the original ricers were Japanese cars (early 80s), then from there rice came to mean cars with Race Inspired CosmeticEnhancements (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!
step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym “Race Inspired Car Enhancements”
step 4: discover that “ricing” was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice
step 5: stop using the word in the context of “mods”
![[Sway] another nord rice](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/15dc57a4-305c-48b2-8e63-54f585578c7e.png){kind=link}
the word “rice” in this context has a super racist history and I beg you to look it up and then stop using it.
nice desktop tho
There’s nothing inherently racist about using the term in the context of customizing a desktop.
this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like “pcmasterrace”. words mean things, their origins matter
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!
@triplenadir @comalnik I beg you to please explain, how that’s possible?
step 1: go to your favourite search engine
step 2: type “origin of the term ricing”
step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym “Race Inspired Car Enhancements”
step 4: discover that “ricing” was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice
step 5: stop using the word in the context of “mods”
step 3 takes some nuance, fair enough
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