Code for redistribution of wealth
It is a weasel word. Essentially, it means some other form of justice than the prevailing one. The details of the new system of justice are to be filled in by the listener, though it is always highly suggested, in context, that this New Justice should be socialistic. That is, Marxist, Fourieristic, Comtean, or what-have-you.
Anyone remember when "social justice" was the hue and cry of Father Coughlin?
Whatever you do, DO NOT mistake social justice with Divine Justice — the two have NOTHING in common.
Social justice is theft. Substitute the latter word for the former when a progressive starts bleating and see what I mean.
Social Justice = Revenge for slavery
Popular in Catholic circles, too. In my opinion, it seems it's something we are all already doing, or should be - giving to the poor, treating workers fairly, etc, with a 'modern', 'new' left leaning twist to more resemble socialism than altruism or charity. In recent decades (for Catholics, think Liberation Theology popularized during the Carter era) hijacked by the left to be more like socialism/communism than anything else. I don't know if the Rabbis in question leaned left, but that would be something to consider.
LBJ let all of this happen when he opened the one war front we could never win...forget Vietnam...forget Afghanistan...the only war we can never win is the War On Poverty because we have been told we need to feel guilty. I DO NOT feel guilty because of something that happened a long, long. long. long. time ago.
I am not a racist but something I read the other day, just a few words, made me laugh and wonder at the same time...a comment made on a news website..."We should have just picked our own cotton".
Read Thomas Sowell “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”. He addressed this 10 years ago.
Social Justice is Marxist Legal Theory