The Rude Revolution of the 1960s

The 1960s didn't just bring us rock and roll, they literally legalized being rude.

Before this decade, the law actually prioritized civility over your civil rights,

meaning if you weren't polite to the people oppressing you, the courts wouldn't protect you.

But then the script flipped. You had activists realizing that performative niceness was just

a trap to keep them quiet, and a counterculture proving that authentic freedom looks messy.

They traded suits for long hair and silence for shouting. The Supreme Court finally ruled that

one person's vulgarity is another's lyric, meaning your right to be loud and authentic today exists only

because a whole generation decided to stop saying please and thank you.