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by philwelch 2311 days ago
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".
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missosoup 2311 days ago
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.

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philwelch 2311 days ago
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.
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powowowow 2307 days ago
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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blaser-waffle 2310 days ago
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.

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JoeAltmaier 2310 days ago
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.
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philwelch 2310 days ago
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.
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