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Ah, so this is the person you're referring to. In that case, yeah his arrest was warranted. It turns out you can't just spread fatphobic and racist imagery around in American social media networks and not expect to eat shit.

Posting three of the same headline piece is also meaningless, all three of them are obvious western sources. Your first post of RFA also ruined your credibility. We don't overlook that.

The CPC take measures to prevent reactionary content from being proliferated. This is normal for a country.

He was also only sentenced to 6 months, hardly life shattering. Meanwhile rabid disinformation campaigns in the US are facilitated or outright encouraged by standing political officials.

Wannabe communists

There's a lot to unpack in that one. First of all, how do you even gatekeep being a communist? Surely you don't hold a degree in Marxist-Leninist thought? Nor are you a hexbear yourself.

Or perhaps since you have this perception that we are all petite bourgeoisie (mostly white) in the imperialist core that we can't actually be communists (ignoring how paradoxical that is)

Perhaps communism in your mind is only for the "orient" and global south. Those in the "West" must just be play acting.

Piracy is always moral. These types of comments ignore the fact that "game devs" don't actually have full control of their works but instead is split through a larger publishing/corporation and shareholders. Game devs have very little autonomy or personal agency at all.

I'm a zoomer in uni as well. People have given me the "its another app on my phone" excuse but once I tell them I don't use any social media they are actually a lot more understanding.

Bonus points if I hit them with the Free Software rhetoric.

This person is just a brainless chud who got pwned by a literal computer program for parasocial weirdos.

Why not reclaim a word? Customizing a desktop is a labor of love. It takes a decent amount of time, and is deeply personal, representing one’s own taste.

Or why not find our own words? Words aren't "locked" in on a single definition, but rather carry their whole host of definitions and history with them. You have to judge diction on all its fronts. Reclaiming a word means being part of the group that the term has actively disparaged (ex: reclaiming words like "queer") . Using "rice" is not an act of reclaiming in this context and we shouldn't view it that way.

When repos changed to main from master, I got problems.

No you just harbor already racist attitudes. There are a non-trivial amount of people who dislike arbitrary, antiquated terminology used in computer science like "master/slave" "male/female" and of course "master branch." Simply getting out your bullhorn and asking "who's actually offended by this?" is demeaning to the issue at hand which goes much farther than just a historical analysis of racism.

You don't have to prove/have intent in order to perpetuate a racist act. The "racist context" is the use of the term (which originates in the car industry as a pejorative) itself, you're missing the point.

Do you all believe that the majority of people saying "my rice" have racist intents?

That only strengthens why "rice" should be challenged, people are unknowingly using the word just because it's the established lexicon of the group and tied so closely with that group's identity.

The "most people don't care" and the "find me an Asian person offended by this" are both non-talking points.

1. You are in a thread about this exact issue, it seems that there are people who care, and you have to engage with that.
2. So? Does that mean we should stop discussing this? How are we hard-pressed when this thread exists?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

How does it NOT discriminate? Racial coding exists and if you don't believe it exists then you're a racist.

Way to engage with the subject matter, no justification at all, nothing. You're part of the problem you do know that?

It also can refer to people using rice as a pejorative catch-all term for east Asian people. The next iteration of the term still continues its racist connotations. "Not just Asian men" is a deflection from its racist roots.

I agree, it's another example of racism being burned into the English language. You should always make an effort to change and adapt your vocabulary, to not do so is to endorse the very racist history that the term is based on.

Also the term just doesn't make sense? I have no idea what "rice" is supposed to evoke outside of its history in the car industry/communities. "Cooking" seems to be the better term because people on Unixporn "cook up" their desktop to make it as appealing as possible (to their tastes or to the tastes of the group). So a submission would be someone's "cook/dish." The whole "let them cook" remark is also a relevant catchphrase.

We can do better, and why disregard that opportunity? "Rice" is a two-faced compliment with racist roots. It deserves the bucket.