A cry for social justice is usually little more than a call for goodness; “progressive” has become a substitute for “all good things.” But sometimes the word is too vague. So if you press a self-declared progressive to say what it means, he’ll respond, eventually, with something like, “It means fighting for social justice.” If you ask, “What does ‘social justice’ mean?” you are likely to get an exasperated eye roll, because you just don’t get it.
Social justice is goodness, and if you can’t see that, man, you’re either unintentionally “part of the problem” or you’re for badness.
Jonah Goldberg, excerpt from The Tyranny of Clichés, published by National Review, 2012-04-22.
September 21, 2014
QotD: A cry for “social justice”
Filed under: Media, Politics, Quotations — Tags: Ideology, Progressives, SocialJustice — Nicholas @ 00:01
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