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0 pointsaidenn05y ago0 comments

While I don't think the GP post is correct, counter-culture necessarily has bad manners, because manners are all about cultural norms.

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SyzygistSix5y ago

This is a ridiculous assertion. That might be true if mainstream culture was polite. But it isn't.

aidenn0OP5y ago

It's unfailingly polite regardless of how cruel it is.

Give me an example of a counterculture that was not derided as rude by the mainstream of the time?

SyzygistSix5y ago

That is ridiculous. Newscasters are far less polite and far more openly partisan, combative, and opinionated than they use to be. Comments on articles and videos, and in social media, are far less polite than people replying with letters to the press in the past.

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SyzygistSix5y ago

This is a ridiculous assertion. That might be true if mainstream culture was polite. But it isn't.

aidenn0OP5y ago

It's unfailingly polite regardless of how cruel it is.

Give me an example of a counterculture that was not derided as rude by the mainstream of the time?

SyzygistSix5y ago

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