Define civility.
Standard definition. Its awkward for me to copy and paste on this device. Someone else provide a dictionary definition
Civility had been in a downward trend since public discourse became mostly anonymized. When there are no real world consequences it’s easy to be rude and dismissive. Then, once people saw that the rudest and most dismissive tactics were the most popular online, the same behavior spread offline.
More online than IRL, and it goes along with the accepted cultural norms. Being a loud drunk in public seems to be more than acceptable in the UK, but in France it was unheard of because it was a sign of antisocial behaviour and it could incite some uhh physical altercation, lol, at least in my experience.
No. People respond the way you talk to them. If you support someone that was never civil it bleed on you and you’re not entitled to the same respect as an anonymous stranger on the internet.
It’s definitely being forced down people’s throats.
