Posted on 12/17/2018 4:04:12 AM PST by SMGFan
NEW YORK — Racial justice. Obstruction of justice. Social justice. The Justice Department. Merriam-Webster has chosen "justice" as its 2018 word of the year, driven by the churning news cycle over months and months.
The word follows "toxic," picked by Oxford Dictionaries, and "misinformation," plucked by Dictonary.com. Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor at large, told The Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement that "justice" consistently bubbled into the top 20 or 30 lookups on the company's website, spiking at times due to specific events but also skating close to the surface for much of the year.
While it's one of those common words people likely know how to spell and use correctly in a sentence, Sokolowski pointed to other reasons that drive search traffic. Among them is an attempt to focus a train of thought around a philosophical problem, or to seek aspirational motivation. Such well-known words are often among the most looked up every year, including those that are slightly abstract, including "love," he said.
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This year I had to look up the new meaning of "WOKE" …
Also "cis" and its freaky cousins in that LGTBTQ toxic alphabet soup.
Britney “Toxic”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=LOZuxwVk7TU
355 million views since 2009
Why has the term “justice” come to mean almost its exact opposite of the original dictionary definition?
The practice of “justice” has been conflated with it complete antonym, tyranny, and ceased to provide any kind of escape valve to the oppressed and downtrodden, mostly by creating a new class of oppressed and downtrodden, a sort of “getting even” card given to the formerly oppressed and downtrodden.
You cannot, ever, “get even” with your adversary. There can only be one with an upper hand, and one in submission, until a disinterested (not the same as uninterested) party steps in and forcibly, if necessary, separates the two sides, then arbitrates their differences.
That is what justice originally meant. But “justice” used to assert the superiority of one set of ideals and principles over another is not justice at all. The idea is to take the best of each set of principles and meld them into one unifying principle.
That is assuming that each side has valid principles, and not some made-up “grievances”, petty whining that has no validity whatsoever.
I thought it was Just Us. Oh, wait, that was during the previous regime. Or is it?
Justice.
Will it every be applied to the pro-abortionists?
Next to the word "should", the most useless word in the English language.
There is no justice in this world, that will have to wait until the next.
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