Today during a teacher training exercise I read that educators should uphold "social justice." While the name sounds nice, the philosophy that is commonly termed "social justice" is highly controversial at best. The Oxford Dictionary defines social justice as follows: "Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society." First of all, the even distribution of wealth and truly equal opportunities cannot coexist for long. Truly equal opportunity requires that we all begin from the same starting line and compete according to the same rules. Equal distribution of wealth requires that we all cross the finish line simultaneously. In essence, for each of us to satisfy both of those requirements, some must necessarily be handicapped. Under those circumstances, each of our lives is devalued and our pursuits of happiness are sacrificed in the name of uniformity, not equality (I won't let them get away with calling it equality). Concerning privilege, Sections 9 and 10 of the U.S. Constitution prohibit both the federal and state governments from conferring titles of nobility, so that all citizens be treated equally in the eyes of the law. What is misconstrued as privilege by many, can be attributed to natural law. According to all statistics that I am aware of, poverty, incarceration, chemical dependency, poor academic performance and depression (among all demographics) have an overwhelmingly positive correlation with single parenthood, unemployment and the absence of high school diplomas. The idea of "institutionalized" or "systemic" privilege is completely false. We know this because there are laws against it, yet the self-proclaimed grieved won't bring lawsuits, but instead protest and seek safe-spaces (I felt dirty just writing that word). "Privilege" is the cry of the envious. Karl Marx wrote in chapter two of his Communist Manifesto: "The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property." And, this is the essence of the philosophy of privilege.
Social Justice is the philosophy of dehumanization and slavery. Marx's disciple Saul Alinsky (who boasts his own disciples such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Chris Matthews) wrote in Rules for Radicals: "The organizer...must first rub raw the resentments of the people...He must search out controversy...for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act." Gentlemen, social justice is not a silly trend that we can roll our eyes at and ignore until people grow out of it. It is a movement that opposes truth, and as such it is defeated by truth. Show it for what it is, do not entertain it in your home or on your television, and for Pete's sake don't let it date your kids.