Douglas Todd: Why say 'inappropriate' when we mean 'wrong'?

Anybody who feels repelled by the word “inappropriate” is a friend of mine.
It is an increasingly over-used term in public education, health and academia, a bit of bland jargon that is supposed to fill in for actions that used to be called “immoral.”
It’s fine to talk about how it is inappropriate for a man to don a muscle shirt for a gala dinner, since that is referring to mere etiquette. But it is not helpful to claim it is inappropriate to spread malicious gossip