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Have you ever heard it as a blanket for Asian people? Never in my life. It's always been about cars
Its a term invented to make fun of specifically Asian men customizing their cars. The implicit connotation is "your car is bad because it is customized for looks and not racing, like an Asian person would." It shares the same roots as incels calling Asian incels ricecels.
You're the only one using it for asian men
Oh no, you got me. I solo wrote the Wikipedia page describing the origins of the term and its racist roots and all the citations linked from there, especially the ones written before I was born. I'm also personally sock puppetting the dozen or so accounts telling you you're wrong.
Or, and I know this will be a big stretch, you could change your wordview a single iota in response to new information and put forth the negligible effort to not use it anymore.
Rice burner != ricer
Its unbelievably funny how little you read
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Some of us leave our rooms. Yes I've heard it a lot throughout my life. Not as much recently, but the newer generations seem to be more respectful. Not that the bar was very high for that.
Jesus fuck, where do you live where people are that racist?
I've spent time in almost all 50 US states and they're all pretty racist. So I don't know where you're spending time where racism isn't a thing. Judging by your comments on here you're most likely turning a blind eye to it.
A lot of goodhearted people also just seem to be completely ignorant of it too. Plenty of people will say something racist, say they're not racist when you point it out, and immediately express deeply rooted racist opinions afterwards. But they're nice to you right now, cause they're too nice to be racist.
Literally anywhere outside of major cities. I've experienced in your face racism in most places under at least half a million in population.
I swear these people spend more time learning ye olde slurs and making up new ones than actual racists.
All they want to do is change what we call stuff, its about having power and influence.
But they often have the ear of the authorities, (here its the mods), and thats nearly as good.
No, just complaining about people who try this stuff.
And tbh, I get sucked into internet arguments way too easily.
No, there are just a metric shit ton of English words and terms that hail from our very much more racist past, and we would like our speech to reflect our values and not the values of our KKK grandparents.