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Online culture is inextricable from american and thus black culture, asking people to not use decade old memes won't be fruitful. It'd be like asking someone with dreads to change their hair to make you more comfortable.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines cultural appropriation as "the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the practices, customs, or aesthetics of one social or ethnic group by members of another (typically dominant) community or society". This act carries connotations of exploitation and dominance, particularly when a more powerful culture adopts elements from a marginalized or non-Western one. The term emerged in the context of post-colonial critique and gained traction in the late 20th century.

Anyone would, if asked say the phrase came from AAVE so it is acknowledged

It first became part of mainstream vocabulary through streaming and memes so it is an appropriate use of the phrase.

It is not meant to be exploitative or to establish dominance.

Making "it do be like that" memes meets none of the prerequisites for cultural appropriation because, primarily it's use is not meant to belittle the black American population. However the "we wuz kangs" meme popular on 4chan definitely is. There is a clear difference between the two and not acknowledging that means people start to se all things dubbed as cultural appropriation as equally inconsequential.

Genuine acts of appropriation are harmful and you shouldn't cheapen the term by associating it with harmless memes.

The more I see people demanding people stop using AAE online under the presumption they're appropriating culture, assuming they "grew up in white culture" as offtheair said further down. The more I feel this is attempts at invalidating AAE as a language again.

It's the same mentality that originally gave that its somehow incorrect language, as in the "vernacular" distinction they also made further down.

The people saying its meme words are missing the point, but so is anyone whos under the assumption that cultures don't mix, that people dont pick up words, sayings, and ways of speaking from the people they spend time around.

I just see more and more people making assumptions online and demanding people "speak correctly for their race" which is a whole can of worms from the past being repackaged in new wrapping paper.