Did Matt Walsh Sin To Make ‘Am I Racist?’

Many in Big Eva, such as Neil Shenvi, Denny Burk, and others have argued that Matt Walsh sinned in the making of Am I Racist? because he had deceived various personalities, such as the famous Robin DiAngelo. This raises the question as to when if ever is it permissible for a Christian to lie.

For starters, its unclear whether Matt Walsh did lie for the film. Matt Walsh says that there’s a joke in which he’s obviously not who he says he is and is intentionally unconvincing in the process. And then Matt Walsh puts on a comically unconvincing disguise, which could hardly be counted as deception. At the end of the day, Matt Walsh paid the woke grifters for interviews and their greed ultimately is what got them in front of a camera. Matt Walsh additionally paid to be credentialed in DEI, so he was honest in being an expert and a filmmaker, making a documentary, even though he was not forthcoming about his intentions. Much of Big Eva has assumed the worst about Matt Walsh’s actions, but at the end of the day, a movie is a separate entity from the Daily Wire, so Robin DiAngelo would never have been able to know that the movie LLC cutting her the check had investment from Daily Wire personalities.

In the livestream, we discuss the historical perspective on examples of deception in Scripture such as Rahab. It seems as though believers held her actions to be an imperfection in pursuit of a righteous cause, historically. Additionally, in warfare deception is prescribed by God in the Bible, as when Joshua took the city of Ai, the Israelites executed a perfect feigned retreat and ambush.

The historical perspectives deal less with situations like Matt Walsh than they do examples of Rahab and those similar, but it does appear that they rule out righteous deception.

Working in Christian media, I’ve often wondered whether paying evil people to expose their content is sinful or not, but it does not seem to be the case, as not real argument from Scripture can be mounted from it. This seems to be the biggest ethical dilemma with Matt Walsh’s work.