The bottom line is, we shouldn’t have to be conditioned to accept rudeness from other people.

Just like we shouldn’t have to be conditioned to accept racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, classism, fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc. - we also shouldn’t have to accept rudeness, in general.

I’m not saying that rudeness is comparable to bigotry, which is obviously much worse - but, if we can work to eliminate bigotry from our lives, then it shouldn’t take too much effort to also eliminate general rudeness from our lives. That’s all.

This will be my last post, for tonight. <3

ETA: Upon doing some more thinking, "empathy" is probably the word that we should be using. I'm not saying that we need to follow a list of etiquette rules, and it would be a neurotypicalistic thing to suggest. So "polite" is probably not the correct word to use.