The Daily Wire, a conservative-leaning media outlet, premiered their controversial documentary “Am I Racist” on Sept. 13 in theaters nationwide, comedically questioning the legitimacy of racial injustice and rightfully so.

Director Justin Folk and Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh created their second masterpiece after their first documentary “What Is a Woman?” stirred the conversation of gender ideology. Now, challenging “race hustlers,” on the big screen, Walsh goes undercover as a certified diversity, equity and inclusion specialist, meeting and interviewing activists of social justice.

Walsh presses the activists on their beliefs about racial inequality while concealing the true premise of the film to its participants by feeding into each activist’s desire to break down their perceived barriers of racial division. The activists slowly, but surely begin to unfold their own argument and fail to apply their methods in practice, proving DEI is nothing more than a surface level talking point.

The film is a documented social experiment in a “Borat” style presentation with a $3 million budget. Satirical and comedic, but the cast’s reactions are entirely authentic, displaying the unlikely results on a large scale and an even larger screen.

Typical satire is an exaggeration, but Walsh goes through extreme measures such as creating organizations, disguises and props for the film to conceal his identity and elicit a genuine reaction. Exhaustion of political correctness remains the highlight of the film’s premise, targeting race baiters who would be without a job if racism was not as prevalent in America as they say it is. This leaves room to question how effective DEI initiatives are in this country and if they are actually instigating a more racist society. Walsh himself was exhausted with the effort participants put forward to ensure they were deemed anti-racist and was essentially in disbelief at the lengths needed to prove the irony in their thought process.

Walsh mocks a plethora of racial justice books throughout the film, including “White Fragility” by Robin DeAngelo and “White Women” by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao, citing their information as contradictory and inflammatory to the racial divide.

While undercover, Walsh is disguised as a waiter for the Race 2 Dinner, an event held by Jackson and Rao to facilitate discussions around white supremacy, racism and xenophobia, according to the Race 2 Dinner website. He inserts himself into their conversation, which is supposed to be exclusively for the eight White women in attendance, making statements of assurance to the hosts that White people are “starving for these types of conversations.”

If the documentary was meant to show the contradictions of racial justice, then the movie was a complete success. Jackson and Rao showed no empathy towards their guests as they insulted them and blamed the implications of racial injustice on their White ancestors. Rao at one point said she was a White woman for many years and it was a horrible experience, so now she wants to teach White people why they need to change.

DeAngelo was paid $15,000 for her participation in the film and she released a statement explaining how things “felt off” from the start of production on her website.

The price tag for these activists to speak or hold a seminar typically ranged in the thousands per attendee. Each seminar attendee seemed to have their own guilty reason as to why they needed to be there, leaving their group discussions lacking in substance and seeming as if the participants were walking on eggshells.

With entire degrees, careers and organizations centered around solving the inequalities of racial justice, it can be hard to imagine a world in which these so-called experts may see an end to their means. Walsh teases the idea of these seminars and organizations being money grabs for the greedy, taking advantage of simple-minded citizens who are looking to do the right thing or be polite.

The recurring theme of white hate and each activist’s goal of decentering whiteness was popular among the majority, leaving him to question if the anti-racist ideology taught in racial seminars was doing more harm than good.

According to activists in the film, whiteness is racism, colonialism, eurocentrism, a cult and a threat to society. It is also inherent to White people as a whole and cannot be cured.

Quoting author and activist Ibram X. Kendi multiple times throughout the film, Walsh used quotes such as, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.” The point was to show how paradoxical each activist’s solutions are when addressing racism.

Many of the activists in the documentary said the most effective way to combat racism is to acknowledge it. Maybe acknowledging racism in every setting imaginable is the problem. Racism quickly becomes the focus of any situation or conversation with no solution in sight and the film highlights the lack of solutions to these issues.

While the film did provoke thoughts about racial injustice, it somewhat lacked a true solution for the issues it pointed out, regardless of how clearly framed those issues are. The film can only inform people, it cannot change their minds.

Though they are vast in their nature, these social issues need to be addressed beyond watching a documentary and perhaps a film such as this can spark the discussion needed to move forward.

As of Monday, the film has already tripled its return on investment, Walsh said on a podcast with The Free Press.

Whether someone believes they are or aren’t a racist, this documentary will be thought provoking and hilarious. It was worth seeing in theaters and provided dissenting opinions to discuss on both sides of the aisle. No matter someone’s political affiliation, “Am I Racist” will leave you questioning your stance on racial justice and challenging the status quo of race in your social environment.