“In details,” he concluded, “it may be for food security and shelter for all persons, but at the end of the day we are looking at whether things that we are doing in the world as government, as a Church and all of that help advance the good of the individual person.”
To me, a perfect example of social justice would be what is happening in NY and NJ in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The governnment (FEMA) is as usual, falling down at the job, whereas a multitude of private individuals and organizations have risen to the occasion. Neighbor helping neighbor, high school and college kids organizing to clean up the debris and ruins of homes, charitable and religious groups busing in both aid and their services, physical and psychological. To me, this is a shining example of social justice, whereas the government on the organizational and ground level, fails way too often.
The government can hand out checks (by the way, it’s our money they are handing out, not theirs) for rebuilding when it gets to that point, but in the interim it is the private sector that comes through with on the ground aid. Charity and help for your fellow man when down and out is the operative word here, not government to the rescue, because it is dysfunctional at best in matters of the human soul and can only do so much on the street level. That’s when true social justice steps in to help those suffering in the world and it has always been so.
It should be read by everyone and anyone for use as a talking point when trying to convey to sincere but naive do-gooders what the Left's phony "social justice" REALLY is.....and how social volunteerism in the private sector is the true humanitarianism.
The word "Justice" has nothing to do with humanitarianism. It's an historical commie buzzword always related to class envy and divisiveness (the old divide and conquer gambit).
All dots have to be connected when dealing with the lexicon of the Left.
Leni