Rudeness is the price we pay for “living in a dynamic culture”. That may not make it good, exactly, but it makes it an inevitable by-product of something many of us think of as good. Maybe that explains why critics of PC also bemoan the rise of rudeness: both complaints are reactions against change. A world with no rudeness, and no material for stories about “PC gone mad”, would be one that had come to a standstill.
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