As I drove to the AMC theater in Danvers, Mass., my phone kept peppering me with the same plaintive question: “Am I Racist?”
It was startling the first time it happened, and for a second, I wanted to reassure my phone that no, consumer electronic devices can’t be racist. But the phone wasn’t really asking.
Rather, it was reminding me that I had tickets for the latest movie by Matt Walsh, a conservative podcaster and provocateur who is probably most famous for his film “What Is a Woman?” That movie apparently did well enough to justify releasing the new one onto about 1,500 screens this month. It was No. 4 at the box office (albeit a distant fourth in a very slow week), which is why I was going to see it.
While you might not like this suggestion, you should do the same.
I’m not promising you’ll enjoy the movie. If you’re on the liberal-to-progressive side, you will think it is simplistic and unfair, which, yes, obviously. But it’s also effective, and people on that end of the spectrum should watch it to understand why it works — and why the left keeps providing Walsh such a rich trove of targets.
The movie’s conceit is that Walsh is concerned he is racist and trying to “do the work.” (This column will contain spoilers, starting with: He is not sincere.) In a deadpan parody of a self-flagellating White progressive, often wearing a ridiculously obvious wig, he interviews diversity experts, attends antiracist events........