Editor' note - I was aware of this so-called controversy when Libs of TikTok sent out its initial tweet. I chose not to write about it because I didn't want to bring attention to what she was doing, no matter how small the attention my post may generate. I had a feeling that it would end exactly how it did with egg all over Chaya Raichik's face.
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Chaya Raichik via her venomous site Libs of TikTok tried to cause trouble 'The Birdcage,' an annual drag event at the University of South Carolina. She failed.
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On April 7, the anti-LGBTQ site Libs of TikTok posted the above tweet on Twitter attacking "The Birdcage" at the University of South Carolina. The Birdcage is an extremely popular drag event which has been held on campus for the past 27 years. It's obvious that Chaya Raichik (who runs the Libs of TikTok site and has been named by some as the Basic Barren Buzzard of Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry) thought she could control the narrative by appealing to fears and prejudices about drag shows and LGBTQ people in general. She thought wrong.
Raichik did catch the attention of SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace:
Of course this shouldn't be seen as a problem to The Birdcage, due to Mace's infamous reputation of desperate publicity-grabbing stunts and ridiculous attacks on the LGBTQ community; attacks which have been more transparent than a sheet of clear plastic wrap with a giant hole in the middle. Mace later sent out a boring "how dare tax dollars be spent on this filth flarn filth" tweet
The big tell is what USC tweeted back to Libs of TikTok:
To me, that sounded like USC's polite way of saying.
"Chyle, sit your sorry, trifling bigoted ass down. This event is not paid for by tax dollars and if you think that we are going to interfere with probably the most popular campus event for the past 27 years simply because you got a hang up against drag queens, you're deluded."
Okay maybe my interpretation of USC's message is strictly wishful thinking on my part (and I wanted to say uglier stuff), but I think folks reading this can get the general gist.
So, what happened next? The event was still held - on Tuesday - and
was successful and quite fun. It seems Raichik's attempt to cause problems for the event had the opposite effect. I'm told that the controversy she attempted to cause and Mace were both mentioned during the event by performers.
I'm hoping that this ends the nonsense Raichik and her site was trying to cause. But if not, it's safe to say that Round One easily went to the Birdcage and the USC students who supported it.
And another thing . . . in spite of Raichik's
fearsome reputation of causing problems for the LGBTQ community and our allies, this is - as far as I am aware - the second time she and her Libs of TikTok site went after South Carolina's LGBTQ community and failed. In October of 2022, she
posted videos of our annual Pride event in an attempt to generate hysteria. Aside from her customary (and downright inanely monstrous) supporters, her attempts failed to garner a reaction.
Maybe we're too "boring" to be weaponized by Raichik. Does anyone have a thong I can use?
On second thought, never mind.
I'm trying to generate controversy, not audition for the part of Medusa in a remake of Clash of the Titans.
