What does ‘social justice’ mean?

May 14, 2012 06:17


Even the American Nazi Party … identifies “social justice for White Working Class people throughout our land” as one of its two main tenets… National Review Online

 

 

By Jonah Golberg at National Review Online


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… one of the fascinating aspects of “social justice” is that it sounds so pleasing and innocuous, a term any politician can use in a speech or signing statement.

 

… the United Nations insists that “social justice is not possible without strong and coherent redistributive policies conceived and implemented by public agencies.”

 

“Social justice” has become an abracadabra phrase granting the state access to every nook and cranny of life.

 

The only way for social justice to make sense is if you operate from the assumption that the invisible hand of the market should be amputated and replaced with the very visible hand of the state. In other words, each explicit demand for social justice carries with it the implicit but necessary requirement that the state do the fixing. And a society dedicated to the pursuit of perfect social justice must gradually move more and more decisions under the command of the state, until it is the sole moral agent.

 

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