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Social Justice is a Farce!
Posted at: Nov/11/2023 : Posted by: Mel
Related Category: Society, Watching America,
For the last 15 years we have been bombarded with the words of the social justice crowd. Cancel Columbus Day because of the displaced Native American population, feel guilty for blacks because they are socially forced to commit crime, adopt a Trans person because they are shunned from full society participation, women are preyed upon by men (#MeToo) before they can have equal opportunity. This is a sampling of the social and society disparities since 2008 I am supposed to feel guilty about. Now it looks more and more like the Social Justice crowd lied and is guilty of the same behaviors they want me to feel guilty for. According to the Oxford Dictionary, Social Justice is defined as “justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society”. Basically, Social Justice is a concept associated with the dominance or oppression of one identified group in society with respect to all the others. Recognizing the interconnected and interdependence of all humanity this is supposed to be about raising those groups up in society who are under-served or underperforming. The truth of the last 15 years of the social justice movement is that it has been more about tearing down those segments of our society that perform the best. This is not helping those who are overlook, this is socialism where the power of wealth of the successful is taken for redistribution, but only after you are made to feel guilty for your success. The movement gained a foothold in American culture around 2008, riding a wave of popular reexaminations of race relations, political divisions, and systemic disparities. It styled itself as an honorable call to right the wrongs of society, both historical and contemporaneous. The past three weeks (since October 7th 2023) however, have served as definitive proof that the benevolent emperor is an unforgiving tyrant. All these warriors for the oppressed are not near as noble and selfless as they have claimed. Neither are they singularly motivated by the ideals of "diversity,” "equity," and "inclusivity" (DEI). They have told me for a number of years that because I am a white male, that I am the prejudiced oppressor. Now I know they’re as greedy, vicious, prejudiced, and hateful as the behaviors they accuse me of. Nothing has done a better job of laying bare this reality as Hamas’s Oct. 7 slaughter of 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians including children. Since that day of mass murder, social justice activists have flooded city streets and college campuses across the West, cheering war crimes and calling for the destruction of Israel. They chant explicit calls for ethnic cleansing, including “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” and “We can’t wait for the caliphate!” They proudly display signs showing the Star of David in a wastebasket, accompanied by the caption, “Please keep the world clean.” They tear down posters featuring the faces of Israeli adults and children held hostage by Hamas. They use projectors to display messages such as “GLORY TO OUR MARTYRS” on college buildings. These are the same people who claim they’re traumatized by “violent” rhetoric. These are the people who turned terms such as “safe space” and “trigger warning” into everyday clichés. These are the people who ruthlessly enforce DEI policies and ideology in the name of protecting marginalized peoples. They’re left-wing academics, students, activists, and bureaucrats, and they proudly endorse violence and terror when it suits them. Unfortunately, they might be winning. Jews in New York City have been told to avoid certain areas for fear of targeted violence. Some Jewish schools in the United States closed on Oct. 13 after Hamas leadership called for a “Day of Rage.” At America’s institutions of higher learning, some Jewish students are going into hiding as their classmates hold vigils for the Palestinian “martyrs” of Oct. 7. College administrators have been slow to condemn the pro-terrorist demonstrations that have descended on their campuses. They’ve been even slower to offer protections for Jewish students. Interesting how selective these administrators can be about hate. They don’t stop the pro-Palestinian that endorses hate and violence because it would infringe on First Amendment free-speech rights, but they pull the event permits for conservative talk personalities. The team that claims it cherishes “inclusivity” and “diversity” more than anything else has embraced Hamas and its mission to annihilate a marginalized group. They’ve effectively become acolytes for Hamas. For reference consider replacing “acolyte” with “stooge.” Yet these same students, academics, and activists tell us they stand against “violent” language. They tell us certain rhetoric should be punished and even outlawed. They tell us rhetoric is sometimes literal violence. They tell us they hear racist dog whistles every time the Right criticizes their view of Democratic governance. They hound private citizens for perceived “micro-aggressions,” including the wearing of “offensive” Halloween costumes. They accuse the Right of waging "literal genocide" against the LGBT community. They even browbeat the NFL’s Redskins and the MLB’s Indians into changing their names to the Commanders and the Guardians, respectively. (Note: There is an effort by Native Americans to return the NFL team and logo to “Redskins.) They call anyone who hints at disagreement with their views a literal Nazi. They invented an entire industry to comfort and coddle students, employees, activists, etc., who claim they've been "traumatized" by conservative rhetoric. They endlessly accuse the Right of promoting antisemitism and anti-Semitic clichés and platitudes, gorging themselves on news and media commentary that alleges all the same. Given these stated values, how are they cheering actual war crimes? How are they holding support vigils for actual terrorists? Why are they engaging in the most anti-Semitic and fascist behavior/rhetoric since the end of World War II? When it comes to Jews, where are those “safe spaces”? What happened to all that “Hate has no home here” rhetoric? Apparently in this country we do not defend the Jewish people from calls for their exterminations. The FBI reported the other day that Jews represent 2.4% of the US population but are the victims of over 60% of the race-based hatred. Maybe the only safe place is in the attic? For the people who’ve berated the country for the past 15 years about inclusion and diversity, the answer is clearly a resounding no. The Jews do not count, and Jewish lives don’t matter. The secret to understanding these contradictory positions is this: The “social justice” types don’t actually oppose hateful language and dangerous rhetoric. They don’t care about equity and inclusivity. Attempts to censor speech for even the most banal micro-aggressions. They won’t denounce the physically intimidating ideological extremist behaviors; these are nothing more than exercises in raw power, some pointed and some simple exertions of control. These are the methods by which they elbow out, shut down, and eventually destroy altogether those with whom they disagree and those whose destruction could provide them and their comrades with more opportunities and “privilege.” The “social justice” crowd has never really cared about righting the wrongs and oppression of select minority groups. They only really care about acquiring power and influence, creeping toward this goal via emotional blackmail, intimidation campaigns, and even occasional violence. Similarly, in the 1930’s the National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZI) rose to power by blaming minority groups including Jews for all the suffering that others were experiencing. Theirs is not a cause for justice, but for self-enrichment, a relatively bloodless conquest for power and treasure. They simply disguise their self-interest in the language of “justice” and altruism. To the left-wing social justice activist, Jews are just a subset of “white oppressors.” And it’s both right and just to strip the “white oppressor” of his “power and privilege” “by any means necessary.” The rallies in support of Hamas aren’t surprising when looked at with the broader lens of the “social justice” movement. For the movement, Hamas presents yet another opportunity for the tearing down and marginalization of a group that is acceptable to hate and the reassignment of its “privilege” to better and more deserving stewards of their choice. Everything the Social Justice crowd has told us about working for a more peaceable and inclusive tomorrow has been both hypocrisy and an outright lie. Nothing reveals this more clearly than their spectacle of support for the hyper-violent and anti-Semitic cult of Hamas. As a white man and a Jew, maybe I too should be adding a “safe room” to my house since I don’t have an attic to hide in.
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