This post made sure that it will not be forgotten. Good job for opening an old wound!
eskimofry
joined 4 years ago
Not OP, but.. Looking for things to be outraged about is not good for a healthy community.
No, it has to work as a adjective, verb and a noun. (Check out my rice, Look how riced my setup looks, How do I rice my Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop the same way as this other rice?, etc)
Ok why is there a shit storm about this word now? Linux modding isn't new. Ricing has been used to describe it for a long time. In many ways... isn't it good to pave over bad meanings with inclusive meanings?
Just because there are some users that stumble upon content semi-organically doesn’t mean brigading and piling on isn’t happening
That's some next level mental gymnastics to justify why people are disagreeing with you. Look, ricing isn't racist. It's better this way. Let the old meaning die. Let racist inventions be superseded. Don't complain something organic is reminding YOU about some bad meaning associated with a word in the past.
My Opinion is this:
- Racist/Able-ist words were once normal words. Gay used to mean "Happy" (this applies for other words probably, but I am not able to recall at the moment)
- Many people had no idea that ricing was a racist slang. They wanted to use it to describe a cool new thing that's inclusive.
- Would you agree that a word whose racist meaning is forgotten and it now referring to something inclusive and cool is a good thing in general?
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Young people may perhaps be even doing it deliberately as a protest.