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Lizzo Calls Out White People For Using AAVE, Says “Bring Back Gatekeeping”
Vibe ^ | 03 08 2024 | Armond Sandler

Posted on 03/26/2024 5:18:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Black culture is ubiquitous, and it has caused other races to try and poach certain aspects of how they move. Lizzo recently called out white people for “talking like Black people.”

The “About Damn Time” singer jumped on TikTok on Wednesday (March 6) to respond to a white woman speaking about her suitors using the phrase “type sh*t.” This prompted her to go into a full rant.

“Why don’t we bring back gatekeeping?” she asked. “So that AAVE is reserved for the people who created it and grew up speaking it. So that all these people that are now talking like Black people because they read words on the internet and don’t know the origin and don’t participate in the culture don’t overuse it and then things like this happen.”

Lizzo continued, speaking about the underlying meanings of the term “ganglish,” and what it really meant.

“Because ‘ganglish’ is definitely the new ‘thug,'” she said. “When police would call someone a ‘thug’ but it’s really a Black person, which is the new hard ‘r’ N-word. I know so many people who have said ‘type sh*t, type sh*t’ their entire lives. I’ve heard them talk like that for years before it became trendy on the internet to say that.” She closed by forecasting that internet users will get tired of using Black people’s language, thus allowing them to speak in peace. She punctuated her rant by saying “type sh*t.”

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KEYWORDS: aave; absolutelynotnews; chat; definitelynotnews; ebonics; lizzo; notnews; wiggers
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To: yesthatjallen

This obese monster is so unaware. She says Whites can’t speak AAVE and starts out by using the term “gatekeeping.” Vernacular invented by a White man. SMFH


41 posted on 03/26/2024 6:54:21 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: vmpolesov
I never heard that so I looked it up (just a cursory search, mind) and it seems one theory is that it comes from the the 18th century South, with some new rules added recently. Thanks for the push!

Me, I'm just waiting for this bezzomny cheena to stop the chepooka and go back to munchy-wunchy pischka (appy-polly-loggies to the real horrorshow Anthony Burgess).
42 posted on 03/26/2024 6:59:32 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: yesthatjallen

Okay and black people cannot have hair any other color than black, can’t wear blue jeans or suits…..
STFU


43 posted on 03/26/2024 7:29:24 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: Pontiac

She should have addressed the latest social media viral discussion where African Americans admitted that they were bullied in the hood for speaking well.


44 posted on 03/26/2024 7:31:29 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: yesthatjallen

Ah, the problems of the privileged, rich, and protected.


45 posted on 03/26/2024 7:33:26 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Retrofitted

Me, I’m just waiting for this bezzomny cheena to stop the chepooka and go back to munchy-wunchy pischka (appy-polly-loggies to the real horrorshow Anthony Burgess).
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I’ve never read the book. Always planned to after seeing Kubrick’s take on it, but never got around to it.


46 posted on 03/26/2024 7:35:22 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: yesthatjallen

When is she going to stop speaking English? She culturally appropriating.


47 posted on 03/26/2024 7:41:10 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

is


48 posted on 03/26/2024 7:42:02 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: yesthatjallen

Doesn’t this gigantic fat beast have several golden corrals to lay waste to?
How she got time for dis?


49 posted on 03/26/2024 8:02:40 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Overall, she’s not wrong.

Ghetto culture and language has spread among all classes and races in America, and its part of the reason for the general decline of the USA

A better idea would be to copy the language and thought of the most well-known and respected dead white males from history.


50 posted on 03/26/2024 8:32:51 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: yesthatjallen
African-American Vernacular English

Is that new speak for Jive or Ebonics? I can't keep up with this sh!t any more.

51 posted on 03/26/2024 9:00:47 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, time for the bullet box is fast approaching.)
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To: Chode

She jumped on Tik Tok. Did it sag in the middle?


52 posted on 03/26/2024 9:40:33 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: jurroppi1

All you have to do is roll her in flour and look for the wet spot.


53 posted on 03/26/2024 10:24:28 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: KarlInOhio

I TOO SPEAK JIVE!


54 posted on 03/27/2024 2:37:23 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Mermaid Girl

“AAVE?” african american vernacular english?


55 posted on 03/27/2024 3:13:58 AM PDT by 1756-L85E
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh, is she still alive?


56 posted on 03/27/2024 3:20:55 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: 1756-L85E

Yes indeed! I have a less politically correct term for it, but I can’t post it here.


57 posted on 03/27/2024 3:56:42 AM PDT by Mermaid Girl
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To: Tax-chick

Is Lizo the fat one? Do you think she is fat because she is such a good cook? I don’t know and I don’t care.


58 posted on 03/27/2024 4:25:44 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: armourenthusiast

Pretty much.


59 posted on 03/27/2024 4:30:38 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: yesthatjallen
Some remedial reading for Lizzo...

Race, Culture, and Equality In his remarks at the Commonwealth Club of California on June 18, 1998, Thomas Sowell discussed the conclusions he reached after spending fifteen years researching the economic and social impacts of cultural differences among peoples and nations around the world...

60 posted on 03/27/2024 4:48:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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