Today the supremacy of political correctness dominates everything we know, what was once so natural to say or do today is not so much, in fact many of the freedoms to which we are entitled (or we believe we have) are questioned and even punished for being considered offensive perhaps without being so. I do not want to be misunderstood, I do not justify racism, homophobia or segregation of any kind, however, that more than legitimate fight for the rights of some has derived to severely punish the error, yes, that unspoken right to be wrong as naturally as we are right.
Now we are afraid to express what we feel, we are afraid of being publicly lynched for being different from those who dominate the media, we are forced to adapt our thinking to the new era so as not to hurt susceptibilities while the "susceptible" are shaping with the help of the media and some social networks a series of codes and rules that if you escape from them you run the risk of being lynched in this virtual agora. If there is something that we all protect a lot is our image in social networks because in these virtual spaces we exercise our second life (for some it is the first and as sad as it may sound, for others it represents the only one), therefore leaving the pre-established schemes can result in being expelled from paradise.
Those codes or norms that are framed in the politically correct (or incorrect) pretend to constitute a universal scheme for human conduct, therefore everything that goes out of that scheme must be punished and severely combated without the right to claims or defense. I remember the case of the Uruguayan soccer player in the service of Manchester United of England Edinson Cavani, outside that country he was never accused of being a racist, but it was enough to write the word "black" on Twitter to affectionately refer to a lifelong friend to call him a "disgusting white supremacist".
If instead of "nigger" he had called him "white" surely nothing would have happened, he would not have been suspended for several games and the Uruguayan athlete, who comes from a Latin American society accustomed to expressing affection with nicknames that under other eyes would be believed to be insults, would not have been fined a substantial amount of money. Cavani may have made a mistake but it sounds extremely unfair to be punished so severely for a misunderstood comment on social networks, it is no longer enough to apologize and move on, a penalty must be exercised for something so vain but that in much of the world's societies is normal.
And if instead of punishing and pointing accusingly at each other, we do everything to understand and tolerate each other? Why is the culture of political correctness assumed as an imposition that limits freedom of thought in order to establish a supposed inclusion? I do not believe that limiting the thoughts and creativity of others is the correct punishment to vindicate other social groups, in fact, I believe that these groups after being persecuted now assume themselves as persecutors, a kind of Torquemada of the XXI Century. To tolerate does not imply to accept just because, this action means that your right to be as you are with your virtues and mistakes will be supported by me, as long as you do the same with me. As they would say in Game Theory: it is a "win-win" action, therefore by being more tolerant and less punitive we will have truly free societies to create and express with total confidence, without fear of making mistakes.