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Naming the Enemy: Critical Social Justice

5 pointsby peanutcrisisalmost 2 years ago

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1MachineElfalmost 2 years ago
&gt;<i>If democracy is about individual rights (justice for individuals), then social justice is about group rights (justice for groups). –Lynn Lemisko (in Educator to Educator, p. 193)</i><p>What a strange statement. Democracy is the rule of the majority, and therefore, it&#x27;d be justice for groups, rather than individuals. Am I wrong in understanding social justice as the movement to have equal treatment among individuals? I don&#x27;t know who Lynn Lemisko is, but it sounds like she has these ideas backwards.<p>Anyways, the author makes a decent point about critical theory potentially being more destructive than constructive.