TikTok has created a space for young people to skewer ignorance.
, broadcasting a political message on TikTok has fast become the easiest way for those without an established platform or audience to spread it to the largest number of people in the briefest amount of time.
16-year-old Areess felt compelled to address the Islamophobia in her community after an experience she had when competing in a Taekwondo match. “A group of people from the German team were telling me that I wouldn’t make it,” she says gravely, “that ‘You don’t deserve to be here’ and ‘Your religion doesn’t teach you this’. One of them even said: ‘You should be in the kitchen.’”
Of course, virality is not always kind. “You get the odd comment from trolls going, ‘Go back to your country’, and stuff like that. I got one comment calling me Shamima Begum,” Aaliyah says. “These are things I’m not shocked by. You’ll get hate for whoever you are, and people will just attack you because of what they see.
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