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Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation (hexbear.net)

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Meta post I've decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd.

But you definitely shouldn't use racist slang to refer to the process.

To be clear, I didn't know the origin of the term 'ricing' until fairly recently. I was chattimg with my friend and used it to describe my de setup. They informed me that apparently it's from car customization, and is a pejorative against generally asian men who customize their car to look like a racecar.

After learning this I was sad to realize just how engrained it is in linux de customization culture. I personally have stopped using the term, and I would ask everyone here stop as well.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I see a lot of assumptions that rice, not a racist term, is a racist term. shrug

You go to the grocery store, grain aisle, and there is a bag of rice. What pops into your head?

Me, a tasty grain that complements many meals.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Ricing is a racist term. I am telling you right now that it is a racist term referring to a type of car modding that Asians are stereotyped as doing. It is explicitly used to deride and exclude Asians from the car enthusiast community. Anyone who's into cars or around people who are has heard this term, but you can Google it if you want.

What does it say about you that you'll deny basic, well known facts to defend using such an exclusionary term in a tiny community with a large amount of Asians in it?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think you are making shit up.

I have been around a ton of cars and car people. Rice was never used to describe Asians.

A ford focus with a huge wing? Rice

A civic with a massive ground effects? Rice

A twin turbo Supra with nitro? Tuned.

The ethnicity of the driver or country of origin never came into it, East Coast, West Coast.

Is hoopty racist? No. Neither is rice.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh really? Do the whites you hang out with use the term refer to any car mod you don't like? Have you asked them where the term comes from?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha. I don’t make fun of ppl for their personal choices or their ideology. What is the point in that? Express yourself. Takes all kinds.

I don’t look to be offended nor look to offend.

Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I'm not making fun of anybody.

If you want me to express myself then I will: I don't like you, and if I knew you irl, I would think less of you after this conversation.

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