[livius]

Good article. The term “social justice” makes my hair stand on end when I hear it coming from the pulpit.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

if charity becomes a forced action -- if governments, rather than citizens, mandate its application -- does it cease to be charity?

Yes, it's called Communism...tyranny...theft. It's inherently anti-American.

[rogue yam]

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[Jay W]

When considering the term “social justice,” the word “social” negates the word “justice.”

As I said on another thread, you can have justice, or you can have social justice. You can’t have both at the same time.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I strongly object to letting Socialists "own" the term Social Justice. It is insane to concede them the power to define this concept, just as they have been conceded the power to define "compassionate," "enlightened," "progressive," "reform," and every other key concept in the public forum.

We should take back these words and restore them to their true meaning. And while we're at it, let's take back the "rainbow," which truly symbolizes, not polymorphous perversity, but God's world-saving promise; "marriage," which means sacred fertile union, and "reproductive health," which means sacred fertile union resulting in a healthy baby.

Push back the socialists and sexual shape-shifters who have seized and twisted our words. Take back the power to define the terms. And then go out and win those hearts and minds.

[driftless2]

To give certain leftists the benefit of the doubt (that is that they are not all out and out totalitarian Stalinists who crave supreme power for its own sake), we can assume (and you know what to assume something means) that many of them sincerely want a just world with everybody compensated fairly and poverty ended. The problem, which has been amply demonstrated by the past and present countries where Marxist-style socialism has been implemented, is that full-scaled attempts as "social justice" have left the so-called impoverished unfortunates more miserable than they were before and a lot less free.

Leftists just cannot get it into their heads that some people will be more successful in their lives and some will fail none of it having anything to do with fairness or "social justice." In short, like the old saying, some people are born to lose, you might also say some are born to win. But there will never be total social justice the way leftists view it. Because people's abilities are inherently unequal.

Capitalism has created a system where even the very poor can eat and live better comparatively well in the U.S. That is not good enough for most leftists. That is why conservatives, who know about inherent inequalities in abilities, will always have a battle with leftists...who know nothing about human nature and are condemned by their ignorance to remain that way.