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Behind the Aegis

(53,961 posts)
Tue Jul 12, 2022, 04:31 PM Jul 2022

Libs of TikTok is now targeting a Jewish summer camp

A Twitter account called Libs of TikTok has been inflaming conservative outrage over queer rights, trans people and other progressive issues since 2021.

In April, Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz uncovered the woman behind the account: Chaya Raichik, a Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish woman. And now, for what seems to be the first time, Raichik is directing outrage at a Jewish group.

Every day, Libs of TikTok reposts a slew of videos and memes off of TikTok, Twitter and around the internet, particularly targeting LGBTQ people and supporters — teachers proudly posting about rainbow-filled classrooms or parents supporting their child’s transition. The account’s posts are then often amplified by conservative talking heads such as Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald and Joe Rogan.

The account posted a screenshot from Camp Ramah in California on Wednesday stating that the popular Conservative Jewish camp supports gender expression in all forms. The excerpt from the camp’s diversity statement includes a promise to “avoid heteronormative assumptions in our language and programming” and explains that it will support “an individual’s wellbeing, which may include bunking campers and staff according to gender identity rather than birth sex.”

“Camp Ramah, which owns tens of camps across the country, announced they are housing kids according to their gender identity rather than birth sex,” announced Raichik’s account.

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Libs of TikTok is now targeting a Jewish summer camp (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jul 2022 OP
Well, good for Camp Ramah. They sound awesome! ShazzieB Jul 2022 #1
she was a Jan 6 insurrectionist too Celerity Jul 2022 #2
Camp Ramah sounds awesome... IngridsLittleAngel Jul 2022 #3

ShazzieB

(16,426 posts)
1. Well, good for Camp Ramah. They sound awesome!
Tue Jul 12, 2022, 07:50 PM
Jul 2022

Meanwhile, Libs of TikTok and Chaya Raichik can all go straight to hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

It makes me sick that I have to live on the same planet with people like that.

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
3. Camp Ramah sounds awesome...
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 06:29 AM
Jul 2022

I wish we had more camps like that. Thank you for doing what you do and thank you for your kindness and compassion.

Shame on TikTok, though. Once again, social media shows it ass to the world, along with its blatant right-wing bias. Whether it's hatred and bigotry and threats of violence on Facebook, or Drumpf and Empty Greene and other UltraMAGA's being "above the rules" on Twitter because they're in office, or "Libs of TikTok" spreading hate and getting innocent people targeted, it just seems like they're allowed to post this extremist, hateful, fascist shit without consequences.

Now, of course, we push back and we get in trouble. Always how it works, huh?

So I guess it's okay to be hateful and get innocent people targeted - just another "concerned mommy", right? Especially when you are openly bragging about taking part in 1/6. Meanwhile, those of us being targeted better watch our mouths, because we have to obey the double-secret Terms of Service, while MAGAts have all the freedoms.

How much is too much, TikTok?

These social media platforms are not our friends.

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