Charlie Kirk's Recurring Argument About Joy Reid and DEI

Showing 15 Joy Reid videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Joy Reid became one of Charlie Kirk's most frequently cited examples in his running argument about affirmative action and DEI, and the specific claim he made about her went viral in both directions after his death. Kirk pointed to Reid, alongside Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, arguing that if conservatives had called any of these women affirmative-action picks themselves, they would have been branded racist, only for the women to later describe their own careers in similar terms. He made a related argument directly about Reid's own MSNBC commentary, responding to her calling a wave of prosecutions against Donald Trump wonderfully poetic because the prosecutors involved were Black; Kirk argued Reid herself had labeled figures like Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg as DEI hires while praising them, which he said inadvertently proved his point about how identity and competence get conflated. After Kirk's death, commentators pointing to a wider pattern of selectively edited clips distorting his record on race cited his Joy Reid remarks as an example of language that reads very differently in full context than in a clipped, out-of-context version circulated online.