this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2024
247 points (88.0% liked)

Linux

48692 readers
494 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

geteilt von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/19377025

[...] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I cannot give you any source, unless you want to waste hours of your time watching some car videos. The difference between an n-word pass and rice-pass is what you mean with that. Some secret way of saying the n-word does not change its racist connotation but a ricer by default has nothing to do with race. If you want to be racist, you would have to explicitly specify that you are talking about the owner's race or the car's origin or whatever.

The term is so far removed from any malicious origin, that some people wouldn’t even know they should feel offended, unless someone told them they should be.

That's not normal human behavior. Try to imagine it. 3 people are going down the street. One of them points out that a car on the street is "riced". Second one tells the third who is of Japanese origin, that he should get offended because of the word's origin. It would be weird to get offended because someone told you to.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 4 months ago

"It would be weird to get offended because someone told you to"

Right, but it happens. The post which triggered this reply chain is essentially a litmas test for what I'm describing.

The acronym of RICE was made after the racist connotations were already established. It's an attempt to rewrite history so people could continue saying it.

It is documented to have come from racial origins in the 1960's. Yet, I can't find anything about the acronym from more than twenty years ago.