On YouTube, Tim Pool baselessly accuses a school teacher and an NBC News journalist of being pedophiles – By Justin Horowitz (Media Matters) / May 17, 2023
Various other right-wing media figures also attacked the teacher for sharing an LGBTQ book with her students
Right-wing YouTuber and anti-LGBTQ bigot Tim Pool baselessly accused an Illinois middle school teacher and an NBC News journalist of being pedophiles.
During a May 17 clip uploaded to his Timcast YouTube channel, Pool discussed a report from NBC News’ Today that covered an Illinois middle school teacher who resigned from her position following a police report filed by parents.
The report was in response to the teacher sharing the book This Book is Gay with her students. According to the Today story, the book is “billed by its publisher as an entertaining and informative ‘instruction manual’ for anyone coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans.”
“I believe that the only reasonable assumption that can be made is that this teacher is a pedophile who is trying to groom children and teach them about lewd, lascivious adult behaviors,” Pool asserted during the clip. “I can only assume this teacher had ill intent.”
