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Joy Reid To Trump Supporters: People Don’t Feel ‘Safe With You,’ Have ‘Legitimate Fear’ Of You

Reid platformed a far-left psychiatrist earlier this month who advocated that people shun their Trump supporting family members over the holidays.

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Joy Reid attends the National Town Hall on the second day of the 48th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on September 13, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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Far-Left MSNBC personality Joy Reid said this week that alleged “vulnerable” communities have a genuine fear of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters and that people do not feel “safe” around them.

Reid made the remarks in a social media video that went viral this week in which she claimed that people were “rightfully alarmed” by Trump’s victory.

“They have a reason to be alarmed,” she said. “And if you would vote for that, people may not feel so confident that they are safe with you.”

“This is not crazy,” she continued. “This is legitimate feelings of fear of you. And a feeling that you might not be someone they can trust, if this thing goes way south. Autocracies go south real fast, and things get ugly and people get asked to do things and turn people in and point people out and turn on them.”

She said that Trump supporters would have to “live with” the people’s reactions to them having voted to support Trump.

“If you think you can vote for what people see as their destruction and then demand that they’re still cool with you and have Thanksgiving with you, you are kind of missing the point about what people are upset about,” she said. “They’re afraid. Autocracy and fascism are things that are legitimate to be afraid of. So you might want to step back.”

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Earlier this month, Reid platformed Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun on her MSNBC show “The Reidout” where she proceeded to call for people to cut off their Trump supporting family members for the holidays.

She said that the societal norm is that “if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time.”

“And I think the answer is absolutely not,” she said. “So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why, to say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.'”

She said that it “may be essential” for people’s mental health to “establish boundaries” with their family members over the results of the election.

“People are concerned about their human rights, their existence, their safety,” she claimed. “And I think you know when we’re talking about people who are worried about, you know, getting gender affirming care. We’re talking about people who are worried about being able to get access to women’s health care, to, you know, life saving procedures to abortions.”

“That has a very, very devastating downstream effect on one’s mental health,” she added. “And when, you know, as a psychiatrist, the child psychiatrist, but I also work with adults, we also see a lot of children who are born to parents who are struggling. They might have mental health issues, and those children sometimes develop very severe behavioral problems, suicidality, and I have a lot of concerns about the support that those kids are going to have going forward.”

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