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.
It has a new meaning now. No one cares and few would bother looking up where it comes from. Languages are dynamic and change all the time. The word faggot meant a stick of wood but now it means something else and few would use it to refer to someone else. This doesn’t mean we should change literature that was written before this change. tl;dr: the meaning has changed and no one cares.
Nobody is asking to change “literature” all were asking is that we develop new and better terminology for this niche that doesn’t also come with racist baggage.
Ooo can you tell the class what that word means now? And what it’s used for? Your example falls flat because this situation and the historical pattern you’re referring to aren’t as comparable as you think they are.
PSA: racists love words with multiple meanings because it gives them plausible deniability. This is happening right now in this thread. Changing the word “rice” would deal a huge blow to racists as it would show that the unixporn comm will not be beholden to the status quo.
The words F-g and F----t are used in UK parlance daily as slag for a cigarette and a pork offel meatball respectively. The word “f-g” falls out my gob so naturally when refering to a cigarette I always have to check myself on American run sites.
You can write it out this is not reddit
You can write it out, no need to censor yourself. You’re not calling someone a faggot, are you ? you’re being descriptive about the usage of that word. Censorship creates stigma, we have to recognize when to do it (= when usage is intended harm)
most semi decent Lemmy instances filter out slurs
Again, I’m so used to Reddit with it’s automods and lack of nuance that I’ve had to train myself to censor it. I got a strike there from the admin on a UK specific sub for using it once, lol.
Instances may have individual filters which will automatically censor the individual word when federated, so no need to do it yourself 👌
I believe female 4 legged domestic pet is one of them on lemmy.ml or lemmy.world
I won’t start my dog breeding community over there then, lol.
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The word has not changed that much in common use (as far as it gets common at all). Ricing your car still has derogatory undertones, and even if you aren’t aware, it still has racist undertones as well if you think about it at all. Just because you aren’t aware if it doesn’t mean the affected people aren’t. If you said ricing in this context around me, I’d assume you’re ignorant at best, and deliberately racist and trying to offend me at worst