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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) named as an "Anti-LGBTQ" hate figure by SPLC
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/chaya-raichikABOUT CHAYA RAICHIK
Chaya Raichik is the founder of the social media account @LibsofTikTok (LTT) who helped revive in right-wing propaganda the anti-LGBTQ+ groomer slur, which implies that all LGBTQ+ people are pedophiles. She spreads the anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory that groomers have infiltrated every social institution with the intent of sexualizing children. Under the LTT pseudonym, Raichik originally shared content intended to humiliate and intimidate LGBTQ+ content creators. She has used the platform in an anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation campaign that mobilizes right-wing extremist groups in violent attacks against LGBTQ+ people, spaces and events, as well as against doctors, hospitals, librarians, libraries, teachers and schools.
prodigitalson
(2,425 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)So pathetic that s/he needs to use a label that this person is diametrically opposed to. Why not be honest and use a "Cons for Tic-Toc" brand name? Right, dishonesty is the point.
Celerity
(43,415 posts)As in, 'look at the crazy shit the liberals who post on TikTok do'. (her stance obviously, not mine, lol)
Cheers,
Cel
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)Bucky
(54,027 posts)Of course I know the phrase is not meant literally. When you say it guy has a punchable face it means his manner of speaking is so smarmy that no one would object if you silenced him with a brief impulsive violence. It's a visceral reaction, but it's understood you wouldn't actually slug him for his ideas.
And we should always be for equal rights, right?
And besides, it's a third party conversation when you say something like that. Punchable face is what I say to you about someone else in another part of the country. Like, you wouldn't actually say to someone's face you have a punchable face. No matter what their ideas are, going up and directly telling someone that is bullying, trying to shut down free speech with a threat of violence. We don't do that.
So why am I not okay with you saying a woman has a punchable face? I guess because women being silenced with violence as a very real thing in this world, and particularly in this country's heated political confrontations. I just don't think the American culture of threatening women into obedience is something we should be blasé about.