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If you ever visit any of Asian country, you're in for a bit of a culture shock if you're expecting to see the kind of political correctness that you edited out from this comment earlier.

The top 5 Asian countries by size are Russia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia. None of them have correctness, in fact all of them are anti-PC and see it as a weakness, especially in China and Russia where westerners are viewed as thin-skinned and weak minded due to PC culture. And in 3 of them people will either express real hate speech or outright violence towards homosexuals.

Your flowery ideals about the world around you are proving the point I was making.

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I think he might have meant "political correctness" less in the sense of "extreme sensitivity about denigrating homosexuals" and more in the sense of "arbitrary rules of social etiquette that people get extremely upset at you for violating".

He actually reiterates the definition he had in the GP comment but then edited out:

"Political correctness is a right-wing term used when they want to call somebody X, but may face social consequences for doing so."

He thinks terms like 'political correctness' and 'victim culture' are some sort of right-wing slurs for virtuous attributes. He doesn't seem to be aware that this notion doesn't exist for 90%+ of the world's population.

Sure, but most of the worlds population will still get irrationally upset at you for broaching social and cultural norms, like depicting Muhammad or denigrating the king.

These are 1) very specific norms, and 2) usually owned directly by the culture. Your devout Saudi is going to get upset if you breach etiquette around Islam, but he's not going to go to bat over mild slurs about Hispanics.

Only in the West do they lose their mind defending the honor of people who are not in their in-group. I'm not sure if that is honorable, or just idiotic.

Some in the West include more people in their in-group. Some are not so tribalistic as imagined. From that point of view, they are defending their own.

In none of the situations I mentioned are people acting protectively towards an in-group, but rather towards a particular revered individual. Social norms and taboos are much more complicated than that.

Exactly; but Missosoup has strongly internalized the idea that neither blacks nor queers deserve respect; as such he truly doesn’t understand why calling them derogatory terms is a bad thing.

To him, it’s insane that a white person could care about a non-white; or a straight could care about a queer. He thinks that’s fake.

It’s sad, but it’s a peek inside the mind of a shitty human being who had abhorrent parents.

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