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Oklahoma hires Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik to help censor public school books (www.lgbtqnation.com)

submitted 5 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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The state's education chief said Raichik will "make schools safer for kids" even though her posts have inspired bomb threats at local schools.

Ryan Walters, the right-wing superintendent of the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), has appointed Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist who goes by Libs of TikTok on social media, to serve on the OSDE’s Library Media Advisory Committee. The committee decides what state public school students are allowed to read.

Raichik, who doesn’t live in Oklahoma, has achieved national infamy as her posts targeting LGBTQ+ educators and allies have led to multiple bomb and death threats against schools, teachers, students, and children’s hospitals — including two Oklahoma schools. She will likely support Walters’s continued crusade against LGBTQ+-inclusive books in public schools.

“Chaya is on the front lines showing the world exactly what the radical left is all about — lowering standards, porn in schools, and pushing woke indoctrination on our kids,” Walters wrote in a statement he issued on Tuesday morning via X.

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[-] money_loo@lemmy.world 83 points 5 months ago

Jesus Christ what the fuck.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

You've heard of virtue signalling? This is the opposite of that- vice signalling.

See, their dumbfuck education commissioner is running for governor. And since Republicans have absolutely no policy beneficial to the electorate to run on, the only thing they can do is signal to their dumbfuck constituents that they hate the same things the populace hates.

[-] Kalkaline@lemmy.zip 35 points 5 months ago

"What the fuck" -Jesus Christ

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

"I'm Jason Bourne" - Jesus Christ

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

"Jesus Christ It's" - Jason Bourne

[-] mibo80@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

right? I thought she was slightly illiterate.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Oh i think the jury is still out on that.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

As an Oklahoman I want to say We voted against that asshole but apparently to many assholes in my state. If there something I can do to stop all this tell me? I will run for office or something. This cunt needs to not be in charge of what my children see. As a father of a LGBT child I fear for them everyday.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 56 points 5 months ago

Woman: Inspires Bomb Threats at ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS! Pro Life Republicans: We need MORE of this!

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

Yep. They’re just that fucking stupid.

[-] Meatballs@mander.xyz 55 points 5 months ago

"IM AGAINST CENSORSHIP UNLESS ITS STUFF I DONT LIKE"

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

This but unironically.

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Education is really being targeted hard by right-wing cultists. People will have to fight back as much as possible or educate their children outside of school hours.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Everyone pays attention to big elections but nobody watches the school board elections, that's why the crazy right wing Karens end up taking over the school board

[-] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

They saw her TikTok content and thought: she's the Raichik for the job!

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

Facism rears its ugly head again.

[-] aphonefriend@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

What is going on in Oklahoma? This is like the third crazy bomb in 3 days.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

I don’t like this timeline I wanna get off

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Is this another one where they start turning on their own? “What kind of name is Chaya?”

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

What a terrible idea.

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