What is Social Justice? | 5 Minute Video
“Social Justice” is a term you hear almost every day. But did you ever hear anybody define what it actually means? Jonah Goldberg of the American Enterprise Institute tries to pin this catchall phrase to the wall. In doing so, he exposes the not-so-hidden agenda of those who use it. What sounds so caring and noble turns out to be something very different.
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Script:
Try this at your next party. Ask your guests to define the term Social Justice.
Okay, it’s not Charades or Twister, but it should generate some interesting conversation, especially if your guests are on the political Left.
Since everyone on that side of the spectrum talks incessantly about social justice, they should be able to provide a good definition, right? But ask ten liberals to tell you what they mean by social justice and you’ll get ten different answers. That’s because Social Justice means anything its champions want it to mean.
Almost without exception, labor unions, universities and colleges, private foundations and public charities claim at least part of their mission to be the spreading of Social Justice far and wide.
Here’s the Mission Statement of the AFL-CIO, but it could be the mission statement for a thousand such organizations: “The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families — to bring economic justice to the workplace, and social justice to our nation.” In short, “social justice” is code for good things no one needs to argue for — and no one dare be against.
This very much troubled the great economist Friedrich Hayek. This is what he wrote in 1976, two years after winning the Nobel Prize in Economics. “I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term ‘social justice’.”
Why was Hayek so upset by what seems like such a positive, and certainly unobjectionable, term? Because Hayek, as he so often did, saw right to the core of the issue. And what he saw frightened him.
Hayek understood that beneath the political opportunism and intellectual laziness of the term “social justice” was a pernicious philosophical claim, namely that freedom must be sacrificed in order to redistribute income.
Ultimately, “social justice” is about the state amassing ever increasing power in order to, do “good things.” What are good things? Well whatever the champions of social justice decide this week. But first, last and always it is the cause of economic redistribution.
According to the doctrine of Social Justice, the haves always have too much, the have nots, never have enough. You don’t have to take my word for it. That is precisely how a UN report on Social Justice defines the term: “Social justice may be broadly understood as the fair and compassionate distribution of the fruits of economic growth. Social justice is not possible without strong and coherent redistributive policies conceived and implemented by public agencies.” Let me repeat that: “Strong and coherent redistributive policies conceived and implemented by public agencies.”
And it gets worse.
The UN report goes on to insist that: “Present-day believers in an absolute truth identified with virtue and justice are neither willing nor desirable companions for the defenders of social justice.” Translation: if you believe truth and justice are concepts independent of the agenda of the forces of progress as defined by the left, you are an enemy of social justice.
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So you propse not important what you earn 1$ or 1000000$ per year there should be one "just" tax of 1$/y for evrybody. This is agenda of this "Institute"? If you earn the last amouth it is not cause you are "smartwr and superior" and you have to pay to state service of providing you such circumstances which these days are not granted to evrybody.
This video very one-sided and distorts the term Liberal – which, if you are for individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, free enterprise (among other things), you are by definition – liberal. The person also creates a very distorted view of social justice, without acknowleging that the process of accumulating wealth has problems, such as corruption and other white collar crimes that lead to the further enrichment of some. Furthermore, this person also creates this false sense that all is well and as should be, and that the idea of social justice itself is the problem.
In reality, without social justice, women would not have the right to vote, segregation would still exist, veterans would not have benefits, people with disabilities would not have right, etc. This person does not provide a very realistic picture of social justice and apparently, lacks the education and lived experiences that would inform him of these issues.
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." Not sure who said that first, but it's genius.
FREEDOM JUSTICE REVANGE 🙏🙏!
Theres definitely something to it. The desire for a better society is hard to deny. The woke will wake up, the sleepers shall sleep.
Social Justice is communism
The oldest fraud is the belief that the political left the party of the poor and downtrodden.
There are so many inaccuracies in this video.
I wonder what Jesus would say..about things like social justice..if there was only a interview with him about that..or a book…
Slavery and the War on Drugs were well documented. They were not PERCEIVED social wrongs done to people by the US government.
an occult
During the corona pandemic, the richest only got richer and the poor poorer. The message this video sends is that it was right just and meant to be that way. Now with wars on the rise in the "civilized west", the rich owning assets in the military industrial complex will propably continue to get even richer from the public money countries are forced to pour by the billions into manufacturing weapons. The money that could have been used to build schools, hospitals, venues for culture… is now used to build weapons… The "socialist dystopia" these PragerU videos are so much warning about never happened and will not happen in the west any time soon. It seems in 2024 that the far right from Russia AND the US (and Israel) is taking our world to wars once again to actually "redistribute wealth" between opposing economic powers… When the ash settles, the winner takes all that's left. If Trump wins and decides to veto from protecting Europe from Russia, serious events could occur… But I guess none of that matters. Far right militarism doesn't matter. Neoliberal economic trickery and avoiding taxation doesn't matter. Only seeing leftist tears and hating on your fellow humans matters in these parts of the internet.
I should write a book, titled Social Justice Idealism, as form of mental disorder.
Social Justice = Racism.
Anyone arguing against social justice has a nefarious agenda of their own, IMO.
Social justice is oxygen.
Don’t let anyone take your right to breathe away from you!
That quote about people believing in absolute truth being an enemy of social Justice blew my mind. I thought it was going in a totally different direction but holy shit how does that quote even exist.
Francis Schaeffer had a good grasp of this. He referred to freedom and form. An example is a soccer game. The field, the goals and the rules are the form, the players have freedom of movement within that form. Note that without the form, you don’t even have a game. If players just ran around the field anywhere they wished and kicked the ball at random, you would have anarchy. As it is, the form defines the boundaries of the game. But with just the form, you don’t have a game either.
The same is true of politics. Freedom without form is anarchy. Form without freedom is totalitarianism. Western culture for all its faults has, so far, found a better form/freedom balance than any other culture in history. But some are trying to dismantle that.
Social justice is just communism with a post-graduate degree.
Once again, PragerU forgets to cite its sources. Once again, I am left wondering if any of these quotes are real.
There is a Natural Law meaning of the term Social Justice first introduced by Thomas Aquinas. Unfortunately, conservatives are incompetent and don't know what it means and that is why the Marxists get away with co-opting the term. https://just3rdway.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-is-social-justice.html
I need the script, but the link is broken on Prager's website.