On YouTube, Tim Pool baselessly accuses a school teacher and an NBC News journalist of being pedophiles

Various other right-wing media figures also attacked the teacher for sharing an LGBTQ book with her students

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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.” 

Pool then went on to attack the NBC News journalist who covered the story. 

“The only conclusion I can make is that the journalist is trying to protect pedophiles,” Pool said. “Perhaps the individual themself, … perhaps she is also a pedophile.”

From the May 17, 2023, edition of Timcast

Pool then went on to call for the arrest of the teacher and for her 10-year-old child to be removed from her home.

“Officers, if you are there, if you are listening — arrest this woman,” Pool said. “She must be convicted. Hopefully she’s not in a jurisdiction with a Soros DA.”

From the May 17, 2023, edition of Timcast

Pool repeated the slander on Twitter, describing the teacher again as a “pedophile.”

Right-wing outrage over This Book is Gay has also led to school bomb threats in New York and an attack on a public library in Ireland. 

Other right-wing media figures similarly attacked the school teacher following her resignation. 

Right-wing pundit Steven Crowder discussed the Illinois teacher and claimed she was part of a “concerted effort from teachers — and by that I mean Democrats, but I repeat myself — to groom your children today.”

From the May 17, 2023, edition of Louder with Crowder 

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh also attacked the teacher and accused her of being a “groomer.”

From the May 17, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show

Pool’s YouTube show, Timcast IRL, is a soapbox for right-wing extremists, conspiracy theorists, and bigots. Notably, YouTube profits off of his abhorrent commentary. 

This is not the first time Pool has groundlessly accused journalists of being pedophiles while streaming on YouTube.

From the July 22, 2022, edition of Timcast, streamed on YouTube

TIM POOL (HOST): The idea is to introduce the concept of drag to a child in a way that parents would say is fine. “It's just reading a story, it's no big deal." But drag is inherently a sexualized performance. They rip their clothes off in exchange for money. I often put it this way. Imagine we had Go-Go Dancer Story Hour. Now the women are scantily clad and exposed, but they're just reading books, right? No, you do not want to groom kids in that way. Well, here we are. I'm going to come out and say it. The Daily Dot has said, “Twitter says it will ban using the word groomer as an anti-LGBTQ slur, but its enforcement is lacking." Claire Goforth, who wrote this article, I believe is a pedophile. My personal opinion. And I will also go on to say that I believe the LGBTQ community is now dominated by overt pedophiles. 

I've not I've not believed that previously. There's a group called Gays Against Groomers. I think they are not pedophiles or groomers. In fact, I am friends with many of them and I know they aren't. The issue is, you know, I grew up with LGBTQ activists. In fact, I even fundraised on behalf of some of the largest LGBT rights organizations in the country. I'll leave them unnamed. Some people probably know who I, who I did campaigning for, fundraising for, but now things are different. It used to be that when the right came out and said, ‘If you legalize gay marriage, they're going to come for your kids’ and say, “No, we don't want to go anywhere near your kids. We just want to be left alone." That's great. Marjorie Taylor Greene last night on Timcast IRL, if you haven't seen it go check it out, she said, “I don't care what people do in the privacy of their own homes. That's between them and God. I'm out of it, right?" And I agree. Hey, man, do your thing. You know, there's, there's an element of classical and traditional liberalism in do your thing. But now what's happened is they're directly going after children, telling them about overtly sexualized concepts that literally is grooming, and they're lying about it. Now, here's why I say pedophiles have taken over. They are actively trying to stop people from calling out pedophiles using LGBTQ people as a shield. Well, that's it. 

When someone goes up to a child in a thong and asks the child to put money in that thong, that person is grooming the child, introducing overtly sexualized concept to the child. Me personally, I'd say that's a groomer. Now, if you call them that, what they're saying is, “You're just insulting them for being gay." And they’re banning people. They started banning, they banned James Lindsay. Reddit, there was like there's a story about how Reddit was going to be enforcing some kind of rule like that. The Daily Dot reports that all the big tech platforms will now stop you from calling out groomers. That is to say, quite literally, if you see someone, someone abusing a child and trying to groom them and you call it out, they'll say, “You're only saying that because you're, because they're gay,” and then they ban you. Here's the way I described it on Timcast IRL. We're all at a playground, and there's a guy looking at the children walking up to him and licking his lips and going [mumbled sound]. And we go, “Hey, hey, get that groomer out of there. Get that groomer out of there." And then all of a sudden, a bunch of LGBTQ people walk over and say, “Hey, don't make fun of us." And we're like, “What? I wasn't talking about you guys. I'm talking about that guy right there." “You were saying all gay people." Or another way to view it is when I call out the guy for being a groomer, the guy walks over to the gay crowd, the LGBTQ crowd, and says, “That guy's making fun of us calling us groomers." And they all get mad. And I'm like, “No, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about, wait a minute. How come y'all are getting mad when I say that?" And that's why I think they've been taken over. 

Because when you look at like Arielle Scarcella or Brennan Strzok or, you know, Milo Yiannopoulos, there are many prominent gay people who are not for this and totally opposed to it. And so my question is, when I point to a groomer and I say, “that guy's grooming" and then a bunch of LGBTQ people go, "He's just insulting LGBTQ people." I go, “No, I'm talking about the pedos, wait. Why are you getting mad when I insult pedos?" And there it is. They have no reason to be mad. Claire Goforth coming out to literally defend this probably because she is a pedophile, at least in my opinion. Now, I'm not saying I have any evidence, I don't know anything about this lady, but I'm just confused as to why anyone would come out and be and be in defense of pedophiles. Hands down. Why, Claire? Why are you actively defending pedos? Let us insult, insult them. Let us call them out. It's illegal what they do when they attack children. Why are you defending this? Actively fighting against those who are calling it out. These people are pedophiles. It is the only, only explanation or they're pedo adjacent, that they want pedophiles to be in the LGBT community. I think child abuse is wrong.