Who’d a Thunk? Someone on MSNBC Manages to out-Crazy Joy Reid – Opinion

Let’s do a quick game of word association to kick this one off, shall we? When I say “Joy Reid,” what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Stumped? [heavy sarc]These headlines might be helpful:

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It is possible to argue that not since Jesse Jackson Jr., and Al Sharpton’s heydays as race-hustlers has there been a greater number of them. Anyone (It’s possible to be a bit too optimistic, but this underscores the point. They did a much better job of deliberately spinning everything even though it was a bit exaggerated. Other things remotely similar to race into charges of “systemic racism,” “white supremacy,” or worse.

Until MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham dropped by “The ReidOut” on Thursday to weigh in on a proposed, Missouri self-defense bill referred to as “The Castle Doctrine,” that is.

As reported by the Washington Post, the proposed legislation would alter Missouri’s self-defense laws and establish that any use of “physical or deadly force” would be presumed to be self-defense.

While proponents argue that the bill shields citizens who exercise their Second Amendment rights and protect them from unfair prosecution, opponents warn that it could result in unintended consequences and hinder law enforcement’s ability to prosecute violent criminals.

Then there’s Brittany Cunningham’s take. Of course, Reid was a big help.

Reid began the festivities by making a reference Missourian Mark McCloskey. He and his wife Patricia were the subject of national attention in June 2020 after they encountered a group Black Lives Matter protestors who had entered their gated community in order to show support for the former mayor of St. Louis. The McCloskeys are proponents of the “Castle Doctrine” bill.

Here’s how Reid set the table for Cunningham, as transcribed from the below video:

As expected, Mark McCloskey, who’s running for the open Missouri Senate seat, praised the bill — because it means that he essentially and his wife could’ve been in their slippers and shoot every single Black Lives Matter person that walked by. Legally — and they would not even be detained.

This is a total crock of crap. But that’s not the point. No matter.

Brittany Brittany: I’d like to speak first. Being a protester, I understand the importance of taking this risk. Who is this law for?

Here’s Cunningham’s response:

Joy, I’m so glad you reminded us that the McCloskeys were front row and center to testify on behalf of passing this bill. This was of course the couple that was made famous by … pulling their guns out on unarmed Black protesters.

However, for McCloskeys people, the black skin is enough.

This is precisely what the bill is intended to accomplish. It’s to legitimize seeing blackness as a weapon in and of itself and justify our murders. This is to terrorize and disorient us, making it impossible for us ever to use our voices.

How does one — a You are sane one —even respond to nonsense like that?

The hypocrisy and lunacy are astonishingly outlandish, aside from the insane. Black: How will the left react to it? ConservativesLarry Elder and Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Candace Owens are just a few of the many people who use it. They voices? They are called what? They are the source of many lies. These are legit questions.

Cunningham then got even crazier, by first attempting to frame her comments in “proper historical context.” (Emphasis, mine.)

Because Missouri, at the time, had the highest number of lynchings in any state outside the deep south, I wanted to provide historical context.

So when folks talk about making America great again, that’s the kind of Missouri, grand old tradition that they want to return to. They long for the past when it was possible to murder or lynch black people without any retribution.

That’s not hyperbole. I’m telling you as a Black Missourian and a protestor, that is reality.

No! That’s not even close to hyperbole. There is no way. Not to mention, the shot at Donald Trump and the evil MAGA crowd was deftly played, don’t you think?

MSNBC contributor @MsPackyetti on Missouri’s “Castle Doctrine” bill: “When folks talk about making America great again … they want to return to the days when you could lynch or murder black folks and there would be absolutely no retribution for it. That’s not hyperbole.” pic.twitter.com/wGj7l3BkXp

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 4, 2022

Bottom line:

Like with all serious issues, it is impossible to create a serious and legitimate dialog if one reduces himself to a silly, divisive story. It actually makes opposition more difficult.

Does it exist in some places that policing concerns are present to varying degrees? It is possible. On the other hand, were weeks and months of BLM riots, burning buildings, and destroying small businesses —and many of the lives dependent on those businesses — “peaceful protests”? It is not. Should Missouri’s proposed “Castle Doctrine” legislation be openly and honestly debated before passage? Yes, it should.

But unfortunately, Joy Reid and Brittany Packnett Cunningham — and others who believe as they believe — claiming the purpose of the “right to defense” bill is to You can go back in time to lynch and murder black people, with absolutely no retribution It does much more harm than good for their argument(s). AnythingThese could be.

Or, perhaps that is the cause of America’s continued racial divisions.