The state’s education chief said Raichik will “make schools safer for kids” even though her posts have inspired bomb threats at local schools.

Ryan Walters, the right-wing superintendent of the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), has appointed Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist who goes by Libs of TikTok on social media, to serve on the OSDE’s Library Media Advisory Committee. The committee decides what state public school students are allowed to read.

Raichik, who doesn’t live in Oklahoma, has achieved national infamy as her posts targeting LGBTQ+ educators and allies have led to multiple bomb and death threats against schools, teachers, students, and children’s hospitals — including two Oklahoma schools. She will likely support Walters’s continued crusade against LGBTQ±inclusive books in public schools.

“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 wrote in a statement he issued on Tuesday morning via X.

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        Oh, that makes sense now…

        I hate TERFS, I just agree that censorship is bad unless it’s an opinion I don’t like.

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        I don’t know the person you are responding to and I’m not deep-diving into comment histories, but I took it as meaning that the libs of TikTok lady claims to be a free speech advocate and is also fine with banning books and doesn’t see the obvious contradiction in that… “unironically”.