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.

  • Parculis Marcilus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    "ricing" means customisation, that's it. That's the context. It's not about the origin of the word, otherwise the "f"-word that ends with "t" should be used in your own logic. "gay" was used pejoratively during medieval time, does it mean when we're calling homosexual people that proudly label themselves as that is being homophobic here? It's about the meaning of the word in the context where it's being used. If "ricing" is being used in the context of de, then I don't see a problem here. If you use "ricing" to describe anything that appears loud to you, then for sure you're being racist.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      "f*ggot doesn't mean gay people"

      "tr*p doesn't mean trans people"

      "why can't I nword if it's in a hip-hop song, they use it"

      "g*psy doesn't refer to Romani, it's just what you say"

      "r*dskins is a traditional name for my football team it's not racist!"

      You get to join this long line of people talking absolute crap, desperately trying to avoid change because you're incapable of self-reflection and admitting you've been blind to this mistake for so long. You will piss and whine and piss and whine about it until eventually accepting it, like all the others historically.

        • Drug_Shareni [comrade/them, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          What if you adopt a new word instead of trying to rehabilitate a racist one? Are you able to learn and use new words? Or are you too stuck in your ways to realise that words have meaning beyond the only connotation you know about?

          If only there was a far more popular word for MODifyING and customizing something, software especially.

        • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          I don't agree that it's wrong to write out slurs when talking about reclaiming them, but I edited the post out of solidarity for your experience.