As there’s a lot of conversation about it today, I will say one more thing about the methods we used to make “Am I Racist?” and “What Is A Woman?” before that.
We are trying to expose the so-called expert class — our self-appointed moral superiors who impose their doctrines on us from on high. Some conservatives have expressed discomfort with the fact that we use “deception” to accomplish this goal. I don’t think that’s the right word to describe our method, but I’m not quibbling about that right now. The better question is this: how else can these people be exposed? Sure, you can make your arguments, present your opinion, explain why these people are full of shit. But that doesn’t expose them. Not in the way Robin DiAngelo was exposed, or the professor in WIAW, or any of the other unwitting co-stars in our films.
You can’t expose them unless they come down from their perch and open themselves up to it. But these people will never do that intentionally. They will never knowingly make themselves vulnerable. So what then? Either we throw up our hands and let them hide behind all of the layers of intellectual protection they’ve set up for themselves, or we use more innovative and maybe even ruthless means to lure or drag them out from behind that wall.
That’s what we’ve done with our films. And once we have them, we let them embarrass themselves. And we laugh at them. It’s not the nicest thing. But niceness is a luxury we don’t always have.
