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.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    504·
    1 year ago

    minor issue

    Casual racism != minor issue

    Denial of racism != minor issue

    Unless you’re a racist

    • DrRatso
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can strip the argument of all nuance and make all the false equivelances dichotomies you want, but you can fuck right off with it while you are at it, go crawl back to your imaginary arguments in your black and white world, you are clearly not here to discuss anything in good faith. I will engage with hexbear when you offer something of substance besides your adolescent maximalism.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        401·
        1 year ago

        There isn’t any fucking nuance.

        There is us pointing out something is racist.

        There are racists claiming it is not.

        There are racists claiming that the people calling you racist are being abusive for doing so.

        That’s it. That’s the discussion. And you look pathetic for it. You were on the side of every other word I mentioned earlier too.

      • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        391·
        1 year ago

        I don’t understand how this was an issue of “lack of nuance” or “black and white” thinking… Either the term is racist or it is not? … Is it disparaging a group of people based on racial/cultural/ethnic stereotypes? Yeah. Is it reinforcing and normalizing those stereotypes and upholding an ideal “normal” that is associated with being part of the dominant group? Yeah. Does it seem petty and pedantic? Racism generally does take on a petty and pedantic character… When you go out of your way to deny these things, you are only doing it in service of upholding racist norms. You don’t have to continue to defend it, you can acknowledge that it could cause a community harm and move on with your life by avoiding the harmful behavior. Changing the way you speak might seem annoying or like an imposition, but if you think that racism is harmful and want to challenge it by being anti-racist, ultimately people have to change the way they think, speak, and behave… but it is a good change. Embrace it.

        • DrRatso
          2·
          1 year ago

          On you go with the imaginary argument. I am not with you so I must be against you, right? I do not have and never did have a problem with getting rid of the word.

          I will reitterate that the only problem I have is with the stinking garbage heap called hexbear.

          • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            351·
            1 year ago

            It is so interesting because I was engaging with you in a good faith, laying out an argument about why this might be more straightforward then you are letting on. But you called my argument imaginary and then called the instance I am a part of a garbage heap? Who is being uncivil?