The Wikipedia definition seems to indicate it has origins as a racist term and I’ve never understood why unix users have adopted this terms instead of something benign like “themes” or “theming” which I remember being in use long before I ever heard “rice”. So what gives? Why use “rice” instead of “theme”?
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dude, you need a break from the internet
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Here what you did:
- take a word used within a community to refer to personalised desktop environments;
- strip its context;
- add a completely different context;
- ask if using that word, with a completely different context, is racist;
Which is weird af
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Master branch is racist!!!
People who don’t have anything better to do find anything to be offended by.
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Wrong.
The word wasn’t coined by the Linux community. It was taken from the automotive community where it was used as a derogatory term to refer to car modifications.
You can’t pretend it doesn’t have shitty origins just because you aren’t familiar with the source.
