NormalC [he/him, comrade/them]

Free software advocate and queer bangladeshi muslim anarchy-trans.Refugee from blahaj.zone cat-trans

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  • Asian here and rice eater here.

    Ah yes, you need all your ethos cred for this one. No pick-me behavior for the crackers here. Not like there are billions of others with the same description as you (including a bangladeshi immigrant like me). I didn’t bring my own race into this until the “Im asian and this is okay” posts happened.

    It’s better to regain is neutral meaning instead of letting the racist weaponize neutral word.

    Racists love “neutral words.” It’s called dog whistling. Racists get their plausible deniability while they get to signal and exchange with other racists on public forums like this one. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t intend for this to happen, it’s still facilitated here. There’s always the possibility of new words, or are you too personally attached to “rice” for that to happen?

    Also, this mindset is also Western centric, go to Asia and people in Linux and car community simply use the word without any negative connotation.

    We are in a international, primarily english speaking lemmy instance by the developers of the project. Stop moving the goalposts here. We are not in your rhetorical places in “Asia” where there’s no negative connotation. Of course it will seem “western centric.”

    For your last edit, fuck right off. People can see through your crocodile tears and self tokenization. This type of shit only works with white people who will accept your opinions more than others because it means they get to keep their status quo. Nice bringing up imperialism, you’d be great as a lapdog.


  • I’m sorry, I didn’t know an (generic) Asian heritage absolves you of all guilt and self crit. I’m south asian desi so I should know better right?

    Also what is your mental gymnastics. “Imma show those western imperialists that I’m not a crybaby and continue to use their racist slang they invented/popularized for people like me in this tiny niche community.”

    Pick-me attitudes don’t make you any more respectable, you just disengaged from this topic due to your own personal feelings. You’ve become the token Asian that the same western imperialists use to silence this discussion.