Joy Reid theorized Tuesday Elon Musk desires to own Twitter as a result of it bargains him a technique to gain back one thing misplaced when his native South Africa ended the observe of apartheid.

Musk supplied to purchase the social media large for $44 billion, and Twitter’s board typical on Monday.

On The ReidOut Tuesday, the host argued Musk’s mentioned commitment to improving free speech on Twitter is in reality rooted in his own apparent racism. In line with Reid, Musk is the usage of his billions to gain back some type of personal normality lost when South Africa officially ended its apply of systemic segregation.

Addressing guest Jason Johnson, Reid said conservatives will not be content material with simply being allowed to speak on mainstream social media structures. She stated Musk has proved the proper desires to personal and regulate them.

“They don’t simply wish to be within the club,” Reid stated. “They’ve been described as being on the surface of the culture taking a look in in the course of the glass, however they don’t just want to are available in. They need to are available and be on the desk to punch folks in the face and walk around and snicker about it.”

Reid then implied that there are individuals at the moment banned on Twitter who are waiting for Musk to unleash them so they may be able to be racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic.

“Twitter is not the federal government, they are a personal company that claims you’re no longer allowed to be a Nazi on Twitter,” Reid said. “There was once a time when individuals had the double hashtags around their names because they were Jewish, and right wingers were pronouncing ‘get within the oven’ any time you made a benign touch upon Twitter. They attacked girls. The misogyny was once loopy on Twitter for some time.”

She then ripped Musk, who she said desires to convey his native country’s apply of apartheid to the Twittersphere.

“Elon Musk, I guess he misses the previous South Africa in the 80s,” she claimed. “He wants that back.”

Watch above, by means of MSNBC.

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