Misconceptions of Slang, Tone Policing, and TikTok with EK Powell

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tone policing is a way of invalidating what someone is saying because of how they’re saying it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It goes beyond literal tone–too loud, too brash, too animated–and extends to using slang or African American Vernacular English and beyond. It often assumes that the speaker is uneducated, rendering their opinions or experiences as null and void.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">EK Powell joins Erica to discuss tone policing and respectability politics, how content creators are pushing back and influencing media, and why you can’t address everybody.</span></p> <p><strong>In this discussion:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How respectability politics and tone policing create an obligation to assimilate</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How content creators are pushing back against respectability politics</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How calling words slang or jargon applies different implied value to language</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why showing up authentically means you can’t address everybody</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Connect with Our EK Powell:</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Instagram:</span> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/whatsgoodenglish/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@whatsgoodenglish</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">TikTok:</span> <a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@whatsgoodenglish"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@whatsgoodenglish</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">YouTube:</span> <a href= "https://www.y