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That is actual bs. Rice doesn’t bother me - I don’t read rice with a racial connection, at all. Just doesn’t exist for me. It is food and something that’s been customized.
I say fuck it. Shatter the limitations of fraudulent history; don’t just go punk, go full cyberpunk.
The major culture is hung up in non issues; and why not? So go counter to the culture:
rice your desktop.
You do you however. I am not here to say how you should think and do.
It's a term used to racially exclude people by calling Asian car enthusiasts tacky posers. Is that really the energy we want to bring (or rather keep) to the Linux community?
I'm curious if we have a detailed historic analysis of the origin of the term.
I always figured it came form the "rice burner" mocking for Japanese motorbikes and cars. I figured this was mostly a pick about their relatively low performance. Aside from the "Asians eat rice" source material, is that intended as an insult to Asians in general, or more directed to the design committees at Toyota and Honda-- that they couldn't design a car capable of burning petrol?
To try a parallel concept: If an x86-64 enthusiast made fun of an ARM chip by saying it was "manufactured on a crumpet substrate" would that be an insult against the British, or more using that it comes from a British firm to provide vocabulary for a product-related insult?
OTOH, I never really saw the term widely used to describe a desktop configuration before here, and it feels weird because of that more than anything else. I'm trying to remember if it was seen in the "PC Case Mod" community circa 2000, because they actually used a fair number of techniques and ideas from the car tuning scene that also used the "ricing" term (lots of cold-cathode lighting and weird 12v accessories)
If you want to do the research be my guest, but I'm telling you right now, I've only ever heard the term used to mock an Asian person's car mods.
There's you answer. It is disrespect based on ethnicity.
Then you should be fine with not using the term, right? Why are you working so hard to defend a word you claim you don't see much? You have put all this effort into justifying using a word you have been told several times is racist that apparently other people don't use according to you.