Taylor Lorenz interviews Chaya Raichik of LibzofTikTok

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Lordy this is a dumpster fire for Chaya. She can’t explain her views. I’m surprised her dark money backers didn’t provide her with any media training.

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I haven't paid much attention to Libs of TikTok. Can someone who knows more give a short summary of what the account is known for?

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't paid much attention to Libs of TikTok. Can someone who knows more give a short summary of what the account is known for?

Whipping up anti-LGBTQ sentiments, primarily in small town America by doxxing LGBTQ individuals, particularly teachers/librarians/minors. Actively trying to ban books in schools and libraries. Inciting protests at drag shows, which have culminated in violent incidents (including the mass shooting in Colorado Springs and shooting of electricity infrastructure in Moore County, NC).

She’s a modern day Goebbels.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't paid much attention to Libs of TikTok. Can someone who knows more give a short summary of what the account is known for?

Whipping up anti-LGBTQ sentiments, primarily in small town America by doxxing LGBTQ individuals, particularly teachers/librarians/minors. Actively trying to ban books in schools and libraries. Inciting protests at drag shows, which have culminated in violent incidents (including the mass shooting in Colorado Springs and shooting of electricity infrastructure in Moore County, NC).

She’s a modern day Goebbels.

+1 Whichever schools she “highlights” get bomb threats for weeks afterwards. She has almost 3 million followers.

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Frankly, the interview made Taylor Lorenz appear uninformed and unprepared.

[Anonymous]

Good grief, Chaya is a complete and utter idiot. She could not articulate a single or coherent response, not defend any of her positions.

Guess that's what happens when you have to interact with people outside your Twitter bubble.

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I think Chaya is ridiculous and awful but objectively in that interview she comes across smarter and better prepared than Taylor. I am surprised you linked it, OP. It is Taylor who looks awful.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly, the interview made Taylor Lorenz appear uninformed and unprepared.

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I’m convinced the reason that people like Ari Drennan are posting about the interview is that they know people won’t actually watch it, and they’re scrambling to control the narrative. If you actually watch it rather than relying on what other people say about it, you see how uniformed and unprepared Taylor appears. The interview was an objectively win for Chaya, and I am very against her TikTok.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Chaya is ridiculous and awful but objectively in that interview she comes across smarter and better prepared than Taylor. I am surprised you linked it, OP. It is Taylor who looks awful.

When Taylor asked Chaya why she felt trans people were "dangerous", Chaya could only respond with "it's a lie". If Chaya can't even defend her positions to basic questions, how is coming across as smarter or better prepared than Taylor?

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't paid much attention to Libs of TikTok. Can someone who knows more give a short summary of what the account is known for?

Whipping up anti-LGBTQ sentiments, primarily in small town America by doxxing LGBTQ individuals, particularly teachers/librarians/minors. Actively trying to ban books in schools and libraries. Inciting protests at drag shows, which have culminated in violent incidents (including the mass shooting in Colorado Springs and shooting of electricity infrastructure in Moore County, NC).

She’s a modern day Goebbels.

PP here. Thanks for summary. I looked at her Twitter account and read what others say about her. She basically promotes hate speech. We have free speech so obviously she can say whatever she wants, including spreading lies that have consequences like bomb threats or doxxing—it’s unfortunate she can get away with it and that she has such a receptive audience for hate speech. I find it ironic that she’s Jewish—you would think that would make her more empathetic to individuals or groups who are ostracized by society.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't paid much attention to Libs of TikTok. Can someone who knows more give a short summary of what the account is known for?

Whipping up anti-LGBTQ sentiments, primarily in small town America by doxxing LGBTQ individuals, particularly teachers/librarians/minors. Actively trying to ban books in schools and libraries. Inciting protests at drag shows, which have culminated in violent incidents (including the mass shooting in Colorado Springs and shooting of electricity infrastructure in Moore County, NC).

She’s a modern day Goebbels.

+1 Whichever schools she “highlights” get bomb threats for weeks afterwards. She has almost 3 million followers.

Even worse, thanks to people like Chaya, a trans student in Oklahoma was murdered. Chaya has blood on her grubby little hands.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/nex-benedict-death-oklahoma-lgbtq-community-mourns-rcna139800

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Anonymous wrote:I think Chaya is ridiculous and awful but objectively in that interview she comes across smarter and better prepared than Taylor. I am surprised you linked it, OP. It is Taylor who looks awful.

When Taylor asked Chaya why she felt trans people were "dangerous", Chaya could only respond with "it's a lie". If Chaya can't even defend her positions to basic questions, how is coming across as smarter or better prepared than Taylor?

I don’t know, that bit just felt like useless grandstanding responding to useless grandstanding. In contrast, Taylor’s lack of preparation with respect to the books was pretty bad. Tayor didn’t know them, hadn’t looked at them, and came across as wildly unprepared.

So I think Chaya was not that great at handling the questions that looked overtly like ideological traps, but Taylor looked unprepared for actual facts and hard examples. Overall that means Taylor comes across a lot worse.

Obviously people can disagree but I don’t understand why liberal social media commentators are circulating this. It comes across as desperate and just promotes Chaya as sounding like the rational and fact-based one. To people outside of the extreme progressive online bubble who actually watch the interview, Chaya sounds level-headed and prepared with facts that Taylor couldn’t refute.

But, to be fair, I think a lot of the audience for the liberal social media commentators don’t expect their followers to actually watch the interview, so they are probably just building their own brands.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't paid much attention to Libs of TikTok. Can someone who knows more give a short summary of what the account is known for?

Mostly reposts tweets and other social media of liberals to try and make them look bad. Then people get angry at her for reposting this material, and she at one point was banned from Twitter for it.