Social Justice or Revenge?
15th August 2016
Jim Goad doesn’t see any difference.
Over the weekend in Milwaukee, a black cop shot and killed an armed black man. In response, throngs of howling blacks rioted, looted, committed arson, and randomly attacked whites.
If that makes no sense to you, that’s because you’re not an idiot.
Justice is justice. Shenever you see a qualifier in front of it (‘social justice’, ‘economic justice’, ‘environmental justice’, etc.) it means that the term ‘justice’ is being hijacked by proponents of a political agenda who are hoping nobody will notice. Far too often, they’re right.
None of the Milwaukee rioters was victimized by the shooting. According to reports, the victim had a long criminal history and was turning around to point an illegally acquired gun at the black cop when he was shot dead in his tracks.
Excuse me for having oodles of grey matter and almost no melanin, but I fail to see the injustice here. Was the cop expected to simply allow himself to be murdered in the service of some dimwitted mob’s reptilian notions of “justice”? I’m not a mind reader, but I suspect his family would have considered that to be very unjust.