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Joy Reid doesn’t know what affirmative action is

By Jack Elbaum
Published July 3, 2023 2:30pm ET
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Joy Reid doesn’t know what affirmative action is
Joy Reid insists that homophobic language in one of her old blog posts is the work of a computer hacker and her security expert said Wednesday they have a strong suspicion of who did it. | (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)


Last Thursday, MSNBC host Joy Reid told the story of how she got into Harvard “only because of affirmative action.” However, in doing so, she exposed the fact she has no idea how affirmative action actually works.

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