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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by blaser-waffle on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:20AM (#22433996)
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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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:22AM (#22434010)
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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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by philwelch on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:38PM (#22440062)
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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