Monterey Bay Aquarium apologizes for ‘fat-shaming’ otter, calling her 'thicc' on Twitter

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AAVE (African American Vernacular English)

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Shut it down.

Last one out turn off the lights.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium

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That place is awesome

Well, yeah. You otter be prepared for anything.

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However, the aquarium was quickly inundated with criticism – particularly over its choice of slang, which has been called out as being AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and typically used to refer to black women’s bodies.

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The woman who originally called them out for this is not black. She is the pastiest white woman who ever lived. But she's got a perm. fricking Rachael Dolezal wannabe.

I notice they have removed her from the article.

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That place is awesome

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Evidently they speak jive

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AAVE (African American Vernacular English)

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However, the aquarium was quickly inundated with criticism – particularly over its choice of slang, which has been called out as being AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and typically used to refer to black women’s bodies.

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uhm, that Ebonics to you, sir.

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Abby

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at least they didn't call her Flabby Abby. That would be just mean.

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thicc

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i never knew that was how that was spelled. The captioning on this misspelled it:

There were no fat black bitches harmed in the making of this advertisement.

I think that living out my days not speaking at all seems reasonable at this point.