The hexbear squad is really brigading the fuck out of this thread.

It is not racist and have nothing to do with asian men. But white men who riced asian cars.

Nah, I like the term.

It refers to early 00s car culture, a race car had all go no show, a ricer had all show no go. It's just the next iteration of the term. And it's pejorative to anyone who does that shit, not asian men. I have no idea where y'all got that idea from.

That's a good point. What do you use instead?

I am disheartened but not surprised by the “obvious ethnicity based insult is not racist” comments here.

I kinda thought this conversation would eventually happen. I have mixed feelings on the subject but am generally inclined not to use the term myself as I find it distasteful. But I think there's an important consideration for those who'd like to discontinue the term rice in this community: what language would we like to use instead? Specifically a good noun for referring to a given setup we've made. In therapy they teach you that stopping a behavior is a very hard thing to accomplish, and that instead you should always try to replace a behavior- I believe that idea is very relevant here

I'd be curious to hear people's thoughts on what they'd like to use instead

Leaning into the "porn" part of unixporn, we could say we"fluffed" our setup. Because like fluffers, we're making things bigger an more attractive to show off.

Interesting question.

!pcmasterrace@lemmy.world had a kind of similar conversation, with a poll.

Maybe that's something that should happen here too?