• Distro: arch
  • Wm: sway
  • Terminal: alacritty
  • Bar: waybar
  • Launcher: rofi
  • Prompt: starship
  • Shell: zsh

Dots: here :)

  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      There’s nothing inherently racist about using the term in the context of customizing a desktop.

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        1 year ago

        this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like “pcmasterrace”. words mean things, their origins matter

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          the original ricers were Japanese cars (early 80s), then from there rice came to mean cars with Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements (90s) + from there we get rice’d out desktops (which is new to me but whatever).

          I am not as sure a rice desktop png is racist but if you feel like the term is opressing you or holding you back, could you consider opportunities to reclaim what is a good word (who doesn’t like rice?) and use it for positive cultural elements (modded desktops)? I don’t want to cede a good word to uninformed peoples from 40 yrs ago…history is too short to let them win!

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            1 year ago

            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 😌

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        1 year ago

        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