How To Reimagine Anti-racist Borat: Cultural Learnings of DEI for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of America
Comparing Matt Walsh's master trolling in "Am I Racist?" and "What is a Woman?" to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, Bruno, and Ali G - plus no cap on god
Comrades: Very nice, high five!
Trolling is an art form. In clown world, the best comedy movies over the past 20 years have been mockumentaries. Woke scriptwriters have no sense of humor and even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to top reality. Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? reached #4 at the box office in its opening week and is on track to become the third best performing documentary of the decade. Unlike most Hollywood productions, it is already profitable with $10 million in revenue on a $3 million budget. Although the film has a Rotten Tomatoes audience rating of 99% favorable, MSM reviewers are avoiding it for ideological reasons. This samizdat’s policy is to amplify good work that is being censored, cancelled, or ignored. I will comment on the funniest movie since What is a Woman? and compare it to Sacha Baron Cohen’s flavor of trolling.
***** 5 stars - highly recommend seeing it in theaters.
Walsh embarks on an anti-racist journey to become a certified DEI expert. Along the way he interviews DEI luminaries like Robin DiAngelo, talks to regular Americans about DEI, and plugs his DEI training workshop on local news shows. The absurdity of his disguise made me chuckle throughout the movie. He has a huge following and anyone who has seen him once would be able to recognize him, as the only major alteration he made was wearing a man-bun. Yet none of the DEI commissars recognize him, proving that they live in echo chambers where they will never come across different opinions. The hustlers get hustled.
The most hilarious parts of the film are when Walsh crashes several anti-racism. Participants pay exorbitant sums for grifter facilitators to scold them for their racism. They all resemble AWFLs and White Dudes for Harris types. I feel somewhat bad for these easy marks, who all appear to be lonely miserable masochists. They are searching for meaning in a fake cult religion in which there is no forgiveness and their own skin color makes them an infidel, an unprecedented level of brainwashing in world history. Race2Dinner’s Saira Rao and Regina Jackson make the most virulent remarks. Robin DiAngelo is the biggest fish Walsh suckers. He masterfully shames her into taking action logically consistent with her ideology, with an assist from his producer Ben. Walsh proves that mockery is the best way to subvert subversion. All he had to do is let the charlatan scammers talk. Am I Racist? is a commercial and cultural success, doing well financially and doing good as the final stake in the coffin of DEI. End the struggle sessions by laughing at them.
My parody short film:
Before Matt Walsh, Sacha Baron Cohen mastered the art of trolling. He created three outlandish characters who elicited unpredictable responses: Ali G the London gangster, Borat the Kazakhstani cultural minister, and Bruno the gay Austrian TV host. The main difference is that Walsh targeted wealthy “expert” commissars and let them squirm deeper into their their subversive word salad quicksand. Baron Cohen targeted flyover country and egged them on with crudeness. Although both are comedic geniuses, in retrospect the latter’s intentions were more malicious. He wanted to give his “elite” cultured leftist audiences reasons to look down upon the poor working class. Like many others in Hollywood, Baron Cohen is now an activist for censorship against “hate speech” and “propaganda”.
Borat’s funniest segment was visiting a Mississippi wine club to learn etiquette. He tries to goad them into making racist remarks, but they are unfailingly polite. The best part is that Baron Cohen drinks so much wine that he ends up getting plastered and slipping character. Like Walsh, his physical humor was brilliant on top of the trolling.
Bruno’s funniest segment was going to an Alabama football game. His cheerleading inflames a few fans, presaging the aggressive in your face drag queen story hours and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. After the game one minute into the video, he ventures into the locker room and asks a black player questions assuming he is also gay. The tension is palpable, but once again Borat is rebuffed. Middle America is full of fundamentally decent people like this who are will humor him as long as possible, but cut things off when lines are crossed.
Ali G was the only Sacha Baron Cohen character who went after celebrities. His funniest segment was pitching the ice cream glove to prominent business figures, including Donald Trump. Orange Man was the only one who sniffed out the ruse. The others made fools of themselves because they genuinely thought it was a good idea, or they were faking and condescending to him because he was a dumb, dark-skinned foreigner. DJT starts at Minute 2.
The charts below are the saddest indicator on the absolute state of Hollywood. Box office receipts are down 14% from 2023. None of the Top 10 films of 2024 were original. The entire Top 3 and half overall are sequels of kids cartoons or superhero movies. This is why I Am I Racist? iis only the second I’ve seen in theaters post COVID. The other was Top Gun Maverick, which was fantastic but still a sequel.
Is no cap on god the successor to Borat and Bruno?
Perhaps I should go undercover to the lefty events I get invited to because I’m a BIPOC:
The real white privilege is the privilege to deport migrants within 24 hours of their arrival, like on Martha's Vineyard, without fear or reprisal.
The white plebs are not allowed the same luxury...feed them struggle sessions!
Side note:
Help a brother out with the font. Some of us ancient dinosaurs in our 50's have eyes that have started betraying us in earnest.
I also saw this in theaters - pretty well done from Matt Walsh and team.
My favorite part was Matt and Robin when Matt gives his black producer the reparations first and then coerces Robin to also give some. He masterfully points out that if it’s truly systemic racism, then why wait for the system and she should put her money where her mouth is and pay Ben now!
You can see her wrestle with this because it makes absolute sense based on her own teachings. She’s used to getting paid to blab about things out of her control, not actually help anyone tangibly.
What is a Woman and Am I Racist? are really the ways forward. The left has too much control over media, academia, etc. and giving people something to consume that is both enjoyable, humorous AND shows them how stupid the left’s ideologies and practices are will help make progress towards a less stupid future.