The “birfer” slur has always sounded RACIST to me. Is Cynwoody mocking African Americans?
African American English
http://www.pbs.org/speak/education/curriculum/high/aae/
No topic in sociolinguistics has been studied more than the history and the structure of African American English (AAE). Also referred to as African American Vernacular English (AAVE), Black English, and Ebonics, there is debate on the status of African American English as a distinct dialect of American English spoken by many African Americans or as a language in its own right. (See Rethinking Schools, “The Real Ebonics Debate.”)
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Pronunciation Features
AAE also has distinctive pronunciation features. Perhaps most stereotypical is pronouncing these, with, and birthday with a “d”, “t”, or “f” replacing the “th” sounds of Mainstream English (“dese,”“wit,” and“birfday”).
It certainly does sound racist.
From the Urban Dictionary:
2. Birfday: The ghetto version of “birthday”
Why you sleepin wif so many hoes on my birfday?
3. Birfday: An African American word for birthday.
Natasha gave birf to her 3rd child on her 17th birfday.
5. birfday: The way some uneducated black people pronouce the english word “birthday”.
yo its mah birfday dawg u kno wat im sayin
6. birfday: how a black person says ‘birthday’
“Yo man, it’s muh birfday taday.”
Don’t axe duble country dentified homies bout engrish..
Etymology is not your field, Smokey. Sorry, there is no BEV / Ebonic connection, LOL.
Birtherism was likely invented by Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign, as the magic nuke to take out her primary opponent. But she was smart enough to drop it when her minions were unable to substantiate it.
One of the Hildebeest's supporters was nutcase Phil Berg, and he was not so smart. He had already gained a measure of fame as a 9/11 truther, or, less politely, troofer (with spittle). Thus, when he began chasing up the BC blind alley, his opponents morphed truther into birther and troofer into birfer. And it stuck.
So, you see, birtherism was originally a leftist cause.