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Topic	The gentrification of the word "Y'all" irrationally bothers me.
s0nicfan 01/27/23 12:38:18 PM #41:	Dathrowed1 posted... If you go from a class perspective, gentrification makes sense. But class issues now have to have a racial cloud over them That's true, the TC would need to specify whether they're using gentrification in the general sense or in it's more colloquial use where it's specifically about white people moving into / taking something dominated by black people. But if they're using the latter definition, then y'all being AAVE is cultural appropriation in the first place, so there still isn't really a case to be made for complaining about other people using it. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:971133362] in The gentri... [t:80326369]...</cite> <quote>Dathrowed1 posted... </cite><quote>If you go from a class perspective, gentrification makes sense. But class issues now have to have a racial cloud over them</quote>That's true, the TC would need to specify whether they're using gentrification in the general sense or in it's more colloquial use where it's specifically about white people moving into / taking something dominated by black people.But if they're using the latter definition, then y'all being AAVE is cultural appropriation in the first place, so there still isn't really a case to be made for complaining about other people using it. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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