Thread by @JewhadiTM

Social justice has become a new excuse for prejudice nypost.com/2019/02/02/soc… via @nypost

Social justice is identity politics in practice, which has come to reject objectivity and colorblindness.

It instructs adherents to see society as an unnavigable matrix of overlapping persecutions and reject meritocracy as an unattainable myth, sapping them of agency and robbing them of individuality.

And when the political system fails to meet these unrealistic expectations, it leads its devotees to lash out.

Racial segregation in American schools and universities is making a comeback. Faculty and administrators defend the concept of demographically distinct “safe spaces” and racially segregated cafeteria tables in the effort to prevent “uncomfortable learning.”

We are regressing to the point where we ascribe status based on hereditary traits.

That is the only way to describe the so-called “right to be believed,” an idea endorsed by figures as prominent as Hillary Clinton, which requires deference, not impartiality, to the claims of alleged sexual-assault survivors.

Adherents believe that misogyny is so interwoven into American institutions that such allegations are not fairly adjudicated in the justice system. In practice, this notion stripped the Duke Lacrosse players and University of Virginia fraternities of presumption of innocence.

Social justice confuses racial enlightenment with stereotyping, as exemplified by the recent confrontation between MAGA hat-clad teenagers from a Catholic school and a black nationalist group fronted by a Native American man.

The Atlantic’s @JamesFallows explicitly rejected the idea of individuality in this conflict. To him, the teenagers were the nondescript heirs to the 20th century’s segregationists, and their abusers were their righteous and aggrieved victims.

The Washington Post saw this as a chance to litigate the historic injustices the Catholic Church has visited upon America’s indigenous population.

So, too, for Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, who was judged by elites solely based on his demographic traits.

Kavanaugh’s indignance over being tried in a mock tribunal on criminal claims was evidence of “entitled white men acting like the new minority,” wrote @maureendowd.

ABC News analyst Matthew Dowd suggested that the Kavanaugh episode was an indication that “we, as white male Christians,” should “give up our seats at the table.”

Once an idea that helped us to think about fairness and rectitude, social justice has become the antithesis of blind, objective justice.

Its essential nature compels its believers to treat individuals unequally in the name of equality.

In its present form, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that social justice is neither social nor just.