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Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

Sheesh, there sure are a lot of hexbear users here piling onto anybody with a different opinion

Edit: I went ahead and queried the lemmy database from a federated instance I have access to.

These are the top 3 instances commenting in this specific post at the time of writing (2023-08-25 08:02 UTC):

instance   | count
-------------+-------
hexbear.net |   205
lemmy.ml    |   106
lemm.ee     |    61

These are the top 3 instances and their comment counts on any post in lemmy.ml/c/unixporn this month at the time of writing:

domain    | count
-------------+-------
lemmy.ml    |   210
hexbear.net |   210
lemm.ee     |   100

You're reading that right, hexbear has a whopping FIVE comments in this community that are not part of this post.

For the curious, those 5 comments at the time of writing are:

One of which is especially hilarious as we see a hexbear user that's been railing on people in this post using the very term they're condemning here. Strong convictions? Perhaps bandwagoning the hexbear teet? Who knows. Definitely not suspicious 🙄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Those different opinions being... using racist terms? Just to get that straightened up

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Look ma, another one! Do you all take shifts on duty watching this thread?

Different opinions being challenging your collective definition of the word being inherently racist. You can hem and haw all you want but meanings can change over time. If it can start being used racially at one point it can surely stop at another.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

sicko-biker NEW POSTER REPORTING FOR DUTY!

do you ''different-opinion-havers'' also take shifts whenever there's a racist term to defend?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are you stirring up shit about a word that a majority of users associate with Linux modding? What number of people exactly know the old meaning? Is your teaching the people that it's a racist word help anyway?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

because it's racist. learn to take mild criticism and adjust behavior. it's not hard and it's a basic part of living with other people.

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