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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] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My Opinion is this:

  1. Racist/Able-ist words were once normal words. Gay used to mean "Happy" (this applies for other words probably, but I am not able to recall at the moment)
  2. Many people had no idea that ricing was a racist slang. They wanted to use it to describe a cool new thing that's inclusive.
  3. Would you agree that a word whose racist meaning is forgotten and it now referring to something inclusive and cool is a good thing in general?
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the origin isn't gone nor forgotten, this post is saying exactly that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This post made sure that it will not be forgotten. Good job for opening an old wound!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

okay, lemmy user 'eskimofry'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's what suppose to mean? Discounting his opinion because his username has the word Eskimo in it?

Just because something references race doesn't mean it's racist.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's what suppose to mean? Discounting his opinion because his username has the word Eskimo in it?

yes

gigachad-hd

and i'm discarding yours as well

'reference to race' lmao give me a break

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, I'm glad. I wouldn't want to engage with someone as condescending and rude as you, either. The less people talk with you the better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

hog out or log out liberal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

...you should maybe have just read the page I linked rather than doubling down on this one, friend; this isn't a good look

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I would disagree that the racist meaning is forgotten. It's still very alive in modern car culture, where I've also heard this term used far more than in linux communities anyway.

This term is still offensive to me as a part of the targeted minority. You do not get to dismiss the pain it causes me just because you were ignorant of it until now, and you do not get to tell me that it's now non offensive just because you want to keep using it.