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[-] Lileath 21 points 11 months ago

Wasn't it a derogatory term for asian car tuners at first before being used for the linux stuff?

[-] Montagge@kbin.earth 16 points 11 months ago

It was indeed. It was used to disparage Asians modifying their cars and then anyone modifying an Asian car. Because haha Asians eat rice so funny.

Apparently a bunch of the Linux community thought this was a good term to adopt for reasons I don't understand. The mental gymnastics I see trying to make this not racist is tiring.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago

Its not racist if your not using it in a racist context. I didn't even know it was "racist" until today

[-] Montagge@kbin.earth 12 points 11 months ago

I whole heartedly disagree

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