The more I see people demanding people stop using AAE online under the presumption they’re appropriating culture, assuming they “grew up in white culture” as offtheair said further down. The more I feel this is attempts at invalidating AAE as a language again.

It’s the same mentality that originally gave that its somehow incorrect language, as in the “vernacular” distinction they also made further down.

The people saying its meme words are missing the point, but so is anyone whos under the assumption that cultures don’t mix, that people dont pick up words, sayings, and ways of speaking from the people they spend time around.

I just see more and more people making assumptions online and demanding people “speak correctly for their race” which is a whole can of worms from the past being repackaged in new wrapping paper.

https://freyahartas.co.uk/

I don’t know about what people may deem offensive, but when I’ve made friends with people with identities similar to this, the terms Aphrodisian or Salmacian have been the main ones ive seen used for self identifying.