No one is bringing up how racist Faerun is (it isn't) they are pointing out if you treat Asia the same as you've treated Europe, that isn't being racist. If you treat both cultures by the same method of cherry picking the cool weapons, armour and myths and ignoring the bits of culture you don't find useful to the heroic adventure stories you want to tell with D&D, then it isn't racist. It is just how you treat the source material in general, you take all the cool interesting naughty word you find and throw it in a blender and there's your setting.
Applying different methods to Asia than Europe would be racists, treating both cultures in the same way isn't. It isn't an issue to cherry pick with Europe and it isn't an issue to then do the same with Asia.
Okay, but who here has actually advocated for something extreme?
Let me give an example.
Faerun has knights right? Knights are from about three different cultures that I can pinpoint from memory, but they all were nobles, heavily armored, and served kings.
Samurai? To my knowledge, a Samurai was very much a
Japanese style of knight. I'm sure the Chinese had something similar in a heavily armored warrior, but I'm not familiar with it. But, if I'm going to have a Chinese style Imperial Bureaucracy, I don't think calling the heavily armed nobles Samurai is any better than calling them Knights.
OR, how about that Honor system. Because Samurai were super honorable right? Well... knights have a Chivalric code and were also highly honorable in myth and legend, so why is it we only need an Honor System when dealing with Samurai or other Far East tropes, and not when dealing with Knights?
So, I fully agree, treat them both the exact same way. If you've got a heavily [blank] influenced culture, use their terms for things. If you are going to a new land, don't go calling it "exotic" or "mysterious" . We don't say that the people from Baldur's Gate are going to the "Exotic and Mysterious land of Cormyr, where honorable warriors on horseback duel in great jousts" So why say it for Kara-tur?
PoP culturism is also fascinating. I didn't know we were now striving for realism and accuracy within D&D.
Cannot wait for you to start the petition to rename the Medusa a Gorgon.
Why not, it be better than the Iron Bull we currently have. (I still don't know what myth that is supposed to be from)