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submitted 1 year ago by blashork@hexbear.net to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

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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[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 1 points 1 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@hexbear.net 14 points 1 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

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, clearly, that is the cool an levelheaded contributions hexbear brought to this thread. Absolutely no gaslighting here.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

idk man I'm just reading OP and the only thing called "racist" is the word itself

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I never had a single problem with OP itself, the sauce is in the comments.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 13 points 1 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 1 points 1 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@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

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

You're straight-up lying, kiddo.

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