Thank you for letting me know that Asia has no complex rules about how to address people, and no social consequences for failure to obey those rules.
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.
"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.
Political correctness is a right-wing term used when they want to call somebody X, but may face social consequences for doing so.
It's not a wealthy western phenomena. It's global and it's as old as the hills.
NB: I have lived in these countries, and I am also part of what you may call a "protected group" in western areas. I have come to terms with it.
Counter examples:
1 - PRC's treatment of Uighar muslims, LGBTQ+, Tibetans
2 - Light-hearted potrayals of lolicon, sexual harassment in the entertainment (specifically anime) industry
3 - "No foreigners / (insert specific race group here)" signs in some Japanese establishment that normalize xenophobia.
All the objectionable language used there is self-applied. The members of that community call themselves gay, autist, etc. Are they trying to persecute themselves, and evading social standards by calling it comedy?
