Well, so much for local control of Oklahoma schools!
Earlier this week, Ryan Walters – once again – achieved his goal of generating publicity, attention, and notoriety after he named right-wing provocateur Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok fame to something called the Oklahoma Library Media Review Committee.
Yep, that’s right!
The crazy right-wing TikTok lady from New York who inspired bomb threats to Oklahoma schools and made her mark on an app banned by the Oklahoma government is going to review what library books public school students in our state can read.
As CEOs say when deciding not to do business in our state, “Only in Oklahoma!”
The move to appoint a sanctimonious, childless 20-something transphobic New York rabble-rouser without any formal library or education training to a library book review committee in Oklahoma naturally generated its fair share of negative national media attention.