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”?

  • @nitefox
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    01 year ago

    Difference being that rice is not an insult per se, which means that using the term rice isn’t inherently racist.

    To my (very obvious) thesis: “Uee Mario, pizza mare mandolino!” Isn’t racist, each of those words are innocent and have no negative meaning, yet it is racist as fuck

    Checkmate to whatever you were trying to prove

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I was responding to the argument in the previous comment, not making a point about the term “rice.”