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.
til about this, but like, I doubt anyone uses this in a racist way though, far from it.
Asian American here who’s into car culture (where the term originated). It has always been a racist term from its inception, and is still used as a racist term today, from my experience.
It’s still racist to use racist terms without deliberate or malicious intent.
It is racist to use the word intent. It is cultural appropriation
Do you want to try again or was that your best shot?
that sounds so funny ngl
