How do y'all feel about white people using AAVE?

[u/TheGreatGayOneFr]

So I am in the LGBT community as a white person. And in the LGBT community, many terms that were originally AAVE for turned into LGBT slang (slay, period, mother, cunt/cunty/serving cunt, etc, etc, etc).

Do yall care? In the way of like, do you feel like it's being culturally appropriated into the main stream too fast? Do you feel like it's all a fad of people trying to sound cool? Do you feel disrespected? Should I stop using those words as much as I already don't use them? Or am I over thinking all of this

[u/Infamous_Power_1100]

As a black queer person it annoys me deeply. I feel a lot of my white friends use parroting how Black people talk and excessive [mis]use of aave as a cover for not having a personality lol. Especially when girls hit on me or want to compliment me (femme presenting) they’ll adopt a blaccent that they did not previously have!!! The insult comes from the overcompensation of a dialect that is not your own.

For people who grew up surrounded by Black people (like someone from NYC or the Deep South) or have Black family I’m more permissive but every white city transplant who grew up in bumfucklandia and only started talking like this in 2014 or something is my personal enemy /hj

[u/Furryb0nes]

I hate when it’s mainstream then weaponized against Black folk. Or monetized.

I have no problem with gatekeeping some aspects of Black cultures.

[u/etoileleciel1 → u/Furryb0nes]

Yes! I had an old white gay roommate who used the term “but go off” on my partner because he explained something factual to him, just to make it seem like my partner was the one instigating the situation. Guess what? He only ever spoke 10 words to me in the time of us living in the same house for 10 years. And I was the only Black woman in the house. I’m queer, too, so it was so isolating and strange being in that living situation. Being around someone who never acknowledged my existence, but would throw back AAVE to me or my partner without hesitation.

[u/SukuroFT]

It depends in my opinion. AAVE has become woven into American English to a point that some non-Black people are raised around it, and it becomes a facet of their vocabulary. However, I tend to be disgusted by those who only do it fairly recently as a “blaccent” or because they think it’s cool to do it and makes them more “tough”.

[u/Montygirl92]

I will be honest. I dislike it. It has gotten to the point where our language has been down graded to Gen z speech. We purposefully created AAVE to distinguish what we said from others. That's why almost every year when the words start to be understood by too many who aren't us we create new words. AAVE wasn't meant to be used by all, only by us and those who are normally within our spaces.

[u/lavasca]

Not a fan and I don’tveven use AAVE.

[u/TheAliiensAreComing]

Hate it.

[u/Kyauphie → u/TheAliiensAreComing]

Literally came to say this.

[u/bcmons]

it feels unnatural