Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh recently went on The Jordan B. Peterson podcast to discuss his upcoming documentary “Am I Racist?” which hits theaters September 13.
The pair spent a long time discussing some of the things Walsh learned during his time making the movie — including how surprisingly easy it was to trick radical left-wing DEI activists into talking to him.
Peterson mentioned Walsh’s much-hyped conversation with “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo. The Canadian psychologist called DiAngelo’s best-selling book “really one of the most despicable books that’s ever been written.”
“I think she also fits into that category as a thinker, and likely as a human being,” Peterson added.
Walsh called DiAngelo the “prime example” of a person who lives in a bubble they can’t see past.
“You’d think, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think that it would be difficult to get Robin DiAngelo into a room,” he said.
“In her day to day life, she probably almost never interacts with, or speaks to anyone who is not as far to the left as she is on all these issues, or at least almost as far,” Walsh said. “That’s just the world that she’s in. And so when I’m sitting across the room from her having a conversation, I mean, it’s probably the first time in years, or ever, that she has – in this case, unwittingly – found herself sitting in a room with someone who fundamentally disagrees with her about almost everything.”
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“These academic leftist types, that’s the kind of bubble they’re in. It would be a lot more difficult for someone on the Left to do to me what we just did to Robin DiAngelo,” Walsh continued, mentioning how even though he mostly interacts with conservatives, he still knows of and talks to left-wing radicals all the time.
When Peterson asked Walsh for his big takeaways from making the documentary, Walsh replied that he was mostly fascinated by the people who were willing to participate and pay money for events such as Race to Dinner, an event where white women gather to rehabilitate their racism. The “Am I Racist?” star said the grifters are likely participating to make money, but when it comes to the attendees, he was interested in uncovering their motivations.
“You really can’t overstate the guilt that these people are walking around with,” Walsh said. “White guilt. White guilt is a real phenomenon. And I knew that making the movie, but having that illustrated so profoundly was still pretty enlightening to me.”
“For a sane, rational white person like myself, and you, it’s hard to understand,” he added.
The New York Post first reported on the surprising moment when DiAngelo was duped into paying $30 in reparations out of her own wallet to a black producer on “Am I Racist?”
“I think that whitey, Robin DiAngelo, should donate every damned cent of her royalties to reparations,” Peterson tweeted about the scene later. “Put your money where your mouth is, you bloody leftist hypocrite.”
“Monetizing racist division while sanctimoniously moralizing: The worst kind of Pharisee,” he added.
“Am I Racist?” is already receiving rave reviews from those who got to see it early. Get your tickets now for the premiere this Friday, September 13, by visiting amiracist.com to find a showtime near you.
