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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 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] curiousgoo@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

You could also say it is riceist

[–] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

At first I assumed ricer referred to a kitchen tool that made vegetables into the shape and size of rice