The anti-woke pundit Matt Walsh may have gotten too famous for his own good.
In a hilarious clip from his new film, viewers can see the moment Walsh realizes he’s too easy to recognize nowadays.
He shared it exclusively with The Mail. It’s from his upcoming release Am I Racist?, which pokes fun at racial justice warriors.
He’d snuck himself into a support group called ‘Grieving White Privilege, Ant-racist Allyship Training’, pretending to be named Steven.
But he made the mistake of sporting his trademark attire — a plaid shirt, with thick beard and quiff.
Filmmaker Matt Walsh was too easy to recognize with his trademark plaid shirt, beard, and quiff
For his new documentary, Walsh went undercover as a rookie DEI consultant with a tweed jacket and a man bun
In the session, a workshop-goer realized they had Walsh in their midst — one of right-wing America’s leading voices.
The atmosphere quickly turned awkward and sour.
But the cameras kept rolling.
‘I want to know that my physical safety and yours and everybody else’s here is okay,’ said a woman attendee, her voice trembling.
Breeshia Wade, the black woman leading the group of white attendees, urged Walsh to leave.
Ultimately, members called the police, and Walsh had to wrap up his shoot.
But not before the 38-year-old cracked some gags at the expense of the anti-racism confab.
‘Is it because I said I had 17 black friends?’ Walsh asked.
‘It might have been 15. It depends on how you count them.’
Before being walked out of the room, Walsh suggested he needed a ‘better disguise.’
In an email exchange with The Mail, Walsh kept the funnies flying about the incident.
‘I wanted to confront my whiteness, and they called the cops on me,’ quipped the filmmaker.
‘That doesn’t seem like a safe space to me.’
Walsh was likely recognized due to his hit 2022 documentary about radical transgender ideas, called What Is a Woman?
Back then, he could go undercover easily.
Not anymore.
The anti-trans flick and Walsh’s eponymous Daily Wire show made him a minor celebrity, with 2.9 million followers on X and plaudits from the platform’s owner Elon Musk.
Thanks to his disguise, Walsh lands an interview with Robin DiAngelo, the leading anti-racism scholar who coined the phrase ‘white fragility.’
The movie takes aim at America’s sprawling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry
Thankfully, Walsh had plenty of examples of liberal attire to draw from.
He recalled a toe-curling past interview with Patrick Grzanka, a University of Tennessee gender expert.
Walsh decided to mimic Grzanka’s attire — a tweed jacket, skinny jeans, and a blue shirt.
To top it off, he sported a man-bun — an ultimate symbol of liberal metro-sexuality.
For the rest of the 1hr 41m racism movie, Walsh goes undercover as a pony-tailed liberal.
He role-plays as a bumbling rookie diversity consultant who spouts racial justice buzzwords.
He crashes the closed-door progressive supper club Race2Dinner, where white women guests pay thousands of dollars for co-founders Regina Jackson and Saira Rao to lecture them about white supremacy.
He also sits-down with Robin DiAngelo, the leading anti-racism scholar who coined the phrase ‘white fragility.’
The film pours scorn on the massive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry that ballooned after the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minneapolis in 2020.
Advocates of DEI says it helps get more women and minorities into jobs and colleges that they had long struggled to access.
But Walsh and others deride a woke box-ticking exercise that ends up robbing opportunities from straight, white men.
All the while, they say, DEI consultants happily pocket six-figure salaries running absurd workshops on microaggressions.
Walsh also showed up at progressive supper club Race2Dinner, where white women guests pay thousands of dollars to be lectured about white supremacy.
In one scene, Walsh in his alter-ego delivers a workshop that introduces attendees to ‘healing pain’
‘Everything about this movie exposes the ‘anti-racism’ movement as one giant grift,’ Walsh said.
The clip, which was shared exclusively with The Mail, is ‘just the beginning,’ he added.
‘People will be shocked when they see the rest.’
The film is The Daily Wire’s first theatrical release for an in-house production.
The company’s co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said he wanted it to ‘reach every corner of America, not just The Daily Wire’s core audience or political conservatives.’
‘DEI is the next pillar of the woke mind virus that’s about to topple,’ he added.
It hits theaters on September 13.