
Tucker Carlson—who has repeatedly sowed doubt around the Covid-19 vaccination—claimed that “medical Jim Crow has come to America” as coronavirus vaccine passports gain traction around the country.
“If we still had water fountains, the unvaccinated would have separate ones,” he said on Tuesday.
As a result, Joy Reid of MSNBC didn’t hesitate to mock Carlson’s claims.
On Reid’s ReidOut show the following day, she dedicated “The Absolute Worst” segment to Carlson, who compared vaccination proof requirements to segregation.
Tucker Carlson: "Medical Jim Crow has come to America." https://t.co/wEpYwlBSfj— Kat Abu (@Kat Abu) 1622592345
“Nurse, can you please get in here? We have another severe case of VSE—victim status envy,” she said.
“These people have decided that being the victim of historic discrimination and cruelty is somehow something to be desired, and they want a piece of the action,” she continued.
Reid also said that making people “wear a mask” or present a “little card” that shows that “you aren’t going to kill everyone around you by coughing on them” is not “Jim Crow targeting the disproportionately Republican vaccine refusers and anti-maskers any more than ‘no shirts, no shoes, no service’ is Jim Crow that targets naked people,” she said.
Afterwards, she made a funny analogy saying, in part, “You should be able to exclude naked people from rubbing their bare asses around your Walmart chain.”
Well, we don’t see the lie here.
Reid added that it’s “common sense,” and people cannot be excluded from things based on their gender, race, and sexual preferences.
“That’s the difference. I can’t believe I have to explain this to adults,” she continued.
Social media onlookers weighed in on the situation. Check out some of their reactions below.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, throws shade at “tuckims”, aka @TuckerCarlson better than @JoyAnnReid and I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!— Vicky 🌊 (@Vicky 🌊) 1622678182
How is it possible not to love Joy Reid? https://t.co/mfLJsWLJYs— aegina1028 (@aegina1028) 1622691042
I watch Joy every day, a fresh breath of news! Right on Joy, Tucker is a nut case! MSNBC's Joy Reid explains why Tu… https://t.co/r6sK3NB3DC— Demforever (@Demforever) 1622690643
Tea Pain just got back from Walmart. Trust him, you don’t wanna see naked people there. https://t.co/q85ZC6BzrX— Tea Pain (@Tea Pain) 1622689471
I’m really liking @JoyAnnReid’s daily humiliations of @TuckerCarlson. Very powerful drug.— Ken Levy🇺🇸 (@Ken Levy🇺🇸) 1622677278
Hey dummy @TuckerCarlson hope you are watching @JoyAnnReid while she drags your dumbass to the abyss. https://t.co/J760Kkj6on— Christine Gerani (@Christine Gerani) 1622677107
Check out Joy Reid’s “The Absolute Worst” segment below.