evidence points to “Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements” being a “backronym”, an abbreviation that was invented after the word was already in usage – have you ever heard anyone calling an american or european car a “rice”?
anyway, happily the c/unixporn moderator didn’t agree that it’s possible for people not targeted by a racist term to reclaim it for themselves, and that it’s not the responsibility of folks pointing out a word’s bigoted history to find an alternative, and racist terminology is now banned 😌
step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym “Race Inspired Car Enhancements”
step 4: discover that “ricing” was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice
step 5: stop using the word in the context of “mods”
![[Sway] another nord rice](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/15dc57a4-305c-48b2-8e63-54f585578c7e.png){kind=link}
the word “rice” in this context has a super racist history and I beg you to look it up and then stop using it.
nice desktop tho
There’s nothing inherently racist about using the term in the context of customizing a desktop.
this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like “pcmasterrace”. words mean things, their origins matter
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evidence points to “Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements” being a “backronym”, an abbreviation that was invented after the word was already in usage – have you ever heard anyone calling an american or european car a “rice”?
anyway, happily the c/unixporn moderator didn’t agree that it’s possible for people not targeted by a racist term to reclaim it for themselves, and that it’s not the responsibility of folks pointing out a word’s bigoted history to find an alternative, and racist terminology is now banned 😌
sadly of course “pcmasterrace” went the other direction, polling a bunch of self-selected edgelords about the name went about as expected
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@triplenadir @comalnik I beg you to please explain, how that’s possible?
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step 1: go to your favourite search engine
step 2: type “origin of the term ricing”
step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym “Race Inspired Car Enhancements”
step 4: discover that “ricing” was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice
step 5: stop using the word in the context of “mods”
step 3 takes some nuance, fair enough