eronthebender:

poseyslegtattoo:

internallyscreamingfrog: poseyslegtattoo: internallyscreamingfrog: prettyprettyinyoface: poseyslegtattoo: Black People: *make a slang term* White People, Mounting their loyal steed Yike, the Disc Horse: This is actually ableist/transphobic/homophobic bc [long-winded explanation that takes the term galaxies out of context and makes no mention of background behind the term] and FURTHERMORE White people don’t own language, even if they think they do. How about the fact that NOONE owns language it’s universal maybe consider the fact that white people aren’t doing anything wrong. No, see, people going out of their way to change the context of AAVE terms to keep people from saying them IS wrong. It’s also not endemic to Tumblr. I remember white kids in grade school trying to tell me “swag” stood for Secretly We Are Gay when it is obviously short for “Swagger” in both its definition of “adornment” and the definition of “to walk with bravado” But that is not hurting anyone. It just stupid little tweens having what they consider fun. I mean when I was younger people I’d this as well with every word, and their not changing the context they’re just being stupid. Furthermore, most words change definitions, because that’s how language evolves. 1. Using homophobia to be antiblack (i.e. saying “lol u shouldn’t say Swag because it would mean ur gay and gay is bad) IS hurting people, specifically closeted black gay kids like say… me 10 years ago. Little kids can still, albeit often unknowingly, be racist, even if they’re just goofing off. 2. That does nothing to excuse the grown ass people that try to recontextualize AAVE terms to make the Black people that use them look bigoted, which was the original point I was making, that this is Bad Thing that some White people do.

how about when Trap Queen came out and White people first beat it to death by overusing it, then White LGBTQ people came the fuck out of nowhere with saying “Trap Queen is transphobic cause that’s what people refer to transwomen as.” even though that wasn’t what the song or the phrase stands for.

White people have a history of taking slang created by Black people and changing the meaning and origin of it (just like everything else we create) so that they can be openly racist and hide behind “social justice” or so they can make a profit/act like they created them. it all boils down to “look at those uneducated/unprogressive blackies using oppressive terms.”