• @Anticorp
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    676 months ago

    Why would they apologize for that? Were people clutching their pearls?

    • Bizzle
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      186 months ago

      Some people thought the aquarium was appropriating AAVE

      • @Anticorp
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        146 months ago

        How dare they express the joy that was in their hearts!

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        I don’t think “thicc” is AAVE. That is pretty much an Internet-ism as the original post says. “OH LAWD” though, yeah, is cringe.

          • @ZILtoid1991
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            46 months ago

            African-American Vocabulary English. Some people think it’s racist for white people to use them because cultural appropriation, which is a term that never should’ve left the academic circles it originated from, as people are using it way too broadly, and as something evil and bad.