image transcript: caption reads “boys when they’re ricing their arch linux twink pad” over a drawing of the boykisser cat with thigh highs on and a laptop edited in. end transcription.
Can we please replace the racist slang? I get that there’s not currently a better single word for superficial janky optimization but I’m sure one of y’all is funny enough to come up with one
Could just call it ‘twinking’
Y’know, like tweaking…but with thigh highs
Wouldn’t twinkering be better?
I think we have discussed about this before but in my opinion alone, what matters is the context, ricing in tbe linux community obiviously isn’t used in a discriminatory manner or intent, come on
I haven’t discussed this here before, you must be thinking of someone else. Anyway, in my opinion, since it’s a word explicitly created to make fun of Asian people and Asian cars, like many slurs associating a bunch of different cultures with a staple food, it kinda doesn’t matter what someone’s “intent” is when they use it.
ok I probably talked about this with someone else before then, yes but I don’t agree with you still. It isn’t really a slur when it is meant as the acronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that what I am saying is that people aren’t using the slur, they’re using the acronym(even if the word used to mean somethşng different) and the intent very much does matter because they aren’t discriminating against anyone but using a word - albeit with a dubious origin -, that means something radically different now. Language isn’t static.
That acronym was made up way later, and making up some acronym for an existing word it doesn’t magically make it ok or wipe out what it already meant. Sure language isn’t static but it still means that thing.
acronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that
Backronym. It was a racist term in the car community for decades before somebody came up with that in an attempt to whitewash it.
and the intent very much does matter
Citation needed, because every single utterance of “redskins” was racist af, even if the majority of the team’s fans never had a racist thought in their heads about native americans.
I think slurs refer to people, not objects.
But anyway, would you consider ‘krauts’ to be a slur too?
I agree slurs refer to people, but if you call a Japanese car a “rice cooker” (which is where this comes from) that’s insulting the people…
And, yeah, at least originally. “Kraut” is one of those things that really has evolved somewhat, especially through krautrock in the 70s and other things. And whether it’s racist is complex depending on definitions and blah blah blah. But it was definitely 100% coined as a slur.
So you consider yanks to be a slur and offensive right?
Polacks?
Frenchies?
Are you being for real? You dont understand the difference between calling an Asian person rice, and “Frenchie”? Smh my head
What I see is someone thinking names for white people aren’t offensive. Are you being for real? Surely you must treat all of these slurs equally right?
Pepperoni (derogatory)
You can’t say that and not include the image:
Isn’t ricing a term for car modding? How is it racist?
Yeah it is; specifically Japanese cars because Asian = rice I guess?
Removed by mod
You sound like someone who thinks the n word isn’t if it’s in lyrics
Yeah bro, agree. “Rice” is super cringe.
It gives hateful boomersowwy i didnt know ricing was racist term >~< i try make edit later today meowrrr
Why has “twinkpad” never occurred to me?? That’s brilliant.
the thighhighs are to prevent burns
real thoooo my lappytop has bad cooling and gets stinkywarm XP
Posts new photos on !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone every week
i just bought a thinkpad :3
hell yeah !!
What vintage? Is it a good year?
11e edu, type is 20DA-S06T00
had computrace, but it removed after a while on wifi
I got it permanently disabled in bios after rpcnet stopped and a reboot
Lol I don’t know much about Thinkpads. I thought it would be funny to ask what year it was made like a fine wine. Especially since there are people out there using Thinkpads from the 90s.
I like HP business laptops more
