An LGBTQ student group in South Dakota received a bomb threat after hosting
a family friendly drag show on campus.
The event was hosted by members of the gender and
sexualities alliance at South Dakota State University, on November 16th,
the performers took steps to ensure that the show would be kind, and kid friendly.
They even bleeped out the swear words and the songs that they live sing along to.
But of course that didn't stop lives of TikTok owner
JR Isaac from posting an edited video, to make it look
like the student performers were dancing naked in front of children.
LGBTQ nations Alex Bollinger reported and spoke to some of the GSA members,
one of whom said, what they, meaning [INAUDIBLE] did was they spliced
together some content from this year with last year's drag show,
which was not advertised in any way as family friendly.
They tried to pass it off as being part of the same show.
So a week after the video was posted by lives of Tiktok, the school said on
its website that it received an email, the email said that an explosive device or
devices, were placed on the campus of South Dakota State University.
University also said that the email threatened harm to potential survivors of
the detonation at this.
At the time of this warning, no devices have been located.
The department will continue investigating the threat and pursuing all leads.
So you might be thinking Ray,
how do we know that this is connected to the drag show or lips of Tiktok.
It sounds like a stretch, it could just be completely coincidental.
However, faculty advisers for
the GSA were told by university officials that their group,
remember the group that hosted the drag event, was the target for the threat.
However, GSA members said that it took the university police two weeks to say
something to LGBTQ+ students about the threat.
It really seems like those university police officers don't care about
protecting and serving their queer students.
So also several performers for the drag show before and
after the performance received death threats.
So we've got bomb threats, we've got death threats, but
that still wasn't enough for this South Dakota state Senator.
Daily Beast reported that during a Dec 15th meeting of the Board of Regents,
South Dakota state Senator Julie Frye-Mueller,
vowed to introduce a bill in the 2023 session cracking down on drag shows,
which mirrored legislation being pushed in states like Idaho and Tennessee.
And somehow despite all of this, members of the GSA at SDSU,
said they felt like their drag show was successful,
and they're optimistic about the future of the event.
So around 300 people attended their drag show, and
this was the largest turnout for the drag event in the school's history.
And that is commendable, but that doesn't change the fact
that LGBTQ people in this country are under attack.
Alex Bollinger pointed out that,
this isn't even the first time that the right has used this tactic,
manipulating images of drag shows to make them seem inappropriate for children.
Earlier this year, another right wing blogger posted a blur picture of a drag
queens groin, to make it seem like she had exposed herself to children.
Now that drag queen is actually sued, that right wing blogger, so
we'll have to keep our eyes on what happens there.
But we know that lives of Tiktok isn't remorseful for this, because she
continues every single day to post drag events for hateful bigots to target.
And, in the wake of the club Q shooting, many queer people,
myself included are feeling less safe to be out and
open with our sexual identities.
So I don't know, Ana, how do we address this?
>> Well, what you've just said is the objective that these individuals have,
people like Chaya Raichik, that's what she wants,
she wants you to feel scared, intimidated.
And I don't blame anyone for feeling that way, considering the bomb threats
that Boston Children's hospital has received on multiple occasions,
as a result of their gender affirming care.
They do not do gender surgeries on minors, I wanna be clear about that.
But she lied about that too.
And she knows she lies about that.
She does it intentionally.
And I don't know why people have this level of hatred in their hearts.
I know why politicians engage in the kinda discourse they do,
they love to pander to extreme elements of their base, in order to avoid having to
address any of the economic issues that their own constituents are dealing with.
So they govern and distract on the basis of hate.
And what's really interesting about what I'm noticing
in regard to the attacks towards these drag shows, and
and you did a good job describing what this drag show was, right?
It was family friendly, they even censored any curse words in the songs.
First off, I think that we shouldn't ever underestimate how little people
know about the difference between someone who is performing in drag and
transgender individuals.
They're intentionally conflating this, and they're potentially making
it seem as though there are predators that are preying on children.
But remember, this was an invitation,
and parents can decide whether they wanna go or not.
So do the desires of the parents matter at all?
Do we not trust parents to make the right decision in raising their children?
Because if I recall correctly, during the coronavirus pandemic,
we had right wing parents show up to school board meetings, and
demand that educators stop teaching certain curriculum that they don't like,
because they get to be the arbiters of what should and should not be
taught in the classroom, when they're not even experts in education.
And now they want to essentially rule what the decisions other parents make.
How about we allow the parents to make the right decision for their kids, and
stay out of it?
But the politicians won't let that happen,
because then they won't have anything else to distract the public with.
They might have to address the fact that they're constantly aiding and
abetting corporations and robbing their own constituents blind,
that's what's really going on here.
And Florida did pass that parents bill of rights, but I highly doubt that the rights
extend to providing affirming care and love to your queer child, Cenk.
>> Yeah.
So, first of all, there's a legal principle called,
rebuttable presumption, right?
And also a non legal fields too.
But what it basically means is, I'm going to assume something,
you can rebut it and you can show me that it's not true.
But that's my going assumption, right?
And for me, when it comes to right wing media or just right wingers in general
these days, unfortunately, my rebuttable presumption is that they're lying.
You can prove to me that they're not lying, but
the overwhelming majority of the times they are.
So when I see a new story out of right wing media or out of something like
lives of Tiktok, I assume that this is a lie 100% of the time.
Again, there might be a couple of instances where you'll be like,
You'd be surprised Jake.
Here's one lives a Tiktok video that is not a lie, like, okay, that's interesting.
I'm open minded, I'll hear you out on that, but why do I assume that?
Because they do stupid things like this all the time.
As a matter, of course, they take the not family friendly one,
and pretend it's a family friendly one.
Why?
Cuz they're liars.
She's doing that on purpose.
She knows exactly what she's doing, and
why was she concerned that they were gonna switch the event?
No, was she concerned about kids?
No, she knows that this one was family friendly.
No, she's lying to drive hatred towards them.
And is she aware that people that she does this to our getting threats,
bomb threats, etc.?
Yes, it's been reported dozens of times, she doesn't mind at all.
I mean, think about that guys, if we did something and of course we're not
like her, we did something innocent, but it turns out people are then so
animated by that they're doing bomb threat after bomb threat.
My God, we'd be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't do that,
don't do that, no, no, right?
These right wingers, like Chaya Raichik,
were like, you guys are doing bombs, right?
So you might actually kill the people that I'm driving hatred towards?
Great, let me do it again and again and again and again, cuz that's her goddamn
point is hatred, hatred, and that's who right wingers are these days.
So, [CROSSTALK] we're not mealy mouthed mainstream media, I can't tell,
okay, what's there's no one's allowed to do a drag show, even if kids don't come,
this is so students, it's a college campus, they're all adults.
So what you can't do in that circumstance, and the reality is, yes, for
right wingers, they don't want people doing drag shows, they don't want trans
people to exist, because they hate them, that's who these sick sons of bitches are.
>> And one final thing I'll add to this is so for the right wing,
I'm curious where exactly do they draw the line?
Because they're talking point is that they're concerned about the children.
What about the children?
Okay, that's fascinating.
Well, there are certain religious groups in this country,
people of faith who do not believe that if their child becomes ill, if their child
is diagnosed with a serious illness, that he or she should get any treatment for it.
They believe that it is in God's hands, and often times since the child is not
getting the treatment that he or she needs, they die, like literal death.
I don't see right wingers freaking out about that?
I think that that's certainly far more harmful to children than
a family friendly drag show.
So where's the line?
I'm very curious.
>> Yeah, and I'll add one last thing.
They keep implying that people that are part of the LGBTQ community are groomers,
and pedophiles, and predators, right?
They're actually are databases on who pedophiles are.
Do you wanna know the number one demographic?
Middle aged men.
So if you actually cared about pedophiles,
the whole you wouldn't be talking about LGBTQ folks at all.
You wouldn't be talking about drag shows.
Do you know how many kids have been accosted at drag shows,
to my knowledge, none.
I've never heard of a new story, if you got one okay maybe share it.
But I've never even heard of a single instance of it, right?
Can I show you middle aged men that we're predators of kids?
I can show you thousands and thousands of them.
Now we're not right wingers, so
we're not gonna do blanket statements about middle aged men.
I'm a middle aged man, all right?
But if you were actually cared as they're pretending to,
they would direct all of their hatred towards middle aged men.
That wouldn't make sense either, but
that would make a hell of a lot more sense according to the demographics.
But they don't do that, cuz they don't care about the children,
they're also lying about that.
The point isn't protecting kids, the point is spreading hatred.
>> I'm just gonna end with two words, okay?
Roy Moore, if you don't know who that is, look it up.