The more I see people demanding people stop using AAE online under the presumption they’re appropriating culture, assuming they “grew up in white culture” as offtheair said further down. The more I feel this is attempts at invalidating AAE as a language again.
It’s the same mentality that originally gave that its somehow incorrect language, as in the “vernacular” distinction they also made further down.
The people saying its meme words are missing the point, but so is anyone whos under the assumption that cultures don’t mix, that people dont pick up words, sayings, and ways of speaking from the people they spend time around.
I just see more and more people making assumptions online and demanding people “speak correctly for their race” which is a whole can of worms from the past being repackaged in new wrapping paper.
We literally have seen black people say don’t take our words, and only black people can speak like this/say these words, are you saying they were wrong to want that?
Also, cultures mixing doesn’t work like this, it isn’t taken, but given freely.
Edit: As we said, it harkens back to a long history of colonialism and people taking things that aren’t theirs.
Edit 2: Also, no, one culture only being allowed to use a langauge isn’t the source of its invalidation it’s ‘official’ forces like school, government etc not recognising it as a langauge, not people saying it shouldn’t be appropriated, you’re still welcome to learn and understand it, just don’t use it. It really is that simple.
Edit 3: Also people online taking it and changing it to fit their own needs, using it to the point parody, not recognising that black people invented it, and saying it’s a ‘meme’ also invalidates it as a language. It’s literally a language they needed to create in order to survive, having it memeified is disgusting and misses its entire point.
African American English (also called Black English), the V, or Vernacular, was dropped as that implies it’s not a real language. “It be like that” comes from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be and a lot of people, mostly white people, both appropriated it and use it incorrectly.
Sadly, a lot of people appropriated a lot of AAE/Black English online and use it indiscriminately and usually incorrectly, though it being online just makes it easier to do, it definitely happened before the internet (cool is AAE for example).
Racists usually like to come out of the wood work whenever this is brought up and say that it’s their right to use whatever they want, harkening back to years of colonialism etc where oppressive powers thought it was their god given right to take from and destroy land, culture etc.
AAE?
African American English, though usually there is a v in there, aave. Vernacular would be the v.
Lots and lots and lots of popular phrases have actually originated from black people online. I guess off the air isn’t a big fan of others using it
The more I see people demanding people stop using AAE online under the presumption they’re appropriating culture, assuming they “grew up in white culture” as offtheair said further down. The more I feel this is attempts at invalidating AAE as a language again.
It’s the same mentality that originally gave that its somehow incorrect language, as in the “vernacular” distinction they also made further down.
The people saying its meme words are missing the point, but so is anyone whos under the assumption that cultures don’t mix, that people dont pick up words, sayings, and ways of speaking from the people they spend time around.
I just see more and more people making assumptions online and demanding people “speak correctly for their race” which is a whole can of worms from the past being repackaged in new wrapping paper.
We literally have seen black people say don’t take our words, and only black people can speak like this/say these words, are you saying they were wrong to want that?
Also, cultures mixing doesn’t work like this, it isn’t taken, but given freely.
Edit: As we said, it harkens back to a long history of colonialism and people taking things that aren’t theirs.
Edit 2: Also, no, one culture only being allowed to use a langauge isn’t the source of its invalidation it’s ‘official’ forces like school, government etc not recognising it as a langauge, not people saying it shouldn’t be appropriated, you’re still welcome to learn and understand it, just don’t use it. It really is that simple.
Edit 3: Also people online taking it and changing it to fit their own needs, using it to the point parody, not recognising that black people invented it, and saying it’s a ‘meme’ also invalidates it as a language. It’s literally a language they needed to create in order to survive, having it memeified is disgusting and misses its entire point.
African American English (also called Black English), the V, or Vernacular, was dropped as that implies it’s not a real language. “It be like that” comes from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be and a lot of people, mostly white people, both appropriated it and use it incorrectly.
Sadly, a lot of people appropriated a lot of AAE/Black English online and use it indiscriminately and usually incorrectly, though it being online just makes it easier to do, it definitely happened before the internet (cool is AAE for example).
Racists usually like to come out of the wood work whenever this is brought up and say that it’s their right to use whatever they want, harkening back to years of colonialism etc where oppressive powers thought it was their god given right to take from and destroy land, culture etc.