An actual argument I recently saw:
Person B: “Any site which contains slurs against trans people in its sign up process is unreliable” (was referring to k!wifarms)
Person A: “Slurs aren’t considered bad in most countries”
Person B: “That doesn’t justify their usage. For example, conversion therapy isn’t considered bad or banned in most countries, that doesn’t mean conversion therapy is justified or good.”
Person A: “What are you talking about? Conversion therapy is banned in most countries”
Person B: “Shows a diagram showing that conversion therapy is only banned in a handful of countries”
Person A: “I mean in most civilized countries”
I’ve seen lots of other people refer to countries as civilized or uncivilized in similar contexts. Is this generally considered to be racist?
“Developed” Countries and “Developing” Countries are the terms I would use in this context.
AFIAK, there is no negative connotation with the term “Developing Country”, to me it just means they haven’t been given the opportunity to develop, possibly due to external factors like colonialism.
But as for Conversion therapy, even “Banned in most Developed Countries” would be inaccurate since South Korea and Japan hasn’t banned it, so perhaps “Western Democracies” would fit your conversation about the ban on Conversion therapy.
Do we agree there’s a difference between ‘most’ and ‘all’?