carlin [he/him,comrade/them] to main • 4 years agoit's not woke to criticise Biden! you've been warnedimagemessage-square32 fedilinkarrow-up169
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minus-squareasaharyev [he/him]hexbear43arrow-down2·edit-24 years agoThis poster is almost certainly a white, college educated lib in the northeast. But they love their AAVE, don't they? Not to mention: it's clearly not a stutter. link
minus-squarecarlin [he/him,comrade/them]hexagonhexbear24·4 years agoclose, a white lawyer in DC :P link
minus-squaresneeringpython [he/him]hexbear8·4 years agoLook if you ain’t votin for me you ain’t a white DC lawyer jack link
minus-squareBeamBrain [he/him]hexbear21·4 years agoIt's gotten to the point that when I see AAVE online, my first thought isn't "This person is black" but "This person worships Pelosi" link
minus-squarefurryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]hexbear11·4 years agoIt's not even natural AAVE, or it doesn't seem that way to me. They took a few superficial features of it that are easy to tack on the beginning or end of a sentence and just used that. link
minus-squareConkZonk [any]hexbear3·4 years agoAre you just talking about the words "Yall" and "ain't"? Cause where I live (Oklahoma ) pretty much everyone uses both those words all the time link
minus-squarehogposting [he/him,comrade/them]hexbear4·edit-24 years ago"Y'all" by itself -- which is all I see here -- isn't AAVE. Most people from the south or a rural area of any state use "y'all." link
minus-squareSarcasm24 [none/use name]hexbear4arrow-down3·4 years agoThere's also ain't, but that's also a feature in many southern/rural accents link
minus-squarehogposting [he/him,comrade/them]hexbear2·4 years agoI guess I didn't even register that because it's so common even to my white-bread ass. link
This poster is almost certainly a white, college educated lib in the northeast. But they love their AAVE, don't they?
Not to mention: it's clearly not a stutter.
close, a white lawyer in DC :P
Y'all ain't even a white lawyer in DC
Look if you ain’t votin for me you ain’t a white DC lawyer jack
It's gotten to the point that when I see AAVE online, my first thought isn't "This person is black" but "This person worships Pelosi"
It's not even natural AAVE, or it doesn't seem that way to me. They took a few superficial features of it that are easy to tack on the beginning or end of a sentence and just used that.
Black Twitter ain't havin' no Bernie
Are you just talking about the words "Yall" and "ain't"? Cause where I live (Oklahoma ) pretty much everyone uses both those words all the time
"Y'all" by itself -- which is all I see here -- isn't AAVE. Most people from the south or a rural area of any state use "y'all."
There's also ain't, but that's also a feature in many southern/rural accents
I guess I didn't even register that because it's so common even to my white-bread ass.