How Double Standards Destroy Talent | The Joy Reid Show

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]and then got elected vice president.

[00:00:01]Didn't earn it, but Donald Trump did.

[00:00:05]It's just like they It's literally hypnotizing mediocre people to think that they are meritocratic geniuses and telling highly accomplished brown and black and Asian people, you earn nothing that you have.

[00:00:21]Everything you have was given to you by these same mediocre people. And the problem that is even for white people is that you are teaching your sons that they don't have to know They don't have to do They don't even have to try and they don't have to go to college. They're literally having a deficit of white men even trying to go to college now because they're telling them you don't have to do You just have to be you just have to exist as a white man and you're qualified to do anything. You can be a neurosurgeon.

[00:00:49]Just walk in there, use your brilliant European brain and start or and start operating on people. you're fine. You don't need to know. But black people, according to Charlie Kirk, can't even be a pilot. Even after going to school to be a pilot if they're sitting behind the wheel of a Cessna, they don't know how to do it. They were just they were just pulled in off the street and thrown into the chair. Like the lies they're telling themselves are destroying America's America's economy. They're running people. They ran women off the board.

[00:01:17]That's like the soybean board because they women can't be on the soybean board, you know? I mean, they're telling women and people of color, you're not qualified to do anything, but white men are being told you're qualified to do everything. So, you're having people walk into positions they're not ready for. You know, this is Donald Trump is like when they claim that affirmative action put black students in positions where they would fail. They set them up to fail by putting unqualified people.

[00:01:46]That was their theory. It's that's literally the case for these mediocre white dudes. You're putting them in positions to fail. RFK Jr.