• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        22 hours ago

        a lot of online (which is where gen z stuff comes from) culture is just black american culture, it’s not particularly different from how most european languages have a bunch of french loan words.

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          14 hours ago

          it’s really different actually since other Europeans adopting french terms is a result of french colonialism conferring an allure of prestige to french terms. the reason Europeans were desperate to integrate french culture was because they also wanted to enjoy the spoils of colonialism.

          whereas people using BAE outside of its cultural context perpetuates a relationship of parasitic colonial extraction, not of symbiotic cultural exchange as most white people would claim

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          14 hours ago

          you seriously think there’s no difference between Black Americans using this term since the 70’s and white kids on TikTok appropriating language?

        • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
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          19 hours ago

          Counter-culture? I’d go as far as saying most American culture ultimately comes from the Black community. It’s usually either them or the queers (and quite often, Black queers!)