“Universities are thus caught in the battleground of competing expectations between affluent students who treat university as a transitional period between adolescence and adulthood — a place where they can freely debate ideas — and traditionally underrepresented students, who tend to view university as both a stepping stone out of poverty and a way to support their communities. That is, university education as “finishing school,” versus university education as social justice.” Angela Wright (link)
“Social Justice” is a self-justifying label invented for a very rigid, essentially fanatical and radical ideological construct. It is used by adherents to that ideology to generate a perception of benevolent intention and unquestionable moral righteousness. Putting these two words together.. ‘social, justice’.. obviously doesn’t convey any specific meaning whatsoever. Like other recently coined slogans constantly parroted by the allegedly ‘progressive’ Left like ‘white privilege’, ‘rape culture’ or ‘mansplaining‘… it is deliberately vague. The intention behind slamming these unrelated words together is more about promoting a collective, subjective impression which validates their own ideological premise rather than to express anything logically coherent or objectively true. This of course is the ideal use of language for the extreme Left because it allows any of these suddenly fashionable phrases to mean anything they say it means and to apply it in any way that suits their purposes… with the moral righteousness automatically assumed.
The author of this ‘opinion’ piece from the publicly funded state broadcaster is one of those ideologues. By framing the university in divisive terms of class and race… pitting the motivations of ‘affluent’ students (code word for white people) against the those of the “traditionally underrepresented” she is imposing that ideological construct onto the institution.
The role of the university should never be the promotion of radical and divisive ideologies. “Social Justice”… despite the intentionally soothing title… is just such an ideology and therefore should have no place in the curriculum of these publicly funded institutions of higher learning.
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