Am I Racist? | Matt Walsh | EP 479

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with author, documentarian, and podcaster Matt Walsh. They discuss the soon-to-be hit film “Am I Racist?” as well as implicit bias, the disparity of demographics, how men and women both find meaning through responsibility (in different ways), and why concepts like white guilt have taken the place of religion for many on the secular left.

Matt Walsh is a popular writer, speaker, and one of the Right's most influential voices. He is the host of “The Matt Walsh Show,” and author of the best-selling children’s book Johnny the Walrus. His documentary “What is a Woman?” has become a cultural phenomenon and one of the most talked-about documentaries of 2022.

This episode was recorded on August 19th, 2024

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(0:00) Coming up
(3:56) Is Matt Walsh racist?
(6:26) Implicit bias
(15:27) A history of spin: how philosophy became politics and back again
(19:39) Disparity and demographics: white people aren’t on top either
(24:00) Conscientiousness and fatherlessness
(27:03) Fatherless girls and chromosomal damage
(31:21) Conservatives are dropping the ball on holding down core values
(36:20) The pathology of pairing strategies, justifying hedonistic nihilism
(42:43) People are giving up on having kids and see parenting as misery
(44:31) Young men refuse to commit to relationships, the spiral of failure
(49:33) Raising boys, “they watch you all the time trying to learn how to be”
(55:09) Having fame and choosing not to succumb to temptations
(59:08) Thinking through cheating: why it’s a false fantasy
(1:06:46) Happiness hinges on self-sacrifice
(1:10:46) Life before kids is all childhood
(1:17:43) Men are called to paternal roles
(1:19:43) Jocko Willink and mentorship
(1:22:27) Conceptualizing “Am I Racist?”
(1:26:40) “Literally anyone can get DEI certified”
(1:28:06) Surprisingly easy to dupe liberals, “they live in a bubble”
(1:30:15) Interviewing Robin DiAngelo undercover
(1:33:10) The reality of white guilt: Race2Dinner exposed
(1:37:09) It’s a replacement for religion, confession, and community
(1:40:44) Predatory allyship
(1:47:30) Taking the film to theaters: “an arena with an actual scoreboard”

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[baileyjacobus]

Matt Walsh once said that if you want to be a rebel in this generation, be traditional. That perspective changed my life!

[DamirPerkovic-bn]

"I don't think you can grow up until someone is more important than you are". That's gold.

[Johnnykd]

It’s literally racist to assume I’m racist based on my skin color 😂

[CourtneyRoberts-bwgj]

Matt hit the nail on the head with the displacement of guilt from sin with guilt of ones race.

[helceothe]

"Sorry for the lengthy explanation" Jordan is really getting more aware of his areas with room for improvement every time he does an interview. I love that he is still humble enough to be willing to evolve after all he has accomplished. Great job, Mr. Peterson. I am glad to be one of your viewers and supporters.

[margeaupanforte]

Matt has many virtues but for the film he has fortitude, courage and perseverance. And he's humble.

[FamilyJAMM]

Getting married and having kids saved me from my miserable, selfish, chaotic, and meaningless life!!! I literally owe the person I am today to my wife and first daughter. I have everything I’ve ever wanted, and became the man I was supposed to be because of them.

[eleonorelettres]

Thank you for understanding the girls' point of view. I didn't know reliable men at all until I worked hard on it, working on believing it, then gravitating toward them, then on becoming the kind of person they would want.
I got married at 45. I'm very happy. But boy, was it a hard road...

[betterchapter]

Matt Walsh becoming the conservative version of Borat is not what I was expecting.

[jamesg]

It's not racist to want to preserve your culture. And the word racist has lost all meaning now anyway.

[hrbeta]

I will be civil to everyone, but that does not mean I like everyone. And that will not change.

[Abuamina]

One is reminded of the old adage: "The path to hell is paved with good intentions".

[rubydunaimangold]

I miss my children, I miss being their mom, cooking for them, shopping for them, I look back on the first 16 years of their lives and I want to go back in time and do it again, despite being a single mom working 3 jobs. I became an "empty nester" suddenly when my youngest child moved out and cut me out of her life ( when I refused to affirm her or give permission for her to take testosterone when she decided she was no longer female) My ex-husband, an abusive narcissist, was more than happy to affirm her if it meant he wouldn't have to pay child support. Now, it find it hard to look to the future with any optimism or enthusiasm. The best years of my life will alway be raising my children and spending time with them. Nothing else can compare.

[PintSizedPO]

Matt PLEASE do what is a family or father or marriage next. What you described about being married and the importance of having a father in the home is something that is sorely lacking in the world today.

[neiljohnson]

I convinced my liberal friend to watch “am I racist” with me on Saturday. Very excited

UPDATE:
Watched it yesterday, went pretty well she thought it was hilarious. Walked out of the theater and she looked at me and said you “know what why do people care just let people be people?”. I’d say it’s a win 🤷🏽‍♂️.

[raynyamete]

It's funny that as a conservative black guy, all my progressive white friends think I'm the true racist.

[pacurarudaniel]

Matt Walsh did a great job interviewing Jordan Peterson

[lawlupin]

People are making money and becoming notorious by making people insecure about themselves.
Gender, race, nationality.

[AFringedGentianToEnnien]

Dearest Dr. Peterson, this project of Matt’s brought back a flood of memories for me as to why I began listening to your podcasts and lectures in the first place. Well, besides the fact that my best friend was always going on about you and sharing with me what she learned from you. It was early ‘22, and I was back at university finishing up my degree, and I was watching a lot of modern Star Trek and writing a lot of commentary on it, and of course I was finishing up my book. And Woke was absolutely everywhere I turned. And everyone, from my professors to the fellow Star Trek fans to my co-workers, told me that I needed to be Listening To Black Voices. So when my best friend showed me your conversation with Mikhaila and Africa Brooke, I thought, Splendid. Here is a black voice for me to listen to. And that black voice didn’t say anything like I thought I was supposed to hear. And then I saw your interview with John McWhorter, the one you two did right after “Woke Racism” came out. And, well, I learned to understand with my intellect what I had only known in my intuition and my spirit, and I learned from you to put words to it, and to be constantly on my guard against permitting myself to fall into catering to that audience in my own work. And so you’ve been stuck with me for wheal or for woe ever since. Goodness knows it’s been six of one…
Any road, back to editing. I’m listening to you and Matt while I’m working on The Damned Book.
With Ruth Anne’s love

[milo_thatch_incarnate]

47:55 is *_so tragic_* and makes me want to cry. I was blessed to be raised by 2 committed conservative Christian parents who I saw disagree and work things out -- a great relationship. I did not realize that I basically won the lottery in that. I can't _imagine_ NEVER HAVING SEEN a _single_ healthy marriage relationship.

Luckily, though, I'm heavily in the conservative women side of the internet, like in Alex Clark's Cuteservatives community, and I see a HUGE number of young women who are either married or want to be married, and are either in the middle of raising healthy children or want to! These happily married conservative Christian women just aren't really on the internet all that much -- they're very busy raising healthy, happy, large families!

I'm 25, female, married, Christian, and conservative, and my husband and I just started actively trying for our first baby, too. There IS a movement of young people who were raised by good families, who are now also raising good families. They're just not as loud or as noticeable as the horrifying abortion-happy miserable leftist people. But we're here! And we're quietly repopulating the West with healthy, stable people.