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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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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

we were being racist very calmly and politely!

Go eat some grass nerd

[–] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Along comes another troglodyte, mothers milk dripping off his lips, hurling insults at imaginary strawmanned arguments. But hexbear is totally not a problem instance.

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

complains about a lack of civility

Immediately calls a hexbear user a troglodyte and misgenders them (despite them very obviously having their pronouns in their name like all hexbear users) after being called out for racism

thinking-about-it I wonder what social views this person could possibly have

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