Direct from the JFSJ main page:
Our holistic approach to social change includes grantmaking and loans, service learning, leadership development, organizing, education, and advocacy...individuals have a profound responsibility for the wellbeing of the whole...helping to build a resurgent movement for justice.
They just need to add "dialectic trans-spatial interdependence" to make the farce complete. C'mon, who's writing this twaddle? Is Ellsworth Toohey their PR guy?
A general definition of social justice is hard to arrive at and even harder to implement. In essence, social justice is concerned with equal justice, not just in the courts, but in all aspects of society. This concept demands that people have equal rights and opportunities; everyone, from the poorest person on the margins of society to the wealthiest deserves an even playing field.
From a political stance that is leftist, you must legislate to create a just society, and various programs need to exist in order to collect monies needed to even the playing field between rich, middle class, poor and those people who are routinely marginalized by society. Equal rights can be defined as equal access to things that make it possible for people in any societal sector to be successful. Therefore, leftist philosophy would support things like anti-discrimination laws and equal opportunity programs, and would favor taxation, especially of those who make a lot of money, to pay for programs that help provide equality for all.
The far left would argue that there are certain basic needs that must be offered to all. These include things like truly equal education and safety in all schools and programs that would help all children have the financial opportunity to attend college. Far left groups, often termed socialist even if they differ from true definitions of socialism, further argue that a just society cannot be had unless everyone has access to food, safe shelter and medical care. The way to achieve this is through taxation and government implementation of programs that will guarantee these things for all people.
The right political stance equally endorses a just society, but may criticize those who make poor choices and feel that while equal opportunity should exist, a government should not legislate for this. In fact it is argued that social justice is diminished when governments create programs to deal with it, especially when these programs call for greater taxation. Instead, those who have more money should be encouraged to be philanthropic, not by paying higher taxes, which is arguably unjust.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-social-justice.htm
Social Justice: Code for Communism
By: Barry Loberfeld
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, February 27, 2004
The signature of modern leftist rhetoric is the deployment of terminology that simply cannot fail to command assent. As Orwell himself recognized, even slavery could be sold if labeled “freedom.” In this vein, who could ever conscientiously oppose the pursuit of “social justice,” — i.e., a just society?
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13978
“They just need to add “dialectic trans-spatial interdependence” to make the farce complete. C’mon, who’s writing this twaddle? Is Ellsworth Toohey their PR guy?”
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I am actually blown away by their site and some of their subject matter:
cOMMUNITY ORGANIZING.... sounds familiar.....
“Telling one’s story: Bo and Congregation-based Community Organizing” by Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Jewish Funds for Justice
Leviticus
Vayikra
“Sacrifice and communal responsibility” by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Jewish Funds for Justice from www.radicaltorah.org
DAY RIGHTS.......
“Disclaiming and Reclaiming: Gay Rights in Leviticus” by Cantor Ken Richmond, Temple Israel of Natick, MA
IMMIGRATION AND ENTITLEMENT......
Behar-Behukotai
“Immigration and Entitlement” by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Jewish Funds for Justice
“Economic Radicalism” by Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Jewish Funds for Justice
Numbers
Deuteronomy
V’etchanan
“Inheritance Tax and the Idolatry of Wealth” by Jeffrey Dekro, Jewish Funds for Justice and Lawrence Bush, Jewish Currents (from www.socialaction.com)
Shoftim
“Justice, Justice, blah blah blah” by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Jewish Funds for Justice
Ki Tetze
“The Commandment for a Living Wage” by Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Jewish Funds for Justice from www.socialaction.com
http://www.jewishjustice.org/jfsj.php?page=7.3
In 2002, for example, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) issued new guidelines requiring education departments that listed social justice as a goal to “include some measure of a candidate’s commitment to social justice” when evaluating the “dispositions” of their students. As soon became clear, this provided education schools a back-door method of ensuring ideological conformity among their students.
At Brooklyn College, Washington State, and Alaska-Fairbanks — all public institutions covered by the First Amendment — students were punished for voicing opinions that differed from those of the faculty. At Washington State, where the college of education tried to expel a student for his conservative opinions, the dean was asked whether Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could pass a disposition test at the school. “I’m not sure how to answer that,” she replied.
Eventually, NCATE clarified its wording a bit. Sounding very much like Jim Wallis teeing off against Glenn Beck , NCATE protested the attack on the words “social justice,” saying, “To most Americans the phrase social justice is positive and connotes values associated with the Judeo-Christian tradition.” The problem is that even in its mildest form, the insistence on dedication to social justice puts schools in a position of judging the acceptability of students’ political and social opinions.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124811450
I’ll check back in the morning. I am making too many typos. Always a sign I am tired...lol.
This is a commie group.