Top GOP School Official Appoints Woman Behind ‘Libs Of TikTook’ To Key Position

Ryan Walters, the highest faculty official in Oklahoma, has appointed an inflammatory right-wing activist recognized for concentrating on LGBTQ+ academics to the library media advisory committee on the state Department of Education.

Chaya Raichik runs “Libs of TikTok,” a well-liked account on X (previously Twitter) the place she posts movies about LGBTQ+ educators, usually smearing them as “groomers” or “indoctrinators.”

Walters claimed that Raichik, who lives in California, is a priceless asset to Oklahoma colleges.

“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, the state superintendent of colleges, stated in a press launch Tuesday. “Because of her work, families across the country know just what is going on in schools around the country.”

“Her unique perspective is invaluable as part of my plan to make Oklahoma schools safer for kids and friendly to parents,” he continued. “Chaya has a much-needed and powerful voice as well as a tremendous platform that will benefit Oklahoma students and their families.”

The conflict on books is part of the best’s bigger battle in opposition to public colleges, and its efforts to maintain libraries from offering books to youngsters and college students that function LGBTQ+ themes and progressive ideas. In an try to take away these books from colleges, conservatives have likened them to pornography and different subjects unsuitable for youngsters.

Both Raichik and Walters are well-versed within the conservative tradition wars. Raichik started posting movies in 2021 the place she criticized educators and claimed they had been indoctrinating youngsters, and Walters has been smearing Oklahoma academics and making false claims about sexually specific supplies in colleges since his days as Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt’s secretary of training.

Raichik doesn’t seem to have any expertise in colleges or authorities, however her platform has already led to bomb threats in Oklahoma colleges.

In August, Raichik posted a video to X of a librarian on the Union School District, in suburban Tulsa, making mild of the conservative ethical panic that academics are pushing a “woke agenda.”

Walters retweeted the video, saying: “Woke ideology is real and I am here to stop it.” According to NBC, the varsity district started receiving bomb threats the identical day.

Raichik’s movies have affected academics and educators throughout the nation. In August, a majority-white California elementary faculty was evacuated attributable to bomb threats after Raichik criticized a playdate occasion for college kids of coloration there. In November, a public faculty district in Iowa acquired a deluge of threats and upped its safety after Raichik reposted a video of a trainer joking about “forcing” college students to be homosexual.