It showed up as you replying to me talking about shift change at hexbear so idk what you want from me man. You can pretend I am a hexbear that inexplicably posted about wanting to defed them days ago just so I could gotcha someone, but I’m just a Linux guy who would rather we didn’t use racist terms.
Perhaps you should click my profile before talking out of your ass. I am a lemm.ee user that explicitly supported defederating Hexbear in our meta thread on it. I’m not super fond of how they participate generally, but they are quite right about this one.
I like the sound of decking, makes me think of the people who do cool mods on their steam deck!
Its unbelievably funny how little you read
Ah yes, the good old “We have so many problems that its better to just ignore them than try to fix even one thing.” There is so much hateful language because even if you use a cartoonishly naive take that racism ended with the civil rights act, that is still almost 200 years of racism shaping the way we talk about things. It takes some time to undo 200 years of racists inventing terms and trying to pass them off with winks and nods. It will take a whole lot longer if we’re so lazy as to not even make the attempt.
Oh no, you got me. I solo wrote the Wikipedia page describing the origins of the term and its racist roots and all the citations linked from there, especially the ones written before I was born. I’m also personally sock puppetting the dozen or so accounts telling you you’re wrong.
Or, and I know this will be a big stretch, you could change your wordview a single iota in response to new information and put forth the negligible effort to not use it anymore.
“My white friends and I used a racist term for each other that implicitly compares their cars to Asian ones perjoratively” is not necessarily the win you think it is.
When I was in seventh grade a classmate offered me a pull off a cigarette which I took. He then told me I had N***** lipped it. Does that magically become not racist as shit because we were both white and he used it to make fun of me?
No, there are just a metric shit ton of English words and terms that hail from our very much more racist past, and we would like our speech to reflect our values and not the values of our KKK grandparents.
Its a term invented to make fun of specifically Asian men customizing their cars. The implicit connotation is “your car is bad because it is customized for looks and not racing, like an Asian person would.” It shares the same roots as incels calling Asian incels ricecels.
It’s almost like our economics models with supply and demand barely work for physical products and are even worse at modelling easily reproducible digital goods