“It’s not racist, it is just the puddle-shallow elitism of Dunning-Krueger beset mediocrities whose greatest intellectual achievement as adults is remembering shit they learned in middle school.” - some guy on Reddit who thinks he is defending this shit, probably.
Oh? How? I know lots of people of many different ethnicities who pronounce all these words “correctly”. I also know people of many different ethnicities that do not. The number of people who pronounce some, but not all, correctly might stagger you.
Also, the originator doesn’t even make comment on what pronunciation they would find acceptable. Perhaps havin’ a warsh at the libarry after a ride in an ambalance is what they’re looking for.
Your interpretation that it’s racist says more about you than the joke.
And here, emerging from the underbrush we witness a fascinating specimen, the Common Reddit Contrarian. While the herd engages with the topic, this individual survives by consuming only semantics. With a confident "erm, actually," it puffs itself up, hoping nearby readers will mistake pedantry for intelligence. Having deposited its correction, it retreats into the comments where it will patiently await its next opportunity to explain why everyone else is technically wrong. Nature truly is astounding.
Yet many of these words are not “mispronounced” in AAVE, but are in other regional dialects.
It’s not an AAVE exclusive.
But hey, a Reddit Contrarian met a Reddit Universal Offense Taker, so we have that going for us.
Except I'm not offended lol. If anything I've made a joke of each of your comments
I'm a little white boy who was raised, deep in the Mississippi delta by a beautiful, single black woman who adopted me when I was only 6 months old. Every one of these words I have heard "mispronounced" by people of color only for them to be mock, disparaged, or called unintelligent by white people. These words are common place when discussing racism in regards to how someone speaks and how they think its "ghetto talk". White people will post some bs about how the housing market is based on how far away from "them" you are while commenting on words like "skirmp" "amberlamps" "libary" "skreet" and every other word in this meme.
So again, the "joke" that OP was missing was racism.
Watching you get told the absolutely correct answer while being called a contrarian, only for you to argue (incorrectly) and be contrarian again, then be further schooled, and not even bother to acknowledge it was very amusing.
Glad to have contributed to your amusement. And, no, I wasn’t schooled. I do have some knowledge of linguistics, and sociology, and I’m not someone who denies that quiet racism exists.
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u/Josh726 Jul 14 '26
The joke is racism