest
@@WayStedYou He was the white guys best basketball player I guess
Actual racism is a thing that shouldn't be mocked??? Please Drinker get out of that trap. Either the trap where you agree to meet them halfway so they won't be offended, or the trap where you allow them become arbiters of propriety.
I agree.
If racism is an idea in the free market of ideas this world provides, then any person can and should be able to make whatever opinion they have about it.
@@pr1sm828 But wouldn't freedom of speech extend to the other people as well?
In this case: if the Drinker's position is "Apart from the clowns in the movie, racism is +also+ actually a real thing that still harms people.", why would he be in favor of it being mocked?
Slight correction. This is not a mockumentary. It's a documentary. Mockumentaries are scripted comedy like Spinal Tap and Best in Show.
Matt Walsh is one of very few people who is genuinely moving the cultural needle - "What is a woman" really changed the tenor of the debate around an entire topic.
Yes! The crew under Jeremy Bohring are doing massive cultural impact work. A few years ago it felt really empty when they started talking about it (Andrew Klavan and Benny) but now the work coming out is truly showing...they are serious
Btw, it was my own lack of vision which made those claims sound empty, not their own fault or methods
I hate to agree with you, because Matt Walsh is a dick and he works for Ben Sh*piro, but I think you're right
To won a culture war you need to create art
Fascinating, & a little disheartening, to hear how often the Drinker felt it necessary to disassociate himself from the filmmakers.
He's done interviews (and maybe some other business) with them in the past. This is a disclaimer that this review is not a part of their advertising.
Agree.
Drinker feels the pressure.