#Fuck Raichik

[memoirs-of-a-trans]

How many more queer kids are gonna die before people give a shit? What are we supposed to do. Nex Benedict did fucking nothing wrong and they had their head bashed against the fucking floor. They just wanted to go home that day.

Kevin Stitt is a fucking murderer.

Chaya Raichik is a fucking murderer.

Ryan Walters is a fucking murderer.

Margaret Coates is a fucking murderer.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #Nex Benedict #Trans Activism #Oklahoma #Fuck Stitt #Fuck Walters #Fuck Raichik #nonbinary #gender non-conforming

[vaspider]

USA TODAY was provided copies of the emailed threats, which were also sent to Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic who writes frequently about the issues.

One emailed threat was apparently sent to Anne Perry, a state representative. Perry, a Democrat who represents a small district in far-northeastern Maine, is the main sponsor of LD227, a bill introduced this week that would protect doctors in the state who provide gender affirming care to patients from states that have laws hostile to such treatment.  

The threat also apparently named Sen. Donna Bailey, Perry’s co-sponsor on the bill. 

Earlier this week, Perry and Bailey were targeted in a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, by Libs of TikTok. The tweets listed both lawmakers’ email addresses.

In January, the Maine State House was evacuated for a bomb threat on the first day of the legislative session. At the time, the legislature was considering another bill on transgender care. That bill died in committee later the same month. 

Calls and emails to Perry, the Maine State Police, Maine Capitol Police and FBI were not immediately returned.

#trans issues #us politics #maine #bomb threats #chaya raichik #fucking shande

[victoriadallonfan]

The fact that Chaya Raichik can make a stupid fucking tweet or tiktok hating on LGTBQ+ people, and have those people or locations be harassed by her fans or given BOMB THREATS...

And there's fucking nothing one can do legally to make her stop.

What the fuck

Like, they have documented this bullshit! EVERYONE knows it's true!!!

#chaya raichik #Chaya raichik is a fucking moron #bigot #bigotry #transphobia #trans rights #lgtbqia+ #lgtbtq #lgbtq+ #what the fuck

[victusinveritas]

Apparently her audience was about 20 people, mostly folks who showed up to protest her. A credible "threat" meant that the local pigs got to swarm around her for security theater plus a chance to try out their new drone (sadly it landed safely).

#fuck libsoftiktok #libs of tiktok #chaya raichik #is wokeness in the room now? #absolute garbage #bloomington #indiana university

[debunkingtherightwing]

Chaya Raichik AKA LibsOfTikTok is a terrible journalist who should never ever be taken seriously by anybody with even an ounce of credibility.

(but it does seem like she's really into white nationalist conspiracy theories).

Fyi, the woman on her shirt is the person who's interviewing her. I'm not sure if that was supposed to be some kind of "own", but it just screams desperate (source: Taylor Lorenz on YouTube)

So, LibsOfTikTok (real name: Chaya Raichik) is kind of adjacent to my blog but I haven't really covered her outside of offhandedly mentioning her once or twice. This is mainly because there's not much to cover in my style. I cover videos and Chaya is an entity that exists on Twitter. However, I have always wanted to take the piss out of Chaya and I was overjoyed to hear that she did an interview with a journalist named Taylor Lorenz.

Trigger warning: Chaya is a complete infuriating bigot in this interview and if you aren't comfortable with that, maybe skip this one.

So who is Chaya Raichik?

Chaya Raichik is the woman behind LibsofTikTok, a far-right Twitter account that pushes anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that is regularly cited by blog favorites like Matt Walsh and Charlie Kirk when they are pushing their anti-LGBTQ narratives.

Chaya is most infamous for using her influence to single out people and organizations that she disagrees with.

For example, Chaya infamously targeted Boston Children's Hospital by falsely claiming that they were performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors. This resulted in no less than three bomb threats being called into the hospital.

Another prime-example of Chaya lying to her audience in order to drum up anti-LGBTQ hate in her audience would be the case of Sam. Sam is a transgender woman who lives in Georgia. Chaya used a photo of her to peddle the false statement that the Uvalde Shooter was transgender. This led to Sam facing harassment online. But we'll elaborate more on that later on in the debunk when Taylor confronts Chaya why she hasn't taken it down (spoiler alert: her answer is absolutely disgusting).

Chayaraichik.net has a pretty comprehensive list of other times when Chaya incited violence against people and organizations but the main takeaway here is that where LibsOfTikTok goes, death threats follow.

The interview comes in the wake of the death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager in Oklahoma who died on February 8th after being involved in a fight in a girls bathroom. Raichik was recently appointed to a library board position in the state.

Another thing you need to understand about this interview is that there's some serious bad blood between Chaya Raichik and Taylor Lorenz that underscores the entire conversation. Taylor Lorenz was the person who broke the story that Chaya was the woman behind LibsOfTikTok which led to the entire griftosphere accusing Taylor of "doxxing" Chaya. This accusation is pretty ridiculous given Chaya's history of using her platform to demonize and single out others and the fact that her identity was thinly veiled at best.

Anyway, Chaya did this interview with Taylor Lorenz and it's....not a good look for her to say the least.

Lets get into it.

01:06, Taylor Lorenz: "So when did you start, I guess, what got you into all this? I always wanted to ask you, I know I wrote a bit about the history of your Twitter account but how did you get involved in politics?"

Chaya Raichik: "Uh, if you watch any of my interviews I talk about this all the time but uh -- just you know, COVID radicalized me."

Taylor Lorenz: "Yeah, in what way?"

Chaya Raichik: "And they were like, forcing us to wear masks and not letting us leave our homes and uh -- not letting us work and people losing their jobs and then people now forcing a vaccine, an experimental vaccine, people dying from the vaccine."

You'll notice a very clear pattern of Chaya acting like she's one of the most oppressed people in human history running throughout this interview.

If COVID radicalized her, the fact that none of the rights predictions about COVID "oppression" being used to create a left-wing dictatorship should deradicalize her. We are more or less back to normal since COVID and none of what the right was saying about it came true. As for vaccine deaths, there's no evidence linking the COVID vaccine to an uptick in deaths and most people making these kinds of claims don't have any sourcing to back up their claims. Serious side effects to the vaccine are extremely rare and all the evidence points to the vaccine saving countless lives and helping with the effort to end the pandemic.

If COVID is the thing that radicalized Chaya, which I doubt since her Twitter revolves around b ashing LGBTQ people, then I would urge her to look at the evidence and see that the bedrock of her belief system is completely bogus.

01:41, Taylor Lorenz: "So how did that get you interested in LGBTQ issues?" Chaya Raichik: "It got me interested in politics and then -- and then once I was interested in politics I stumbled upon this whole movement and I was absolutely appalled by what I was seeing."

That's code for "I saw people expressing themselves in a way that makes me uncomfortable and I decided to make a cottage industry out of making their lives miserable."

Anyway, Chaya doesn't really know anything about this issue outside of the standard right wing talking points and it becomes blatantly obvious the more she talks.

02:03, Taylor Lorenz: "Appalled by what?"

Chaya Raichik: "Um, the -- the radicalization of it, the -- the way they come after our most innocent and vulnerable population, our kids. The way that it makes -- it makes -- there's nothing logical about it. There's nothing logical about chopping off kids body parts, there's nothing logical about giving kids porn in school, there's two sexes and that's it so you know, anything out of that. It's just based on lies and nonsense."

Then Chaya would be extremely happy to hear that all of those things are a load of made up nonsense pushed by right-wing grifters looking to drum up outrage. Not that it matters as Chaya is one of those grifters and is herself completely full of shit.

Now, these narratives serve a purpose and that's to justify the demonization and oppression of an already marginalized group. By pushing these kinds of conspiracy theories on her audience, Chaya creates an easy framework that can be used as an excuse for both violence and the proliferation of the right-wing ideas that she wants implemented.

But it's interesting how when taken away from her Twitter page and put in a mildly unfriendly environment, Chaya clearly struggles to back up her own arguments and has to fall back of repeatedly debunked claims of children getting gender transition surgery. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, this next clip is pretty revealing. Here's how much Chaya knows about the people she hates so much.

02:42, Taylor Lorenz: "Did you grow up -- I know you grew up in a more conservative community. Did you know any LGBTQ people growing up? What was your exposure to that community just in life prior to sort of understanding the world through politics?"

Chaya Raichik: "Um, I never really paid attention to it."

Taylor Lorenz: "So you didn't have any LGBTQ friends or anything?"

Chaya Raichik: "No"

Taylor Lorenz: "Family members?"

Chaya Raichik: "No"

That's a pretty bad look. Especially for a self-proclaimed journalist.

Chaya just admitted that she hasn't even bothered to meet any of the people who she's devoted her entire career to hating.

Maybe if she actually bothered to meet a transgender person her worldview that they're all evil predators would be at least challenged. Unfortunately, I kind of doubt that she'd be willing to be open minded. She is a bigot and a grifter and backing off from her hateful worldview would lead to her losing her following. She's built an empire of hate and I doubt she wants to see that disappear.

03:03, Taylor Lorenz: "So your first exposure to the LGBTQ world was through -- basically through learning about it through the media ecosystem."

Chaya Raichik: "Through themselves actually, they would say exactly what their intentions are, what their whole movement is about, so I learned about it through watching their own videos."

Yes, because random videos that are on TikTok are highly indicative of the entire LGBTQ community as a whole. You don't have to go out and actually meet any of them, you just need to watch out of context clips on TikTok of....people sharing their pronouns and trans people existing.

As some of you may know, I am currently a student majoring in journalism. Here's my journalism major pro-tip of the day: TikTok is not a good place to do your research, especially when you're going to base your entire opinion of a marginalized group on the research that you are going to do.

03:32, Taylor Lorenz: "I feel like there's, especially on -- my colleagues have done great reporting on sort of, like this rift on Twitter. I know that you have a very conservative fanbase and in your comments sometimes you'll see a lot of commentary about sort of, the great replacement theory. What are your thoughts on that?"

Chaya Raichik: "What are your thoughts on your comments -- the comments on your post telling me to kill myself."

Taylor Lorenz: "Horrible, yeah horrible."

That's a massive sign of Chaya not wanting to answer the question if I have ever seen one. Whilst people telling Chaya to kill herself is wrong and isn't a productive way to address the content that she puts out, this is kind of rich coming from a person who incites violence against the LGBTQ community every day on her Twitter page.

But again, you see Chaya retreating from confronting the rhetoric that she pushes and instead playing the victim card. Plus, the "gotcha" moment was immediately deflated by Taylor immediately condemning the comments telling Chaya to kill herself. I'm not sure what Chaya thought was going to happen here. Did she think that Taylor would struggle to condemn the death threats and she'd get this big gotcha moment? If so, she has a massive persecution complex.

Chaya does this "Oh, will you condemn death threats against me" dance for a while and Taylor just keeps saying yes. Taylor finally gets to the meat and potatoes of why what Chaya is saying is ridiculous, which is that this logic clearly should also apply to Chaya.

04:21, Taylor Lorenz: "So are you saying that like, someone posts something and then attacks follow that person should answer for those attacks?"

Chaya Raichik: "No, that's not what I'm saying."

Taylor Lorenz: "Oh, OK."

Chaya Raichik: "I'm saying that they -- people like you tell me that all the time so I'm just asking if you think the same thing."

Chaya's basically pinned herself into a corner here. She's basically stated that people should be responsible for actions caused by their content, so Taylor naturally goes "Yeah, well what about you?", and Chaya's response is basically "No, not like that!"

This is embarrassing. This is what happens when you take a reactionary with no concrete positions outside of "I hate people" and actually start asking them to explain their ideas, they flounder.

Speaking of tactics that reactionaries use when put under pressure, Chaya diverted the conversation from the topic at hand which was the great replacement theory. Taylor decides to try and get things back on track. This doesn't work at all.

04:38, Taylor Lorenz: "I think it's kind of interesting, I guess -- in the conservative movement there's this ideology around sort of, white nationalism which is obviously kind of a hardline ideology that's generally been pretty critical of Jewish communities and I'm wondering, as a Jewish woman, how do you feel about sort of aligning yourself with those people and accounts? You know, you see this sort of rhetoric in your replies and I only bring it up, I'm not saying that you endorse that rhetoric, I would imagine that you don't. But how do you kind of think about those nuances when you're thinking about, kind of the audience that you're building."

Chaya Raichik: "Some of your audience says we should chop off kids body parts, what do you think about that?"

Taylor Lorenz: "I don't know what you're talking about."

Chaya Raichik: "Like, a girl says she wants to be a boy so she chops off her breasts."

I could definitely see somebody like Ben Shapiro being able to field this question by simply condemning the extremist and oftentimes antisemitic people that follow him, but Chaya can't do that because she understands that a really sizeable chunk of her base is made up of those people and it would be acting against her best interests to condemn them.

Unfortunately, her way of handling this question is simply regurgitating a heavily debunked talking point about children getting transgender surgeries. This does nothing but make Chaya look like an overly confrontational idiot who is only capable of communicating in right-wing talking points.

As for the question of Chaya being Jewish and supporting things like the Great Replacement Theory, that's a valid question. Either she has never thought about who "they" are or she simply doesn't care and both are extremely damming.

05:34, Taylor Lorenz: "I mean, I believe in gender ideology I guess. I personally -- my feeling is that I believe in personal liberty. I grew up in a town where a lot of people for their middle school graduation, women got nose jobs. I knew somebody that got a boob job at age 14 and I -- I guess I struggle to kind of understand the criticism when there's certainly no criticism of that sort of thing, right? But then there's criticism of this other sort of gender affirming you know, stuff."

Chaya Raichik: "So you're comparing a boy being allowed to chop off his penis to a teenage girl getting a nose job?"

Taylor Lorenz: "Well, just to be extra clear I don't believe that thirteen year olds are able to make those sort of medical decisions."

Chaya Raichik: "Minors are, yeah."

Taylor Lorenz: "Oh really?And where?"

Chaya Raichik: "Children's National Hospital in DC gives sixteen year olds hysterectomy's."

Taylor Lorenz: "Oh, sixteen year olds?"

Chaya Raichik: "They told me that directly, they said 'sixteen girls and younger'. That's what they said."

Alright, this phone call was not what Chaya is saying it is so lets just get this narrative out of the way.

While the recordings themselves are authentic, what Chaya left out was that the people that she talked to weren't doctors or anybody involved in providing care to patients. Chaya talked to a receptionist who provided inaccurate information about patient care whilst being badgered and pressed by Chaya about a nonexistent sixteen year old patient. The receptionists were essentially answering Chaya's questions about surgery and trying to do their job which is setting a patient up with an expert who absolutely would have stated that bottom surgery doesn't get performed on minors.

This is a complete load of horseshit meant to stoke outrage. And by the way, Children's National Hospital received threats after Chaya's post. I can't stress enough how vile targeting a children's hospital for political points is. It endangers doctors and nurses who already have difficult jobs as it is and it also puts the lives of the children being treated in the hospital at risk.

Anyway, Chaya finally gives her thoughts on the Great Replacement Theory and they naturally smack of white nationalism.

06:54, Taylor Lorenz: "Let's just get back to the great replacement stuff because I'm curious, what are your thoughts on that whole ideology?"

Chaya Raichik: " I mean, how many — there were times that — there were some months over the past three years that there were more illegals coming into our border than children being born in the U.S. Is that not — does that not look like they're trying to replace us?"

Yeah, this claim about more migrants entering the US than children being born is also a complete lie. Elon Musk has endorsed this claim because of course he did, but lets talk about it.

The tweet that originally claimed this used data from the US Customs and Border Protection Agency. The problem with this is that it doesn't represent any official data documenting how many migrants are entering the United States because that data simply does not exist. The data from the United States Customs and Border Protections Agency is about data that the CBP calls "encounters". These encounters not only encompass people who the CBP catches entering the country illegally but; people trying to enter the country legally but get denied, people who the CBP have encountered previously trying to enter the country again, and people who simply don't enter the US successfully. The notion that this dataset represents how many migrants are entering the United States is flagrantly ridiculous but if you just look at the CBP data for how many migrants they apprehend at the border, it's lower than the US birthrate.

What's more concerning here though is that Chaya has essentially given her stamp of approval to a white nationalist conspiracy theory and it gets worse the more she talks.

07:35, Chaya Raichik: "I just look at the facts and the numbers."

Apparently not closely enough otherwise she'd find the info that reveals that this claim is bogus. Seriously, it took me a twelve second Google search to figure this out.

07:39, Taylor Lorenz: "Well so, let's just give a corollary, right? A lot of Jewish people fled, you know Europe, came here also as immigrants and there's a lot of criticism towards Jewish people in those movements, in those far-right movements. So I'm just wondering, as a Jewish woman, sort of how you feel about that and your role in cultivating this fan base that might think of you as a minority, an outsider." 

Chaya Raichik: "Not all cultures are equal. Yeah." 

Taylor Lorenz: "So, I know you have a lot of concerns about educational materials and books, library books and things, especially —"

Chaya Raichik: "They're importing people who want to destroy America and who want to — who come here and do not stand for what America stands for. So, and I think, and we see it, there's time after time after time after time, they come in, they're destroying our cities, they bring crime with them, and they are bringing them in to replace us. And, yeah, I think people from various countries, they're all different." 

These are talking points straight out of the white nationalist playbook.

The replacement of the white race (who else could "replace us" be referring to?), the portrayal of migrants and immigrants as bringing crime and destruction, the outright statement that "not all cultures are equal". This isn't just saying the quiet part out loud, it's screaming it through a megaphone on full blast.

And again, in all of these alt-right circles one of the key groups that get demonized is Jewish people. I've already mentioned how terms like "globalist" and "them" are dogwhistles for Jewish people in alt-right circles but it seems like Chaya is willfully blind to this fact because she gets attention for being a hateful POS on Twitter.

This is also why I doubt the "COVID radicalized me" narrative. You don't just go from not wanting to wear a mask to repeating white nationalist talking points. While COVID might have pushed Chaya towards this world, there's a large portion between then and now that we don't know about.

I know I'm probably preaching to the choir a little here but if anybody doesn't really know who LibsOfTikTok is and reads this, here you go. The fact that she can so calmly and matter of factly repeat a talking point that was used by the Nazis to justify the holocaust should tell you everything that you need to know.

08:43, Taylor Lorenz: "Just back to the sort of, education stuff, I know that you're interested in removing a bunch of books from libraries that you consider inappropriate. I was just wondering, out of all the books that you've sort of tried to get removed, how many have you read?"

Chaya Raichik: "I've read a couple of them."

Taylor Lorenz: "Which ones?"

Chaya Raichik: "Gender Queer. I've read This Book is Gay. I've read uh, Flamer. I've read uh -- what were some of the other ones? My Shadow is Pink, It Feels Good To Be Yourself, there's so many more. Tons of them."

Just to be entirely clear, Chaya absolutely has not read any of these books or if she has she's read them in an extremely ignorant and reactionary manner that interprets them as pornography simply because they contain LGBTQ+ themes.

But the part in the middle of that quote where she struggles to remember the names of the books she's trying to ban speaks volumes.

10:11, Chaya Raichik: "I'm not trying to ban anything."

Taylor Lorenz: "So you're not trying to ban any books."

Chaya Raichik: "Who said I'm trying to ban books?"

Taylor Lorenz: "Are you trying to remove books from libraries?"

Chaya Raichik: "From public school libraries."

So, she's trying to ban books. Banning something is the act of removing something from a space and not allowing it back in. This is literally what Chaya just stated that she's trying to do.

So my answer to "Who said I'm trying to ban books?" is as follows: You just did.

10:27, Chaya Raichik: "What kind of literature?"

Taylor Lorenz: "You tell me."

Chaya Raichik: "Gay porn. Gay porn."

See, this was one of the things that Chaya bandied about as a "win" in this interview. The issue is that Chaya's idea of the definition of "gay porn" is completely filtered through her narrow minded worldview. A book simply depicting LGBTQ+ people existing is "gay porn" to her.

Parents absolutely can opt children out of courses that teach these books (although those classes are usually limited to older youth such as high school students). Chaya Raichik should not be the grand arbiter of how people parent their kids or what kids can and cannot read.

Plus, I wonder if Chaya would be equally opposed to the Bible being allowed in schools? She'd probably freak out over it on Twitter despite the Bible having scenes in it that make most of the books she's referenced look like The Very Hungry Caterpillar by comparison.

11:45, Taylor Lorenz: "How would you describe the type of sex education that you would like to see in schools?"

Chaya Raichik: "At this point I want all sex education actually removed in schools because I don't trust the schools to do it."

So, Chaya wants to ban sex ed because it seemingly acknowledges the existence of LGBTQ+ people too much. Who should we trust to write sex-ed curriculum? Chaya, a person who just admitted to believing in a white supremacist conspiracy theory and having not met any LGBTQ people before the ten minute mark?!

No sexual education is a categorically bad idea. A recent report by the American Association of Pediatrics

For example, in Texas a link has been drawn between abstinence-only sexual curriculum and unwanted teen pregnancies. A study found that areas in Texas with abstinence only sexual curriculum was being employed were above the national average in terms of teen pregnancy. Who would have thought that not educating kids about how to have sex safely would lead to more STD's and more teen pregnancy? Apparently not Chaya.

You've got to keep in mind that Chaya has no training or expertise in any of these subjects. She's a real estate agent turned bigoted internet troll. She absolutely should not be treated as an expert or put in a position where she as treated as one, which is why her position in the Oklahoma Library Board is extremely concerning.

12:50, Taylor Lorenz: "I guess, speaking of posts, you still have a post up accusing the Uvalde Shooter of being trans. Um, obviously that's been debunked."

Chaya Raichik: "Yeah, there's a community note on it."

Taylor Lorenz: "Uh huh, so why not remove that post if you are so comfortable removing posts?"

Chaya Raichik: "Because there's a community note, I think it's clear. It's obviously it was -- obviously it was unintentional. There was a watermark on it, it was from a meme account that was going around. Um, and I'm glad there's a community note so people know that that was a mistake."

This is terrible from a human standpoint but from a journalistic standpoint this makes me want to tear my hair out. You don't get to just say "I saw a meme and posted it without verifying it first" and think that's a valid excuse for publishing misinformation, that's not how journalism works! Mostly because you wouldn't have used a 4Chan meme as a source in the first place!

The banner on the LibsOfTikTok page on Twitter says "News you can’t see anywhere else" and I wonder if Chaya has wondered why you can't see that news anywhere else. It's not because the "left" is suppressing it, hell if Sinclair Broadcasting's existence has taught us anything it's that the right owns a sizeable chunk of the media. The reason you don't see the "news" on LibsOfTikTok anywhere else is because most news organizations have these things called "editorial standards" and "verification" which make it so that you can't just run your mouth off in an article without checking to make sure what you're saying is true first.

Chaya on the other hand will just find a meme on 4Chan, post it, and rake in the sweet attention and likes regardless of who gets hurt. This is not journalism, it's targeted harassment and spreading of disinformation.

Another thing that journalists do is print retractions when they get the facts in a story wrong. If Chaya wants to call herself a journalist she is to be held to the standards of one and that means that she has to retract information that she knows is false personally instead of letting Twitter do all the work for her, that's how this works.

What Chaya did meets the textbook definition for defamation. Prima face defamation in the United States is defined by these four characteristics:

1) a false statement purporting to be fact; The false statement in this case being that Sam was the Uvalde Shooter. While Sam wasn't mentioned by name, her photo being used led to people tracking down her social media account and harassing her.

2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; By posting that accusation to Twitter, Chaya was communicating the statement that Sam was the Uvalde shooter to her thousands of followers.

3) fault amounting to at least negligence; She clearly didn't check the sourcing or even wait to see if her claims were true. She just posted the meme without adhering to the most basic rules of journalism.

and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject: Obviously, accusing somebody of carrying out a mass shooting is going to seriously harm somebodies reputation. Especially when the accuser has primed her audience to associate the accused's sexual identity with baseless conspiracy theories about pedophillia.

Chaya is lucky nobody has sued her for libel yet but if she keeps up this pattern of behavior it's only a matter of time, and she won't get an ounce of my sympathy when it happens.

13:16, Taylor Lorenz: "Do you believe if say, a journalist posts something factually incorrect or wrong, especially about someone else, you know if somebody was to say something factually wrong about you, do you believe they should remove that or do you think they should be able to keep that content up?"

Chaya Raichik: "Uhm, Twitter is free speech uh, you know people lie about me all the time there and they don't get --- they don't get taken down. If you want --- it has to go both ways."

Taylor Lorenz: "So you believe that people should be allowed to keep up wrong information about you and have no -- be able to keep that up."

Chaya Raichik: "Free speech is free speech."

I wonder what lies Chaya is talking about? Because as I've pointed out, many of those things that Chaya might immediately point out as lies such as her connection to incidents of harassment and violence are established in the basis of fact. Criticizing somebodies actions is significantly different from defamation as long as it's based in reality. Chaya accusing a random person of being a mass shooter just because it fits her transphobic narrative isn't based in reality, it's based in lies and bigotry.

14:01, Taylor Lorenz: "So I'm kind of curious how you square that with the letter that you sent this morning to V Spere claiming that, you know, you were gonna try to sue her for slander. You know, if free speech is free speech than why are you threatening your critics with lawsuits."

Chaya Raichik: "Well defamation is different."

Taylor Lorenz: "So would you call misidentifying a shooters sexuality defamation?"

Chaya Raichik: "Uh, no I wouldn't."

"Because defamation only applies to me and not the people I hate."

Here's the thing, in Chaya's mind she hasn't committed defamation because the person who she defamed was trans and she's already stated her hatred of trans people time and time again. She hasn't defamed anybody because that person has committed the crime of being trans in Chaya's presence.

If I'm being too subtle, this woman is starting to piss me off.

14:30, Chaya Raichik: "I wasn't the creator of that image."

But she amplified it to her massive following. If she hadn't done that, those claims would probably be a lot more obscure.

14:31, Taylor Lorenz: "Sure but you can if somebody amplified wrong information you're-"

Chaya Raichik: "You know, the media like --- like Washington Post and other places, they lie all the time. They're never held accountable, they never remove it, they lie and lie and lie. So I'm not gonna --- if you want to hold me to that level, than I get to hold you to that level as well and all the other media."

This is all she's got, "No u." See, if I was Taylor my follow up question would be "OK, name an example of us publishing a lie and not removing it."

Even if Chaya is correct, someone else lying doesn't excuse her lying. If everyone else is lying, hold yourself to a better standard. She also clearly has zero empathy for the person who she misidentified as the Uvalde Shooter.

15:21, Chaya Raichik: "Um, is there a law against lying?"

A): Defamation, while not something that can get you in jail, is a legally actionable offence so yeah it kind of is.

B): Those words coming out of your mouth should immediately discredit you as a journalist from here to kingdom come.

15:37, Chaya Raichik: "It's different with defaming a journalist like that."

Let it be put on the record that she has claimed that she's a journalist. I don't think she is, I think she's an alt-right troll, but she claims she is one. If she wants to be a journalist she needs to follow our rules, and that includes journalistic ethics which she has demonstrated a stunning lack of in her tenure as LibsOfTikTok.

They talk about Chaya's life a bit, mostly her complaining about the evil leftists lying about her nonstop. Chaya then starts to talk about Nex Benedict and Oklahoma.

20:48, Taylor Lorenz: "How do you feel about Nex's death?"

Chaya Raichik: "It's very tragic. It's horrible."

Taylor Lorenz: "Do you believe Nex should have been allowed to receive gender affirming care?"

Chaya Raichik: "She should not be allowed to go on irreversible puberty blockers or get sex change surgery."

Puberty blockers are not irreversible and the qualifications a youth has to go through are pretty long. A doctor isn't just going to prescribe a minor puberty blockers during the first session, the minor needs to have displayed a long lasting pattern of gender dysphoria.

Also, gender affirming care for youth has been shown to reduce suicidal ideation for trans and nonbinary youth by 73%. These medical treatments are valuable and oftentimes lifesaving for transgender youth.

Taylor brings up the bomb threats, Chaya brings up the "No u" argument again, and we don't need to cover that. Here's Chaya being really embarrassing about trans people.

26:11, Taylor Lorenz: "You know, if you eradicate transgenderism which I believe you suggested in a post today-"

Chaya Raichik: "I never suggested that"

Taylor Lorenz: "Ok, you reposted a post that was advocating for that. What would happen to the people that have already medically, socially, completely transitioned and are leading happy lives? What would happen to them? I mean, what's your plan for that? If transgenderism doesn't exist, which you seem to believe, what happens to all the people living happy lives as trans people?"

Chaya Raichik: "First of all, the whole 'trans' is based on a lie. You can't --- you can't change your gender."

I have a lot of trans friends who are living proof that that's not the case.

Gender itself is the social construct of the characteristics of a male, female, etc. Sex is biological.

27:16, Taylor Lorenz: "And what harm is it causing? Do you believe."

Chaya Raichik: "I like the truth, I like truth."

Taylor Lorenz: "Right, but I'm saying what's the harm of people expressing their gender identity differently than you believe it to be? What harm are they causing?"

Gee Chaya, I thought lies were just no big deal, after all there's no law against lying! Seeing her switch from "weeeelllll, you know there's technically no law against lying so when I defame an innocent person by telling my followers that they're a mass murderer it's totally A-OK" to this bold crusader for the "truth" (which is in and of itself based off a transphobic lie) is pretty glaring and nauseating.

28:00, Taylor Lorenz: "What is the material harm of them living their life as a woman or man or gender that you don't agree with?"

Chaya Raichik: "Not anything that's wrong, is there a material harm necessarily."

Taylor Lorenz: "So there's no harm?"

Chaya Raichik: "I didn't say that"

Taylor Lorenz: "So can you name a single harm?"

Chaya Raichik: "The way that it's pushed onto kids, first of all."

All she has is barging in and shouting right-wing talking points without addressing questions that are being asked. This is embarrassing.

Here's Chaya begrudgingly admitting that gender is a social construct.

31:32, Taylor Lorenz: "What if somebody said to you, you know, you're not a real woman? You're not a real woman cause maybe you don't meet these certain specific definitions of femininity."

Chaya Raichik: "That's fine, I don't care. They can call me whatever you want."

Taylor Lorenz: "But what if you would be forced to live by that system? Do you think it's fair that you would be forced to like--"

Chaya Raichik: "Is that based in like, science?"

Taylor Lorenz: "Well I don't think any of it's based in science--"

Chaya Raichik: "Well, it is. There are two sexes."

Taylor Lorenz: "Gender is a social construct"

Chaya Raichik: "Well, gender is actually made up."

She figured it out! It took her a ridiculously long amount of time but she figured it out. Granted, she immediately retracts that claim by blathering on about how there are "two sexes, zero genders, and unlimited personalities" right after (which is a quote that I'm pretty sure she stole from Charlie Kirk by the way) but at least she kind of got there.

32:25, Taylor Lorenz: "You know, a lot of LGBTQ people say that your posts cause an enormous amount of pain. How does that make you feel?"

Chaya Raichik: "How does it make you feel that your reporting on me causes me pain?"

"No u"

They talk a bit about what a public figure is and trans surgery. Chaya's arguments are stupid but not stupid in an important way. Chaya then IMMEDIATELY contradicts herself and then admits that she wants transgender people to not exists in public.

36:42, Taylor Lorenz: "Where do you, sort of, hope this will end up? You know like, all of this sort of --- the advocacy that you're doing. I know you said that you don't have a five year plan for yourself but what are some --- if you were sort of like gonna describe you're platform --- what are some thing's that you'd like to see? Meaningful changes in terms of policies, laws."

Chaya Raichik: "Oh, I want to eradicate gender ideology from public life."

Remember back at 26:11 when Chaya said that she never suggested that she wanted to eradicate "transgenderism"? Chaya certainly doesn't. But the key thing here is that what Chaya is advocating here is the complete suppression of transgender people from the public sphere, that's what she wants and that is a blatantly disgusting goal.

Conclusion:

Chaya Raichik should never ever be taken seriously by anyone ever.

From supporting white nationalist conspiracy theories to splitting hairs over the legality of lying as a journalist, Chaya demonstrated massive breaches in journalistic ethics and just generally atrocious behavior. She came off like a mumbling idiot who can only throw up right-wing talking points instead of backing up an argument. Surely this is the person you want making decisions about kids futures.

I really only did this post because LibsOfTikTok comes up a lot in the griftosphere and this is a super helpful resource to point to when she gets mentioned. On the bright side, we've found a contrarian queen for Tim Pool the contrarian king.

Cheers and I'll see you in the next one.

#right wing bullshit #conservative bullshit #fact checking #libs of tiktok #chaya raichik #journalism #bad takes #conservatives #disinformation #politics #debunking #trans rights #fuck transphobes #fuck the alt right

[thatheathen]

#fuck andrew tate #fuck chaya raichik

[gawdz0rz]

i told libsoftiktok that i wished her final moments were filled with watching queer people be happy and twitter said, “you can’t wish abuse on people”

#fuck you #fuck them #tweeter #twitter #chaya raichik #libs of tiktok #lott #libsoftiktok #posts by gawdzie

[sephirajo]

I hope libs of tiktok gets hit by a bus or shits herself to death on the toilet.

#libs of tiktok #chaya raichik #die bitch #fucking die

[mafia-witch666]

All I did was say that Chaya Raichaik puts children's lives in danger every day with the things she says and the people she doxes and that she deserves to live in the same fear of violence that these literal children and normal people do. I also tagged Elon and in response to a particularly horrific tweet where she was calling all gay people groomers and called him out on allowing this behavior.

But this platform is all about free speech right? (: Especially if you're Matt Walsh or Chaya Raichaik you can keep on saying horrific lies about marginalized groups of people that cause them to have violence enacted against them in ways that are proven to be linked to the things they say on their Twitter accounts.

But it's not free speech to call out this disgusting and violent behavior apparently. Goodbye Twitter you fucking suck and are literally just a place for psychotic and violent right wing takes that vilify trans and gay humans now.

#elon musk #banned on twitter #Twitter ban #elon musk is a loser #chaya raichik #right wing propaganda #free speech is dead #free speech #trans rights #gay rights #lgbtq community #matt walsh #fucking horrible people #elons twitter #twitter #twitter is dead #fuck twitter

[lonelyhumanoid]

I’ve just gotta come out and say it.

I probably shouldn’t be making assumptions like this, but I’m convinced that Chaya Raichik is deeply closeted. Nobody has the kind of hate in their hearts like she does without having some sort of deep rooted self hatred first.

Also most of the biggest homophobes end up in gay sex scandals so I won’t be shocked at all if/when an ex partner comes forward.

#seriously fuck her #chaya raichik #libs of tiktok

[nando161mando]

It's only acceptable to be interfacing with that Nazi Chaya Raichik if you're actively pushing her in front of a bus

#Chaya Raichik #nazisploitation #nazis #nazigate #nazi #neonazis #neofascism #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #antinazi #antiauthoritarian #antifa #antifascist #antifaschistische aktion #class war #far right #right wing extremism #right wing terrorism #right wing politics #right wing women #right wing bullshit #right wingers

[sebastianravkin]

Fuck book banning - Oklahoma edition

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced in a news release Tuesday (23 January 2024) that he was appointing Chaya Raichik [not a resident of Oklahoma] to the department’s Library Media Advisory Committee (original story posted below). Although Raichik’s duties have not been specified in this position, the committee’s main objective is to decide whether a book in question violates the provisions outlined in Oklahoma's Media Program Rule and to remove "pornographic or sexualized content from public schools in the State of Oklahoma".

Raichik created 'Libs of TikTok' on Twitter (now X) in 2021, which reposts TikTok videos of users sharing liberal views while adding derisive conservative commentary. The account has over 2.8 million followers. According to The Oklahoman, this account "has become a creator of, and a force multiplier for, right-wing outrage, particularly on LGBTQ+ issues." It has been amplified by the positive attentions of Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Rogan.

What you can do:

If you are a resident of Oklahoma, write your representatives in the State Legislature, write the Office of the State Superintendent, and write the Governor's Office.

Sign this Petition:

#fuck book banning #books #banned books #book banning #oklahoma #chaya raichik

[transgirlsupremacy]

photo "trans ally" matt is such a trans ally that he is SUBSCRIBED to Elon Musk on fucking TWITTER. Yknow, the transphobe who hates his trans child? Yknow, the same Elon Musk who is SUBSCRIBED to CHAIYA FUCKING RAICHIK, the NOTORIOUS TRANSPHOBE. yeah phtomatt pays elon like 4 dollars a month to be subscribed to his twitter account.

Dont know about the Autism Capital or why shiningami eyes is seeing the account as red but I see a puzzle piece amd anyone whos a supporter of autism speaks is an enemy to me. But yeah, anyway

#trans #transfem #trans woman #photomatt #ceo meltdown

[p0is0n-is-th3-cur3]

I'm probably not gonna post much other than stuff about Nex Benedict today, I just found out what happened and I'm fucking sick. That's the fucking state I live in, that's my fucking state and my fucking home and I've seen ZERO FUCKING news coverage on it. I knew it wasn't fucking safe here but goddamn. Nex didn't deserve this, they did fucking nothing. Nex should have gotten the chance to grow up, live a happy fulfilled life but that was robbed of them. They were a nature lover, a straight a student whose mother said they were going somewhere. They should have gone somewhere; they should have grown up to be successful and happy. Because that's what they deserved, they didn't deserve to be beaten to death in a school bathroom then have school staff refuse to call emergency services and instead suspend them. Fuck Raichik, fuck Stitt, fuck Walters, fuck the girls who murdered Nex, fuck the school staff. I hate these people with a burning passion, may they rot in the hell that they claim we're going to.

#nex benedict #tw hate crime #tw transfobia #tw murder #oklahoma #trans #nonbinary #lgbtqia

[sleeppaw]

Fuck Libs of TikTok

A Non-binary student, Nex Benedict, was murdered in the girls' bathroom by three older girls at Owasso High School; Owasso School District in Oklahoma was targeted by Libs of TikTok in 2022. Nex was Cherokee. Two weeks ago, Oklahoma appointed Chaya Raichik, founder of Libs of TikTok, to the state's education board so that the state can ban books that doesn't fit their narrow criteria.

#sleepy's thoughts #tw: murder

[thatheathen]

#chaya raichik #evil woman #chaya raichik is a domestic terrorist #chaya raichik is a stochastic terrorist #stochastic terrorism #domestic terrorism #lgbtq #lgbtq rights #trans rights #fuck chaya raichik #chaya raichik is a vile piece of shit #spigot on a bigot #bigots #trans rights are human rights #fuck tucker carlson #fuck fox news #fuck republicans #fuck fascism