Defining ‘Social Justice’
But our politicians have not read history and they do not know what this phrase means. More importantly, many of those who are demanding social justice do not understand what they are asking for either. They see social disparity, inequality and react with what to them is a noble demand for a just cause. They think, but not deep enough to see the ramifications of their cause.
Here is the textbook definition of Social Justice:
Social justice is a political and philosophical theory which asserts that there are dimensions to the concept of justice beyond those embodied in the principles of civil or criminal law, economic supply and demand, or traditional moral frameworks. Social justice tends to focus more on just relations between groups within society as opposed to the justice of individual conduct or justice for individuals.
Historically and in theory, the idea of social justice is that all people should have equal access to wealth, health, well-being, justice, privileges, and opportunity regardless of their legal, political, economic, or other circumstances. In modern practice, social justice revolves around favoring or punishing different groups of the population, regardless of any given individual’s choices or actions, based on value judgements regarding historical events, current conditions, and group relations. In economic terms, this often means redistribution of wealth, income, and economic opportunities from groups whom social justice advocates consider to be oppressors to those whom they consider to be the oppressed. Social justice is often associated with identity politics, socialism, and revolutionary communism.
Social justice is the elevating on social needs over individual rights. It is a total shift of world view in which individual rights are sacrificed at the altar of group’s self-defined needs. It is antithetical to our foundations of human rights, our legal concept of individual guilt and of the equal access of all men to the law. It diminishes the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all individuals in elevating the needs of the group. It is opposed to all individual property rights, all personal responsibility and all of our traditions of freedom.
It justifies the abandonment of the ownership of property, real or economic, and the confiscation of that property to those who need or want it. The justification is based on perceived need not on the creation, personal effort or individuals labor and creativity of its production.
This is the ultimate justification for the lazy to take from the productive, for the power of the group or the government created by the group, to redistribute the possessions of we the people. It justifies theft and makes looting a new form of patriotism.
If it wins, our entire Judeo-Christian world view is doomed. It is not your friend. It is your enemy.
