Liberal Economics Political Debating Forum

The last six words of the “Pledge of Allegiance” are; “with liberty and justice for all”. Note that it does not say “social” justice for all . Maybe whomever wrote the pledge just forgot to add the word social when he wrote it. Or maybe “social justice” means something entirely different than justice “for all”. If justice is not established equally among all citizens can we really proclaim that it is just? Is Social Justice synonymous with Human Rights?

So just what is social justice? What was its origination? , and why is it meaningful ? Social justice is a term social activists have been using for more than a century . These socialists believe that the scale of justice must be weighted on the side of certain minority groups so that they may better keep up with the Joneses. The belief is that whole people should acquire the same amount whether they are contributing or not . The former Soviet Union was a classic example of an experiment in social justice. When people have to work twice as hard as somebody else and to give them half of what they aquire always ends in disaster. Look at the case with the Pilgrims, they went from a Socialist Society to a Capitalist Society very quickly because the former was failing miserably.

The greatest number of those who champion social justice in the United States of America come from the Democratic party, and have personified themselves as “liberals”, ‘though they are now better known as “progressives”.  Is it possible that those democrats, who’s party was in favor of slave labor , believed that they were practicing social justice when they provided Africans with socialism, i.e. free housing, free food, free jobs, free education, free healthcare, etc., also known as slavery, on the plantations? Did they believe that the African race could not compete in a free society?Ask the Africans back then if they believed in a Socialist Society instead of freedom?  Justice Taney opined as much in the infamous “Dredd Scott Decision”, where it was ruled that Africans would not be allowed the status of “citizens” of the several states.

Today progressives still don’t give African Americans and other minority groups the respect they deserve in the fact that “of course” they would compete quite well and at an equal level in a free market society . The proof of this may be found in programs such as affirmative action, in the rantings of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and in the lowering of standards in schools and civil job application exams. Ever hear the term the “dumbing down of America?”.

Therefore , may it be said that social justice rests on the premise that “we the intelligentsia” must assume the role of the Lord , to dispose equality unto those races which were not created equal. Only a true racist could adhere to such a philosophy .

Remember how Social Activists keep preaching the separation of Church and State? Then why do they continually want to play the role of God?