American Rituals

I’m going to Matt Walsh’s new movie Am I Racist? on opening night. Are you going? Let’s all go and then discuss it here.

I saw a clip from the movie where Walsh is disguised as a waiter at a racial education dinner for white women. A race hustler says that white women have this deeply annoying habit of gushing to each other how fat or stupid they are. And look, this race hustler is not wrong. She’s wrong in that she says it’s “white women” when the reality is that it’s white American women under the age of 50. All of my friends here in town are either way older than 50 or not white American precisely because of this. One can’t take it because it’s like a ritual. They get together and go at it for any length of time. I’ve never met a European woman who’d do this. Never. Or a US woman in her seventies.

I think Matt Walsh uncovered something he didn’t even expect.

7 thoughts on “American Rituals

  1. I hate these kinds of generalities about groups of people, it’s dumb since “white women” is a big group. The white women in my social group don’t go on about how fat they or stupid they are, they’re indie, hipster types more interested in the latest underground rock band or film than gushing about being fat or stupid.

    As for that speaker, I’d bet she’d say that “Hispanic” women suffer from racism and sexism imposed by white people or that going to “white spaces” is traumatizing. I’ve never suffered racism from white people and I go to a lot of indie music shows and hipster bars where it’s all white people, I do look and act like a white indie rock girl.

    That speaker would also say that “Hispanics” can’t be white, or if they think so, they are self-loathing. My parents are from Cuba but are clearly white people just by looks, I knew my parents were white and that I am white from when I was a kid. These are the sorts who will call my mother a “coconut” for being a Republican and my older brother a traitor for being in the military and a Republican, or myself for listening to indie rock instead of bachata or Spanish music. This is why I don’t trust white anti-racists or anti-racists period, I’ve been told exactly that by these people

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  2. So who are you going to see.this masterpiece of cinéma vérité with?

    I doubt this manscaped child, sorry father of six, discovered anything any more than Borat did. The point of this genre is amusement, not surprises. They’re like rom coms that way.

    Were there any funny clips?

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  3. My ex-soviet family never missed a chance to gush about how fat various women in our family are. No matter how successful I was in other areas of my life, one could always make judgements about my weight or appearance. I’ve seen this in plenty of other cultures, so I don’t think ex-soviets get a particular monopoly on this, just it was my experience.

    Woke liberals were the first group of people I interacted with who seemed to genuinely value me and also genuinely not care about my weight. Yes, those same woke liberals had plenty of other issues, but that does make it hard for me to completely give up on wokeness.

    -YZ

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