image transcript: caption reads “boys when they’re ricing their arch linux twink pad” over a drawing of the boykisser cat with thigh highs on and a laptop edited in. end transcription.
I think we have discussed about this before but in my opinion alone, what matters is the context, ricing in tbe linux community obiviously isn’t used in a discriminatory manner or intent, come on
I haven’t discussed this here before, you must be thinking of someone else. Anyway, in my opinion, since it’s a word explicitly created to make fun of Asian people and Asian cars, like many slurs associating a bunch of different cultures with a staple food, it kinda doesn’t matter what someone’s “intent” is when they use it.
ok I probably talked about this with someone else before then, yes but I don’t agree with you still. It isn’t really a slur when it is meant as the acronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that what I am saying is that people aren’t using the slur, they’re using the acronym(even if the word used to mean somethşng different) and the intent very much does matter because they aren’t discriminating against anyone but using a word - albeit with a dubious origin -, that means something radically different now. Language isn’t static.
acronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that
Backronym. It was a racist term in the car community for decades before somebody came up with that in an attempt to whitewash it.
and the intent very much does matter
Citation needed, because every single utterance of “redskins” was racist af, even if the majority of the team’s fans never had a racist thought in their heads about native americans.
I think slurs refer to people, not objects.
But anyway, would you consider ‘krauts’ to be a slur too?
I agree slurs refer to people, but if you call a Japanese car a “rice cooker” (which is where this comes from) that’s insulting the people…
And, yeah, at least originally. “Kraut” is one of those things that really has evolved somewhat, especially through krautrock in the 70s and other things. And whether it’s racist is complex depending on definitions and blah blah blah. But it was definitely 100% coined as a slur.
