What Comes After YouTube

What comes after YouTube indeed.

With our lives spilling onto YouTube like a new bodily fluid, what will we learn?

Will we learn that we were right when we decided that political correctness was a silly little concept to the trash heap of American culture?

Or will we realize that there really is something to be said for being politically correct, as I define it here. Politically correct means not _unduly_ offending other groups of people. That is, when not necessary, or without reflection or recognition of the underlying prejudice. Speaking without prejudice.

Political correctness does not necessarily infringe on freedom of expression. One can make a point without loading it with blanket statements about groups. No one has the right to defame or degrade a group, any more than one has the right to defame or degrade an individual.

I think the term "political correctness" has died an unfortunate death, thanks to the media. Having written and televised countless stories framed as lynchings by politically correct mobs, the media serves to highlight the moral judgments involved. These stories present a clash of individual rights (i.e. freedom of expression) versus the rights of groups (i.e. freedom from oppression). Finding the balance between these rights has left political correctness as a convenient scapegoat for countless injustices.