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.
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.
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.
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.