Oklahoma's top education official called out for Libs of TikTok ties after non-binary student beaten at school
An Oklahoma high school student was beaten by peers and subsequently died earlier this month.
Now, many online are saying that their death is emblematic of transphobic rhetoric promulgated by the state’s Secretary of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters, who oversees the state’s Department of Education.
Chaya Raichik, who runs the controversial @LibsOfTikTok X account, is also being blamed.
Raichik was appointed to the State Department of Education’s Library Media Advisory Committee in January by Walters.
On Feb. 7, Nex Benedict was beaten by three older, female peers at Owasso High School, where Benedict was a sophomore. A teacher broke up the altercation, but school authorities did not call an ambulance for Benedict. They did, however, go to the hospital that day and were later released.
Benedict died after a second trip to the hospital the next day. They were non-binary.
Many are positing that Benedict’s death was the result of a hate crime motivated, they say in part, by the anti-trans rhetoric Walters peddled as the head of the state’s top official in charge of education.
All libs of tik tok did was repost the most absurd tweets they could find.
How are they responsible?
That's all she does? Then she's highly unqualified to be on the Oklahoma Department of Education’s Library Media Advisory Committee and both she and Walters need to be investigated for financial impropriety immediately.
That's what you meant, right?
No, libs of tik tok is a twitter account. That's what the article meant, right? It's not like it lied, right?
A Twitter account run by Chaya Raichik, as the article clearly states. Maybe you should have read it. Or the summary.
What are Chaya Raichik's qualifications to be getting this government salary? Please tell me.
I had to look this up. Apparently it’s not a paid position:
https://ktul.com/news/local/ryan-walters-under-fire-for-appointing-tiktok-watchdog-to-oklahoma-education-committee-chaya-raichik-library-advisory-media-tiktok-library-media-advisory-commitee-liberal-agenda-rightwing-watchdog-bomb-threats-union-public-schools
Don’t disagree with you other wise. The only thing she sounds qualified for is dogwhistling and spreading misinformation.
Fair enough. The real problem is giving her the power she now has when, as you said, she's totally unqualified.
You see, when you tell fire at a movie theater, you are responsible for the chaos that happens.
A teenager died because this disgusting human filth spread lies and hate.
AGREED! Why is it HER fault for telling her followers to Bomb Schools and Hurt LGBTQ+ CHILDREN? It's OBVIOUSLY Biden's fault!