I'm really not trying to be an asshole, but is this true? When I was a kid it feels like the culture was super-judgemental, and historically we had all sorts o

I'm really not trying to be an asshole, but is this true? When I was a kid it feels like the culture was super-judgemental, and historically we had all sorts of norms about what one said in polite company. This idea that everyone should feel comfortable saying and being whatever they want to be is relatively new, maybe to the internet age? I don't know when you went to school; maybe there was this unique time in the late 90's where transgression was cool (I do vaguely remember this era you talk about of people your generation having memories of "at least one loud debate with that one steadfastly pro-life classmate or the kids with weird experimental politics. But none of it was taken all that seriously beyond spur of the moment conversations. And afterwards everyone would still play video games with each other." But it seems like such a short moment in time, and maybe one that required not having an internet where everyone just says all this shit all the time.