They stole "based" Now i've seen the wokes stealing the word "tourist" whenever an actual fan complains about wokeness in pop culture .
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If 4chan popularized it, then it wasn't rap. it was a word already, so a rapper can't invent it. And then as far as its usage, it seems to have traveled round the world and come to the dissident right through 4chan. The implication saying it was invented by a rapper is that a) it belongs to black people or b) white people got it in some kind of wigger fashion, which isn't the case. There are definitely words white people have gotten from rap in precisely that fashion. I just don't think "based" is one of them.
In terms of the current dissident right I certainly agree with you that the usage of based is all but unrelated to the rapper's usage of the word.
Having said that, I don't think burying your head in the sand and pretending there's no relation what-so-ever is something I can abide. For starters, it's hardly the kind of thing you're worrying about. It's not like some weirdo leftist adding "y'all" to their tweets to ingratiate themselves with the darkies or some shit. It's active mockery. /pol/'s original use of based, in typical 4chan fashion, was a mockery of the term, those who used it and everything it stood for.
My stance on the matter is that while it's wrong to say that the dissident right have the rapper to "thank" for based, it did originate from mockery of that rapper's bullshit. Considering that, I don't think he or anyone else can realistically claim he has "ownership" over based in the way it's currently used. Whatever the fuck that would even mean.