On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC host Joy Reid led an all-liberal panel which portrayed right-leaning protesters and Donald Trump supporters as racists who, in Reid's words, are "making China the new Mexico" and who see the Chinese as "the new scary non-white people."

Panel members went so far as to claim that protesters not only are unconcerned with the disproportionate number of minorities killed by COVID-19, but one even claimed they were partially motivated by wishing to see more minorities die from the virus.

During a discussion of right-leaning activists who have recently been protesting to call for a loosening of pandemic restrictions, MSNBC contributor and ex-Republican Kurt Bardella took his typical shots at Breitbart News and Steve Bannon, claiming that Trump supporters are "creating racial tension and trying to inflame it."

In spite of the need to hold China accountable for allowing the COVID-19 pandemic to launch in their country, Reid responded by portraying Trump supporters as trying to push racism: "Yeah, and including making China the new Mexico -- the new scary non-white people are the Chinese, right? So it's like he's still trying to use that same racial trope. It's the same playbook again."

As she turned to liberal columnist Renee Graham of the Boston Globe, host Reid further suggested President Trump was making the pandemic into a "racial ethnic crisis." Here's Reid:

JOY REID: Renee, I want to just go to your reporting on this as well because you are coming to us from Boston, and I, having lived and gone to school in that neck of the woods, know that there's a lot of racial tension. It ain't just in the South -- there's a lot there as well. How is this playing out in the world up there? Because, you know, it's not all that hard unfortunately to turn a health crisis into a racial ethnic crisis.

Graham began by stretching to portray protesters as a "bunch of white people" who became less concerned about the pandemic after it turned out minorities are disproportionately more effected:

RENEE GRAHAM, BOSTON GLOBE OPINION COLUMNIST: One thing I think is really interesting is how these protests have started after all the headlines this week about the disproportionate effect the virus is having in communities of color. And so, when I look at these protests, what I see are a bunch of white people essentially saying, "Oh, it's effecting those people, so why do I have to change my life for them?" So that's what this is coming down to.

Host Reid followed up by going to Michael Harriot -- a senior writer for The Root who presumably took part in the absence of show regular Jason Johnson who was suspended for racially inflammatory comments. Harriot's analysis went so far to the fringe even Reid had to step in to be a voice of reason after he claimed that protesters actually want to see more minorities killed by the virus:

MICHAEL HARRIOT, THEROOT.COM SENIOR WRITER: I think it is more than "I don't care about these black and brown people who are dying" -- I think what they're saying quite clearly when you see the numbers -- when you see the statistics -- when you see the CDC data is, "I want more black and brown people to die," right? If you want the government to open up, then you want more black and brown people to die. We see it happening in real time -- we see it happening in Donald Trump's tweets -- we see it in the data -- there can be no other outcome if you open up what they call the society or the business or the country unless you see more black and brown people die.

Reid finally pushed back on the wacky views of one of her panelists as she pointed out that whites would also die if restrictions were lifted.

And, earlier in the segment, The Nation's Dave Zirin also delivered some incendiary comments as he likened Fox News and protesters to Nazis: "They've gone from "All lives matter" to "No lives matter." These folks -- let's be honest about what they are. They are the Fox News/Nazi/confederate/death cult rump of the Republican party."

Below is a transcript of relevant portions of the Sunday, April 19, AM Joy on MSNBC: