Posted on 06/03/2021 3:45:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
The definition of 'social justice' is imprecise. That's where the rub begins. It has precise meaning only for its user, is what the user wants it to be. So, can it be precisely defined? Perhaps, if we focus upon its application.
In his 1999 book The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote, "In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government power."
That explains the ultimate objective of social justice: a never-ending expansion of government power [emphasis mine].
Sowell defines social justice (which he labels 'cosmic justice,' the relief of all misfortune) as an effort which seeks to eliminate undeserved disadvantages for selected groups. He defines 'undeserved disadvantages' by referencing Dr. Thomas Nagle's definition: 'unequal starting points' certain people have through no fault of their own.
What governmental policies (which Sowell universally rejects) can be enacted to reduce or eliminate unequal starting points? To answer that, Sowell references John Rawls, who insisted 'having everyone play by the same rules or be judged by the same standards' was not sufficient. True equality of opportunity meant 'adjusting starting points to provide everyone with equal prospects of success from equal individual efforts,' and 'putting [selected] segments of society in the position that they would have been in but for some undeserved misfortune' [more about additional society obligation below].
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THE Warren Beatty?
The correct term is “SOCIALIST Justice” which is an oxymoron.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,.....”
Just call it “ The Big Get-Even”. Still, anything will never be enough for the ugly angry delusional bastards
Social Justice is racism, simple as that. Period.
bkmk
Social Justice can be summed in 2 words: GET WHITEY!!
This post by Captain Obvious?
‘Social Justice’ Means Treating Some People Unjustly Which Solves Racial Injustice By Stigmatizing Government Selected Different Groups or CRT on Action.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. — Kurt Vonnegut
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