Awkwafina

[Anonymous]

She sounds like she is American and grew up in NY. And picked a silly name when she was a kid. I think she's funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not be obtuse it’s not just the name but how she says the name (in a blaccent)

I’m not “obtuse “, I just don’t agree with you, and wonder why you’re pushing this. “blaccent” ? Who even says that?

[Anonymous]

She's had that accent for years. Why teh outrage now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never liked her.

and I've loved her forever. So there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not be obtuse it’s not just the name but how she says the name (in a blaccent)

I’m not “obtuse “, I just don’t agree with you, and wonder why you’re pushing this. “blaccent” ? Who even says that?

It's a pretty known term at this point. Clearly she developed a persona, and she has been criticized because that persona includes AAVE and a "blaccent," which is apparently not how she actually speaks. She has apologized for it and backed off recently, it seems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not be obtuse it’s not just the name but how she says the name (in a blaccent)

SHE'S FROM QUEENS. HOW DO YOU EXPECT HER TALK? I'm Asian, I talk like the white people I grew up with in Michigan. Are you going to accuse me of cultural appropriation?

Aye, stop trying to talk white Michigander which you ain't . It's so offensive. You should be cancelled.

[Anonymous]

Comedians should be allowed to push limits and shock us with truth. Otherwise, it's dull. Why bother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not be obtuse it’s not just the name but how she says the name (in a blaccent)

I’m not “obtuse “, I just don’t agree with you, and wonder why you’re pushing this. “blaccent” ? Who even says that?

It's a pretty known term at this point. Clearly she developed a persona, and she has been criticized because that persona includes AAVE and a "blaccent," which is apparently not how she actually speaks. She has apologized for it and backed off recently, it seems.

For the fourth time we get it, you don’t like her. Now go away, you’re annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not be obtuse it’s not just the name but how she says the name (in a blaccent)

SHE'S FROM QUEENS. HOW DO YOU EXPECT HER TALK? I'm Asian, I talk like the white people I grew up with in Michigan. Are you going to accuse me of cultural appropriation?

+1

My elementary-age kids have a "blaccent", because they went to daycare (and still go to aftercare) with 80% AA kids and two AA teachers in their class. My kids are multiracial, but not AA. Are they going to be accused of "cultural appropriation" if they still talk like this in a few years? Because there is a lot of "She don't got no shoes on" being said in my house, and no one is making fun of anyone, it's just how they learned to talk FROM THE PEOPLE THEY ARE GROWING UP AROUND. Same reason I talk like a white Midwesterner, though I'm not white.

I would find it weirder if Awkwafina sounded like she was from Wisconsin or something. Everyone from Queens talks like her.

[Anonymous]

Don't get me wrong, there are some real racist assholes out there but it's getting to the point where it feels like people are just looking for reasons to cancel others. Calm the F down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not be obtuse it’s not just the name but how she says the name (in a blaccent)

SHE'S FROM QUEENS. HOW DO YOU EXPECT HER TALK? I'm Asian, I talk like the white people I grew up with in Michigan. Are you going to accuse me of cultural appropriation?

+1

My elementary-age kids have a "blaccent", because they went to daycare (and still go to aftercare) with 80% AA kids and two AA teachers in their class. My kids are multiracial, but not AA. Are they going to be accused of "cultural appropriation" if they still talk like this in a few years? Because there is a lot of "She don't got no shoes on" being said in my house, and no one is making fun of anyone, it's just how they learned to talk FROM THE PEOPLE THEY ARE GROWING UP AROUND. Same reason I talk like a white Midwesterner, though I'm not white.

I would find it weirder if Awkwafina sounded like she was from Wisconsin or something. Everyone from Queens talks like her.

This.

One of my childhood friends grew up as one of the few white kids in a primarily black school. Then she exclusively dated Jamaican guys and ultimately married one. She definitely speaks differently than you would expect from her white skin.

So what? It’s not an act. It’s how her language developed. Just like how I pepper my speech with “like” — a bad language crutch developed as a kid/tween.

[Anonymous]

You can’t have it both ways, race police.

You can’t criticize her for having a blaccent and simultaneously say there’s no such thing as stereotypical black speech.

[Anonymous]

We should probably cancel Eminem now.

[Anonymous]

I went to college at a SUNY school in New York. The kids from Queens, Brooklyn, etc - a lot of them talk that way. Asian, Latino, black, and white. It didn’t seem like an affect at all and to me, seemed more of a reflection of the neighborhood they grew up in and the friends they had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can’t have it both ways, race police.

You can’t criticize her for having a blaccent and simultaneously say there’s no such thing as stereotypical black speech.

In fairness, I don’t ever hear people saying that there’s no such thing as stereotypical black speech. They say that AAVE is a legitimate dialect of speech and shouldn’t be treated as “incorrect” English.

I think that’s completely fair and legitimate. But it is weird to them get defensive about who is fluent in that dialect. Speaking a particular a dialect is a linguistic skill and fluency is not appropriation.

Also, Awkwafina was the best thing about Shang-Chi, which was a really fun movie.