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.

  • JuneFall [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Your comment does not belong in this subreddit. It does not add to the topic, if you think comments don’t fit in the community do report them and move on.

    Edit You also are quite a new user to the lemmy-verse from this month (compared to multiple year old users posting to you), which mostly is reducing the quality on communities on one hand and also got quite a few comments deleted. I urge you to read up on nettiquette and change your attitude if you want to be a positive contributing influence to this community.

    • @DrRatso@lemmy.ml
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      11 year ago

      Right, because hexbear coming in shitting on everyone and calling an entire community racist for unwittingly using a racist term in a context fairly removed from the original meaning is so helpful to discourse. Im only returning blows in kind. And I am so terribly sorry ye ole lemmy wizard, for speaking out of turn. Ill wait so I can speak with the rest of us, younglings.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        141 year ago

        “It’s not common knowledge that this term has racist origins, but it does and we should stop using it” == “Y’all racist”

        yes thanks

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        131 year ago

        Nobody has called the entire community racist, the callouts have been exclusively to people like you defending a term that obviously plays with one of the most common racial stereotypes about East Asians. Taking a racist term out of context doesn’t make the term not racist, it only means that a still racist term has gained even wider use.

        • @DrRatso@lemmy.ml
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          11 year ago

          Again I have personally not once defended the use of the term, I have only ever attacked hexbear code of conduct. I even stated that I am for not using it in a since (mod) removed comment. I thought the term was dumb even before I (like most of this comm) found out about the origins through this thread. The only context in which I have defended it is in this convo and only in the aspect of the response it has gotten from hexbear, which if you don’t feel is entirely disproportionate, we have nothing more to talk about.

          • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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            141 year ago

            Again I have personally not once defended the use of the term

            You’re straight-up lying, kiddo.

              • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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                191 year ago

                It’s mommy, please edit your post while i look up your defense of racism in the modlogs. I’d have to report you for purposefully leaving up a misgendering otherwise and i don’t think your account will survive that after all these comments have already been removed.

                • @DrRatso@lemmy.ml
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                  11 year ago

                  Lmao, I won’t idulge your powertrip, which at this point is blatant. I might have if you had actually asked nicely not through a thinly veiled threat. If it doesn’t survive your report, so be it. Let the record show I included both versions because I had no clue what your pronouns are and I don’t think your infantilizing response warrants any more respect from me than that.

                  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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                    211 year ago

                    I retract my statement, of course you’re also a transphobe besiodes being a racist, a diaper fetishist and the most pathetic pencil-headed dweeb i’ve seen since federation began.

              • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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                151 year ago

                BTW this really isn’t a good look for somebody who’s already revealed their breastfeeding fetish, maybe you want to cut that part out entirely.