Monterey Bay Aquarium fatshames an otter, has to do twitter mea culpa

1  2018-12-20 by shitpost953

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I didn't see the original tweet. Let me guess they called the otter T H I C C lol

scroll up smh..

you didn't see the thing you are responding to?

Why is thicc a black language term though? I don't get it. It's a popular internet word.

I honestly didn't know it was AAVE. I just thought it was internet slang.

Even if it is a word black people also use it's not really about black people or only used by black people. It's widely used and I have never seen anyone only use it for black women. So for most people online it would just be a regular word. Since the tweet is online we can assume they meant curvy.

I see it predominantly used for hockey players in the circles I travel. And you know how white hockey is.

That sounds gay

Nothing gay about a bunch of burly men repeatedly banging into each other.

It was a black thing 30 years ago. Its a useful adjective, so it caught on. Thick = not fat, not thin

Now that Im thinking about it, its been used to describe athletes since at least the 80s too, so it may not be a black thing at all.

Because liberals think black people can't spell so they must have invented it.

And because it's a black word you're not allowed to use it, honkey.

I mean, that's mostly true. It's the same reason calling someone "ratchet" became a thing; some idiot couldn't spell "wretched".

I think ratchet started in the ball scence so some gy idiot to be accurate

I always thought it evolved from raunchy.

I think it's the 'oh lawd she comin'. Sounds like aunt jemima could be saying it

the cc thing was started by the Crips.

THOT is also AAVEish but the woketards aren't interested in reclaiming that one

THICC is fine, but they also said "AH LAWD THEY COMIN" in the same tweet which is pretty fucking bad and stupid.

which is pretty fucking bad and stupid.

by 'bad' and 'stupid' you mean hilarious, right?

Funny for sure but I have no idea how they didn't see this reaction coming

That they are literally putting black women on a technological auction block? Who would know anyone would have that stupid of a take. That's it's insensitive to use AAVE if you're white? Perhaps yes. Lawd he comin' is all over the internet, though, so they might not have thought through that it could be something other than a funny meme.

Fucking lol

Exactly. 'Oh lawd' is some mammy level shit

They were merely using the appropriate terminology.](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/FmTnf7e)](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/FmTnf7e)

pretty fucking bad and stupid

In a humour way?

In an inciting racial hatred way?

Be more specific.

Lazy mode: say "uhhh both?" And I'll come at you

Por que no los dos?🌮

Not nice and low IQ 👎

Please, oh woke one, please do fucking unpack why it was "pretty fucking bad and stupid"

Because my poor MDEfugee, 'oh lawd' in that context is mammy level shit, and while funny they knew or should have known it would cause backlash

> Getting your panties in a bunch when the wrong colored person uses ebonics.

So progressive!

I agree it's dumb, but they should have known this would happen

So what... Maybe a black person was helping come up with the one liners or was someone that enjoys black comedians.

Or, it's just from the cat chart meme.

😂😂😂

/r/AbsoluteUnits is very problematic? Can we unpack this?

I always forget how fucking massive that guy was

Seriously, I think he gets bigger every time I see him.

Fedora man on the left is just as in awe of the size of that lad as we are.

Fun fact it's 90 percent muscle

Don't think he's gonna out live the queen

Implying Lizzy was mortal to begin with.

You made an error with this post.

in awe at the size of this lad

his suit and pants are completely triangular

People who use unpack in a turn of phrase should pack it up and fuck off.

There's a lot of bitterness and unjustified resentment in your comment from a seemly innocent remark. Are you a young straight white male? We should take this apart. And that's the tea.

Are you a young straight white male?

two out of four, at best.

imagine using "problematic" 100% unironically

yikes

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WELCOME, TO ZOMBOCOM

JINKIES

ZOO WEE MAMA

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ZIIIIINGA!!!!!

(((yikes))) did this?

Let's unpack this

Sweety, is this really the hill you want to die on?

We need to do better.

I thot being a fat black thicc lady was cool?

Not my circus

Twitter, do your thing

Yikes. Oof. Wow. Literally? I cant beleive this in CURRENT YEAR! Oh you sweet summer child. Are you serious right now?

Sweaty please

We need to talk about

bussy?

Y'all folks, this is really gross and icky.

gross and icky.

You can't use gross and icky like that as it oppresses sexual fluids and therefore is a form of sex negativity.

This but unironically

Yikes.

OH sweaty...

They call in professional woke spergs just to deal with these social media faux pas emergencies.

Abby is a thicc girl What an absolute unit She c h o n k Look at the size of this lady OH LAWD SHE COMIN Another Internetism !

Lololol that poor otter

Hey everyone. It has come to our attention that some of the references in this tweet are problematic and insensitive. We're posting here in the thread so that people who have engaged with this tweet will join us in our learning moment. 1/4

If our tweet alienated you, please know that we are deeply sorry, and that we offer our sincerest apologies. If you follow our feed, we often reference popular memes to talk about the ocean. In this case, the memes used had connotations we were unaware of until now. 2/4

In particular, several terms referenced originated from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and specifically reference Black women's bodies. Using them in a sea otter meme without that background makes insinuations we never intended. We need to do better. 3/4

FUCKING LMAO

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the ocean, and we're thankful for your support as we try to advance that mission on social media. We're also thankful for those of you out there pointing out our blindspots and how we can improve. Thanks everyone. 4/4

...those terms came from a fucking cat size chart meme holy shit

African American Vernacular English

Are you fucking kidding me?

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Is it wrong to use that word not 00% unironically around your tumblr friends

Unironically thinking that using the word "problematic" 100% unironically is problematic.

is it problematic that i don't find this problematic?

probably

😵

People who uses problematic unironically's existences are ironically unironically problematic.

😜

"learning moment" is about the gayest thing i've ever seen

🤔

I think that pisses me off the most. “Problematic” is a neutral word. It just means something is causing problems. It’s somehow become a word that’s only used in that socio-political context.

In the past couple months, I made a website for my Dad that sells products. We had to figure out shipping. (At purchase calculator, flat rate, or “free” which meant the prices of the products would go up.) I knew “free” shipping would cause a lot of problems due to variance in weight, size, and customer location.

I almost described “free” shipping as “problematic”, but got hung up on the current usage of the word. I had to explain what I was talking about in detail to be clear that I wasn’t saying that it would be offensive. (I’m sure someone would find a reason to get offended by “free shipping” though.)

I swear that word triggers me. In the sense that I want to punch anyone who says it.

u removed my sticky

shhh bb is okay.. give it a few more mins

tfw you thought you were the bull but it turned out you were the cuck all along

which one am I in this analogy/simile/metaphor?

also unrelated but I want you to sleep with my wife

He was right to do it.

True, I've really gotten out of hand lately. I'm even planning my stickies days in advance, no joke

If it's any consolation, none of them look like you've had days to plan them.

thanks, that genuinely means a lot

I bet you have a Trello board for this

You need to get it together

Lol that otter is a fat fucking pig. he should prob mod /r/blackladies

lol that otter is a fat fucking pig

This but unironically

That is one big girle otter

big

Curvy*

T H I C C

The complaint I could find fucking universe brain take there.

Goddammit, people need to stop listening to woke mulattos.

"oy vey" - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Textbook cultural appropriation.

what the fuck is that neck

this is why mayocide uses the one drop rule

SEMI-WHITE-FEMINISM

His name us literally Chonda Weinstein

(((woke mulattos)))

At least there are people telling her she's fucking insane. Still, the amount of people who agree is terrifying. My favorite is the woman who said she was terrified but didn't know why. Race baiting, virtue signaling nut cases

There's literally no one agreeing with her in the comments

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She is/was insufferable

black women for wages for housework

This is like one of those things cb2 says nobody supports and is just a sjw strawman but they all unironically support anyway

"I want a reward for cleaning the house!"

THE CLEAN HOUSE IS THE REWARD.

What about stray skillets and couch change?

There is wages for housework, you just have to do it at other people's houses. It's called being a maid. Additionally, not having to pay a maid is effectively payment for doing housework

Getting half your husband's income while doing one tenth the work is the reward. Shit like this makes me wish I was gay.

Jew... not surprised

lol @ whichever of her parents ate up their own propaganda

I'm a little impressed by how ugly she is. Looks like Syd from ice age.

I've always found it kind of weird that the way Southerner's speak was labeled African American Vernacular English.

🤠🤠🤠 Ya'll 🤠🤠🤠

🤠Howdy🤠

It's not. The way Southerners speak is labelled Southern American English or Southern White Vernacular English. Those dialects are related to AAVE but it's not considered the same.

What differentiates them?

deez nuts

GOTTEM

Vocabulary, and to a lesser extent grammar and pronunciation. Cba to provide examples so here's a link to Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English

Is that "cant be arsed"?

Yeah

Race, the social construct.

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think George bush says things like "finna roll up on these niggas and they ratchet ass hoes"

These people should me shot on sight. This somehow made me irrationally angry. It was a fucking meme you sensitive Cunt

Try to remember they have zero impact on your life and are likely deeply unhappy with their lives.

how do I make a drama thread about this comment tbh

BlackandSTEM Asst. Prof of Particle Physics&Cosmology, #STS/#HistSTM. agender cissex woman,

YIKES

agender... woman?

wait wait

wait wait wait

wait wait

same

yeah like

those things pretty explicitly relate to gender

To woke people sex means biological sex, wheras gender is about what you feel like you are. "Cissex agender" means "I'm a woman and always have been but I don't feel like one". It doesn't make much sense.

🎶turn around bitch, I've got a use for you...and I'm bored 🎶

A U T I S M

A U T I S M

Youvdontveven have to make it to "woman". Cissex means their "mental gender" aligns with their physical one. You know the exact opposite of agender

It's over for STEMcels

agender cissex woman,

I'm gonna need some help over here.

They have a vagina but don’t think they are either male or female.

lol how do these fucking people even exist

how were they raised

how does this HAPPEN

I don't think they even exist outside college campuses

i never saw any of this shit in my undergrad or graduate programs

what the hell happened to college

proud GEDcel for life

AAVE developed to talk about Black women's bodies

excuse me? "she thicc" is inherently black, huh? fuck off

I think it was the 'o lawd' but regardless I'm gonna say the N word

do non-black people not say "oh lawd"

I think it becomes AAVE when you spell it wrong.

Yes it is representing how one pronounces "lord" with a southern drawl

... are all southerners black

Jimmy Comey does it on the Hill.

but regardless I'm gonna say the N word

MRS. OBAMA GET DOWN

NIGGA

What's stealing a bit of slang compared to stealing a whole language?

there is a kernal of truth there in that spelling words with two Cs started with the Crips and then sort of migrated online

given that meta-humor mostly boils down to fucking with grammar and spelling, I'm not inclined to believe you

i just had a beer last night called "thicc"

did I drink cultural appropriation

In fact, my UNH colleague @Queen_Diva6 has a new paper out about memes of Black women and the, "technological auction block where Black women’s bodies, aesthetics, and experiences are vilified for viral enjoyment."

Do i just eat cyanide at this point

Do i just eat cyanide at this point

Just do it regardless

Thats the plan

Yes, for being a r/drams user.

i mean i'd prefer they eat it

oy vey

Holy shit that's the legendary shnoz herself!

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That womans body mass is about 60% neck and nose

She looks like those blue creatures from Avatar

Dead

Why are we letting manatee faces comment on perfect Otter body shape? Is this what the Ott race has come too? HEIL OTTLER!

YIKES!!

That photo offends me! Apologize at once!

Chanda Prescod-(((Weinstein)))

Religion of peace strikes again.

agender woman

Hmmmmm

#BlackandSTEM Asst. Prof of Particle Physics&Cosmology, #STS/#HistSTM. agender cissex woman, tweets by/for me only. #DisorderedCosmos coming from @NationBooks

Portsmouth/Cambridge/Wakanda

Yikes Yikes and more Yikes

DJ Qualls looks pretty different than on Citizen Z, tbh

G'damn, she's appropriating stretch armstrong (white culture) with that reach.

Chanda is a classic wokeist and wants us to decolonize Mars before we get there

someone hired this intellectual abortion

ship of the redskins and niggs to Mars

🐎👞

My favorite is this:

Yes, thank you @IBJIYONGI

! I saw this yesterday and was horrified, even though I couldn't quite make the connection between language and image that you explained eloquently.

She was horrified with no reasons until this "academic" explained. They are litterally insane

Can you link to a tweet above or below her one? Seems like she subscribed to a blocking list.

Open in incognito/private/whatever mode.

Most races are normal.

White People Mind Disease however, makes the sufferer project their own insecurities into social media lashing outs.

"A fat otter using internet slang? Why are they talking about how obese all nigresses are??? This tweet needs to come down or I have to deal with the fact this otter makes me think of all those obese nigresses"

- Victim of White People Mind Disease

that's a fuckin giraffe

The level of awareness here is asymptotically approaching zero.

Asymptotic approach is when a curve gets ever closer to a line or point as a coordinate gets larger, without ever reaching it.

What he is literally saying here is that as, let’s assume, time goes on, the level of awareness will get closer and closer to zero awareness, but never actually reach zero awareness.

So instead of just saying they have no awareness or next to no awareness, he’s decided what he wants to say is that they’re getting ever closer to no awareness, but they will always have some awareness. Because then he can use a long sciency word that he thinks makes him sound smart because he’s a complete moron.

Tweet protected now, what did it say?

Archived: http://archive.is/VKcS5

"I'm certain that @MontereyAq didn't realize that they were basically comparing Black women to animals by using AAVE developed to talk about Black women's bodies to describe an animal. But that's pretty bad, MBA."

agender cissex woman

🧐🧐🧐

otters are rapists

there, I said it. No one has the balls to stand up to the otter menace, but I do. I bravely do.

Yeah but they are adorable so who cares

reported for being a otter rapist apologist

OMGGG disgusting otter rape enablers!

r/Incels was rite!

INFOWARS.COM

This guy BrainForces(TM)

They sleep holding hands tho :3

Is that true?

This part stuck out the most.

But they don't just kidnap babies. Sea otters also rape baby seals to death.

Almost all animals are rapists. Rape, and being raped, comes as natural as taking a shit to them

Otters actually fight for it though. I'm not super familiar with other animal mating habits but otters can leave pretty visible injuries on each other from the whole process.They end up looking like seal attack survivors.

Well obviously female otters don't want to be raped, thus the damages, but y'know biology don't care.

Look up dolphins, or ducks, if you want to find out just how horrible animals can be.

Same with ducks, but there's fucking Duck Tales, celebrating it. Fucking rape apologists at Disney, hope they get raped.

We should ban apologising tbh.

ban apologising

Day of the rake?

No the mean Canadians get a pass.

Day of the short rakelet. ):

This will finally shut down woke capital.

13.5k likes, 3.6k retweets are no match for the 10 comments bitching about appropriation

Holy shit, the amount of bowing, scraping, and begging is truly impressive and pitiable.

I think my people have gone to far this time.

Well bro, this is the society you are going to get if you keep up your mayo ways.

Hey, I've long been a proponent of the mayocide.

Why did they have to apologize, and validate these vapid sensitive types?

they made the mistake of hiring some retard PR faggot who told them apologizing is a good idea in this case

So did they have an employee fluent in woke on standby to handle an incident like this or did they immediately contact a PR firm after 3 Twitter whines?

They have two college students who are constantly fighting over the keyboard.

One loves shit old memes and ones a sociology student.

she honestly makes a good point that I agree with. mayos keep talking in black slang online and somehow don’t see that as mocking. this is the same crowd of people who are upset over everything.

*scheming Jew hands

It’s not mocking it’s how language evolves.

It’s only mocking if there is mocking intend.

And this woman on Twitter was saying this term is used to describe black female otters. Nonsense. It’s used to describe bodies, I’ll agree, even female almost always I’ll agree. But it isn’t racial except coincidentally inasmuch as speakers of AAVE may be more likely to be describing a black female. But you can definitely use the term to describe someone of any race (or species...)

So the only possibly legitimate point is if the appropriation was meant to mock the way black role talk (doubt it), or just to seem “relevant” by using that newfangled slang of the kids these days (more likely).

it is mocking though. the employee is writing that way because it is silly to talk that way. it's part of the joke.

it's playing on the mental image of a black man on the street saying "oooh she thicc"

/>Since most of the don’t sweat it comments, appear to be from white, or no picture posters, I’m going on a limb and say that it remains demeaning to black humans and isn’t necessary to spread your message or awareness. Maybe let people of color manage your Twitter account.

Apparently the apology wasn’t good enough lmfao

It never is.

Is there any research cited for that?

a

but doesn't this chart basically say that only Bantu blacks are actual full 100% humans and the rest of us are filthy hybrid undermen?

This is why you never apologize to these retards. You're better off doubling down.

Never apologize

Can u link to that tweet? I’ve tried looking for it in the thread on Twitter and I’m starting to give up.

"African American Vernacular English" The most politically correct term for "niggerspeak" I've heard yet.

This tweet.

I’ve reported your explicitly racist tweet and wanted to add that such asinine comments only show your own lack of knowledge. AAVE has its own grammar and is more complex than SAE in ways, like the habitual ‘be.’

And the reply.

Is this dude getting banned for that tweet? I assume so but it has been up for 5 hours now.

I don't understand why AAVE is more politically correct than Ebonics if the whole point is that there's no such thing as a superior or correct language or words. The term itself was invented by an African-American psychologist.

Ebonics isn't used in part because it has political connotations, and in part because the naming of AAVE is more similar to how other dialects are named. It also never really caught on in academia. Using the term AAVE isn't SJW nonsense, it's an attempt to keep linguistics a non-biased science.

there's no such thing as a superior or correct language or words

Said by someone who obviously doesn't know shit about linguistics. There's no "correct" language in the sense that people in rural areas or minorities aren't inferior for speaking a different dialect than the standard language. But that doesn't mean that words don't mean anything.

Do most linguists think schools should teach these dialects?

I don't know. I think most linguists agree that schools should teach minority languages (Low German, Basque, Occitan, etc.) in areas where they're spoken but I don't really know if that applies to dialects like AAVE too.

that people in rural areas or minorities aren't inferior for speaking a different dialect than the standard language.

Wrong.

Your first mistake was thinking that same rules apply to plebs like us as to the woke crowd.

I can’t see it. Link?

I kinda figured Twitter replies stayed in the same place. It was at the top. It would be deleted now anyhow.

I both love and hate your comments. I laugh, then I cry.

lol gay i just laugh

I don't want to live on this planet anymore, faith in humanity lost, reddit dot com

Imagine caring about humanity still LMAO

this account makes me laugh every single time

SJW = Social Justice Walruses

Let's pretend they're right for a moment, what's so bad about comparing African American women to otters? In central American countries people often give each other endearing nicknames based on Animals. In San Pedro, Guatemala i got the nickname Oso Rabioso which means angry bear. I got it because I was hitting on a bar tender and she said "I'd rather be mauled by a bear than sleep with you" in Spanish of course. After I asked my guatemalan friend to translate the name stuck

You sure you didn’t get bit by a bat 🦇? Rabioso means rabid.

some where out there in the cold vaccum of space a team of alien scientists are trying to prevent a comet from smashing earth into pretzels. After seeing the Twitter post, they are like fuck it let the comet end the pathetic,whiny,cucked, human race.

With pussies like her, humanity is doomed to rot in this miserable hell hole

If an otter has a girlfriend, is that his significant otter?

7 year old Reddit pun

this is why God hates us

If an otter has a girlfriend

Nobody tell him 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nah it's his beard

heteronormativity smh

wew lad

The otter should be sacrificed for the verbal hate crime they committed.

Bleh it's a PR stunt

The original post was hilarious

They killed that otter

I’m more confused about the original tweet

Is social marketing just zoomer shit now? I’m sure more gen x’ers and boomers use it

Fat "people" are disgusting.

The apology is somehow more cringy than the memes.

I’m an otterkin so it’s ok that I fapped to the pic.

TIL speaking like a drooling retard is trademarked by basketball americans

It's private now

Damn, it wasn't private until like 15 minutes ago. And she was tweeting normally too. Wonder what happened.

OTTERS ARE LITERALLY BROWN/BLACK, YOU IDIOT

HOW DARE YOU SAY THIC THATS BLACK TALK YOU CANT USE BLACK TALK

Fucks sake this world has turned to shit

They should apologize for the fucking doggo-talk.

peak black fragility

I've always wanted to see a flooded aquarium, you know .

If the glass breaks, and water and sea-life fills up the whole lower floor.

its over for aquarium-cels

I'd fuck that otter. There, I said it.

I can't tell which tweet I hate more

Monterey Bay Aquarium makes a great guide on sustainable seafood. I feel like, if anything, this drama is a good opportunity to promote Seafood Watch.

I think I might have memorized a good portion of their recommendations.