Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and cheaper to repair modern cars will be a boon to sexual predators.

  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, is it more or less racist than just calling them shitty and Chinese? Or shitty because they’re Chinese?

    I dunno. It’s been in at least semi-common use since the early '90’s as far as I can tell.

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      1 year ago

      Well, I was curious too, don’t have an answer for you. I just feel a little uncomfortable with a phrase that I know (and have used when speaking to Cantonese people) being used in a negative fashion for a completely different thing. But maybe it’s just a cultural clash, so I wanted to clarify.