Joy Reid: Israel’s Democracy Is Unlike America, America Isn’t a Beacon of Human Rights for Gay People

EXCERPT:

AIDALA: “Joy, the fact that you're backing the country — "

REID: "Their democracy is not like the United States of America. I‘m sorry."

AIDALA: " — that slaughters homosexuals, that slaughters people for their religious beliefs, slaughters them, it's crazy."

REID: "In the United States, people who are LGBTQ people can‘t even serve in the military under the president you prefer."

AIDALA: "Okay, but they can live here. They're allowed — "

REID: "Oh, I'm sorry, they're only a little bit — they're only a little bit discriminated against."

AIDALA: "We‘re not killing them."

REID: "They‘re allowed to live, but they‘re not allowed to serve in the United States military. They‘re being persecuted. They can‘t have their stories told in school. The United States is not exactly a beacon of human rights for gay people."