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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

These kind of people who rant about how everything is racist are almost without fail misrepresenting what actual POC think on a specific issue. Ironically, they are just speaking over people of color and making racism harder to talk about.

Take the AAVE thing for example. AAVE is just a dialect of English. Most African Americans do not care whether or not you use slang that was coined and spread by the black community. In areas where the black population is high you will often find non-black people of all ages using AAVE, or "talking black" to use a less accurate but common euphemism. No one bats an eye. No one cares. People are not going to tell you to stop talking like that because it makes them uncomfortable because that's a ridiculous demand to make.

What many black people do feel uncomfortable about or object to are the ways AAVE gets treated. Making fun of the dialect (in extension making fun of black people), claiming AAVE is proof black people are uneducated (despite AAVE following its own clear grammatical rules), non-black people taking black slang and pretending they're the ones who coined it (which is different from just using it), and other unfortunate trends. On the less serious side black people sometimes make fun of the cringeworthy misuse of AAVE. But due to internet games of telephone and the race to seem the most woke for clout all these different things became "if you're not black don't use AAVE because that makes you racist." The actual issue is completely obscured. Complex conversations that have been taking place in black American communities for decades have been watered down and misrepresented. Usually by people who aren't even black themselves. People who know no better continue sharing the false versions of "consensus" on how not to be racist.

Anyway, the mods in the post OP's talking about are definitely powertripping hard. Auctions for dates and other things like that clearly have nothing to do with any form of slavery. People just want an excuse to get offended over every little thing so they can look morally superior.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These kind of people who rant about how everything is racist are almost without fail misrepresenting what actual POC think on a specific issue.

Reminded me Cyberpunk 2020 and 2077 writter Michael Pondsmith. Woke activists started saying that "voodoo boys" group is very racist and not showing PoC correctly in that universe. And, gladly, writter of that universe is a black person, so he went in Twitter and crushed all critics with "I know better what is racism than you, white nerds".

[–]TurkishCoffee 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have to say, the line "Don't use AAVE if you're white " Sounds a whole lot like "White people speak proper English, not that" The former being "woke" and the latter being something a white supremacist would say.