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I'm old, is "ricing" (along with "ricer", "rice burners", "rice rockets", etc.) no longer racist?

• LambdaComplex 5mo ago
  I think most of the people who use the term in the context of Linux desktops don't know the term's origin (or at least don't stop to think about it), so the possibility of it being racist never occurs to them.
  • wkjagt 5mo ago
    Doesn't it come from car culture? Where (mostly young) people put giant wings and shiny wheels on a clapped out Honda Civic to make it look like a race car. I always thought that "rice" was an intentional misspelling of "race" (as in "race car", which, hold on a minute, I guess would also make it race... ist?)
    • eurleif 5mo ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner