NOTE: at one point social justice WAS necessary! It WAS necessary to call attention to race gender to deal with race issues. However, that is no longer the case… If anything, the time has long arrived to remove race from the equation and begin to move towards a more egalitarian society. I’m not saying someone cannot acknowledge that they are a part of a race gender, etc, I’m saying that it should not be their entire identity, nor should it factor into anything any more than hair or eye color does. When is the last time you have heard about affirmative action for redheads? Never! To examine why I have a problem with social justice, lets look at the definitions of social justice and Justice. Justice: just behavior or treatment. “a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people” synonyms:fairness, justness, fair play, fair-mindedness,equity, evenhandedness. Source: Google Now, let’s look at what justice is supposed to look like. https://www.google.com/search?q=lady+justice&safe=off&client=ms-android-verizon&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC573K26DNAhWB34MKHaOtD24Q_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=559#imgrc=NsOzVPw4Tug2RM%3A Note how justice is supposed to be blind and the scales are supposed to be balanced. It wishes to judge you strictly on your deeds. Not your race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Now conversely, let’s look at social justice. Social justice: justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. “individuality gives way to the struggle for social justice.” (Even this sentence is interesting.) Source: Google Let’s take a look at this: “justice in terms of” As if justice should be different for each individual, not based on a person’s deeds, but whether or not they are deemed “privileged” (a very flawed idea, that I will examine another day.) To break it down a bit more, how much justice you get is entirely dependent on where or what you are born. This is the very logic that leads to the protected classes, collectivism, Marxism gross double standard, overcorrection and painful guilt of those arbitrarily deemed privileged, not based on their personal story or experiences, but on what group Y thinks group X experiences. Is that in any way fair? When Social Justice started out, the intentions were good, things that very few of us would disagree with. They don’t say the road to hell is paved in good intentions for no reason. https://www.google.com/search?q=welcome+to+hell&safe=off&client=ms-android-verizon&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjaoYLB4qDNAhUMXh4KHe5wCzUQ_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=559#imgrc=AUMP5BmPbrd4nM%3A Sorry for the late response, @l3erry.
