My issue here is that I think it's incumbent upon the accuser to demonstrate that it is, indeed, imitative, rather than adoptive.  Put simply, maybe Awkwafina just talks that way sometimes?

I don’t think “recognitions” is racist; comments elsewhere certainly don’t indicate anything much to that effect. I think they’re just a believer in the argument that there’s a harder border around AAVE (and, indeed, a clearer, more static definition of what AAVE is, or means) than I do.

Thank you for that articulate and clear statement. Here is my rebuttal:

No, it doesn’t.

It’s fairly clear Luke Skywalker’s lines were recorded long before anything was filmed or any CGI was done. The actor is not acting those lines, they’re reciting them.

I feel a bit strange about this. Is it cultural appropriation to participate in a mode of speech that has more or less entered the mainstream, an outcome that in my heart of hearts seems like, basically, a Good Thing?

The fundamental problem is that it’s an uncritical position describes as a critical one. Like “now it’s on the cover of Newsweek” is not actually proof that it’s accepted as fact, nor is it evidence of credibility, but he’s sneaking the assumption that is into his statement.  He's an idiot's idea of a smart person,…

I suspect that you know what a facile argument that is, so I won't bother pointing it out.

That’s not really a ‘point’ though, is it. More just like an unremarkable consequence. The shit writer wrote a shit show! Again! Like he always does!

Sex And The City is a bad show.  The person who created it is a bad writer.  The new show is bad.  Do not expect anything except badness.

The days of extensive reshoots automatically meaning “problems” are long gone, especially for something like the ongoing Marvel project, which is kind of conceived as an ever-shifting corporate beast. The seperate films aren’t even discrete production events really, it's more like one production block emcompasses…

Listen, I’m one of many people who have been shouting the virtues of Korean tv and cinema for years, and one of the key characteristics of the mainstream Korean style is melodrama and ante-upping. That’s as it should be, in my view.

But I sort of think that doing a sequel to a perfectly self-contained bit of TV is…

You’ve got an errant 0 in your second paragraph there.  280,1000 ain’t a thing.

“...the sorts of big, literally explosive action movie...”

Yeah, there’s just something undeniable and irresistable about when the Meat Loaf/Steinmann machine was working at full speed. It doesn’t really matter what your tastes are otherwise: they penetrate everything and hit you in the viscera. You might attempt to characterise them as pompous or ridiculous, and they are…

Heat 2: Die Heater

This is a really baffling, illogical perspective. It’s almost certainly the case that a lot of people were reluctant to criticise the quality of the work based on the man’s influence in the first place, it seems to me that exaggerating the man's talent is at least in part how he became protected.

What a gross dummy baby.

Once I put the top hat on the skeleton minifigure and it blew my mind. A skeleton with a top hat! Brilliant!

It’s a ship that’s run aground, yeah. But there’s alternative build where it’s just the ship, and no shipwreck.

I was genuinely obsessed with the Lego shark as a young’un.  I used to take it everywhere with me, for some reason.