Race-baiter Joy Reid sat down with BET Networks’ Miabelle and unleashed a tirade against what she calls the “dangerous” plans of conservatives and MAGA Republicans.
According to Reid, the real threat to America isn’t skyrocketing crime, open borders, or inflation, it’s the horrifying prospect of… freedom?
During the interview, the two discussed “Project Esther,” a Heritage Foundation initiative.
According to Reid, the project isn’t about protecting free speech or academic integrity, it’s a “conservative scheme” to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, silence dissent, and, somehow, force women back into the home.
Joy Reid: “And so Project Esther has those twin goals—protecting Israel from protests and criticism by making that criticism basically illegal, shutting down those protests on college campuses, and forcing women back into the home.”
According to Reid, conservatives want to enslave Black Americans all over again.
Reid went on to claim that Republicans are “desperately” trying to restore a “hierarchical past” from the 1890s or earlier, where there were no taxes, no regulations, and no “natural rights” for working Americans.
Of course, she left out the fact that it was Democrats who ran Jim Crow, Democrats who enforced segregation, and Democrats who blocked civil rights bills for decades.
Miabelle: Wow. And what does this mean for Black people?
Joy Reid: Well, what we always have to remember is that when they say they want women back home, they don’t mean us, because they do want us in the home cooking for the white family.
Miabelle: Yes.
Joy Reid: They want back the kind of world in the 1950s, where the only time you saw a Black woman, she had a maid’s uniform on, and she was taking care of your children. And the only time they saw a Black man was when he was their butler or their driver.
They really miss the hierarchical past that we tried to leave behind, but that’s not that old — we’re talking about the 1950s.
They desperately want that world back, if not the ’40s, ’30s, or the 1890s. So, the goal of trying to force the country backwards to that late 19th century or early 20th century — they’re very serious about it.
And one of the reasons they’re so serious about it is that if you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes, there were no regulations on business. You could earn as much money as you wanted, and leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes.
That’s the world they want back. And to get it back, they need society to change. They need people to be less modern. They need people to want fewer things. They need people to be satisfied just being workers.
And they don’t really believe that any of us have natural rights. They believe only the super rich, only the billionaires have real, true rights, and everyone else are just workers.
WATCH:
Joy Reid on the fascist agenda:
“They want to take us back to no income tax, no regulations, earn what you want, family inherits everything” pic.twitter.com/pb1574eEBh
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Reid is essentially admitting that conservatives want to unleash American potential: low taxes, free markets, and the right to pass on your success to your kids. That’s not a “hierarchical past,” that’s the foundation of liberty that built this great nation.
But in Reid’s worldview, where government control is the ultimate good, anything that empowers individuals over the state is dangerous.
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