Posted on 06/25/2012 12:49:55 PM PDT by jazusamo
Just FYI: The term ‘social justice’ was coined and propounded from within the Catholic Church.
Thanks for the ping to another great column by Dr Sowell
Instead of leaving that as some kind of factoid, why not prove it?
Or was just committing a drive-by what you really had in mind?
Search engines are your friend, especially because one shouldn’t trust random posters, even on FR.
Thanks for the ping jaz.
“Envy plus rhetoric equals ‘social justice’ “- T.Sowell
The Constitution remains the supreme law of the land. That Constitution prescribes the only method of amendment of its limitations on our representatives in government and its protections for the individual lives, liberty, rights (including property rights) of its "only KEEPERS" (Justice Story), "We, the People."
At this point, and until further amended by "the People," that Constitution disallows the Executive Branch of the government any power arbitrarily to change its provisions, protections, and limitations on that Branch's duty to uphold its laws.
It is time for each citizen to study the the documents of their liberty by searching out for themselves the original speeches and writings of those who framed, debated and ratified that Constitution.
The explanations of the Constitution contained in the 85 essays of THE FEDERALIST were designed for newspapers to be read by upstate New York farmers. Surely, they would be enlightening for today's citizens as they approach the most important election season in the nation's history.
A grifter conned enough voters to put him in the WH and it's evident now the Constitution means nothing to him, November can't come soon enough.
That is probably the prime definition of social justice. It is also "whatever justification you can dream up for looting and stealing whatever you want". The antonymn is just what my father told me, "nobody owes you anything in life".
Theodore Dalrymple reports the same about intelligent people (mostly white, sometimes Indian) in the slums of England. Their culture, including their schools, has no place for a person who wants to learn.
A smart, poor boy like Richard Feynman, from a culture that valued intellectual achievement, in a school system that rewarded ability with more challenging work, became a great physicist. A smart, poor boy in an anti-intellectual culture, with schools that pour resources onto the least able and the least motivated, is likely to turn criminal or deeply depressed.
Once I asked a class of black college students what they thought would happen if a black baby were born, in the middle of a ghetto, and entered the world with brain cells the same as those with which Albert Einstein was born.He might grow up to be a Thomas Sowell . . .
It’s from the book of James.
He might, but it's harder now than it was when Thomas Sowell was a boy. His grandparents were uneducated, but they wanted better for him and pushed him to achieve. By his own admission, he didn't understand why he should get an education until he worked the kinds of jobs you get without an education.
Today, those jobs aren't available to American teenagers with no skills, and neither is the motivation to work for food.
Thank you for three great pings to three brilliant essays by Dr. Sowell, an American treasure.
You’re most welcome, TOL. They’re 3 good ones for sure. :)
From just having read “A Personal Odyssey” I don’t recall Sowell having much contact with grand parents. In fact he was not raised by his mother, but by an aunt as I recall who didn’t let him know that she was not his mother until he was in his teens. He was passionate about education as a youngster, seeing it as advancement and competition of an enjoyable nature.
He literally dropped out of high school in Harlem. Plain hard work and inate intelligence got him to his doctoral level and clear thinking and lack of fear did the rest. He claims that unlike younger kids that followed a decade behind him he had no built in inferiority complex nurtured by a fear of white people — he fought and beat up a white kid at 12 and his last one at 34 — so he knew they were just people like him.
I have read a number of his books and countless columns and articles, but reading his biographical book gave me a fresh understanding.
He makes it plain that he isn’t a registered party member and does not normally even vote. He is unsatisfied by almost all political involvement he has had, would be the impression I took away from the book.
Okay, it’s been a while since I read the book. Aunt, not grandparents. I knew it wasn’t his own parents. Clarence Thomas was reared by his grandparents.
You are right on the money and it is interesting how there are some simularities between these two big thinkers.
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