Earlier this morning, my RedState colleague Nick Arama pointed out the absurdity of Joy Reid’s panic over Independence Day and guns. Her desire to create a moral panic over the proliferation of guns in America is just more of the usual from someone like her – someone who wants to use fear and misinformation to get society to conform to her whims.

But something she said during her diatribe caught my eye, especially in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.

Reid stoked the fear a little more, claiming there were more violent incidents against Asian Americans because former President Donald Trump “pinned COVID on China.”

“And so the gun industry goes, oh, Asian-Americans, buy more guns. When ever there’s a mass shooting, you see people buy more guns. And now I don’t know how anybody can be a Doordash-er. I don’t know how anybody can do a job where they have to deliver to someone’s home or deliver Amazon. Ringing a doorbell is deadly now. The industry has also encouraged not — the stand your ground laws say don’t just have a gun, shoot someone. Use it. Somebody rings your doorbell, shoot them because we’ll protect you under the law,” she said.

It is absolutely amazing that Reid would dare to invoke Asian American violence and attempt to race-bait them into outrage over guns and conservatives.

Last week, Reid was just as outraged as the rest of the progressives at MSNBC over the Supreme Court’s 6-2 decision to strike down affirmative action in public universities and private universities that take federal dollars. Reid herself admitted that she got into Harvard on affirmative action (failing to acknowledge that the process she described – someone from Harvard flying out to pre-interview her and bring her in – was vastly different than the process that was struck down by the Court), but absolutely ignored the fact that the facts of the case established that discrimination against Asian-American students was a violation of equal protection and the Civil Rights Act.

Most of the left in the wake of the Harvard case has essentially come out in favor of discrimination, so long as it’s against approved demographics. Asian-American students fall in that category, and Reid is absolutely part of the group that believes it’s okay.

So for her to try and bait the Asian-American community into being afraid of conservatives and guns is just more evidence that the left’s tactic of using race-baiting is hypocritical and inconsistent. Justice Sonia Sotomayor made this clear last week by being pro-discrimination in her dissent in the Harvard case and being anti-discrimination in her dissent in the 303 Creative case. But the 303 Creative case was not about discrimination against LGBT clients – again, the facts of the case showed the plaintiff had LGBT clients – it was about free speech vs. compelled speech.

You could also argue that in her dissent, Sotomayor was essentially arguing for discrimination against Christians. Her point of view is that it’s okay to discriminate against Christian beliefs if it means forcing them to bend the knee to the LGBT community.

So, is discrimination good or is it bad? The left can’t tell you. They just want to whip various factions into a frenzy rather than address their own hypocrisy