THE INJUSTICE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

email | March 18, 2012 | Tom Durbin

[IbJensen]

The key here is to replace the current occupier of the White Hut and his complicit congressional allies.

[ALPAPilot]

What is social justice?

It's what you get when you confuse Jesus with Robin Hood.

It's also what you get when you ignore the 8th and 10th Commandments.

[sigzero]

Awesome answer.

[IbJensen]

Great, concise analysis.

[Venturer]

To me Social Justice is when you work hard and get rewarded for it.Not when you sit on your ass and have it handed to you.

[ClearCase_guy]

Thou shall not covet
Thou shall not steal

[headsonpikes]

“Social Justice” is the cry of those who hate actual justice.

[originalbuckeye]

To this Admin, it really is ‘Just-US’. Not justice. They want equality? NOT! They want equal outcomes for unequal work. This Admin is the most destructive to the American Dream to ever inhabit the People's House. I am heartbroken. Our nominee needs to tell the people that he wants EVERYONE to have an opportunity to become successful. THAT is the American Dream.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Social justice = Communism.

[dog breath]

Whenever I hear the words social justice I think of the socialist inspired films like, The Grapes Of Wrath, the rich are oppressing the poor. It is not the poor who are at fault it is the banks and the wealthy people's fault. It is hard to watch such films like that or, Bound for Glory, a film about Woody Guthrie and not be moved. The only problem is that such sentiment confuses several themes in American history. We believe in equal opportunity and that all men are created equal in that they are given the chance to succeed. We believe that there should be no aristocracy like that which existed in Europe. That is fine, wealthy families often wither away, we have no guarantees of wealth. The charitable admonitions of Christianity also plays into the mix for helping others is moral virtue. The trouble with that is that if charity is forced by the government it no longer is what they talk about in the Bible, a moral choice. Government solutions are put forth as means to achieve the poorly defined concept of social justice. What seems American in nature is the thought that a person creates their own destiny and are responsible for their lives. American social justice, if it exists at all, is opportunity not forced handouts. Discouraging ambition and the drive by heavily punishing with taxes those who would create something in order to redistribute the wealth perpetuates poverty. Where is the justice in that?

[ripley]

“The key here is to replace the current occupier of the White Hut and his complicit congressional allies.”

It’s very sad that a large part of the electorate loves the term “social justice” and will vote for those who espouse it.

(55% to 45%, Obama in 2013.)

IMHO

[chesley]

Now you’re giving Robin Hood a bad rap. Remember, the rich that he stole from was the government, who had stolen it from the poor, to whom he was giving it back.

:)

[This I Wonder32460]

They also are confused about who Robin Hood was. When we say “Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor.” He was not a charitable thief. He was returning tax money to those who were unfairly taxed. Robin Hood was a tea party member.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Social Justice is taking the perceived victim and elevating him/her to the status of the perceived bully and then removing the ability of the new victim to complain.

[wastoute]

“Seek Justice (one will never ‘find’ it), love Mercy, and walk humbly before God.” Folks using the “code phrase” Social Justice do NONE of these things.

[lurk]

Social Justice is the answer to a crossword clue: two-word term for collectivism.

[rollo tomasi]

I do not like the Robin Hood analogy. Hood “stole” from the corrupt. To imply Robin Hood with those who prospered through hard work and playing by the rules clouds the atmosphere.

I prefer turning Jesus into Karl Marx or Fidel Castro in making an analogy with the social justice types.

[docbnj]

A good essay, but the issue of social justice is very simple. I can explain it while standing on one foot:
There is no such thing as “social justice” aside from justice itself; because all justice is social in that it always deals with more that one person. So obviously the term “social justice” is a cover for unjust policies.
So there: I now put my foot down!

[docbnj]

Robin Hood never actually existed. He is a figment of folklore. There is a tendency in folklore for thieves to be made into sympathetic characters with the passage of time, perhaps so that people can identify with them and their larcenous exploits without feeling any guilt.

The Robin Hood myth is an opportunity for ignorant failures in life to justify redistributionist platforms. Sorry to say this, but it is true.

The classic 1938 Robin Hood movie is a cleaned-up version of the myth, to make it suitable in traditional America among general audiences. It is not the version which would appeal to Ayers or 0.

[ml/nj]

When all share equally in the bounty of the earth, who will get to summer on Nantucket?

ML/NJ