The big problem with those conservative calls for 'civility'

Conservative doublespeak just got taken to a whole new level.

There are many reasons to balk at politicians' and commentators' calls for "civility" in response to Trump officials getting kicked out of restaurants. Say, the hypocritical fact of Trump's own acerbic behavior, or the idea that "civility" is the least of our worries at a time when the U.S. government has separated migrant families at the border with no plans for reuniting them. 

SEE ALSO: Memo to 2018 from the 1960s: Forget 'civility.' Get angry. Don't stop.

Now, the people of Twitter have honed in on a particularly piercing rebuke of the civility balloon by invoking the idea that helped put Trump in office: that conservatives in fact ended "civility" themselves, by just calling it "political correctness," and labeling sensitivity about the language we use as a problem. Read more...

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