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SOCIAL JUSTICE VS. AMERICA’S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 22, 2016 | Deborah Lambert

Posted on 05/23/2016 8:31:52 AM PDT by Academiadotorg

The eloquent Justice Clarence Thomas recently warned the class of 2016 in a commencement address at Hillsdale College that since "the rising tide of social justice demands run afoul of this nation's founding principles," this year’s grads should "prioritize hard work, civic duty and personal responsibility."

"As you go through life, try to be that person that teaches others how to be better people and better citizens," Thomas said. "Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone bad with political correctness."

Thomas also honored his former colleague of 25 years — the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February --saying they had "made the Court a better place for each other."

"This has been a most difficult time on the Court," Thomas said. "When I think of Justice Scalia, I think of the good man I instinctively could trust during my first days on the Court--and those were challenging days. He was, in the tradition of the South of my youth, a man of his word, a man of character."

"Unapologetically a constitutionalist" now, Thomas appealed to the Founding Fathers’ beliefs of naturally bestowed rights.

"But even though this liberty is inherent, it is neither guaranteed nor assured," Thomas said. "It was secured by the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor of those who dared to exert that liberty."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antoninscalia; clarencethomas
Clarence Thomas rocks the house at Hillsdale.
1 posted on 05/23/2016 8:31:52 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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Social Justice Progressives are air headed and dangerous. They need to be called out, humiliated and castigated at every turn.

They have politicized everything from the weather to bathrooms, to marriage to simple concepts like male and female. They are utter idiots hell bent on taking us down the road to destruction. They are fascists, elitists utopianists.

They are the ultimate retro humanoids intent on destroying a civilization built upon liberty, self reliance, hard work and belief in God.

2 posted on 05/23/2016 8:48:31 AM PDT by Awgie (Progressives should be called RE-GRESSIVES!)
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“Social justice” is “justice” rendered to groups, mere entities and abstractions of persons.

It is therefore fundamentally incomparable with justice due to actual Persons.


3 posted on 05/23/2016 8:51:26 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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the rising tide of social justice demands run afoul of this nation's founding principles,

How to gain or keep values:

1)true justice = gaining the earned and deserved by one's own intelligence, disciplined thought, good character, and productive effort

2)social justice = gaining the unearned and undeserved by parasitism

3)luck

4 posted on 05/23/2016 9:39:40 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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Social Justice pervert Legal Justice.


5 posted on 05/23/2016 9:40:32 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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Social Justice perverts Legal Justice.


6 posted on 05/23/2016 9:40:47 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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“Social Justice” should be “SocialIST Justice,” which is no justice at all.


7 posted on 05/23/2016 9:59:18 AM PDT by IronJack
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