Posted on 10/16/2017 7:10:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
From Washington, D.C. to the NFL and Hollywood, America's idols are tumbling down. This is not a bad thing. For too long, we have wasted precious time and money worshipping these so-called “social justice” warrior hypocrites who continue to disappoint.
Here’s to hoping all this disappointment will lead us back to what really matters, but don’t count on it.
Huge swaths of Americans still bow at the altar of social justice. They believe government-forced “charity” will advance us to an utopian paradise where everyone enjoys the same outcome, despite personal effort, upbringing, unique abilities and education.
Truth is, though, social justice is an oxymoron based on the false premise that the cure for injustice is leveling the playing field and redistributing wealth. As former Vice President Joe Biden once said, “You may call it redistribution of wealth – I just call it being fair.”
Karl Marx would be so proud.
Marx hated religion, private property and Judeo-Christian values as much as leftists do today. That’s why you should bolt out of any place of worship that combines Jesus, social justice and the government in the same sentence.
In his book, “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism,” economist Friedrich Hayek nails what’s really at stake: “The aim of socialism is no less than to affect a complete redesigning of our traditional morals, law and language – and on this basis to stamp out the old order and the supposedly inexorable, unjustifiable conditions that prevent the institution of reason, fulfillment, true freedom and justice.”
Yesteryears’ creepy social justice warriors are now out of the closet and no longer hide their agenda. Instead, they give it a pink boa and parade their intentions to destroy capitalism, silence free speech and scrub Judeo-Christian values from the public square.
They harp about injustice and claim only they can fix it, which is one of the most arrogant, egotistical piles of hogwash you’ll ever hear.
All that, while they divide us into two groups, normal folks and them. They believe normal folks are about as smart as slugs, therefore incapable of coherent reasoning and self-care. To them, everyday Americans aren’t diamonds in the rough, they are pliable, moldable objects used to reshape America into a socialist nightmare like Venezuela.
As I’ve said before, Democrats’ sacrosanct belief that the government was created to control how fairness is spread around is nothing more than a modern-day effort to reinvent Robin Hood, without all the chivalry and green tights.
Those who romantically embrace the concept of social justice believe the misnomer that stealing from some and passing it on to those who should have had it in the first place will result in some sort of righteous leveling.
Leftists don’t own the market on charity. Normal folks leave government out of the mix and combine their compassion with common sense. They bring food in one hand and a rifle in the other, knowing if they teach someone how to hunt, they’ll eat for a lifetime.
In comparison, leftists bring Trader Joe’s bagels in one hand and a voter’s registration card in the other. Seizing the opportunity to convert their victims into non-thinking entitlement aficionados, they stop at nothing to meet an immediate need, then lead them by their noses to leftist-run metropolises where crime and government handouts abound.
I know, the devil is always in the details, but I’ll go ahead and say it anyhow. Forced “charity” doesn’t bring about justice. Instead, it creates injustice when it stirs up animosity between the less fortunate and those being penalized, taxed, for their hard work under penalty of prosecution.
In sharp contrast, there is a power in authentic generosity that no amount of government social-engineering could or will ever match. The social justice crowd should dust off the knees they protest with and try it sometime.
Along with those who actually think it is an academic major.
My question to SJWs: Explain to me what you mean by “social justice”.
The prime directive of any bureaucracy is to expand. Agencies that exist to provide support for citizens must demonstrate increased need to justify their expansion.
The bureaucrat must never end need. If a welfare program encourages people off welfare and into self support it has failed.
A government medical care program must never heal. Obamacare has turned physicians into clerks who pass on care to the next office. If a physician spends more than 15 minutes with a patient he is docked. The ailment of the patient is expected to provide appointments through a continuing flow of referrals.
Government service must serve the needs of the service provider as its sole responsibility.
Q: Do you believe in Social Justice?
A: No, only the regular kind.
Answer:”We’d better get our way or else”!
“Social Justice” is traced to its roots, social as in socialism. Other than that, it tends to be rather ANTI-social in nature, expressing great hostility toward any of the “bourgeois”, the fat happy citizens satisfied with their station in life. The “justice” is actually a corruption of the two words, “just us”, and has nothing to do with promoting an equitable resolution between two or more persons of differing stations in life.
In other words, narcissistic malcontents.
Similar to the word “studies” when appended to a course title (as in “gender studies”; “black studies”; “women studies”) which has little to do with academics, the word “justice” when appended to a cause (as in “environmental justice”, “economic justice” and, of course, “social justice”) has little to do with justice.
“My question to SJWs: Explain to me what you mean by “social justice”.
It’s a euphemism for communism. To me social justice is the firing squad.
“Social Justice” is the cry of those who hate justice.
Mere sophistries and duckspeak rhetoric are their entire intellectual arsenal.
I wish George Will hadn’t rediscovered that word.
Social Justice = Communism
I told him I was a conservative who embraced our founding principles. I asked him how would I recognize the arrival of social justice in America? What would it look like? How would society be different?
I got a deer-in-the-headlights look. He thanked me, and said that NO SOCIETY CAN ACHIEVE SOCIAL JUSTICE.
From that, I concluded the drive for social justice is like that of the quest for the Holy Grail. Neither can be reached. The important thing is the attempt, the effort to reach perfection.
I just refer to it as “socialized justice”. I think that’s pretty clear.
The important thing is the attempt, the effort to reach perfection.
My translation: The important thing is propaganda, the effort to control the people, and to extract as much money as possible from the middle class in order to enrich the elite while pretending to care about the poor.
It seems to me to be a good name for “MOB RULE” and “GOVERNMENT BY WHIM!”
It thrives mainly in the Twitterverse and Farcebook as a general rule!!!
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