William is a self taught chef who uses TikTok to post food recipes ranging from quesadillas to Japanese sponge cakes. The 12-year-old chef has almost 1 million followers on his TikTok page Cooking With William and even received praise from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.
But because they can’t let us have anything, trolls have infected William’s page, leaving racist comments under his videos just because. Fortunately, other Black TikTok users aren’t having it, coming to the preteen’s defense and calling out TikTok itself for being racist by allowing racism.
In a now viral TikTok video, Snap Wexler (@snapwexler) said the app is not doing enough to protect Black creators like @cooking_withwilliam on the platform, even though Black folks contribute significantly to the app.
According to Wexler, “people are so immature and so ignorant that they were taking the time to write out an anagram of the N-word” under at least three separate videos.
Wexler reported three racist comments on the chef’s page, but TikTok determined there was no violation of their guidelines. “So you can call a 12-year-old boy the N-word and it’s fine? It’s not fine,” Wexler said.
Even though TikTok community guidelines don’t explicitly denounce “discrimination” or “racism,” the app’s community guidelines state: “TikTok is enriched by the diversity of our community. Our differences should be embraced, rather than a cause for division. We do not allow any hate speech, hateful behavior, or promotion of hateful ideologies.”
Source: Black Creators Rise to 12-Year-Old Viral Chef’s Defense Amid Racist Attacks on TikTok
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