The dispensing with niceness probably springs in large part from an extreme rejection of the ad hominem fallacy and of emotionally-based reasoning.
Another possibility is The Grim Aesthetic—an aversion to certain attitudes and practices that might be associated with cultures of deliberate “niceness”.
(Though even if those excesses are distasteful, that’s no reason not to be nice in the ordinary sense.)
Another possibility is The Grim Aesthetic—an aversion to certain attitudes and practices that might be associated with cultures of deliberate “niceness”.
(Though even if those excesses are distasteful, that’s no reason not to be nice in the ordinary sense.)