Libs of TikTok, the Anti-LGBTQ Terror Machine
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2023
- At the forefront of today’s anti-LGBTQ movement is one shockingly uncharismatic woman. Journalist Taylor Lorenz helps us understand the rise of Chaya Raichik, a former real estate agent who now makes a handsome living terrorizing queer students and teachers across the country using her Twitter account, @libsoftiktok. We also hear directly from some of her former targets.
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My Boomer dad is blissfully unaware of the current resurgence of The Satanic Panic/The Lavendar Scare, but when I told him they were trying to paint us as pedophiles, he responded, “that shit is older than *I* am!”
Wholesome boomer moment
He's not wrong either, though mostly before he was born it was targeted at interracial relationships, etc; then repurposed against us. These moral panics are probably ancient in the most literal sense though too, look at surviving records and you can see the core of the playbook is literally thousands of years old it's just the "demon" has changed to suit the biases of the "concerned citizens".
You know things are bad when even the (wholesome) Boomers are saying it's ridiculous.
@@ChadBradley-hg4pk you are delusional. the MAP label was universally rejected and hated from int inception and was invented by right wingers to begin with. you want your enemies to be pedos because you need an excuse to want them dead.
@@ChadBradley-hg4pk No one says minor attracted person. Only paedophiles say that, and far right losers who want to paint queer people as paedophiles too. It's an attempt to paint it as a sexuality, but not even by the paedophiles themselves, by the far right ideologues, to spread hate against queer people.
Let's not forget they wouldn't want us to be queer in private either. They used to raid gay bars and bath houses.
This is how pride started let us not forget. Pride was a riot
probably had something to do with spreading aids
Queer is the problem. Queer is a word for straight people who want the perceived opperession points of gay people. No gay person wants to be called queer.
we will never be able to hide ourselves enough to make them happy. we have to be proud, and we have to fight ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
You’re absolutely right you shouldn’t be queer anywhere.
Only in America could the idea of using cat litter boxes for toilets in the event of a school shooting be seen as the less insane explanation for why a school would have litter boxes.
"No, no, of course they're not for children who identify as cats. That would be mental. They're for school shootings."
"Ah, I see. Well, that makes me feel so much better. As long as my child has a place to pee while dodging bullets, and isn't running around identifying as stuff, I'll sleep sound tonight."
right????? who cares if literal kids are doing something bizarre. btw the connection between the culture of violence in america and the school shootings and the anti-lgbt thing is that america is grooming their kids to become violent towards marginalized people. its not just lack of regulation, mental health, or whatever else. its all part of the same exact issue. some kids in these conservative families shoot up their school, but most grow up to be more like the kind of person to cause or support bomb threats and terrorism. both are hate fueled acts of violence that are being groomed into these kids. which is exactly where they get the wild ideas of LGBT people grooming kids into a violent cult, its 1 to 1 projection. just think of the fact of how much money is funneled into the military it really starts to make sense what their actual goal is (child army ready to go to war at the drop of a hat lol)
It's that and also, as I understand, for the case of a sick child since the kitty litter makes cleaning up vomit easier. But yeah, it's gross, and it's even more frustrating that the same people who will mock the schools for having kitty littler are actively opposed to doing ANYTHING to try to put a stop to school shootings.
They’re also invariably going to be used to soak up blood since we have multiple mass shootings each day now. If only our government cared enough to stand up to gun lobbyists… but they never will.
Its never happened. There never was a litterbox. They have special bags for kids to 1 and 2 in, and theyre cheap, its a fucking lie, there is no litterbox
I was shocked to hear that. The gun violence epidemic is scary.
“Why in the world would you say you’re protecting kids and then *attack their schools* ?” 👏
When I learned what the litter boxes were actually for, I saw red. How is the reality less upsetting than a kid who thinks they’re a cat? That blew my mind
@@MISSMADISONMEDIA School shootings are as American as baseball and apple pie.
The reality of the modern U.S.
Exactly
Because she's Chabad, they're extremely conservative, I'd be surprised if she ever had a real conversation w/a gay person aside from the ones her management company rent to in NYC, I had a property manager in Bed/Stuy named Chaya, she seemed nice enough...
They think they're saving kids from "evil grooming" schools
I'm still flabbergasted how casually you mentioned that a school had litter boxes in case of mass shooting as emergency bathrooms for children and went on like if it was the most normal thing, my god.
Me too like I didn’t even know that existed and the fact that it does is so appalling and dystopian. Like this is where we’re at now???
@@sp.2778 sadly yes that's where the USA is at. And the dipshits have been spreading the same myth about UK and Australian schools, and I REALLY hate seeing my community (Furry) used to stoke fear against the broader queer community and trans kids in particular while employing something done because the USA thinks the only freedom of the freedom of the gun.
The way conservatives think a litterbox in school for a mass shooting situation is normal, but for in case a kid identified as a cat is outrageous tells you all you need to know
At this point it is normal, if you have any connection yo teachers or school admins. Or if you watch john oliver, things like that have been around for years at this point. Its awful, and incredibly depressing because even if there isnt a simple solution, the fact that as a nation we have decided to do nothing at all instead of trying to actually help our children means weve failed as a nation
And the worst part about it
Conservatives like Joe Rogan pushed this fake narrative that the litter boxes in schools were for "high schoolers that identified as cats"
Not for the shootings
For people who identified as cats and want to use the litter boxes instead of toilets
I wish I was making this up....
Thank you for pointing out how uniquely uncharismatic Raichik is. Many people who share her abhorrent beliefs are capable of being clever and engaging, but she's just mealy-mouthed, vacuous and mumbly.
mealy-mouthed is a Class A insult
Even tucker seems a little frustrated with how little she has to say lol
It's almost like she tripped and fell into this grift, decided to roll with it, has gotten in too deep, and now has consultants to help. She's gonna do what she has to do to keep the cash rolling in.
Regardless about how you feel about Hasan Piker, he is absolutely right when he says that if he wanted to be a grifter, he wouldn't be left leaning.
the level of pride she showed in her "tay-tay" "insult" 100% gave the game away that she's profoundly mentally stunted. being raised in a religious cult has its downsides i guess lol
@notville_ did- did you just copy my comment?
“This child has experienced more death threats than I have and I’m decades older” is one of the saddest statements, but also the truest, given the current state of the US. Hatred has been weaponized to such a dangerous level. It’s frightening to be anyone who doesn’t fit within the status quo
You mean normal
The teachers and educators, who called in, made me actually cry. They try their hardest to make their students feel safe and instead the children grow up in a constant state of fear, because someone decides that terrorising children with violence is a completely normal response to seeing a rainbow flag. How can anyone support (or even worse: instigate) this and still sleep at night?!
@@Yeahbuddy380Good job on being as dense as two bricks. Nobody is “normal”.
@@Yeahbuddy380Good job on being as dense as two bricks. Nobody is “normal”.
Extreme emphasis on the fact that Chaya was present at the capitol on January 6th
Right but she’s just “neutrally reposting videos”… my ass
She should be in prison
I think the ableism on libsoftiktok also bears mention. A chronically ill creator got reposted and then harassed for taking covid precautions at a Taylor Swift concert.
they rly just want disabled ppl to die, huh
"Oh you want to not get sick? I hate you!!"
@@jgcoverkknot5701that's not the point. When someone is brainwashed enough to think a clothe mask will protect them from a venue elbow-to-elbow of screaming, sweating fans, then they're not just physically ill. I never advocate for violence/shouting people down for doing something that doesn't affect anyone else, but somebody's gonna call out stupidity when they see it. Stupidity we've all someone collectively accepted as a mass psychosis these past 3 years, it's tragically hilarious to watch.
@meowmasterL346 its almost as if covid isn't transferred by sweat
@@meowmasterL346Yeah, they're the stupid ones. 🙄
Imagine claiming to care about children while actively causing children harm. What she really cares about is money, and terrorizing queer people.
It's the same with the anti abortion people, they don't really care about the children (neither the unwanted pregnancies or the csa that may cause said unwanted pregnancies), they use it as excuse ro control and discriminate
@@CRSB00 yes, that's so true. And they end up literally killing people by forcing them to be pregnant. It's horrifying that so many people don't know how dangerous pregnancy is. It really is the same as with the ant-trans laws. They are killing people and they know it.
Oh sweetie, those aren't the 'right' kids to care about. That's why. /s
@@CRSB00It's their way to feel powerful and accepted by a community. Anyone. As long as they're not alone in their hate.
@@falconeshieldyep, realizing this made so much make sense, but it also made me lose faith in humanity
because it feels nearly impossible to fight against an enemy that does not have any real principles
I was a student in one of the districts mentioned. The local chapter of “moms for liberty” has been protesting outside our schools and at community events for months now in the name of protecting the children whilst simultaneously calling in false bomb threats and obstructing said children’s education and sense of safety. It has been truly heartbreaking to witness how many members of my community are such hateful people.
Please specify this bomb threat, when and where? You know you are just making this stuff up, it’s so see through.
@@cynthiaschmidt2726 like they'd dox their school for you
@@cynthiaschmidt2726Spotted the Mom For Fascism.
@@cynthiaschmidt2726 "Every inconvenient fact is made up like how we make things up."
-malicious conservative hate groups.
@@cynthiaschmidt2726OK Cuntia
This person legit should be put on trial. I knew about the hospital situation (which to be clear is bad enough in itself, forcing a needless evacuation on a hospital is just a plain evil thing to do, let alone putting it on lockdown), but 11 schools??? That’s a legit dangerous individual contributing to domestic terrorism.
To be clear - eleven schools in the past month. It's dozens more over time, as well as (iirc) more hospitals
@@actorplay4123after listening to this whole podcast, this is harrowing jfc
dude imagine wasting this much energy to make your audience of white knights go after literal school districts and under paid teachers, she would do more contribution to society if she worked on a soup kitchen or something simular. But if there is one thing this people despise other than the lgbt is the sight of the lower class and black ppl.
I agree, though a case trying to define what she does as stochastic terrorism (which it is) would likely end up in the Supreme Court... and I don't trust the court with so many conservative justices to do the right thing here. In fact, I would sadly thing that taking this into the courts, with how the courts are right now, would end up giving permission to more people like her to do exactly what she's doing.
The US' free speech laws are wild. If she was here in South Africa, she'd have been hauled before the Human Rights Commission ages ago
i hate them. This just reminds me of those "Cringe" accounts that repost private footage from mostly queer or autistic kids. Its not fair to throw hate at someone just existing. Its just insane
Yes, it's the exact same stuff, just more up-front about how political it is
The way these people feel normal doing this too disgusting
exactly, it's just more politically-vocal cringe culture. mocking queer people (even people who show obvious traits of autism and/or ADHD, example having special interests and non binary gender identity) and mocking them.
You're insane. We disagree with you, and often your life choices (colloquially). That doesn't equate to hate, you children are hysterical.
Don't worry, you'll grow up eventually.
@@ChadBradley-hg4pk yall dont deserve kids. you people more internet troll than human at this point.
“Are we going to die today?” At ten years old. I can’t help but cry. These kids are being traumatized for life, over bigotry and senseless hate.
More like from the lgbt cult
@@SB-iy9vn I think bomb and death threats do a whole hell of a lot more damage than seeing two guys kiss.
@@A_A610 there are same
@@SB-iy9vn If you're an idiot, maybe...and I've seen first graders write more coherently, maybe don't let hate melt your tiny little brain.
@@SB-iy9vnTalk about being overdramatic.
As someone who has been reposted to LoTT (and several of my friends have as well), thank you for covering this. This account had me in absolute turmoil when I was receiving threats for weeks.
I'm so sorry for you, I hope you're safe
I'm sorry for all the pain, hope you and your friends are ok. Keep up the good fight if you can
That is so sad! Omg i hope ure good
sending love and light your way, hope you had the support system to deal with that awful experience❤
Accountability culture.
I wish getting gender affirming care was as easy as conservatives think it is lol 😂
Right? I'd love for that delusion of theirs to be true, drive through hormone pills and hospital actively advertising open slots for gender affirmation therapy, they have so many doctors with open slots.
RIGHT?! They're just deluded, and you can't tell them it's not happening that way because they're firm in understanding that it is. It's insane.
I think they spread those lies so people will think 'well then we need gatekeepers to keep those trans in their place' nothing is more convincing then thier own minds....
@@enchantedgoldrush If you say so
@@enchantedgoldrushgoing through years of surgery therapy and pills is so easy. Not to mention socially transitioning is easier. Ahhh the life of a trans person, the easy life.
I love how she can call people evil while putting hundreads of thousands of people in danger for clout.
Most evil people call others the evil once to gather support. Example, n4zis called Jewish people evil, Slave owners called their slaves "dangerous, uncivilized and evil by nature". Calling "the target" evil can give the illusion of the actions taken against them as justified or even "holy/virtuous/righteous". If they're evil then anything can be justified to hurt them right? Anything less than removing evil is immoral. And in a traditional conservative world view those who deserve to be leaders become leaders in a hierarchical sense, therefore the leaders cannot be wrong and it would require something abysmally awful for people to reconsider their views.
These people think they're doing gods work
@@TheModdedwarfare3 they are
@@longandwindingroadhow? They're making up shit for social fame and claiming it all to be gods work, when neither the old or new testament say squat against gay and trans people. At this point i think evangelical americans should just be forcibly moved to the middle east. I think you guys will get along well with the taliban at this point.
@longandwindingroad feels like Religion is the root of so much of the hate in our modern world
After Elon Musk bought twitter my for you page has been swarmed with right wing and anti lgbtq accounts , Libs of TikTok being one of them.
when he bought Twitter i just deleted my account 🫠
Musk is a transparent representative of the capital-owning, passive income trust fund kids that own most production worldwide. He's far from the worst, & there is no "best" among the entire group, they're all pretty much ignorant of how their actions affect billions of working class folks all over the planet.
@@lesvian-rika as you should honestly lmao
@@lesvian-rikasame
@@lesvian-rikaI deleted mine less than a week after because my DMs and @ s got flooded with slurs
This is such a horrible story. I'm an older cisgender man who is a teacher and I'm trying very hard to educate myself in order to support all my students. Many, Lorenz, the work you're doing is, I'm sure, very hard but it's also extremely important. Thank you both for all you do and it hurts my heart that this important work makes you the target of so much bigotry and hate.
I do feel like it's underdiscussed that Chaya is a genuine freak. A very maldeveloped personality.
I'm sure at some point way past due she will be in prison
She reminds of Pearl, like, a lot
Maybe bc we don’t need to use ableism to tear down bigots.
@@bigf0ot25they look so similar no cap
@@bevishhhyou can be freaky without a disability 😂
A honest question to anyone who knows the law: when does the stochastic terrorism of ligsoftiktok become illegal? What does she have to do to be part of a legal conspiracy?
It doesn’t qualify as incitement, giving the speaker plausible deniability. Basically a new freedom of speech grey area that can’t rly be constitutionally enforced
@@dead_yami Hmm, thank you. I guess all we can hope is that she's having back-channel conversations with active domestic terrorists and it leaks. I won't hold my breath :^/
@@DrJaneLuciferianif anything I feel like there are valid grounds to say she’s committed defamation towards the people she targets 🤔especially the people that have lost their jobs because of it
@@MA69Supra Getting Capone on tax evasion? I guess we could take anything that shuts her up ;^)
@@MA69Supraand copyright infringement, not as showy, but people really should start issuing her DMCAs when she reposts their chopped up videos
The woman running that account is a domestic terrorist. And if you don’t want to call her that, then she’s at the very least a aiding and abetting domestic terror violence. I’m sorry, did I miss something here? This is absolutely insane.
It's technically called stochastic terrorism, but it's still terrorism.
The fact that bomb threats have been traced back to the account and she hasn't received any consequences for it just goes to show how broken and biased the system is. 2SLGBTQIA+ ppl have their accounts and content banned all the time for just being themselves, and yet it's radio silence on an account that has been linked to legitimate domestic terrorism. Its disgusting and infuriating.
Actually libs of TikTok is anti fascist. So if you have a problem with them, you're a fascist.
"And if you don’t want to call her that, then she’s at the very least a aiding and abetting domestic terror violence."
Congratulations on saying the craziest thing I've read all day.
@@AlexReynard I hope you know your side would have your head on a stick for your pfp alone.
I grew up in a hyper conversative, very traditional environment. Both parents were around, but since Kindergarten, I knew I was different for liking the same sex. I attended church, I prayed before bed, I did all the "right" things. I was scared every single day of letting my parents down for being myself. I suppressed myself to conform to my parent's expectations. As an adult looking back, I wish I had those safe spaces to be myself, even if it was at school. If my experiences "groomed" me into who I am today, then I blame almost all conversative mindsets to me being a "failure" by their definition. One flag won't groom children, but the trauma these adults are putting children and other adults in will scar them for life (as I'm working through a lot of trauma myself for my experiences as described above). I really hope there is some sort of legislation to control these hate groups.
We don't make kids LGBTQ+.
They just are.
I mean, I don't _want_ kids to be LGBTQ+, it's life on the difficult setting.
I just accept they're LGBTQ+.
the legislation IS these hate groups.
So brave of you for covering this issue, especially as one of the first episodes of your podcast! Also, for anyone who claims conservatives are doing this bc they are "concerned about the kids" please tell how calling a bomb threat on a school, terrorising the students and meaning they have to take time off school is "protecting" them? Also, this is a far less important point but its literally her just stealing peoples content. That's how she makes money. Awful human being.
Yeah, it's concern trolling as a means to further the influence and power of a handful of people, and to justify the persecution of minorities who they hate not because they've done something to hurt anyone, but because they don't like having to tolerate and share a space with someone who is different. Let's not mince words, this branch of conservatism(and as far as I can tell, the majority of these people are either on board or enabling it through silence) is genocidal.
"Concerned about children."
But don't do anything to help the children in foster care. Want to harm queer kids, doesn't try to make the world less racist for non-white non-European kids, doesn't support giving struggling children food, is okay with young girls being pregnant and giving birth though it fucks up their body, ect.
I'll believe they want to protect kids when they stop defending child marriage 🤷♀️
I think it's worse than simply stealing. Depending on the post, when she offers minimal or no commentary, then it isn't transformative and isn't fair use, and so it is theft of content. But the posts that she calls them "groomers", one could argue it's fair use as it's transformative via critique, but then that means it's just harassment and defamation. Either way it's simply ghoulish.
And those poor kids, especially the queer ones who already are terrified just because of the shift in society. Then having the whole school evacuated because a teacher wanted to show that you are just as important as everyone else and valued. The amount of guilt that would weigh on them simply because they exist.
@@jordanfallout5684side note I saw your profile pic and when you said “ghoulish” all I could picture was a BOS paladin dictating your comment lol
When she talks, all I can hear is the Charlie Brown adult sound. "they're bad and we're good and they're evil" like wow, groundbreaking
that last story made me cry. sending every child affected by those bomb threats (and the adults too ofc) so so much love, may they only know peace and safety from now on
I wonder why those people are comfortable knowing that in the future, people will talk about them as "those people that were very comfortable with sending bomb threats to public spaces for being accepting of each other"
Making a biggot self report have to be one of the funniest ways to do justice, i stand you sis
I can’t believe she hasn’t been held accountable…if it was up to me, I’d say she should be arrested. Sure, freedom of speech is very important, but this should count as an exception in the same way yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is an exception.
Literally all she does is share videos that are already public
@@HowieHellbent did you even watch the video? she adds a ton of commentary through captions and tweets, plus she edits the videos and cuts a ton of stuff to paint people in the worst light possible.
@@lonk2026 are you asking if I watched the video whose comment section we are in?
Because after getting to the part where both the presenter and Lorenz blatantly lied about the Babylon bee I stopped watching
Taylor Lorenz has been caught lying more than once in the past btw
From what I've seen, LoTT simply reposts and does not edit
@@HowieHellbent Still ignoring the cases where she was caught:
-Sharing video of a raunchy Halloween show with sexy dancers at a California theme park, claiming it was intended for families with children...but left out the context the show was at their separately ticketed nighttime event for adults, which has multiple repeated warnings about having content unsuitable for children. When this was pointed out, she doubled down claiming that the park's disclaimer for the event says "not recommended for children under 13", and therefore 13-18 is still technically children...once again ignoring that the show in question specifically has its own warning "This show contains adult themes and is not suitable for children".
-Sharing videos of surgeons from Boston Children's Hospital of how gender affirming hysterectomies are performed, claiming they were being done on "young girls"...but conveniently left out the context that the minimum age for the procedure is 18, with another doctor's referral. The outrage it garnered led to several death and bomb threats against the hospital. Similar claims have been made about hospitals in Pittsburgh, Omaha, and Phoenix, all of which received violent threats after Chaya spun up lies about them.
-Sharing an Oklahoma school librarian's tongue-in-cheek video about "pushing [a] woke agenda" unironically and spread with the help of state politicians (including the State Superintendent in charge of education)...but deceptively left out the original caption clarifying "My radical liberal agenda is teaching kids to love books and be kind." The school district was then inundated with bomb threats for several days, specifically targeting the librarian as well.
But sure, tell me more about how she "simply reposts"...
@@A_A610 we've already covered 2 of these and this third one is stupid because that same teacher was pushing a left wing agenda on children
I'm done talking to you about LoTT
Let's talk about why you feel the need to lie
I think it needs to be mentioned that LibsofTikTok heavily shared videos of random black people to validate her audience's racism before she got aggressive against queer people.
bigotry is intersectional
She’s a Zionist, she hates anyone who’s not a cishet white Orthodox Jew
This "influencer" is responsible for people receiving death threats and doesn't bat an eye, but when her name (nothing more) is revealed she looses it. Girl you got a hundredth of a taste of your own medicine and you went batshit crazy ...
I honestly don't understand how she hesn't yet been legally removed from public spaces, she is a threat to kids, infinitely more than any "groomer" she will ever expose. And also, you were trying to say this kindly and respectfully but she clearly is plain dumb and has nothing to say besides the surface level of the rethoric she has adopted because it's what made her the most money
Again Matt you really have the best guests and your conversations with them are always so nuanced, informed, compasionnate. This pod is gold and I can't wait to see what you have in store for us
Even her 'gotcha videos' when she tries to confront AOC, she just sounds like an idiot repeating the same thing or repeating dumb things, and it's hilarious and scary that she thinks she sounds so intelligent.
my hospital here in DC where i go to for my cancer treatment has had a history of receiving bomb threats from libs of tiktok, i couldn't imagine the fear both children, parents and health care providers, imagine saying shit like "oh where just protecting the kids" and then doing this, hypocritical and cruel.
like why is it problematic for a teacher to have rainbows in their classroom, that’s like their favorite interior design aesthetic
Because gay people scary, apparently.
Because the rainbows are turning the water into gay Muslim frogs, or something
The first time I saw LoTT the video was of an young autistic person happy stimming saying "I'm so excited." So much hate towards them. Nothing political about it, they don't work with children, it was clearly about them being autistic and how they express themselves. They were non-binary but nothing in the video that was posted talked about it, so if that was the target why did they choose that video to post?
The thing with Chaya and Tucker is that they wont say the quiet part out loud. The far right will always dogwhistle to one another to avoid getting held accountable so they can just dismiss any criticisms they receive
I know the individual in the first response. I would like to say this person is the kindest most caring teacher I have met. His students routinely came by the place I work and sung nothing but his praises. His dedication to art and making learning fun and accessible to all children is something I believe children can only benefit from. . He has never been anything but kind to me, and has never judged but has always listened to my own “coming out” story. The world is truly a worse place if teachers like him are no longer teaching. Yet I understand those that choose to give up the profession. I cannot imagine the stress experienced by these people, and I fear sometimes that I have not done enough to support them.
The last story had me bawling. Our country is so broken with hatred and the ones who suffer from it the most are, ironically, the children
Powerful stuff. I feel like we hear about Doxxing and Bomb Threats, but never hear from the people whom were on the receving end and the terror they go through. Thank you for showing us the raw emotion from the people actually there.
The responses at the end are so heartbreaking. It's just a few people speaking out about how they've been affected, and to think about all of the ones who we're not hearing from - the kids who are already terrified of going to school, or even being themselves at home, is so sad. Being a parent, being a queer person, being an educator, being all of the above, has to be so scary right now. It doesn't have to be this way. I'm a parent with an LGBTQ member on our school board and have witnessed some of that hatred in my own neighborhood. I hope we as a collective can vote in people who will enact change and hold hate responsible for the fear it creates, so that we can all co-exist in a place that feels safe. Thank you for talking about this. ❤
Listening to the stories at the end. I just cried. These people did nothing. I don't understand.
It's about power! It's always has been. Social conservatism is dying, so they desperately try to solidify their power with these measures.
@@DannyDeeeI would not say it's dying, in fact its rising up, using the new battlefield of social media to influence people.
@@almondmelk5830 its media presence is increasing but they're literally outnumbered. Most voters in america are democrats, period. More and more people are being raised nonreligious. That's why conservative influencers are obnoxious liars, religious leaders are groomers and conservative politicians are invested in gerrymandering and voter restrictions.
@@almondmelk5830I honestly do think it's dying. Conservatism will always cannibalize itself, it's always destined to fail by definition. As I see it, this rise in violence is their cornered animal outburst. They know they're losing and there's nothing they can do about it but throw one last hissy fit.
Sometimes I wonder if she really does drag up fucked up lgbt people, because they are out there. But looking at this, I can tell it's not true. There isn't enough material like that to keep her account going. It's 99% lies.
As a teacher that received threats after LOTT and Brett Cooper stirred up their followers for making my tiktoks- thanks for your attention to the issue.
yes finally someone DRAGGING them
So, please let me understand: is bomb threading schools and hospitals considered more socially acceptable than having a free way of express your own sexuality?
The fact that her fanbase or whatever has a very sizeable section thats more attracted to her physically than anything else is deeply disturbing
thats cause lgbt leftists are friggin crazy and she knows it
Including some of the other comments apparently lol.
conservatives are some of the creepiest fucks on this planet. the left has some creepy fucks too but 50% of the worlds cp comes from russia which is very right wing.
Taylor is such a baddie😂❤ She has that genuine journalistic hunger. Truly for the people. Love it
lol. She's a snake.
Absolutely infuriating. There must be something that can be done about this. At the very least those making threats should be prosecuted to make an example of them.
Chaya needs to be prosecuted. She's the leader of a terrorist group.
I still don't understand how you can call in a bomb threat to a children's hospital and still some how think you're the good guy
Chaya and other far-right influencers have trained their audience to view trans people as pure evil, which means no action taken against them is too extreme
Cults are a powerful drug
i truly dont think i would survive the threats people get if i was ever posted on LoTT. im glad im not on tik tok for that reason but i am on other social media and its terrifying that ANYONE can become her target, even for just posting with a damn pride flag in the background. she needs to be held accountable for her actions and i commend anyone whos been one of her victims.
All she does is repost publicly available content. It's no different than someone seeing it on the original media source.
@@HowieHellbent And then spinning up deceptive half truths that create extremely dishonest implications about them.
@@A_A610 not really
@@HowieHellbentTell me how a separately ticketed after hours Halloween event for adults with multiple warnings about not being suitable for children is "going after your kids".
You know, because Chaya _never_ lies about context.
@@A_A610 no idea to what you're referring. I've only seen LoTT make such claims about content being clearly aimed at children
as someone whose school regularly got bomb threats (for russian trolling reasons) for a while, they are no joke. especially when they're sent to places with small children, because they're, y'know, children. they will start crying and they will be scared. school violence practically isn't a thing in my country (besides the bomb threats, but that's unrelated) so i can't imagine how it must've been in the states.
The stories from the kids and educators were horrific. I was literally crying listening to them.
They are literally experiencing terrorism at their places or work and study.
How is this allowed to go on?
Wow those testimonies at the end made me want to cry. It is disgusting how people can be so selfish. To abuse children's access to education and sense of safety, to use their future as cannon fodder, all the meanwhile sitting smugly in their club of hate and insecurity.
This is just blood curdling. It's so ironic that this person responsible for so much terror and fear towards the queer community, lacks so much charisma and character that other peddlers like her carry.
Watch chaya find out bout this video and make a reaction video playing the victim and lying
@34:35 this is the answer that the bigots want to hear. It's the ONLY explanation they'll accept. They need to be told over and over that they're the good guys, and that everything they do, no matter how horrific, is justified. Because they've dehumanized their victims to the point where they don't need to feel any remorse or hesitance.
The Nazis had Joseph Goebbels.
The modern right has dozens of propagandists with FAR more sophisticated means of spreading their message. But the message hasn't changed. Not even a little bit.
LOVE Taylor Lorenz!!! She’s out here doing the lords work!!
U must be taylor lorenz 😂
@@MasterMote And what about the 18 likes? You might have 18 troll accounts, but most people do not.
edit: And now there's 67 of us, lol
Boston Children's gave me my hrt years ago and they warned me about the threats and occasional protesters when I started going there for hrt. I had been there a couple times before for unrelated health problems and didn't know about that beforehand. that place is by far the best hospital I have ever been to and the only one I've been truly happy to be in the care of, the vast majority of people who work there are incredibly caring and a joy to be around even when you're sick. I get so upset for everyone at the hospital whenever those hateful people try to drag them down or threaten them, many of whom have extra difficulties in emergency situations. I do not remotely understand how someone could possibly become motivated to commit any act of hatred targeting sickly children just because some of them are trans and might not be sick. how does anyone justify that that happened and was related to their work and keep going on with their work? she lies about it being unrelated, claims there's a reward for any evidence of who did it, ridiculous and cowardly.
"tHinK aBOut ThE KiDs" while simultaneously traumatizing every single kid and scarring them for life with bomb threads ... smh
That Tucker interview was embarrassing to watch, I can’t believe anyone still took her seriously after that. She’s got nothing going on upstairs
People like Raichik like to pretend they care about children, but all they really care about is that rightwing paycheck.
Yup. It’s such an easily debunked argument
I do feel optimistic about the future despite the shitty present because the kids in school now won’t forget who called in bomb threats in their schools, who banned black history books, who won’t protect them from gun violence.
The Babylon Bee doesn’t really do satire. They don’t understand what it is.
[Insert appropriate _Some More News_ video here]
Hearing the people at the end made my heart heavy. I wish the people making bomb threats "for the sake of the children" understood how traumatic lockdowns could be, especially for little kids.
if Joseph McCarthy existed in the social media age, he would do pretty much what Raichik does today
I would say, Raichik is less like McCarthy, and more like Goebbels
completely off topic but the environment you’ve created for this pod is so relaxing. your cadence is really well paced and easy to understand, it feels like we’re at a sleepover. cant wait to see more from you❤
"A show responsible for zero bomb threats. So far."
It's always good to have aspirations.
girl i put this in the background while i was prepping for my math test to get a job as a math teacher in the us, what do you mean people send bombs threats to places where queer teachers work????? suddenly maybe it's okay for me to fail this test........
Hearing all this makes me not want to exist in this world anymore. The fact that people this awful are out there. That things this vile can happen. It's a lot to take in.
That's a very understandable reaction and I know you're saying this to emphasise how horrible all of this is, but please remember that your continued existence and happiness are some of the single most powerful things you can do to combat these sick fucks.
I feel like saying thank you as you upload a new episode because it’s really amazing that we have an awesome voice speaking truth to power.
EXPOSE HER!!
I'm a brand new teacher. What heartbreaking stories at the end. Amazing episode
You crushed the pronunciation of Anoka and Hennepin. Perfect.
I saw the Communication Director for the interior when it made the rounds on gay Twitter. One tweet that I saw that I love said “if your communicators director isn’t gay, you’re fucked”. As a queer Communications Manager that is VERY TRUE
This woman need to be arrested ASAP for charges of inciting violence and domestic terrorism.
Thank you for the stories at the end. Hearing people's experiences in their own words is really impactful.
They(Libs of Tik Tok) think they’re out here repping the LGB but they’re really just taking L’s. 😂
Chaya is very explicitly homophobic, she's not even hiding it.
Thanks for doing this. I shared this today, in light of Chaya’s complicity in Nex’s death.
This was a really tough one! I'm SUPER excited to be seeing more content from you, though. The Amber Heard episode was also tough, but very necessary, and it's IMPORTANT to talk about these things. I'm also queer, and I've lived through domestic violence, and I feel like it can come from a well-meaning place of privilege when people are like "get over it, do some yoga, let's talk about something nice." Also, I LOVE your style! You're freaking beautiful, and you're covering really important topics.
2:20 ELEVEN? theyre claiming to be "protecting children" but then cause their schools to go in lockdown? which would be traumatic for the kids
Norwegian here, and first of all thanks to the both of you for this video ❤ Also here in Norway we have unfortunately noticed the same retorikk although it's mostly confined to troll accounts ~ mainly online and it's not that popular among the far-right politicians here.
However a Norwegian version of the account, (as far as I know) is on Twitter but I wouldn't be surprised if they're on TikTok.
Here before a certain person reposts this, and before their fanbase inevitably floods in to fill the comments, and spike the dislike counter upwards.
Great piece of work. Difficult watch at times. I'm shocked at the evil spread on LoTT; my heart goes out to the contributors who share their stories at the end of this piece, who became swept up in this evil.
the experiences shared at the end genuinely brought me to tears. On one hand, because no one should have to experience these fears, least of all literal children, but also on the other... in spite of all this hate and violence, we're still here. queer people and the people who stand by us and love us are still here. and i feel like thats gotta count for something.
Great guest + fantastic interview, Matt! Thanks for prompting her about promoting the book. I'm disabled + food insecure & still working on stabilizing but when I do Matt's channel is on my to-support list. Taylor I can't afford the book yet but I just put in a request for it with my local library in multiple formats.
Thanks!
So much for the "war on terror". LoTT literally calling out names for targeting. Isn't this what gitmo is for?
Absolutely right. We need politicians to back people up by saying they will hold hate groups accountable, and by making policies where social media platforms have no choice but to abide by them rules if they want to continue to exist. Honestly, we need to put an end to hate, this happens every time there is a minority group trying to coexist at the same level with the bigger groups. It's like high school all over again only we should know better because we are ADULTS.
It’s insane how peoples hate blinds them from the real problems. Children should not be exposed to this kind of trauma all because someone hates a small group of people. Thank you Matt for bringing what you bring to light, I think I can speak for pretty much the whole community when I say thank you.
That lady is insane and absolutely culpable for those threats. Thank you for spreading information about this and just making this podcast and your social media posts in general 💕
Loving your podcast!!!! Thank you for this (in general; your activism, educating, and being a light for trans and queer youth) and thank you for this episode specifically. ❤
This episode is SO IMPORTANT
THANK YOU!!!
The voicemails were heartbreaking, awful.. and I'm very thankful you featured them 🙏
16:23 translation: "I'm not evil, I'm just literally stealing content." I guess a lesser evil is still lesser?
The voice messages were extremely powerful but devastating to hear.
I've been called all kinds of names just because i was supportive and loving towards my daughter when she told me she's trans.
I guess being a refuge for your children in a hateful world is bad??
the podcast´s guests are GOOD. Taylor is kinda iconic ngl
I really felt the testimonies, you can hear the fear and anger in their voices. Thank you for making this video Matt, I really hope that woman gets consequences for what she has done and that this never happens again
Why this monster isn't in prison is BEYOND me
Not all heroes wear capes. We salute you, Taylor.
I cried listening to the voicemails. How can people be so hateful?
your voice is so soothing! it's like ASMR but discussing important topics and I'm all for that
He just talks like every other LGBTQ cultist out there. The same way a Kardashian would talk. This is how 99% of them speak.
I started tearing up at that caller citing the 10 year old asking her "are we going to die?" 😢
Raichik is wild because whenever you actually hear her speak you can tell there is absolutely nothing going on in that head
Oooh, this one's gonna be juicy!
Edit: Well, this was less so juicy and more so extremely heartbreaking...
I appreciate the work that you do, Matt, it's very important and very brave.