'Saturday Night Live' faces mounting criticism for AAVE 'appropriation' in 'Gen Z Hospital' sketch
Moises Mendez IIMay 11, 2021, 21:36 IST
Melissa Villaseñor, host Elon Musk, Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Kate McKinnon, Bowen Yang, and Mikey Day in the "Gen Z Hospital" skit on Saturday Night LiveWill Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
"Saturday Night Live" made fun of Generation Z in a sketch called "Gen Z Hospital."
Social-media users said the show passed off African American Vernacular English as Gen Z slang.
John Rickford, a linguistics professor at Stanford University, called the sketch "an embarrassment."
"Saturday Night Live" tried to poke fun at teens during Saturday's episode with a sketch called "Gen Z Hospital," but the scene garnered major backlash online, with critics saying it tried to pass off African-American Vernacular English as Gen Z slang.