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.

  • tun@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    But …

    I am an Asian living in Asia. And I wouldn’t know the racism encountered by someone over other continents. Hence the question.

    Peter Russell makes fun of India people.

    Jo Koy makes fun of Phillipine people.

    Jing Yang makes fun of Chinese people.

    Fluffy makes fun of Mexican people.

    Colored people can call each other N words.

    Even white comedians joke that the people most sensitive are the people who are not in the affected groups.

    • stuck_in_the_shell@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      I;m not gonna discuss your point about comedians because honestly that sounds nonsense to me, however the only reason I’m replying to you is because there is a keypoint in your comment:

      I am an Asian living in Asia. And I wouldn’t know the racism encountered by someone over other continents.

      This very much is why you may not see why this is an issue, if you truly are an Asian living in Asia you didn’t grow up not have experienced life as a minority group, let me tell you that despite whatever origins a person may have I’m pretty sure that every Asian person that lives in a western country could relate with the underlying racism towards them ingrained in a way that every time they try to bring this issues up they are dismissed as they were not possible of being victims of racism because a lot of Asians are successful or they skin light or whatever bullshit reason.

      There is whole problematic and systematic about this and although I have my own opinion and experiences I will not expand further as I am also not an academic, I can only speak for myself.