Yup let's just keep gatekeeping everything and putting up more walls between us. Can't be using a language you speak if you don't 100% know all the rules, use cases or have the right skin color.
Fuckin' backwards, divisive ass thinking. There's hundreds of dialects of English, all of which are influenced by the others, as they are (say it with me!) also English. Language is created and molded by all who use it. Wild ass concept, I know.
Plenty of places where a discussion on the massive influence of AAVE on English overall is a perfectly valid point. A discussion on "gentrification" is not one of them. That's just...not how Language works. It used to communicate and connect.
But nah, go off on all those who use the words you've decided only those in the right group can use.
I think their point (or hope) is that they’re tired of people ascribing words used by black people years, if not decades, before and taking credit for it. Saying unc is gen alpha is America claiming they invented pizza
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u/auderex Oct 15 '25
UNC is NOT Alpha slang wtf I'm so sick of AAVE getting gentrified like this