Imagine holding a mirror up to someone and having them blame you for their reflection.

That’s pretty much the experience of conservative pundit and filmmaker Matt Walsh, with his surprise hit docu-movie Am I Racist? – a documentary brilliantly lampooning the lunacy of the DEI industry – diversity, equity and inclusion – and the white guilt it has both exploited and engorged.

The movie – three parts Borat and one part Fletch – is a hilarious vivisection of an arguably racist ideology that, roughly speaking, holds whites and America itself up as irredeemably racist. And the film deftly, and beautifully, uses the cult’s own words and actions to do it.

At one point, Walsh discovers that it’s wrong for a white to smile at a black person, yet wrong not to. He also learns it’s never too early to start talking to your child about race – even at 6 months old will do!

Walsh, often with the minimal camouflage of a man bun, goes undercover as a supposed DEI expert – he got certified through the mail and everything! – hilariously gets white people to stand and stretch their whiteness out of them; prepare to actually flog themselves for their racism; and raise a toast to their racism.

The latter absurdity comes as Walsh masquerades as a sympathetic liberal waiting on catered white women actually paying two minority women to lambaste their racism over dinner.

Along the way, Walsh meets anti-white activists whom he pays quite well to share their often racist views. He even shames a famous white guilt author into giving his black associate reparations right out of her purse.

Liberals hate it, and have criticized Walsh for his tactic of going under cover. So what? It’s a time-honored tradition of American journalism. And what better way to put a mirror up to a divisive cultish ideology that has been ripping Americans apart and wrongfully ending careers – or strangling them in the crib?

As the filmmakers have argued, no one in the film said or did anything they didn’t believe in.

Leftist hero Saul Alinsky, who wrote Rules for Radicals, counseled that ridicule is the most potent political weapon. It certainly is here. Liberals have been using it for decades – it’s about time conservatives did so, and did so well.

Walsh and The Daily Wire have done so in this film. In fact, nothing the left has ever put down on film comes close to the mockery of Am I Racist? – a devastating derision of the left’s new racism and the idiocy behind it.

Critics, most of whom likely aren’t ideological allies of Walsh’s, have had to very reluctantly admit the movie’s power and humor.

“Matt Walsh swiftly and entertainingly exposes the race-industry for the crazy charlatan grift that it is,” says one of the unconditionally favorable reviews at RottenTomatoes.com.

“A bold, provocative and outrageously funny documentary,” says another. “Regardless of where you stand politically, Am I Racist? will be an eye-opening experience that will change the way you look at anti-racists and racism in America.”

“The movie is damn hilarious,” concludes The Maine Wire. “Am I Racist? is a blend of comedy, performance art, and a cutting critique of contemporary American liberalism. Like [Walsh’s previous film] What Is a Woman?, the film satirizes an intellectually vapid cultural moment that has colonized left-wing minds.”

My wife and I are comedy connoisseurs. She says she doesn’t ever remember laughing so much in a theater.

Caution: Am I Racist? will definitely trigger those on the left – at least those who aren’t able to laugh at themselves. But it’s fairly clear most thin-skinned leftists are staying away: The audience score for the movie at RottenTomatoes is a heady 97%.

And there are plenty of conservatives and open-minded independents and liberals who are having a good laugh of the left’s expense: Am I Racist? is absolutely killing it at the box office. Writes Walsh:

“After our second weekend: Am I Racist?’ remains in the box office top 10, it’s the top grossing documentary of the year, top 5 political doc in the last decade, earned 3x its production budget, and our total gross moves us into the top 40 for all docs, all time. And counting.”

“Whether Am I Racist? can drive a stake through DEI’s heart is unclear,” writes Jonathan Miltimore, senior editor at the American Institute for Economic Research, “but Walsh has already achieved something no white paper or logical argument has done to DEI evangelists: he embarrassed them.”

Sorry, Saul. Your political weapon has fallen into the hands of the enemy.