On another blog I read a lot, the blogger posted about political correctness and why does it have such a bad name. He wondered why changing wording to not offend people is such a bad thing. It's not. After much thought, I've come up with the problem. It's not that we mind changing our words to not offend people, it's that what offends people changes so much over time, that what was ok to say yesterday could get you censored for hate speech today. The most striking examples have to do with blacks, or maybe African-Americans? 50 years ago you said colored, and saying black would be considered offensive. Now colored is offensive, black is ont he way out, and African-American is the thing to say. But what about black people that aren't of American descent? What if someone was born in Jamaica? How the hell am I supposed to know if someone is African-American or African-Jamaican? Why not black, which covers it all? I never even thought about the difference until I saw some black demagogue haranguing the country about how African-Americans are getting shafted by affirmative action, because it does not distinguish between American blacks, and those from elsewhere, and the ones from elsewhere are taking all the positions. More victim card stuff. And what about the big bad word that lords it over all other big bad words? You know the one, starts with an "n" and is guaranteed to bring a short, white, Jewish kid a beating, and is equally sure to bring a young black hip-hop kid a high-five from his friends. The problem with political correctness is that they will always find a way to call someone insensitive, even if they have to change the rules to do so.