I honestly don’t know what’s the problem here and I’m speaking from a person coming from ASEAN which is the one of the most discriminated group of people in the Asian. You have to place the term into the context to determine whether it is racist or not. If you’re describing an Asian product a ricer with the point that it is load, this is racist. Otherwise, ricing shouldn’t be a problem here. But then again, if you find it offended despite not being an Asian, just use other terms that suit your taste. The “master” shouldn’t and must not be used with “slave” in the same text to refer to anything that implies subjugation. But then again, how about the master who is highly skilled in their own field? What do we have to refer such people? And interestingly, not a lot of people have any feeling over the words “monkey”. This term is generally used in a pejorative way to describe people from ASEAN, implying that we haven’t evolved. Should we stop using the term “monkey”? A lot of these are depended on the context, if you have any little sense and basic on linguistic. In the end, I’ll be still using ricing to describe my extensive customisation and you will be using other terms. If your proposed term becomes the dominant term, then for the sake of making people easier to understand what I’m saying, I will use that term too.

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This is the same shit as with r/animemes and the word trap back on reddit.

it’s not going to stop unless you have a good replacement

Thank you for making this post. The number of times I’ve seen the term used here lately has been bothering me.

Discussions like this always bring me back to one thing…can a word itself be racist? Is it racist to use a word if it’s not being said with racist intent? It’s reminiscent of the gimp debacle…if a words use isn’t intended to offend it’s honestly beyond me how anyone could find it offensive. Are we supposed to ban every single word that has the slightest history of being used in an offensive fashion? Feel like we’d have a really long list if we did that.

1. I’m pretty sure it is actually from a certain food (can’t remember which one) that only tastes good when lathered in rice

2. By this logic, saying words like “shit” are swear words is colonialist

hey, you’re cute :3

This is not a word made to be racist, but stolen to be one in the eyes of a few.

The mare fact that you stop using the term rice, because “it’s racist” implies that you’re being one, by saying the racists are right about using the term in a racial and derogatory way. Instead of using the word normally, as has always been here.

If tomorrow greetings becomes racist, because it’s discovered that in their origins were racists the ones who greeted themselves, will you stop greeting people?

Im pretty tired of seeing this stupid propaganda spread everywere and everyone celebrating it.

You will never be morally superior. You really are not helping any one, you have no altruist intentions, you have no repercussion on reality. You are an attention seeker twisted by social media and social engineering into a mockery of a sane person’s mind.

My Opinion is this:

1. Racist/Able-ist words were once normal words. Gay used to mean “Happy” (this applies for other words probably, but I am not able to recall at the moment)
2. Many people had no idea that ricing was a racist slang. They wanted to use it to describe a cool new thing that’s inclusive.
3. Would you agree that a word whose racist meaning is forgotten and it now referring to something inclusive and cool is a good thing in general?

Sry I’ve been an absent mod here. Would anyone like to help mod this community?

I’ve also added a no-racist terms rule to the sidebar.

Asian here and rice eater here.

Language doesn’t work in absolute way, it could change its meaning all the time.

It’s better to regain is neutral meaning instead of letting the racist weaponize neutral word.

Also, this mindset is also Western centric, go to Asia and people in Linux and car community simply use the word without any negative connotation.

Edit: By doing this, you’re no different from imperial government who tries to make one standard of morality, which in fact further hurts Asian living in Asia. And as Indonesian, I’m hurt with your statement. Let me regain the neutral meaning. Don’t speak for us.

For the sake of the American asian diaspora minorities again?

This reminds me of attacking those girls for wearing a kimono or cheongsam to a prom. The Japanese and Chinese living in Japan and China certainly don’t have an issue. It’s the Japanese/Chinese American minority community who has built their identity around it, and feels threatened by the use of their traditional clothing. Fine, the prom is in America, it’s an American problem in an American space, the local diaspora have a say there.

Unixporn on lemmy.ml isn’t American(or any one country) though, clearly there are a variety of people from every corner of the globe here. This place is positively cosmopolitan. I don’t see a reason why the “rice” term still has to be protected despite being a global platform. Just like it’s fine for any tourist to rent a kimono in Japan, it should be fine to use rice as a term here. Unless this platform were to officially become Amerian(or any other country like Fedd.it etc), this problem shouldn’t exist. I’m an rice eating asian myself, I’ll be glad if people were to associate rice with customization.

The Asian American community should keep in mind that the internet isn’t always an American space by default. I don’t think they should be gatekeeping everything Asian on a global platform.

lmao like moths to a flame

@dessalines@lemmy.ml there’s a lot of cryptofash in here begging the question that need to be banned, not merely have their comments removed

Yeah, I had absolutely no idea what “ricing” was even supposed to mean, like it doesn’t look like it’s short for anything, doesn’t seem like an acronym for anything, it’s not analogous or synonymous with anything, I can’t see how “rice” is supposed to be metaphorical at all to cool looking linux desktops, and it’s not an entirely new word like “rizz” or “yeet”

So by all accounts it’s an absolutely unfitting word for what it’s describing

Knowing the racist history of the term now, yeah that makes sense and yeah I vote we move to an objectively better term

Idk what tho, maybe “decore” cuz it actually describes that the focus is the look, that the DE is the Core of the setup, and sounds cooler than “rice”

“Decore” and “Decorizing” is probably the terms I’m personally gonna use atleast

Edit: unless I find a better term, I came up with this one on the stop