Absurd moment MSNBC’s Joy Reid rips into Moms for Liberty Founder for seeking to ban school book that features underage kids discussing ‘blow jobs and strap-on dildos’
MSNBC host Joy Reid and Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice clashed over the organization’s efforts to ban books containing sexually explicit material from schools.
The controversial presenter delved into Justice on Friday about parental rights and who gets to decide which books are available in school libraries.
During the interview, Reid and Justice talked about the book All Boys Aren’t Blue, a title that has been banned in 29 counties across the country.
“What is the expertise that you and other Moms for Liberty advocates have to decide that a book, an award-winning book like All Boys Aren’t Blue, is not appropriate for student reading,” Reid said.
Justice said, “In what context is a strap-on acceptable in public school, I mean that’s my question to you.”
MSNBC host Joy Reid (left) and Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice (right) clashed over book bans during a Friday interview
Reid questioned Justice about her expertise and parental rights. Justice replied: ‘I don’t have to be an expert to know that dildos are not suitable for public schools’
“Tell me the context surrounding the strap-on dildo or the rape of a minor child by a teacher,” Justice said.
Reid then questioned Justice about the book’s main character, saying the Moms For Liberty co-founder presented herself as an expert on the book.
“What I’m saying to you is that you are not an expert on this book,” Reid said.
Justice said, “I don’t need to be an expert to know that dildos are not appropriate for public schools, I mean, come on, let’s be honest.”
Reid asked why a parent whose child might feel seen by this story wouldn’t have the right to have it read.
Justice responded by saying that if a child feels seen by this story, it means he has been the victim of a predator.
Reid then accused her of once again claiming to be an expert and asked her for proof that a child had been raped.
According to The independenta central chapter of All Boys Aren’t Blue focuses on sexual abuse author George M. Johnson experienced around the age of 13.
In September, Senator John Kennedy read a passage from the memoir at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
The passage he read said: I put on some lube and put him on his knees, and I started sliding into him from behind. I pulled out of him and kissed him while he masturbated. He asked me to turn over while he put a condom on himself.”
‘This was my ass and I had a hard time imagining anyone inside me. He came on top and slowly inserted himself into me. It was the worst pain I think I’ve ever felt in my life. In the end I felt a mix of pleasure and pain.’
During the interview, the two discussed an “opt-out form” available in Broward County, Florida, that allows parents to opt-out of their child’s ability to borrow books from the library without their permission.
The book at the center of the Reid-Justice debate was George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue, which has been banned in 29 school districts.
Moms for Liberty was added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate and anti-government groups” in June. Pictured Tiffany Justice (left) speaking before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on July 15, 2022
“Maybe we can just put all the books with all the explicit sexual content, the dildos and the rapes there,” Justice said.
Reid said, “I’m so sorry, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. I’ve seen tapes of what Moms For Liberty does, and you all go to school board meetings and you read graphic things.”
Justice said, “Joy, this is an unfair conversation. America always understood that there was such a thing as age-appropriate content.”
In June, Moms for Liberty was added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate and anti-government groups” after receiving national media attention for its efforts to combat COVID safety measures in schools, banning books and limit discussion about race and LGBTQ. identities and populate local school boards with conservatives.
The group’s other co-founder, Bridget Ziegler, has faced calls to resign from the Sarasota school board after her husband Christian Ziegler was accused of raping a woman “who was part of their menage-a- threeis.’