We are in a very interesting, and I might suggest dangerous time, where social justice has been bastardized. It all started (in my recollection) with the O.J. Simpson trial.
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A reasoned argument can be made that underrepresented communities, black people in particular, were historically treated unfairly by the justice system. That is to say, where justice is supposed to be blind (thus the blindfold on Lady Liberty), many black people were unduly and unfairly prosecuted by what was considered a “white system.”
Where social justice advocates argue that Lady Liberty should provide a fair (blind) view of evidence and that “alleged” perpetrators should be given a fair hearing by their peers and judged not by the color of their skin, but by the preponderance of evidence, justice is served. Everyone is and should be entitled to a fair trial.
However, what we too often see today is not the pursuit of a fair, unbiased system of justice, but a quest for punishment of past injustices against the “white, male, cis patriarchy.”
Social Justice advocates (Marcusian Marxists) have created a myriad of intersectional grievance groups, often viewed as victims of historical justices rather than perpetrators of their own heinous crimes and indiscretions.
O.J. Simpson was almost certainly guilty of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. A black juror later stated in a televised interview that “a large portion of the jury voted to acquit Simpson as retaliation for the 1992 Rodney King verdict.”
Not that she (they) found the evidence lacking, but that they were using the justice system to resolve “past” racial injustices.
Today, we have bastardized social justice on steroids.
The Duke Lacrosse “rape” allegations: Recall that false allegations were made against the players on the Duke lacrosse team, with everyone presuming their guilt, including since disbarred district attorney Mike Nifong, who intentionally withheld exculpatory DNA evidence in the case (among other things), proving the players’ innocence.
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Karmelo Anthony killing of Austin Metcalf: Karmelo Anthony brought a knife to a track meet, entered the tent of Austin Metcalf’s team, was asked to leave multiple times, was deemed the aggressor by all, including one of his teammates, yet the larger black community (seemingly) believes he was railroaded and the victim of a racially motivated justice system, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Sophie Cunningham’s comments that women and girls should be protected in women’s sports: It is (seemingly) culturally accepted dogma that “transgender kids belong,” as expressed by Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve. Sophie Cunningham has been labeled a hater for expressing a reasoned argument in support of the protection of young girls and women in sports.
Nolan Wells death and the immediate guilt attributed to his three white friends: No evidence has been presented that they had any involvement in his death, or that they had any racial animus toward him. Racial ambulance-chaser Benjamin Crump has been called in to represent the families. He likely will “try” not the three white friends, but whiteness writ large.
Luigi Mangione has become a folk-hero for the radical left, with Hasan Piker suggesting that Mangione killed Brian Thompson, the AlliedHealthcare CEO, as a defense against “social murder.”
And let’s not forget the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin in the death (not killing) of George Floyd.
Today, we have an even stranger case, with the rallying of “white liberal women” around Lindsay Clancy, a woman suffering (allegedly) from postpartum psychosis who killed her three young children. In the minds of many, predominantly liberal women, Lindsay Clancy is the “victim” of systemic patriarchy, in spite of her admitting that she killed her children, with her defense demurring to evidence that she in fact was culpable in the deaths of her kids.
Herbert Marcuse expanded upon Karl Marx’s “class” warfare rhetoric to include critical theories around race and sex (gender). What we see playing out with the Democratic Socialists and other far-left intersectional grievance groups is that blacks, LGBTQ+, Muslims, communists, and now single liberal women have all donned the cloak of the “oppressed.”
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They appear more intent on achieving “social justice” vengeance than parity.
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