Insert political correctness joke here.

While it is true that he survived, he was in a coma for 3 weeks. During this time the person who called him that name was arrested for criticism, with his final words before taken into custody being "He deserves every bit of criticism being thrown his way." Afterwards the man being criticized sued the name caller for slander. The plaintiff won, and the rest is history. That my friends, is how political correctness became a thing.