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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Another Pandemic Known as Social Justice
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has produced a report titled "Social Justice Education in America." Written by David Randall, it defines, describes, and delineates many of the destructive and deceptive ideas behind the innocent-sounding social justice programs that have mushroomed in American institutions of higher learning.
According to this December 2019 report, "in the last twenty years, a generation of academics and administrators has transformed higher education into an engine of progressive political advocacy." Identity politics plays a major role in how social justice will be administered. Social justice activists work to increase the "state's coercive power" to decide who will get their fair share concerning employment, housing, income, health care, leisure, political power, property, social recognition, and wealth.
Consequently, social justice buzz words such as food justice, educational poverty, and health equity aim to increase state power "to tax the citizenry to fund progressive spending priorities." If social justice warriors deem it, then any alleged privilege must be eliminated so that "identity groups defined by categories such as class, race, and gender" will not be oppressed.
To achieve their aims, universities are watering down requirements in order to attract more women and minorities. This portends "disastrous [repercussions] for scientific innovation and American competitiveness" not to mention the care of sick people.
Consequently, the NAS report asserts that "social justice movement’s political goals include increased federal and state taxation; increased minimum wage; increased environmental regulation; increased government health care spending and regulation; restrictions on free speech; restrictions on due process protections; maximizing the number of legislative districts that will elect racial minorities; support for the Black Lives Matter movement; mass release of criminals from prison; decriminalizing drugs; ending enforcement of our immigration laws; amnesty for illegal aliens; open borders; race and sex preferences in education and employment…" to name only a few. Support for the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement is also part of their movement and mob violence is advocated to enforce any and all of...
Read more: HERE
Great article, worth reading if you have kids.
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