In a now-viral video, MSNBC commentator Joy Reid compared Kyle Rittenhouse’s big display of crying on the witness stand during his trial to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s similar display during his confirmation hearings, and the right-wing has absolutely lost their minds over it.

The video shows Reid in a camera closeup saying:

This Kyle Rittenhouse trial. It reminded a lot of people of something… something… I can’t remember what it was. Oh! The Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

It’s true — the day that Kyle cried on the stand, there were many comparisons to Kavanaugh immediately. That’s because the circumstances were similar. Kavanaugh was accused of having done something horrible, and he used a clearly performative act to make people feel sorry for him. Not for his victim, who also cried on the stand there, but for him.

And what Joy pointed out about the whole situation is something that needs to be addressed. As conservative men continue to complain about diminished masculinity and and “wokeism” and “cancel culture,” they still want to hang on to their right to cry in public for sympathy.

Reid called it something akin to the male version of a “Karen,” a woman who complains and complains and as soon as she’s called out for her terrible behavior, begins to cry for sympathy.

If Republicans don’t want to be held accountable for using this sympathy tactic, I have an idea for them. Stop using it.

Watch Joy’s TikTok video here, and just look what the conservatives are saying in response.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1460761513023598595

Republicans are rather upset:

I wish her African forefathers wouldn’t have sold her family into slavery, and that way she could be peddling her insanity from a continent far far away.

— Rick Allen (@RickAllen2020) November 17, 2021

She is openly racist and gets paid millions of dollars to do it. Like Colin K. It’s not really work to them because racism is their hobby.

It’s like paying a kid to eat I cream all day. They love it.

— WhatsNewsHere (@WhatsNewsHere) November 17, 2021

this racism against Kyle Rittenhouse is unacceptable.
if anyone white said this about a black boy, they would be heavily criticized.
racist Joy Reid should be fired.

— truth (@DonaldsonB33) November 17, 2021

She is a horrible racist. How she gets a show and platform is crazy. Just reverse the skin colors on everything she says and imagine any person saying the stuff she does.

— Ghosty1010 (@ghosty1010) November 17, 2021

Duh. She can't speak one sentence without bringing up race. It's all she talks about, and very little of what she says is actually true. Don't undersrand how the left let's her get away with her blatant racism.

— Peter (@Pumpkineater275) November 17, 2021

She is one of those who believes she can say anything she wants because she believes only white people can be racist.

— Brenda Frost (@BrendaFrost18) November 17, 2021

Of course she would compare Rittenhouse to kavanaugh, she thinks all white people look alike because she's a racist.

If Kyle walks, @JoyAnnReid will be the first person I want to watch cry. https://t.co/NT60AvoZPD

— 🦝DAMNITJEREMY🦝 (@ITSDAMNITJEREMY) November 17, 2021

https://twitter.com/FnDragonSlayer/status/1461003779549974529

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