Taylor Lorenz Attacks ‘Libs Of TikTok’At no point does she consider the possibility that the videos on Libs of TikTok are genuinely outrageous.
JOHN HIRSCHAUER
APRIL 21, 2022
Earlier this month, MSNBC ran a segment on female journalists who have been harassed on the internet. One of the subjects was Taylor Lorenz.
After reading a series of nasty tweets and messages that were directed at her, Lorenz disclosed that she has “severe PTSD” from the harassment she has endured.
“You feel like аny little bit of informаtion thаt gets out on you will be used by the worst people on the Internet to destroy your life,” she said, her face quivering. “It’s terrifying.”
She’s not exactly ducking under tables at the sound of fireworks or shuddering at mentions of the Viet Cong.
Whether the result of “severe PTSD” or otherwise, Lorenz published a piece Tuesday in the Washington Post doxing a private citizen, listing the person’s name and linking to her real-estate license and home address— inviting exactly the sort of abuse Lorenz decried in the MSNBC segment.
The woman whom Lorenz doxed runs Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account that takes videos from left-wing TikTok users and reposts them on Twitter. Lorenz claims the videos are posted with “incendiary framing designed to generate outrage” and have been used to justify “anti-LGBTQ+ legislation” around the country. At no point does she considers the possibility that the videos are genuinely outrageous and not simply perceived as such because of “incendiary framing.” In fact, she deliberately obscures the contents of the videos she describes in the piece.
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Lorenz doesn’t mention that the woman in the first video promoted Onanism to toddlers, nor does she mention that the teacher cursed out students’ parents. Why?
Because the contents are indefensible. And beyond the handful of paragraphs Lorenz spends doxing the account operator, the thrust of Lorenz’s argument is laundered through one of the activists whom she quotes, who says that Libs of TikTok hinders “teachers’ ability to feel safe in their classrooms.”
Setting aside the ridiculous definition of “safety” operative in that quote, who, really, most needs to feel “safe in their classrooms”? Grown adults who want to use children to validate their own insecurities? Or children? To ask is to answer.
Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/taylor-lorenz-doxes-libs-of-tiktok-owner/
