Social Justice Is Just Socialism

People in this country can get so bent out of shape over words. Most of the time there is at least some basis for the offense given or taken, but even then, what's the big deal? People have called me all sorts of vile and terrible things. At least, they would be terrible if I bothered to let them bother me. My impression is that people get the most upset when the label is either a bit too close to the truth, or they don't really know what it means. They just know it must be bad if you're calling them that, even if it turns out to be true.

Seriously, in the public arena, who is really annoyed by the type of moron that has to use an epithet to defend their viewpoint? Most of those type of people are just wacko nutcases (yeah, I'm name-calling), who no one really pays any attention to unless they think they can use them to demonize an opponent.

Albeit, some words have earned a bit of a reputation for cruelty and insensitivity, and only a bigot with no motive other than to hurt would use them. But, so what? Do you win by protesting, since you are just giving them the power to manipulate your emotions? (If you didn't get it, that would be NO.)

The truth is that the people who generally make the most noise about an "offensive" word are not really offended at all. They just know they can stir up public outrage by acting offended. Though some politicians and activists are better at pulling this off than others, there is no political ideology that isn't willing to give it a try.

However, conservatives, especially the so-called Religious Right, tend to be a bit more vulnerable to accusations of meanness since they actually claim that they are supposed to be nice. When they slip up, all the opposition has to do is call them hypocrites and the apology tour is on the road. Never mind that being called a hypocrite is another form of name-calling. If you let it bother you, you've already lost the word battle. If you really are a hypocrite, then I'm okay with that, but if you really have beliefs to stand up for, STAND UP!

The point is that there are people out there who don't care what words really mean, they just use them to disguise, misdirect, confuse, enrage and otherwise manipulate the population. They never mean what they say, and they never admit what they are really about. If one label gets discredited, they quickly grab another. The game is to never get pinned down on silly things like values, or core beliefs. They have them. They just know you wouldn't really like them.

So, now along comes Social Justice to masquerade as Christian charity. Socialist has become a dirty word, oddly enough, because of the people who actually stood for it once. Not many socialists want to be known as a socialist right now. That doesn't mean they aren't in favor of the ideology that word used to represent. They just know they can't sell it.

If you ask them what Social Justice means- and they actually tell you- then look in one of the older reference books (you remember books, don't you?) You will find that it is just socialism, or close enough that it doesn't matter. Taking something from one person and giving it to another person is not charity; which requires that the giver actually have a choice. It is the Marxist philosophy (meaning that Karl Marx would agree...you know who Karl Marx was, right?) of wealth redistribution. Interestly, socialism doesn't mean what it used to. It's more of what communism said it was, and now communism is...wait...I'm getting confused.

See, anymore, if you get caught up in trying to define who someone is by the name they call themselves, you're ready to be fooled. Ask them what they stand for. If they won't say, or they spout empty rhetoric to dumbfound you, that's all you need to know. Whatever they want you to call them, call them a cab, and get them the heck away from you.