{"id":27905,"date":"2014-09-21T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27905"},"modified":"2015-02-22T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:23:31","slug":"qotd-a-cry-for-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/qotd-a-cry-for-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: A cry for &#8220;social justice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A cry for social justice is usually little more than a call for goodness; &#8220;progressive&#8221; has become a substitute for &#8220;all good things.&#8221; But sometimes the word is too vague. So if you press a self-declared progressive to say what it means, he&#8217;ll respond, eventually, with something like, &#8220;It means fighting for social justice.&#8221; If you ask, &#8220;What does &#8216;social justice&#8217; mean?&#8221; you are likely to get an exasperated eye roll, <em>because you just don&#8217;t get it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Social justice <em>is<\/em> goodness, and if you can&#8217;t see that, man, you&#8217;re either unintentionally &#8220;part of the problem&#8221; or you&#8217;re for badness.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg, excerpt from <em>The Tyranny of Clich\u00e9s<\/em>, published by <em>National Review<\/em>, 2012-04-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cry for social justice is usually little more than a call for goodness; &#8220;progressive&#8221; has become a substitute for &#8220;all good things.&#8221; But sometimes the word is too vague. So if you press a self-declared progressive to say what it means, he&#8217;ll respond, eventually, with something like, &#8220;It means fighting for social justice.&#8221; If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41],"tags":[622,1020,997],"class_list":["post-27905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-ideology","tag-progressives","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7g5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27906,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905\/revisions\/27906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}