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

Dots: here :)

  • Teraflip@lemm.ee
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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

      • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        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 😌