Apparently, if you're white, you're racist—at least, according to the anti-racism social justice movement taking the knitting world by storm.
The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh tries to find out why in his new film, Am I Racist?, in which he goes undercover as a “certified DEI expert” and gets surprising insights from leaders in the anti-racism industry.
He was a little surprised by what he found, but not by the leaders.
“I wasn't too surprised by the con artists and what they said was what I expected,” Walsh said. Allie Beth Stuckey “I can relate,” he said. “But it's still pretty unsettling when you sit in a room and listen to it.”
“I was a little surprised because the people who are involved in this scam and cult seem more genuine than I would have expected,” he explained, adding, “They are true believers.”
When he first started, he was under the impression that most of what these followers were doing was simply virtue signaling.
“I think it's 10 percent a virtue gesture, and the other 90 percent believe it,” he explains, “and they really think they have to do this in some way to atone for their guilt as white people. I was astonished by that.”
“Do you think 90 percent of people are out to punish you, or do you really expect that somehow you can break out of this so-called system of white supremacy and do good things for marginalized communities?” Stuckey asks.
“I think it's both, but I also think there's a psychological component,” he replies. “There's a limit to how much you can psychoanalyze these people, but I think they're walking around with a sense of guilt.”
They carry with them feelings of guilt that could be cleansed by believing in Jesus Christ, but in many cases, because they have little faith, they are haunted by guilt wherever they go.
In other words, they are practicing a new religion.
“I think if you don't have that religion, if you're a secular person, you still feel guilty,” Walsh explains, “but you have no way of understanding it. You have no framework for understanding it. So I think that's why these anti-racism charlatans come along and say, 'Okay, you feel this way. Let me explain why you feel that way.'”
“'That's because you're white, and this is the only thing you can do to free yourself from the guilt you're carrying,'” he continues. “And then, of course, after you do it the bad news is: 'Okay, well, good thing you did it, but you're still as racist as ever.'”
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