• Lileath
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    9 months ago

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

    • Montagge@kbin.earth
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      9 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.