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The origin of the word "monkey" is for the animal and "master" for skilled person or hierarchical boss while the origin of the word "ricer/ricing/riced" is explicitly and only a racist insult
You would've went wild in the USA during slavery times
"ricing" means customisation, that's it. That's the context. It's not about the origin of the word, otherwise the "f"-word that ends with "t" should be used in your own logic. "gay" was used pejoratively during medieval time, does it mean when we're calling homosexual people that proudly label themselves as that is being homophobic here? It's about the meaning of the word in the context where it's being used. If "ricing" is being used in the context of de, then I don't see a problem here. If you use "ricing" to describe anything that appears loud to you, then for sure you're being racist.
"f*ggot doesn't mean gay people"
"tr*p doesn't mean trans people"
"why can't I nword if it's in a hip-hop song, they use it"
"g*psy doesn't refer to Romani, it's just what you say"
"r*dskins is a traditional name for my football team it's not racist!"
You get to join this long line of people talking absolute crap, desperately trying to avoid change because you're incapable of self-reflection and admitting you've been blind to this mistake for so long. You will piss and whine and piss and whine about it until eventually accepting it, like all the others historically.
These are of course bad words, but it ignores words that have decreased in sensitivity as they've moved away from their original meaning. How much intent should we unknowingly accept from words we don't know the origins of?
The word "daft" used to be used as a term for someone "crazy" or "mad". Nowerdays this has been socially softened to be used when someone makes a basic mistake.
Lame used to be for someone physically impaired but now is used to denote something that's uncool.
And then if we wanna dive super deep into it and we look at a lot of high fantasy, the origins are possibly abhorant. Some species are believed to have been directly influenced by racial stereotypes in their formation.
Should all high fantasy be destroyed because of this? Or have we socially evolved past using those comparisons as a way to separate each other in society?