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KauaiK

(544 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 10:44 PM Oct 2015

When did common courtesy go out of style?

I must have missed the memo.

When did terse, curt, and mean belligerence become the norm for communicating?

Why is the cult of personality in the 10 second news cycle more important than consistent integrity and ethics?

And why are those with with minimal intellect and a smidgeon of authority the worst offenders?

Why can't we be civil and courtesy to one another?

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When did common courtesy go out of style? (Original Post) KauaiK Oct 2015 OP
WITH THE ADVENT OF OXY RUSH. OffWithTheirHeads Oct 2015 #1
Yep! haikugal Oct 2015 #3
Goes back farther than that, I'm afraid. Archae Oct 2015 #4
Right about the same time those damn kids starting getting on my lawn NuclearDem Oct 2015 #2
When Emily Post died in 1960? Downwinder Oct 2015 #5

Archae

(46,262 posts)
4. Goes back farther than that, I'm afraid.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 11:09 PM
Oct 2015

When FDR was President, he had a Catholic priest, Father Coughlin on his butt and on the radio all the time.
Coughlin was openly anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi Germany.

When Lincoln was President, racist opponents claimed Lincoln was going to force white women to marry blacks.

When Washington was President, he screwed the government out of a lot of money with his "expenses."

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