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A video posted this month by the far-right anti-LGBTQ Libs of TikTok Twitter account has since spread among anti-LGBTQ Russian and European disinformation networks, effectively furthering the anti-queer agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The accounts founder has pledged to do even more to threaten LGBTQ lives in the future.
On August 10, Chaya Raichik, who goes by LibsofTikTok on social media, posted a video of a therapist who works with jailed sex offenders. In the video, the therapist announces their pronouns and advises people to use the term minor-attracted persons (MAPs) rather than pedophiles. They said the latter term has moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental, hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them.
Indeed, the Libs of TikTok account itself has regularly accused pro-LGBTQ teachers of being groomers and has called the youth anti-suicide organization The Trevor Project a grooming organization. Grooming is a term for gaining the trust of a child so you can rape them. The term has since become a common anti-LGBTQ slur. Gay men were frequently accused of being pedophiles by the religious right although that accusation had faded over the years.
The therapist also said that MAPs are among the most vilified people in society, and added that most of them dont choose their attraction to underage people. The therapist said that MAPs shouldnt be solely defined by that one aspect of themselves.
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)How do we deal with this shit?
Hekate
(90,842 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 31, 2022, 05:03 AM - Edit history (1)
Look at what she has caused at Boston's children hospital. TikTok and all these other platforms need to ban her for fucking hate speech and instigating violence.
obamanut2012
(26,154 posts)You way you are using it is 100% a gendered slur. I know you are better than this, you are better rhan using bigoted language.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)But I can't call this evil person a bitch, but she can label me a groomer and pedophile? I will change it for you, but how I feel about this person still stands. I don't play nice with these people that want me killed. Being trans is hard enough as is.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)I'll also admit that I have to bite my tongue from using it, or worse (and I'll admit, I have a few times). I'm that angry and that fed up with these right-wing terrorists that it's getting harder to watch my language, not use ugly words, etc...
My patience and sanity have taken a real beating here in 2022. Whether it's wanting to type up posts and use "bitch" or worse toward these bigots, or just random emotional outbursts.
Many of us are angry and frightened and worn down and wondering if this is ever going to end. I think the last of my patience went away with "groomers".
AZLD4Candidate
(5,788 posts)and giving data to the CCP.
Their data mining system is insane and they are using TikTok to pass on pro-CCP propaganda
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)TikTok, which is one of the newer platforms, has done so much in such a short amount of time that they're down there with Assbook of being my most-hated social media platform.
I don't have a TikTok account. And I have no plans to sign up for until the biggest selling computer in the world is the Commodore 64000.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)How hard is it here in 2022 to print up something like that, then try to pass it off as a real pamphlet? This is not 1983... We're not seeing here with dot matrix printers and 8-bit machines. A little photoshop here, a little editing there, hit print and boom... You have crap like this.
Which, of course, this *censors herself* is now gleefully using to target and scapegoat LGBTQ's - especially T's. Fucking lies. Fucking slander. And fucking terrorism on the part of Chia Ratchick.
Fuck her. Fuck "LibsOfTikTok". Fuck social media platforms that refuse to do anything about MAGA Qaeda. She's going to get people hurt or killed.. But I know... "LOL!"
Plus, they look like fucking hypocrites when they keep accusing of this shit, while saying nothing about Drumpf, Gym, Groomer Gaetz and Gary Busey.