I've never viewed slang as a racial determiner... perhaps a regional, or class. I guess I'm having a little trouble making the same connections as these "critics."

Language is one of those iffy ones. I don't know anything about Tiny Tina, but while language can be a racial determiner, the regional and class aspects make it more complicated than racist/not-racist.

Like, if she grew up surrounded by a community that used that and was actively part of a community that used AAVE or some variant, you can't call that racist. But you need that background first.

But that's what I'm asking, is language racial? or regional? She doesn't use slang in any sort of mocking sense... she's a 12-13 years old orphan, and relatively insane.

Hmm... maybe I shouldn't say "language", it's phonology and slang...the language is still English.

She talks like a kid who thinks they're tough, and is emulating a dialect she associates with being tough. She's extreme, but never in a mocking way.

I feel it's being exclusionary... is jargon limited to the designated field? I dunno

Well, but if you were to go to a junior high, you'd see a shitton of kids her age talking like that, regardless of ethnicity.

If I were to really push it I could understand a "white character" speaking chicano as potentially racist. Even then I don't find pidgins and creoles to be wholly exclusive...

...And with no extensive background for the character, meh.

I always wonder how many people who actually are black are offended by this.

Because I would be willing to bet the vast majority of the people making a rukus about this are white.

Having watched that video, I can't see how anyone could come to the conclusion that her character is racist.

I mean shit, she didn't even use AAVE.

African American Vernacular English.

and she really doesn't. Like I said, she talks like a 13 year old kid who thinks they're tough.