The Culture War

Wired 14.04: The Culture War

I love using history to compare current issues of today. Wired reminds us with every new media/entertainment form, there will always be people demonizing it, like novels, waltzes, and today's video games:

US senator Charles Schumer says some videogames aimed at kids "desensitize them to death and destruction." But dire pronouncements about new forms of entertainment are old hat. It goes like this: Young people embrace an activity. Adults condemn it. The kids grow up, no better or worse than their elders, and the moral panic subsides. Then the whole cycle starts over.

Can Wired remind us how liberalizing civil rights is always demonized? i.e. civil rights to minority races in the 50s and 60s and civil rights to homosexuals today?