MSNBC's Joy Reid and Moms for Liberty co-founder spar over movement pulling controversial books from schools
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MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday had a sparring match with Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice on the nationwide debate of what books should or should not be available in public schools.
The liberal host began by asking Justice, who had been outspoken on protecting "parental rights," whether "liberal" parents, "African American" parents, and "LGBTQ" parents have those same rights, which Justice repeated "every parent" has.
She then pressed why a select few of activist parents like the ones belonging to Moms for Liberty "get to decide what books tens of thousands of children get to read? Justice responded by saying those parents probably saw the content that was in the books, which often involves sexually explicit and graphic material.
Justice pushed back at Reid's notion that books were being "banned."
"No one is banning books," Justice said. "Write the book, print the book, publish the book put the book in the public library, sell the book, right? We're talking about a public school library.'
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