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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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[–] SchrodingersPat@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leaning into the "porn" part of unixporn, we could say we"fluffed" our setup. Because like fluffers, we're making things bigger an more attractive to show off.

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[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of you need your blood pressure checked

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[–] Eggscellent@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think the racists connotation came first, but I also heard it explained as an acronym - "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement"

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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (29 children)

The hexbear squad is really brigading the fuck out of this thread.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

400 comments total is rookie numbers. You should check out the news posts involving either Russia, China, or Taiwan. Or check out this post where the admins of lemm.ee asked for the users' opinions of whether to defederate from hexbear.net. There are 1884 comments. (There was once more than 1900 comments, but I guess the mods removed some.)

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

too much discussion on your discussion platform?

[–] NormalC@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy user when they complain about people commenting on their social media site stupidpol

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not a pejorative toward asian men at all. Not everyone is as racist as you.

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[–] Alfredolin@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

So you are saying, all this time, we have been ricists!?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I first heard the term "ricer" from some Asian kids I knew in high school so I've never really considered it racist. But then... The N word is also mostly used by black guys (in my experience; don't run into too many super racist people who use it) and it is racist so... 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Discussions like this always bring me back to one thing...can a word itself be racist? Is it racist to use a word if it's not being said with racist intent? It's reminiscent of the gimp debacle...if a words use isn't intended to offend it's honestly beyond me how anyone could find it offensive. Are we supposed to ban every single word that has the slightest history of being used in an offensive fashion? Feel like we'd have a really long list if we did that.

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