LibsOfTikTok linked to Russian disinformation campaign to stir outrage over LGBTQ rights

[Behind the Aegis]

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 account’s 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 don’t choose their attraction to underage people. The therapist said that MAPs shouldn’t be solely defined by that one aspect of themselves.



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[lambchopp59]

1. Dog dammit

It's these homophobic knee-jerk fuckers worldwide simply cannot get their heads out of the gutter.
Speaking as a teen runaway rescued by an elderly gay man who needed my help as desperately as I. Picture it: 1978 San Francisco: Sick as a dog from a black widow bite, the last thing I recall before being poked awake by Bill's cane was walking past City Hall, noting how surreal it all seemed to my altered state, walking a few blocks farther, a patch of grass in front of a empty lot/construction fence looked so inviting for a nap!
Bill awakened me, I can't recall all that I said to him but apparently it struck a nerve enough he had me follow him discreetly home to his apartment before the cops arrived. A fourth floor walk-up Bill could barely manage: he'd recently had his second triple bypass!
Nearly a year myself and his friends cared for him. NO ONE made any sexual advances, matter of fact I often was jibed as "chicken" none cared to pluck. My interest was in young men my age as well. My colored mustache (LOL patch of upperlip peach fuzz) kept the veneer of my "yup I'm 18" appearance up. Once trust gained, Bill was the only one knew the truth-- 17, hiding out from bullies who already had blood on their hands walking free from a prior "gay panic" defense.
It's likely I may not be here 45 years later to share this, thanks to assholes like these propagandists.
The blanket characterizations these RW groups define LGBTQ disgust me.
It's long about time the heterosupremecists started getting accused of pedophilia themselves, if just to engender an inkling of awareness of their accusations.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

2. I don't buy this. Period.

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.