political bubbles i do feel like i live
in a political bubble it's become safer
to retreat into our own bubbles
you're probably familiar with the term
surrounded by people who share the same
political outlook
especially our social media fields
but what if you're the odd one out is
there an
escape i definitely am a minority in
terms of political abuse here
people started finding my tick tock for
these teens
actually yes ayo california
i just make a tick talk about it and uh
i'd say that's a fairly safe way of
coping with it
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this is paul he's a liberal 15 year old
living in south carolina he's of course
too young to vote
but that's not stopping him from sharing
his opinions
south carolina is majority conservative
of course and
generally speaking it's no different
where i live i interact with
trump supporters on a daily basis
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when you're stuck here it's just
something you have to deal with and it's
something you have to innovate
excuse me do you know how to get to town
now with 130 000 followers i get dms
from kids at my school on the daily
if i'm ever very frustrated about a
conversation i had with the trump
supporter
or uh pro-life uh evolution denier
christian fundamentalists
i don't yell at them i don't call them
mean names or i just make a tick tock
about it
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meanwhile on the other side of the
country kaylee finds herself in a
liberal bubble
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a lot of the people who are
right-leaning tend to not vocalize their
views as much because it's not the
popular opinion
in the area that we live in in san diego
as a conservative gun owning trump
supporter in california
kaylee has used tick-tock to learn more
about politics and express her own
political views
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when you start talking about politics
and you don't have the popular opinion
there is going to be people who disagree
with you
people would say that they were going to
find me and rape me they hope i was
raped and then they said they're going
to find where i live
people found out where i worked and it
got brought into my workplace
and it was a lot
so she went back and looked at some of
her earlier tick tocks and
decided to change her tone i put myself
in the
other side shoes and if i were watching
that i wouldn't want to talk with that
person either i
started making videos that were saying
what i believed
and then having conversations with
people in the commons found that there
was a lot
more unity and more of an understanding
it kind of bridged a gap we learned
things that we didn't know about certain
topics that we talked about whether it
was like gun control or
immigration pro-life versus pro-choice
kaylie's also met people on tick-tock
who share her beliefs
and live in her area and now they spend
their weekends together
paul's made friends on the other side of
the aisle too but
he is worried about going back to school
once coronavirus restrictions are lifted
right now i can talk the talk right i'm
hiding behind a screen i'm
safe and sound within the confines of my
hope it's gonna get a little more
difficult running into people who
directly disagree with me on a daily
basis
laws in california that i think are
stupid part one as for
kaylie while she's making do in
california
she's hoping to move to nebraska next
year the people that i have met
in nebraska they're a lot more
open-minded and
willing and open to having dialogue
rather than seeing you for being a
republican or a democrat or whatever
else maybe on the political spectrum