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It was Indiana at the time, as far as getting cars and racism getting mixed together in one experience for me. These days I'm in Texas, but haven't engaged too much with the car culture here yet.

Edit: btw, sorry for my tone in my previous comment, I was honestly getting pretty worked up going through the comments in this post.

Hi. Targeted minority here. I do not, and have not ever wanted to reclaim this term. I'd argue against calling it reclaimable at all, since to reclaim would require the term to have ever had a valid use to begin with before it became a racist perjorative.

I don't want to see this used, because it hurts me to see it. This is due to the deep pain that racism has caused to me, even in my very blessed life. While I get that you have good intentions, I want to clarify that your actions will only lead to you causing me further pain.

Asian American here who's into car culture (where the term originated). It has always been a racist term from its inception, and is still used as a racist term today, from my experience.

Hi. Asian American here. I'm offended by this. Please stop deliberately choosing to use terms that are hurtful to me.

Asian American here. It's racist. It offends me because it is racist, and has always been racist.

I would disagree that the racist meaning is forgotten. It's still very alive in modern car culture, where I've also heard this term used far more than in linux communities anyway.

This term is still offensive to me as a part of the targeted minority. You do not get to dismiss the pain it causes me just because you were ignorant of it until now, and you do not get to tell me that it's now non offensive just because you want to keep using it.

This word already had that racist meaning from the beginning of it's use. Just because you were ignorant of it doesn't make that untrue. And as part of the targeted minority, I will only be offended if you decide to try to force the use of this word on me. You don't have the right to dismiss the pain that racist terms cause to me and decide to rehabilitate them by your pleasure.

I'm glad you had the privilege of never experiencing that.

A lot of goodhearted people also just seem to be completely ignorant of it too. Plenty of people will say something racist, say they're not racist when you point it out, and immediately express deeply rooted racist opinions afterwards. But they're nice to you right now, cause they're too nice to be racist.

Literally anywhere outside of major cities. I've experienced in your face racism in most places under at least half a million in population.

Asian American in car culture. There are real racist undertones even in modern use of the term. Don't mistake your privilege of being ignorant of that for knowledge that it's not true.

Asian American. As you mentioned, the roots of this weird are racist, and I'd argue that it was not "lowkey" either. If you said this around me in real life, I'd probably give you a funny look and assume you're ignorant. But that doesn't mean I'm not offended. Racism has caused honest trauma to me, and despite your innocent intentions, you are causing me pain.

Hi. Asian American here. I'm honestly offended by this term, and deeply offended by you assuming you can speak for me on this topic.

I grew up in a good community in the US, and never really knew any racism. Experiencing real racism for the first time after I moved away is still one of the most painful experiences in my life.

Imagine that you're out celebrating a national holiday with friends and family, happy and content, except that around you there are hundreds of people screaming and jeering that independence day is for Americans, and you should go home. But you are home. You were born within this state even, just up this same river you're all sharing together right now. This is a real thing I experienced in parts of rural America.

You can call me oversensitive to racism, and I'd agree that I can be hyperaware of it. But it's a response to the deep trauma that even just a few experiences with racism has caused me. I just want to live peacefully in the country I was born, but that's not possible if the people around me hate my very presence in their midst.

I'm Asian American. I'm offended by this word. In my experience, it has always been a racist perjorative every time it's been used.

Like you mentioned in your other comment, you don't have the American racial experiences with how this is used to understand why this hurts me, so I'd like to clarify that it does.

Asian American here. It has always been a racist perjorative from it's starting days in car culture. It still offends me.

As an Asian American into both car and computer culture, I have not ever felt a desire to embrace and reclaim this word, that from its inception only ever had derogatory meaning. Any attempt to force this word upon me in the name of "reclaiming" it will only offend me.

All these people saying we should reclaim this word have no fucking clue what it feels like.

Asian American into car culture here. Ricing and ricers are still derogatory and racist terms to this day. Do not mistake your ignorance of something that no one would bother to tell you for knowledge that it's not true.

It's really not shitty to ask if they have the background to understand what racism is to people who experience it. I grew up blessed with a good community, and experiencing racism for the first time when I moved away is still one of the most painful things I've ever felt.

It was not a brief moment, it's still used that way to this day in modern car culture.