Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, star of the runaway hit comedy “Am I Racist?,” made an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Wednesday to discuss the film and deeper thoughts on the DEI grifters.
Rogan started the conversation gushing about how much he enjoyed the film, echoing what so many others have said.
“Your movie is really funny. It’s really funny,” Rogan tells Walsh from the get-go. “By myself, laughing out loud hysterically today,” he went on. “I watched it in the sauna, I watched it in the gym. … It’s one of the best comedies I’ve seen in a long time because there’s so many moments in it that are so uncomfortable.”
The “JRE” host immediately mentioned the viral scene with “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo which involved her giving reparations out of her own wallet to a black producer on the film. Walsh said even though they had hoped to get DiAngelo on the project, he assumed they’d never get access to her and that she’d be more “savvy and cautious” about who she talked to.
“But apparently she has no idea what’s happening outside her bubble at all,” Walsh said.
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Walsh also mentioned how the whole “numbing” interview with DiAngelo was two hours of him repeating her own ideas back to her so she knew he was a “safe” person.
Rogan discussed how X CTO and Executive Chairman Elon Musk has talked about how the “woke” Left allows “really mean people… this ideology allows really mean, sh**y people to have a virtuous way of expressing that.”
Walsh agreed, pushing back on the concept of the internet not being “real.”
“That’s why I hate when people say, ‘Well, Twitter isn’t real life.’ And I understand what’s meant by that, when people say that, but it actually is real life because these are human beings.”
When Rogan mentioned the exorbitant prices being charged by the people featured in the film, especially the mother who was upset when her two daughters got overlooked by a person wearing a mascot costume, Walsh said showcasing activists who charged high prices was the point.
“Part of the point of the movie is, that’s why we put the price tags on the screen – we want people to see how absurd it is. So in a certain way, it was like, the higher they quoted the price, we said, “Great, we’ll pay that.’ Because we want this in the movie.”
At another point in the conversation, the two discussed race relations and how they’ve changed over recent decades. Rogan pointed out that something happened around 2012 when “things became really ramped up” when it came to the racial divide.
“It just became much more of a subject,” Rogan said.
“BLM came into formation in 2013,” Walsh pointed out, agreeing that everything seemed to change around that time. “It’s not a coincidence that it seemed like race relations were improving decade after decade,” he continued. “They weren’t perfect, but it seemed like they were pretty good.”
Walsh mentioned that a major change happened right around the time that Barack Obama was elected, which he said was “not a coincidence.”
“A lot of people have noticed that, ‘Hmm it’s odd that we had a black president and then all of the sudden, now we’re having race riots again.’ I think that the reason is that when you elect a black president… you would think that at least one positive that you could draw from that is that well, at least that means that systemic racism is not a problem in this country anymore.”
“The race hustlers don’t want us to draw that conclusion,” he added.
He said what followed were race riots, the rise of BLM, “microaggressions,” and race hoaxes, because that group still wanted everyone to believe that “racism is actually worse than you can imagine, it’s lurking everywhere.”
Rogan agreed, saying to certain anti-racist activists, the whole thing is “like a religion.”
“Like when the Taliban started blowing up those ancient statues of Buddhas,” the “JRE” host said, making the connection between those acts of violence and activists demanding that statues of founding fathers be removed. “They destroyed things that were a part of human history that we would have studied for thousands of years. And they destroyed them because they didn’t go along with their religious ideology. And I think part of the woke thing is this religious ideology that has to be followed, and you cannot stray from the lines.”
“I remember Trump saying at the time, well the problem with that is eventually they’re going to take down George Washington. And everybody thought he was crazy … but once they got past Civil War people, then they got to, ‘who owned slaves?’ and then they got to taking down… statues of Thomas Jefferson, and eventually did get to George Washington.”
Walsh said the problem is that everyone who lived 100 years ago “is racist by our standards today,” and that assessing them by modern standards is a foolish way to understand history.
Later, Rogan recalled how at his children’s school when they were younger, the administration started telling the children that it wasn’t enough to be not racist, and encouraged the kids to be “anti-racist.”
“You’re talking about some of these kids in that school are six,” Rogan said. “Like, what are you saying? You’re saying a six-year-old has to be an anti-racist? Can’t they just play with their toys? Can’t they just go to the park and hang out with their friends? Can’t they just play sports?”
“Six-year-olds don’t give a f*** what color somebody is,” he added. “They don’t. They all just play together. They just want to play with the people who are nice to them and who they have fun with and laugh with, and here you’ve got some f***ing grifter who latches themselves onto some school system that’s filled with all these terrified liberals that are just terrified of being called out for anything.”
Walsh said it’s different for him because he’s used to being called racist and it doesn’t mean anything, but for others, it’s “the worst thing in the world.”
“They’re terrified of it. They’re literally rather be called anything than racist.”
Towards the end of the conversation, Rogan describes Walsh visiting the support group at the beginning of the film as an example of a “struggle session.”
“You get these weird, insulated groups that live in echo chambers and that’s, I think, one of the things you highlight the most … the struggle sessions.”
“You’re sitting there and talking to these people and it’s like, ‘who are you?’ like, ‘where do you live? How do you think like this?’ Like, what is going on in your life that you’ve been exposed to this version of the world that seems so ridiculous to someone that’s not in that bubble?” Rogan wonders.
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