GRAHAM: Joy Reid And White Male Tears

MSNBC host Joy Reid is the only minority host on her network from noon to midnight, so it’s only natural she would be most expected to lecture on the evils of whiteness, especially white maleness. It can even happen on her social media accounts.

On Nov. 16, Reid took to TikTok to compare the Kyle Rittenhouse trial to the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh three years ago.

“This Kyle Rittenhouse trial. It reminded a lot of people of something — something, can’t remember what it was,” she said. “Oh. The Brett Kavanaugh hearings, in which Brett Kavanaugh, who had been accused by a high school friend of committing sexual abuse of her, cried his way through the hearings” to make the Supreme Court.

No “independent” fact-checker will object, but Kavanaugh didn’t “cry his way through” confirmation hearings. In fact, Kavanaugh teared up during his opening statement as he described his 10-year-old daughter Liza’s reaction to Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations. “We should pray for the woman,” Kavanaugh says his daughter responded. “That’s a lot of wisdom from a 10-year-old.” He also choked up when describing the impact of the charges on his family.

But who needs context when you’re “owning” the white male conservatives?

Reid continued: “And his tears turned out to be more powerful than the tears of Christine Blasey Ford, which were the tears of an alleged victim.” Strongly underline “alleged.” Ford could never locate a time and place where she and Kavanaugh had ever met as teenagers.

This is where this attempted connection to Rittenhouse collapses. Kavanaugh hadn’t shot anyone during a riot. They couldn’t prove that he had done anything like raping girls as a teenage boy, despite multiple accusers with exotic stories.

Rittenhouse scrunched up his face and lost his composure when describing how he shot and killed two men. And if he hadn’t cried? Then he’d be trashed by Reid as a sociopath.

Reid’s rant continued: “But in America, there’s a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears. Really, white tears in general because that’s what Karens are, right? They Karen-out, and as soon as they get caught, they bring waterworks. White men can get away with that, too, and it has the same effect.”

No one’s going to find Joy Reid mocking a “Karen-out” when Hillary Clinton teared up on the campaign trail in 2008, or when she teared up in a Benghazi hearing in 2013. The networks

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