Posted on 10/22/2009 1:50:58 PM PDT by AJKauf
During the recent Jewish holidays I heard one rabbi after another speak of “social justice.” Uttered with remarkable sincerity, this expression and its meaning elude me. I recognize justice as the adjudication of competing positions in a court of law and in accordance with the Constitution and its precedents. But what is social justice?
I’m not naïve. From Sharpton to Wright, social justice has come to mean redressing the wrongs of the past in the form of government benefits or reparations. The expression has a hint of retribution as in “you owe us.” In actuality, the words haven’t any real meaning. There are always those who grieve, and as long as the government attempts to satisfy those with a gripe, the plaintive cry for social justice will have irresistible appeal.
Justice is rarely social unless, of course, it is categorical as was the case with the Holocaust. In most instances justice is personal, e.g., seeking retribution for a contractual violation. Even if one were to attempt to redress the evil of slavery, how would one do so? Not every black person in the United States is a child of slavery. Moreover, people do not live in slavery — here at any rate — and race is not a barrier to success as President Obama and a host of corporate leaders demonstrate....
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Social justice is when Zer0 gives me half of his windfall book advances.
Anti-Colonialism — What happened in Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, that’s social justice ... Now they all starve together.
Cater did it all by himself.
That's where something thinks they have more right to your money than you do.
If by social justice these esteemed clergy intended to mean the government dole, they don’t get what the old Hebrew prophets admonished, which was to exercise PRIVATE charity towards the poor. Such acts of charity were described as “righteousness” — not the same term used for justice as exercised by courts.
Social reprisal.
Redistribution of wealth from those that are producers to those that are moochers.
sounds like a fancy way of saying revenge...
You have something I want.
I can’t be bothered to work for my own.
I’ll have a politician make you give yours to me.
That’s social justice.
“Social Justice” = give us everything we demand because your daddy was mean to us.
Social Justice: I want YOU to give all your money to HIM, to resolve some “unfair situation” rooted in the past. I, however will keep my money because I am morally superior to you.
We have mortgaged our liberty in pursuit of “justice”. In an America run by liberals, ultimately we will have neither.
That’s certainly what it comes down to.
They intentionally keep the definition of “social justice” amorphous so that they can use it as an excuse and talking point in their “politics of envy” rhetoric.
If someone uses it in your presence, stop them and demand the define what they mean by it.
A code word for "Communism."
Social justice is how somebody will spend MY money.
“Social Justice” is one of those handy-dandy progressive euphemisms that is high-sounding, yet unremarkable in reality, since it simply means redistribution of wealth.
Any time you hear some demagogue talk about “justice” (especially if he is surnamed Jackson or Sharpton) what they are saying is “give me some money.”
The thing is more and more at my Catholic Church I hear the term thrown about, makes me cringe.
“What is ‘Social Justice’? A code word for “Communism.”
Bingo. Its a term used almost exclusively by communists. When you hear it, you know exactly what you are dealing with.
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