Ok why is there a shit storm about this word now? Linux modding isn’t new. Ricing has been used to describe it for a long time. In many ways… isn’t it good to pave over bad meanings with inclusive meanings?

Why are you stirring up shit about a word that a majority of users associate with Linux modding? What number of people exactly know the old meaning? Is your teaching the people that it’s a racist word help anyway?

Just because there are some users that stumble upon content semi-organically doesn’t mean brigading and piling on isn’t happening

That’s some next level mental gymnastics to justify why people are disagreeing with you. Look, ricing isn’t racist. It’s better this way. Let the old meaning die. Let racist inventions be superseded. Don’t complain something organic is reminding YOU about some bad meaning associated with a word in the past.

Also nonracists using a racist term doesnt make the term stop being racist.

It does though. Gay was used to mean happy. Now it means homosexuals. Inbetween, it used to be a slang… now it no longer is. There’s nothing in humanity as fluid as language.

Curing doesnt start by not meaning it when you keep using the racist term. You dont bandage a stab wound by continually stabbing the victim.

Teaching people who are not aware that it’s racist IS stabbing a wound that was healing (by other people who were making it mean something cool and inclusive).

Would you agree that a word that was so racist is now being demolished of it’s original bad meaning and something inclusive is being built in it’s place is a good thing?

A sort of reformation or curing? After all, racist words were not racist until racists started using those words to be racist.

It’s also something somebody can’t control. So it’s still shitty to ask them that.

I disagree. People who weren’t there when the term was racist are only aware of it being racist because it was revealed to be a old racist term.

That’s an incredibly narrow minded view.

A fool and his money are parted

There’s no billionaire who didn’t steal from the hard work of others. Every billionaire is a scoundrel of some sort, a thug if you try to take their cash cow from them.