Joy Reid isn’t a lawyer. Otherwise she would have known that you need to know the answer to a question before you ask that question. The guest on her show on Friday was Moms for Liberty co founder Tiffany Justice. The host asked Justice why she wanted to ban books like “All Boys Aren’t Blue” from school libraries. Justice responded that it contains rape, incest, pedophilia and sex toys.
Reid didn’t do her homework
The host went on the attack, playing a clip showing Justice saying parental rights involve “direct[ing] the upbringing of their children,” which includes “their values, education, their morals, their religious and character training.” Justice was asked if she believed this.
“Yes, it’s a God-given right to direct the upbringing of your children.” The host got excited. “Do LGBTQ parents and parents of LGBT kids, do they have parental rights?” Justice said sure. “Every parent. Every parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their kids.”
Moms for Liberty co-founder shuts down Joy Reid who tries to make the case for why a book about pedophilia should be allowed in public schools:
“Tell me what the content around the strap-on dildo or the rape of a minor child by a teacher” should be allowed in schools. pic.twitter.com/LRQ0wUBrVJ
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 20, 2024
Reid brought up “serial filers”
The Washington Post had reported in May that there were over 1,000 book challenges for the 2021-22 school year, filed by only 11 people. The same thing happened in Florida in August. Only two people, a dad in Clay County and a teacher in Escambia County filed around 600 out of 1,100 complaints since July 2022.
The host asked Justice, “Why should 13 people get to decide what books tens of thousands of children get to read?” She responded with common sense, “Well, I’m thinking it’s probably because those 13 people saw what some of the content was in the books. Explicit, graphic sexual content — and I’m happy to talk about some of that content if you would like to.”
Reid didn’t like that
The host tried to deflect, “Well, this is the question again — the books that are being banned, I want to give you …” It didn’t work. Justice knew her stuff and shot back,
“No books are being banned. I want to be clear, no one is banning books. Write the book, publish the book, put it in a public library. We’re talking about a public school library. Children don’t have unfettered access to the internet at school. I did a records request and I wanted to see what kind of internet sites are banned in schools. If we’re going to talk about banning, and the subject matter in the books that moms are concerned about, they’re the same things that kids don’t have access to on the internet. So it just feels very hypocritical, right? Why is no one out there protesting for, you know, ‘Free the internet in schools!’?”
The host had been owned. Nobody is going to defend porn in school. Reid tried to deflect again but it didn’t work. She accused conservatives of trying to ban classics such as books about the civil rights movement. Justice countered that these requests are being made on a local level, something out of their control. The host tried again, asking how Justice could claim to be an expert? She got a common sense response again from Justice. “What a tragic story of a young man who is anally raped by his adult family members. You have incest, rape, pedophilia … in what context is a strap-on dildo acceptable for public school? That’s my question to you. Tell me what the context around the strap-on dildo or the rape of a minor child by a teacher — we’re talking about a public school.”
