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I watched this video yesterday, and it's honestly one of the most fascinating things I've seen in a while. For those who don't know, Chaya Raichik is the owner of the LibsofTikTok accounts, her most notorious being her Twitter and TikTok accounts (though her TikTok has since been banned). This is an interview conducted by Taylor Lorenz, a Washington Post columnist. I'm pointing this out because it's relevant to why she's the interviewee: Taylor is the one responsible for exposing the public identity of Raichik (who, let's not forget, has a history of doxing individuals, in her attempts to defame people using her previous anonymity). Taylor received death threats because of it, and if you'll look at the shirt Chaya is wearing, that's Taylor herself in an interview that she did on her own, discussing the death threats she received.
So why do I find this interview fascinating? Chaya lays bare here how much she clearly has not thought critically about anything she supposedly believes She seems to not have any original thoughts of her own and can't even make a cohesive argument to defend the arguments that she tries to push. It's as if she operates upon feelings rather than anything with solid backing, which is hilarious to me, considering how she acts utilizing her LibsofTikTok account(s). I won't mince my words here: she's truly a grifting moron. And a moron with the charisma of a robot, for as much as she spews nonsense on her Twitter account. She's too stupid for how arrogant she acts throughout this interview. It's mind-boggling how someone can have so much hatred of something they know absolutely nothing about.
Taylor holds her to her words, and Chaya fumbles her defensive responses every single time. Not to mention she lies constantly through this interview, like how "COVID didn't allow me to leave my house", or making completely contradictory statements like, "I don't want to ban books, I didn't say that", then saying, "I want to remove books I don't like from the public library". In one specific instance, Chaya herself defends lying about calling a mass shooter transgender (I believe the mass shooting that occurred in Tennessee), for the purposes of adding to more hatred of the trans community, which she refuses to take down from her Twitter because "there's a community notes", and justifying it by saying "is there a law against lying?" and "the media does it too, so I should be able to as well", which I think pretty much gets to the heart of the matter here. She lies constantly, misrepresents studies, and her audience eats it up like candy because it justifies their worldview; corrections to her misleading and false statements are irrelevant to them, because the second they see it, they'll believe it, and that's the end of the matter. Chaya also leans into stuff like the "Great Replacement Theory", which I'm definitely sure she didn't think about for more than five seconds, if she thinks that she, an Orthodox Jew, would somehow be spared from a white nationalist uprising.
What's hilarious to me, is I found out this was recorded by Chaya's cameraman, so both Chaya and him took a look at this and said, "yeah, this makes me look good".
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