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nerdflighter) wrote2019-03-24 06:13 pm
nerdflighter) wrote2019-03-24 06:13 pm
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extremely frustrated because I have like, a lot of questions about aave and its usage but I don't know who to ask
1. wouldn't it be easier to focus on removing the stigma around black people using aave than trying to get white people to stop using it?
2. why does so much of the activism I see on tumblr around aave basically boil down to ‘you can use it if you aren't black, just feel extremely bad about it’?
3. I've also seen black people say ‘nonblack people shouldn't use aave because they're almost always grammatically incorrect but that assumes that all black people speak grammatically correct aave, which surely isn't true, but that's not CA somehow, and that nonblack people are incapable of speaking grammatically correct aave. it also worries me because we don't enforce standards of correct grammar on any other language, because we understand that there's a lot standing between someone and 100% perfect grammar. like, we (as progressives) apply that to English, but not to aave. how does that work?
4. bearing in mind that aave is inextricable from internet culture at this point, and also that I don't want to feel bad about using it, how can I use it while being respectful of black people and black communities?
I want to ask someone these questions, but I don't want anyone to feel pressured to reply to them. I'm not actually owed a conversation about this but I'd desperately like to have one, and I also don't know how to go about doing that.
1. wouldn't it be easier to focus on removing the stigma around black people using aave than trying to get white people to stop using it?
2. why does so much of the activism I see on tumblr around aave basically boil down to ‘you can use it if you aren't black, just feel extremely bad about it’?
3. I've also seen black people say ‘nonblack people shouldn't use aave because they're almost always grammatically incorrect but that assumes that all black people speak grammatically correct aave, which surely isn't true, but that's not CA somehow, and that nonblack people are incapable of speaking grammatically correct aave. it also worries me because we don't enforce standards of correct grammar on any other language, because we understand that there's a lot standing between someone and 100% perfect grammar. like, we (as progressives) apply that to English, but not to aave. how does that work?
4. bearing in mind that aave is inextricable from internet culture at this point, and also that I don't want to feel bad about using it, how can I use it while being respectful of black people and black communities?
I want to ask someone these questions, but I don't want anyone to feel pressured to reply to them. I'm not actually owed a conversation about this but I'd desperately like to have one, and I also don't know how to go about doing that.
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