Eastern Europe's Intellectuals Push Their Languages To the Extreme-Right

I would love to see an east European intellectual talk about what they refer to as "PC speech" (see, for instance, here or here or here) in a way that is NOT dismissive, condescending, pejorative or ridiculing. . . e.g., by considering the original reasons for consciously avoiding / institutionally regulating verbal forms of "racial" and other microaggressions (see here or here or--by none other than the National Institutes for Health of the USA--here). One possible way to do so would be if they tried to consider the lives, perceptions of self-worth, life chances and, overall, the perspectives, interests and rights of the victims of systemic racism and homophobia, including disparaging speech. I would like to see evidence that at least some of them understood what the effects of racial microagression is on the psyche of the victim, and that they had realized that what they call "PC speech" is just a small, perhaps imperfect, but still reasonably well intentioned and useful, tool psychologically not to torture their fellow human beings. If only one of them cared enough to look it up--a 3-minute google search.

For instance, this is how Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University, and his collaborators describe the issue at hand in their article titled "Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice," published on the website of the National Institutes of Health:

ONE. Just one such person.

By the same token, there is now a host of other right wing hate speech expressions--references to "woke(ness)," (e.g., here, here, or here), not to mention the more open expressions of political self-positioning, such as the widely practiced, small-minded badmouthing of the Black Lives Matter movement or dismissing and marginalizing even the most basic, clearly reasonable demands of LMBTQ people for non-discrimination, etc.--that are finding their way into everyday chatter by educated people in eastern Europe without the speakers quite understanding the extreme-right-wing undertones of those expressions. This too is a form of the unwitting "normalization" of extreme-right political rhetoric.  Others (e.g., here -- I refuse to give platform to the others, so let that be sufficient now) do use them with explicit political purposes. The latter are the real linguistic terrorists, the extreme-right-wing language squad--who have an open desire to destroy the capacity of their mother tongue to have registers of speech beyond disparagement.

Of course it is also entirely possible that the first group I mentioned above--the one I have just described as the "unwitting" importers--is exceedingly small. . . or perhaps it doesn't even exist. . . That would reveal a horrific state of the east European "mind," a gaping hole not only on what reasonable people would recognize as "the Left" but also in the political middle, with the majority of those who otherwise appear to be middle-of-the-road, not particularly remarkable people minding their own business as harboring warm and fuzzy feelings toward explicit fascist ideas in their thinking--something that is also, sadly, confirmed by other, clearly visible evidence concerning the extreme-right pathologies of the political orientation of a large part of eastern European populations, e.g., the voting patterns.

The only thing that makes this relatively unimportant is that nobody outside that godforsaken region cares what east European intellectuals think or say--to a large extent for reasons outlined above.

Well, I do care, so. . . here. Easy for me, of course, I live away from there, and of course there are other, possibly much bigger problems here.