Raichik was asked about bomb threats — all of which have amounted to nothing and have been deemed relatively noncredible by local authorities in most cases where there’s reporting about the actual danger — after she outs a teacher or institution for some woke nonsense that individual or institution had made public via social media. However, Lorenz still pointed to “a recent NBC investigation found at least 33 instances” of threats that may or may not be connected to Libs of TikTok — claiming that because the account had posted about the institution, it was “a pretty significant correlation.” Raichik struck back by noting that she “got tons of death threats this week after the entire media machine came after me. So are they responsible for those?” “I don’t think there’s, um, the same correlation,” Lorenz responded. “Are you receiving bomb threats?” “I’m receiving death threats,” Raichik said. “Like, ‘Hi, I’m coming to murder you.'” “I definitely sympathize with you there,” Lorenz said, claiming she gets the same thing when Fox News attacks her. “So are the journalists — is the journalist responsible?” Raichik said. Well, that’s an inconvenient question. Time to wiggle out of it! “I would say, um, you know, there’s a different responsibility when we’re talking about media,” Lorenz said, adding, “I guess to me, a death threat is different than a violent bomb threat” and that “we’re kind of getting normalized to them.” But therein lies the other problem: When Lorenz talks about “we,” she’s talking about “public figures” like “you and I,” not “these obscure people” that get featured on Libs of TikTok. “Say you’re taking a private citizen, you know, a gay teacher, for instance, in a small town,” Lorenz said. “And you post about that person. And then that person subsequently who had no media presence prior, receives pretty violent threats. How does that make you feel?” It’s worth pointing out that these are generally people who have some position of influence over education, medical care or some other major function where their ideology is being imprinted upon other people — very often children — against the general will of those people. Furthermore, they’ve made those clips public on social media, which means they have a “media presence” in this day and age, especially if they do not choose to be anonymous. And as for Raichik? She’s only a “public figure” because Lorenz doxed her in a hyperbolic piece about the influence of Libs of TikTok where the “expert” on the account’s impact was a Media Matters troll. So Raichik returned to the initial question: “Is the journalist responsible for actions that happened after” his or her reporting? The best Lorenz could manage after more back-and-forth: “I think that journalists should take care and should, should, you know, should consider sort of the framing. And I think that they should do their best not to — not to appear as if they encourage that sort of behavior.” The Post Millennial has a good wrap-up of the entire interview, which was definitely another L for Lorenz. However, the most jaw-hitting-floor moment was when the Post’s star social-media scourer lacked the self-awareness to not walk into a question about whether someone is responsible for threats that spring out of reporting on people’s public social media activity when the threats against Raichik emanate from Lorenz’s decision to report on her private social media activity. Before the April 2022 report in which she doxed Raichik, who she was was immaterial. She made no bones about the fact that she wished to remain anonymous and was reporting on videos and posts made publicly. Her professional position, too, was immaterial to Libs of TikTok’s mission. She was in no position of authority over you, your job or your children. She sold real estate and, on the side, was an independent journalist. And yet Taylor Lorenz — whose job involves a very visible, public-facing role — broke down on TV over the kinds of hate messages she and her family receive. Which isn’t to encourage or excuse that sort of behavior; boot the idiots from whatever social platform the messages come from if they don’t constitute criminal harassment or threats, seek to arrest them if they do. But don’t literally cry about it weeks before you make a deliberate decision to subject an anonymous real estate agent with opinions to the same “normalized” death threats you say you receive. It makes one or both of those two public floggings — one of anyone who would dare criticize Lorenz, the other of Raichik — look like hypocritical, self-serving acts. Read more at: WesternJournal.comTaylor Lorenz says that she has "severe PTSD" from mean tweets directed at her.
"It's horrifying," she says before breaking down in tears. pic.twitter.com/ryFweRtnSd — Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 1, 2022
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