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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.