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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Is anyone really complaining, or just afraid?
There is a difference between “I am not comfortable help me” and “you need to do as I say”.
Being open to other points of view is only good right?
And yet that is not the vibe, at all. I have only said … you do you. White knighting and telling others they are doing it wrong suppresses what should be a chill creative club.
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I am not looking to open your closed mode of thought. However, I'm afraid I have to disagree that
riceis racist. I have experienced actual racism; not imaginary, not potential, but real and dangerous, the full-throated embodiment of human hate. It is awful and traumatic.Some folks making cool desktop customizations and calling it
riceas a cyberpunk / counter-cultural hacker term is neither racist nor awful.Flip-side, this entire thread makes
riceeven cooler, now that there is a segment of people who have said "booo", it will be all but entrenched.Personally, I like /c/unixporn/"Mah Desktop $ Shot"
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Curious they used the term "white knighting" because that term is forever tainted by gamergate chuds using it to disparage or dismiss anyone calling out misogyny and has a direct lineage to the term SJW. 🤔