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Young people may perhaps be even doing it deliberately as a protest.

This post made sure that it will not be forgotten. Good job for opening an old wound!

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)

Why is there huge pushback in this thread from reclaiming a word by changing it’s meaning from a racist one to something cool and inclusive?

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?

Why are you stirring up shit about a word that a majority of users associate with Linux modding? What number of people exactly know the old meaning? Is your teaching the people that it’s a racist word help anyway?

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 Let racist inventions be superseded.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.

Also nonracists using a racist term doesnt make the term stop being racist.

It does though. Gay was used to mean happy. Now it means homosexuals. Inbetween, it used to be a slang… now it no longer is. There’s nothing in humanity as fluid as language.

Curing doesnt start by not meaning it when you keep using the racist term. You dont bandage a stab wound by continually stabbing the victim.

Teaching people who are not aware that it’s racist IS stabbing a wound that was healing (by other people who were making it mean something cool and inclusive).