Post #1955001
2026-04-28 12:15 UTC
“ricing” comes from people “tricking out” Japanese cars by customizing them. I think most people don’t think it’s saying anything negative about Asians but some people take it that way. I think one similar term that sounds much worse is when people call those same Japanese cars “rice burners”. That one sounds derogatory/racist to me
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@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-30 00:12
In climbing, we use carabiners. It used to be common to say ‘biner or ‘biners for short. But my community stopped saying it that way because we were told that it sounded to close to a derogatory term (beaners) that I had never even heard of before. So to try to be more inclusive, we trained ourselves to not say something that sounded offensive, even though none of us meant it that way. It really isn’t that much to ask IMO to use neutral terms when so many exist.