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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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[–] tun@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

TIL the origin of the word.

But I am confused. Anyone offended for using the word?

When repos changed to main from master, I got problems.

People are hypersensitive over these words now.

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[–] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

I live in an obscure asian country and I rice while I eat rice.

[–] pmarcilus@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I honestly don't know what's the problem here and I'm speaking from a person coming from ASEAN which is the one of the most discriminated group of people in the Asian. You have to place the term into the context to determine whether it is racist or not. If you're describing an Asian product a ricer with the point that it is load, this is racist. Otherwise, ricing shouldn't be a problem here. But then again, if you find it offended despite not being an Asian, just use other terms that suit your taste. The "master" shouldn't and must not be used with "slave" in the same text to refer to anything that implies subjugation. But then again, how about the master who is highly skilled in their own field? What do we have to refer such people? And interestingly, not a lot of people have any feeling over the words "monkey". This term is generally used in a pejorative way to describe people from ASEAN, implying that we haven't evolved. Should we stop using the term "monkey"? A lot of these are depended on the context, if you have any little sense and basic on linguistic. In the end, I'll be still using ricing to describe my extensive customisation and you will be using other terms. If your proposed term becomes the dominant term, then for the sake of making people easier to understand what I'm saying, I will use that term too.

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[–] pearsche@lemdro.id 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

til about this, but like, I doubt anyone uses this in a racist way though, far from it.

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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (26 children)

The hexbear squad is really brigading the fuck out of this thread.

[–] s0ykaf@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

thread appears on our feeds. we comment on it.

i understand it feels bad to have your beliefs questioned, but that's not brigading, it's simply how these websites work

[–] immuredanchorite@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

there is no such thing as "brigading" in federation. it is just people commenting you don't agree with

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Noooooo don't comment on our public post on social media that we purposely allowed you to comment on wojak-nooo

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Instance has comparatively high and active userbase with a very high percentage of Linux users

Is this brigading? is-this

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