Do you consider the term "rice" or "ricer" to be racist? (lemmy.ml)

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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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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago

Never heard either, but ricer would clearly be racist as there’s no general contemporary reason for the word.

[-] curiousgoo@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

You could also say it is riceist

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